Happily Ever After

This one is an anniversary card for my dear friends Carol and Gene who are celebrating 53 years of a truly wonderful marriage . . .

I stumbled onto a nifty new idea while working with the stems which did not take the ink all that well.  This meant that the embossing powder did not stick.  So I drew over the stems with my Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.  Drawing slowly allowed the glue time to leave a raised line;  after pouring on the embossing powder, there was enough wet glue underneath to bubble while being heated.  This added texture and dimension to the stems and while likely not visible in the photo, they have a lot of appeal in real life.

Using UTEE would have given the same raised results, but the large granules of the Ultra Thick might have sacrificed the delicate look of the stems.  With the Glue Pen and Detail Embossing Powder, I was able to keep the narrow stems but still have the raised texture.  I'll be using this idea again!

Cardstock:   Strathmore #90 Watercolor paper

Stamps:       Stampendous Ranunculus Field, Taylored Expressions

                     Simple Strips Background

Inks:             Tombow #845, 933, 55, 15 Olive Green, 133, 606, Zig

                     Color Brush Sweetheart, Greek Isle, Dove Blender Pen,

                     ColorBox Gold

Emb Powder:   Judikins Metallic Gold

Dies:            Lil Inker Stitched Mats: Dual Stitched Rectangles,

                     Taylored Expressions Simple Strips, Elizabeth Craft

                     Small Butterfly