Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Folks


Happy happy Thursday and today is the start of course of another month on the DT and so a new set of stamps to play with , this time we have a silhouette type theme and humour thrown in to boot, you will see what I mean once I show you the pictures of the card I have created for today.

I have a huge thank you and a shout out to my lovely friend Carol Clark and hubby David here on the blog for my birthday card, she did a fabulous job on my card and it was so very nice of her to remember so thank you from the bottom of my heart. I will keep it forever as it means such a lot to me. Carol you have a huge heart, bless you.

So who has had Snow then? oh I was so disappointed when I looked out a couple of days ago and there it was all glowing taunting me and twinkling, of course it looked soooo pretty but those of you who are aware of the recent ish foot op you will know I just panic the minute I see any thing remotely slippy so I was hoping I may get out of work that day but no such luck haha.

Ok so here is today's offering lovlies...

Something a little different isn't it.?

 So this is a nice easy one and  just has a little inking and die cutting i used an embossing folder for the background and a gorgeous ribbon and embellishments.

I started with a piece of Milk card which I ran through my Couture Creations embossing folder called Large classics from the Ambassador collection. I cut the card to size and left a section on the bottom to stamp my sentiment which I did using Archival black ink from Ranger.

 I used Vintage photo embossing ink to shade the edges of the card and drag some colour in towards the centre gradually getting lighter on a gradient toward the centre.
I mounted that section onto a piece of black card leaving just a small border to be seen.

I stamped out my lady from the set called 'Chocolate'  I think she stamps soooo chrisp the lines are fab..
I coloured in any parts I wanted blacker and then added some white pen highlights and dots etc on the cakes and shiny things like hair and shoes, I knew I would add a sparkly pen later but thought I would add the white to brighten the sparkle later.

 I cut her out using a die and while it was still in the die I took off the tape and inked it with the same Vintage photo.

 I wrapped the red ribbon that I also got in my DT pack around the edge where the sentiment is and added foam to the back to raise it from the next level on the card

I then cut a black mat for my lady to sit on and added lots of sparkle to her and her cakes and dress etc. I added her to the black mat too and added a bow toed from the ribbon to match

 I tied a double bow and shaped it into a nice chocolate box type bow with little pointed legs and added one of the black embellishments  I love these, they sparkle so much in any light. I also found my black marabou feathers. So I slipped one of those floaty things under the bow also, They always amuse me with the way they fluff about lol daft I know

Ok I thought I would show a  close up after I had coloured the cup cake and dress and hair shoes etc with their sparkles.

My finishing touch was just to add a few little black pearls in the corners and voilla all complete.

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I hope you like this card and the silhouette image.

 Have a great day. 

lots of love

Kim

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