The Write Stuff

Welcome to part 2 of the April Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Shades of Grey. The sale at Serendipity Stamps this week is buy 3 items, Get a 4th one free.  Good through 4/23.  And as always, we have a  have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

For the design team, we have the added challenge of using a Love/Anniversary/Wedding theme. I had to really think on this as the black/white/shades of grey didn’t seem to fit really well with a Love theme. But this idea came to me to use a shades of grey paint chip for the side panels and aluminum foil covered card stock for the die cuts and embossed background.

Despite how it looks, all of the background is the shiny silver color of aluminum foil. I had a terrible time trying to photograph it. It reflected everything in front of it! I had to hold a white blanket over myself to keep it from reflecting my blue sweater and in the end it still picked up some of the color from the maple cabinetry behind me, so that’s the slight goldish color you see on the top section. I started by using a glue stick to apply heavy duty aluminum foil to piece of card stock. I die cut some of using the Heart Scroll and Love dies..a long narrow piece using the poppy die, and the rest I embossed with a folder for the background on the right. I used a rectangle die to cut the small rectangles on the left out of each of the shades of grey/black from a large paint chip. They were attached to a strip of white then to the larger black background. The 3 small hearts were all negative pieces from the Love die. I actually cut two of the Love dies…one out of the foil covered card stock and one out of black and I attached them on top of each other, slightly offset.

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