My My My!! Each detail you outlined is perfect. From the alcohol color panel, white base to card, silver foil to blue card stock. Perfection! If we were to open the dictionary to Perfection, we would see a picture of this card there! Congratulations! You won the prize of the year!
To say your card came out "okay" is a total understatement!! This is jaw-droppingly exquisite, you have created a little masterpiece! Your alcohol ink background is wonderful, it looks as if a storm is brewing. Using foil enhances the overall look, the embossed seashells and leaves add wonderful dimension. Your card looks a million dollars, your careful process and thought paid off - well done!
I finally tried alcohol blending on vellum. I only had this one piece that I felt I wanted to work with as a sea theme. I labored over what to do, and finally just sat down and started to work.
I decided silver would be great to compliment the panel, but I also found that the alcohol color panel only showed well on a white base. So, I die cut two frames smaller than my base, one in silver foil and one in blue cardstock to nestle and then glued to my panel. A scary process, for if I messed up, I didn't have another panel. Fortunately, I got away with it. Then I glued the whole lot to my white card base, with glue behind the frames so it wouldn't show through the vellum.
I used silver embossing for the sentiment (it worked very well), and stamped the lighthouse and birds with StaZon, figuring it would be the best for the vellum panel. I sped up the drying time with my heat gun. So happy the vellum I used is sturdy and I had minimal warping.
I added embossed and die cut seashells using silver foil cardstock for embellishment. I used foam dimensionals to give them a little more depth.
I think the card came out ok. I hope it goes through the mail ok.
Most of the supplies I used were Stampin' Up!, including the Friends Are Like Seashells stamps, dies, and embossing folder, and the Sailing Home stamp set.
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