The Albino Card

Hah! I bet you thought this would be a white card, didn't you?  I decided to play the color challenge at Paper Craft Planet, which was White, Riding Hood Red, Really Rust and Basic Gray:

Isn't this beautiful?  So how come my card doesn't look so hot??!!  I also was doing the Ways to Use It Challenge at SCS, which was to use watercolor paper.  Well, I watercolor all the time, but since I was limited in my colors, I thought I would stamp my basket of fruit in Really Rust craft ink and just highlight behind it.  So it looks kind of albino-ish, or maybe skeletal!!  I think I should have stamped the image in Going Gray, but I don't have craft ink, and I didn't want it to bleed!   Anyway, I do like the color combo, just not particularly with this image, so maybe I'll try again.  I also had no gray ribbon, so I died some Mellow Moss gingham ribbon with my Going Gray marker!!  The copper brads were a tad bit too bright for the look I was going for, so I dabbed them in craft Close to Cocoa and dried them with my heat tool for a duller look.

Since Stampin' Up! has a rub-on promotion going on right now (click here for details), and I have a workshop tonight, I thought I would make a couple samples using rub-ons:

This is my favorite! No stamping on the outside at all, just rub-ons!   To cover up the edges of the wide ribbon on the inside, I added another panel and also stamped an image from Eastern Blosoms:

This is a square card measuring 4 1/4".

 

1. I am working on a couple other things besides cards on which to apply the rub-ons.  Hopefully I can share them later!  Have a great day--it is raining buckets here but it is  a perfect day to stamp!
   
   

• Stamps, Card 1:  Thanksgiving Blessings, Linen (ret SU)
• Paper:  Really Rust, Riding Hood Red, Watercolor, Text. Basic Gray, Brushed Copper
• Ink:  Craft Really Rust, Craft Close to Cocoa, Really Rust, Going Gray, Riding Hood Red, Stazon
• Acc:  Copper Brads, punch, Going Gray marker, Gingham Ribbon, Heat Tool, Distresser, Aquapainter

• Stamps, Card 2:  Eastern Blossoms
• Paper:  Baja Breeze, Urban Garden DP, Bella Rose DP
• Ink:  Chocolate Chip
• Acc:  Hidden Garden Rub-ons, Wide & Narrow Grosgrain, Filigree Brad

On a final note, for real, I saw a partially-albino crow in my yard today.  I have seen him before, but he was really close today, but I wasn't able to get a photo.  I am going to keep trying--he is quite odd-looking, but he seems to fit in with his cohorts just fine!