Crafty As L

This week’s card is a commission I received from a friend for a wedding card.   The brief I had was that the bride is a New Yorker, the groom is Scottish, they are having their wedding celebration on the shores of Loch Ness, to blend a NY skyline into a Scottish theme and add their names.   Plenty to chew on there!   I love the challenge of trying to bring someone’s ideas to life. It seemed sensible to start with the background, which I did by spraying card with a variety of Distress Spray Stains and Oxides.   I found a free SVG download of a New York skyline and cut that from vellum using my Cricut.   I’m not sure of the accuracy of the skyline but the Statue of Liberty adds enough clarity for the buildings to be a bit off.   Using the negative from the cutting as mask, I stencilled the buildings and statue.   I then added some wave tops by white heat-embossing waves from Inkylicious’ By The Waves stamp set.   Now imagine all that in orange...

I do like a layering stencil (and a pun!) and I couldn’t resist this new one from Card Making Magic called Thistle Cheer You Up!   For my first go with it, I used traditional colours but next time, I'll try some alternatives. As you’d expect with layering stencils, it’s just a matter of working your way through the stencils.   These ones don’t have an order so it’s quite straight forward.   I cut card to the same size as the stencils so it’d be easy to line up.   For the first layer, I used Twisted Citron Distress Oxide. The next stencil was the thistle tops for which I used Seedless preserves Distress Oxide. For the thistle bottoms, I used Villainous Potion Distress Oxide and the last layer was Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide. I trimmed the panel down ⅛” so that I could mat it onto some 6” square gold mirror card.   I “gutted” the centre so that I could mat the sentiment with the same card.   The sentiment, from MFT Fluttering Friends, was gold heat-em...