Wednesday 12 November 2014

Fir Trees

 
 
 *This post is part of the November promotion fortnight. Remember to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway.*
 
 Good morning crafters, Kirsten here. I'm taking Lisa's slot today to give her a chance to catch up after her busy & successful weekend at the NEC. She will be here on Friday & Saturday.
 
Today's card very nearly failed at the first hurdle. I began by swiping various distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Peeled Paint, Chipped Sapphire, Broken China - onto my craft sheet, spritzing them with water & laying a piece of white card on top.
 
Then I applied Black Stars Sparkle Medium through the Imagination Crafts
 Fir Trees stencil on top & set it aside to dry.
 
When it was dry, the first thing I saw was the outline of the Picked Raspberry distress inkpad, slap bang in the middle of the card.......... 
 

 
 
After much gnashing of teeth, I wondered how the trees would look if I cut them out. Not bad as it happens........
 

 
 
I scraped some Diamond Sparked Medium onto the Imagination Crafts Blue Snow background card, layered the trees & added a few embellishments & liquid pearls........
 

 
 
Not a bad rescue if I say so myself. :)
 
Sparkle Medium Black Stars    Sparkle Medium Diamond     Fir Trees     Blue Snow      1/2 metre of silver Diamond Mesh     Seam Binding Ribbon   Liquid Pearls - Platinum  Spatula     Stencil tape 25mm x 25m
 
Thanks for looking, remember to leave a comment if you want to be entered in the giveaway. See you next time.
 
Kirsten

13 comments:

  1. That worked beautifully Kirsten. I thought it was only me who dropped the ink pad onto a project!!! x Gill x

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  2. I'd say it was a pretty good rescue! The finished card is fab! xx

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  3. Looks great and I do like the idea for the background even if it didn't work this time!

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  4. What a fabulous rescue attempt...lovely card and the touch of colour adds to the trees. I bet you were gnashing those teeth a bit to begin with though...I would have probably just binned it...you are clever!

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  5. Clever rescue. It looks lovely with that background too. Thank you, Jan

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  6. Good save Kirsten! Love that scraping of SM on the background, never occurred to me to use it in that way!

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  7. Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I must attempt the background again, this time spritzing more water onto the inks before I lay the card on top.

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  8. Hi, its such a good feeling when you save a project and it turns out so good, lovely trees.x

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  9. This is gorgeous, the trees look gorgeous and the background looks amazing.
    Sue xx

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  10. Fantastic save! Love the colours of inks coming through the trees, looks deliberate and fabulous! mo x

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  11. Amazing. I would have binned it and started again!!

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  12. Brilliant, love how the trees look cut out. Great save.
    Mags
    x

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  13. Well rescued, we crafters do not usually waste anything

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