Close at Heart

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Today's card features the beautiful, new for September Artichoke Rose stencil from A Colorful Life Designs.

I paired it up with an older stencil called Simple Grid to create my card.

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• I placed a piece of white cardstock onto my Make Art Station and positioned the rose part of the Artichoke Rose stencil in the bottom right hand corner as I wanted it to be the largest on my card front.
• Using some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink, I blended that into the flower center and then added some Festive Berries DOX ink to the rest of the flower.
• I moved the flower to the side and then to the top corner using the same colours of inks.
• I removed the stencil and added the square details to the open white areas using the Simple Grid stencil and some more of the Picked Raspberry DOX ink.
• I placed the stenciled panel into my Misti to stamp the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the dried panel onto a piece of deep red cardstock although it looks more blackish in the photo, then onto an A2 sized card base.
• I added 3 black gems around the sentiment.

Here are the stencils I used:

Artichoke Rose

Simple Grid

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Thanks so much for taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- RECTANGLE OR SQUARE

The Crafty Addicts- ANYTHING GOES

Simon Says Wed.- STAMP IT

Supplies

Stamp- Side by Side (IO- retired)

Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils (A Colorful Life Designs); TE Blending Brushes;

Make Art Station (Ranger); black gems; white Posca pen