More than your average Plaid

by Sue W.

Welcome!

As if life can't be difficult enough, I decided to challenge myself this week by creating a card for one of those "hard to make a card for people" which would be a teenage boy. The good news is that I now have a card just waiting for an occasion!

One of the fun aspects of this card is using our original plaid stamp for something other than a plaid. I call this the "starburst" background (you'll see why!)

These are the stamps I used in this project



I started my background by stamping the plaid stamp in one corner of my card using turquoise dye ink.

The only tricky part of doing this background is deciding how often to stamp the first ink color and making sure you leave enough room for the second. But I always do the 4 corners in the first ink color.



With a "normal" average size card I also stamp the center of the long side. Ultimately I'm shooting for the white triangles you can see along the edge.

I stamp my second ink color (ultramarine dye ink) covering the triangles. By this point the center is getting real ugly which is no problem because I'm going to cover it with my next layer.

This is the finished background after I cover all the white triangles. Now you can see why I've named it "starburst" background.

Once my background is finished, I dry brushed some spring green ink along the edges, then I layered it on neon lime green paper that I cut 1/2 inch short at the bottom and attached it to a bright blue card.

The skateboard "dude" was stamped on white cardstock using cyan pigment ink, then I immediately stamped the "jumpin" saying on top using ultramarine dye ink. I then embossed the entire image using clear embossing powder.

After dry brushing a little spring green ink around the edges, I layered it with a 2" square of lime green and attached it to the center of my background. Voila!

Thanks for stopping by - Have a great week!

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