Love

Here’s my second attempt with crackle paste – the coloring leaves a lot to be desired, but as I’d hoped, the crackle texture is a little more pronounced . . .

I’ve used the tree die cut before but until now, it never occurred to me to add some texture to it.  I didn’t think of it until after the card was otherwise finished, so things got a little tricky during the application.  But I managed!  Not having any brown texture paste, I stirred in some chocolate color from a re-inker.  Never having done that before, I was quite delighted with the results and will be pulling that one out of my bag of tricks numerous times in future.

The pearls were originally blue, but it was the wrong shade.  So I adjusted things with a Copic marker – love how I can “fix” any color with them!

Cardstock:   Marco’s Jute, The Paper Cut Brown Umber      

Stamps:       Impression Obsession All Things Grow with Love

Inks:            Distress Stain Gathered Twigs, Salty Ocean, Gina K 

 Charcoal Brown, Ancient Page Chocolate, Copic Mint

 Green

Emb Pwdr:   Vippies Transcendence

Dies:            QuicKutz Scroll Tree, Tutti Slimline Pebbles Background, 

  Goodculler Stitched Rectangles             

Doo Dads:    Tim Holtz Grungeboard: Nature, Suze Weinberg 

                     Dimensional Whipped Paper, Pearls