A Touch of Grace

Hi everyone!  Easter is fast approaching and to celebrate I made this card for Sharon Johnson’s Stamp Simply#81 Edible Egg challenge.  The Easter egg is stamped and water colored.  I stamped the flowers and leaves from the same stamp, cut them out and adhered them to the two side panels.  The background paper was dry embossed using an Anna Griffin corner embossing template.  Peach Kaiser Pearls I purchased at Joan’s Gardens were placed on all three panels.  The side panels were dry embossed with an embossing stencil I purchased from Stampfest last June, a craft knife was used to do the cut out work.  After cutting the side panels, I drew a template about 1/8″ larger than the cut out pieces for the darker peach colored paper and then traced the lines onto the peach paper and cut that with scissors in the larger areas and a craft knife in the tighter areas.  I stamped a large cross from Our Daily Bread’s Cross of Christ stamp set as well as the two smaller crosses, verse and sentiment.  The large cross was stamped on vellum card stock, cut out with a craft knife, placed on small pop dots and adhered on top of the painted Easter Egg.  To keep the pop dots from showing, I placed them under the gold embossing.

I used shimmery peach silk ribbon to make the two small bows on the side panels.  The larger bow is Taffeta, a beautiful medium-to-dark olive green in color.  Due to my poor photography skills, it appears a dark gray in this photo.   I purchased the ribbons from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store that Sharon Johnson has on her blog.  I e-mailed Sharon and described ribbons I was looking for.  She found exactly what I was looking for and got back with me very quickly.  I made my ribbons choices, they were ordered and I received everything within a few days.

Please see the bottom of my post for shopping links.

This close up of the left side panel shows how large this design is as well as a better view of the detailed embossing and cut out work.   I used a lighter peach directly underneath the cut portions and a darker peach for the background.

This profile image shows the dimension of the design.  The connection between the panels is 3/4″ in depth.  The egg was placed on pop dots for added dimension.

A close of the Easter egg for those who may wish to paint it.  The egg was painted with Pearl Ex and Gum Arabic.  The picture is pretty dark and the colors of the water coloring are very distorted, but the photo gives you an accurate view of what the Pearl Ex and Gum Arabic look like in real life.

While this picture is accurate as far as the true colors are concerned, the effect of the Pearl Ex and Gum Arabic is lost in the shot.

• Paper:  Prism, Water Color
• Ink:  Versamark
• Accessories:  Craft knife, Paper Snips (SU), self-healing cutting mat, heating tool, water color brush, Tombow markers, Ranger EP, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, Dazzling Diamonds, pop dots, Zip Dry adhesive, May Arts silk and taffeta ribbons, Kaiser Pearls, embossing stencils, Stamp A Ma Jig, Scor It, Tonic Paper Cutter, Pearl Ex and Gamsol, light box, gold cord, Swarovski Crystals, SU Pretties Kit for pearls and crystal tear drop beads

Shopping:

A Touch of Grace:  Stencil

Our Daily Bread:  Cross of Christ

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:  May Arts ribbons

Joan’s Gardens:  Ranger EP, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, pop dots, Zip Dry adheseive, Kaiser Pearls, Scor It, Tonic Paper Cutter, light box

Thank you for stopping by to visit, I wish you a wonderful weekend with your family.