Inky Kim Craft: February DT. Kim Robertson

Thursday, 12 February 2015

Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Folks

Hope you are having a good day.

Today is Creative Expressions day and I am working on a theme of these beautiful ladies in silhouette so I am hoping to get four cards very similar in theme by the end of the month but with variations .

This time I stamped out my lady in Black archival and highlighted her in white as I always do.

My white highlighting is another of those staple things I seem to do on most cards.

I love black white and red together it always seems so elegant , its like a woman dressed in Navy and tan or navy in white with a splash of red in shoes or handbag or a scarf always looks so elegant and classy doesn't it... Or am I rambling haha... What do you lovlies think?

I stamped my lady out on one sheet of white card and did the highlighting, I measured out my next piece of card and using a spellbinders doily die cut, cut out the centre I then added a black mat behind and also die cut the centre of it out through the aperture I just cut. I wrapped a piece of red crinkle edge ribbon around the card and added foam to the back and mounted in on top of the first layer.
I also made another layer of black and white mats a little larger and added foam in between.

Here you can see I stamped out the sentiment that came with this set and just look how perfect and neat the sentiment came out, amazingly sharp. I then added that onto black to make it stand out from the back and added it slightly on top of the ribbon added earlier.

I added a nice bow onto the ribbon and tied another double bow out of bakers twine in black and white from CE and topped it with a black dazzler which really reminds me of a poppy.. can you see it now I said it haha...

I have taken a picture with the long angle so you can see the lovely layers and how you can play about with the height of foams etc they don't need to be the same for instance her I have one layer at 2mm and one layer at 5mm here as I wanted a good gap behind the aperture I cut for my lady to sit in. ( oooo I sounded like a thunderbird then with the My lady business haha... I know you all thought I was too young to remember them lol ) But nooooooooooooo ...

Here is a close up after I went back and added a bit more detail in white and also a sparkle to her hair and bags etc. I added some nice sprays of beads on wire as part of CE's embellishment lines too.
The stamps set I used is called Temptation and is part of the singles range of stamps from Creative Expressions released this month for the DT to work with etc.
The last thing I did was to add some little sparkly black gems to some of the corners to add a little bling to match the bow centre. I just love black sparklies.

Here is the finished sample again