Less Troubles More Bubbles!

Our Design Team brief this week is Summer/Picnic and on a warm summer evening, my husband and I like to go watch the sun set over the sea with a bottle of fizz.  Our version of a picnic is that we occasionally have a bag of chips to go with it!  

For my card this week, I started by stamping, clear heat-embossing and colouring the champagne bottle and cork from Anyone For Bubbles and cut them out with the matching dies.

To make the champagne flutes, I stamped and clear heat-embossed them onto vellum.  I then pressed my Versamark pad over the top of them, added clear embossing powder and heat-set.  I coloured champagne onto the back of the vellum.  The glasses were cut out with the matching dies too.

To make the sea, I first sprayed a variety of blue Distress Stains onto a piece of card.  To make the waves, I die-cut the Framed Fibres then sprayed that too.  Once it was dry, I used a Tim Holtz Embossing Dabber to add some sticky ink in places and then heat-set Sea Foam embossing powder onto the fibres.

For my sunset sky, I sprayed Distress Stains in Mustard Seed, Saltwater Taffy, Picked Raspberry and Chipped Sapphire onto a piece of card.  Once dry, I added Distress Spritz in Fossilised Amber and Wilted Violet for a little shimmer.  The wave panel was adhered to the sea.

I lined up where the glasses and bottle would be and arranged the bubbles and sentiment.  The bubbles were heat-embossed in gold and the sentiment in Sea Foam.

The glasses were glued in place using tiny dots of glue behind the stamped lines.  The bottle was attached using thin foam tape and then the sea glued to the sky background.  I finished the card by mounting on a square of black card and then onto a white card blank.