I started my sample for today’s sketch by stamping the angel image from Holy Triptych in Chocolate Chip Craft ink and embossing it with Clear Embossing powder. It was cut and embossed with Circle Nestabilities. I was going for a stained glass look, so I used my Copic Markers to color it in and get a vibrant look. I used B00 for the outside, W00 and W02 for the wings, E00 and E02 for the skin, YR24 and YR31, R27 and R29 for the dress and E79 for the border. I added Versamark over the entire circle and clear embossed it several times. Then I gently bent the cardstock to create cracks in my embossed layer.
My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip folded in half. The next layer is a 3 15/16″ square of Sahara sand, topped with a 3 3/4″ sanded and paper pierced piece of Holiday Lounge Designer Paper. The Chocolate Chip scallop as well as the Whisper White Circle were both cut with Circle Nestabilities. The Scallop Circle was taped over the Designer paper and a 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ strip of Holiday Lounge DP was taped over it. The strip had been sanded, then layered on a 3 3/4″ strip of Sahara Sand cardstock that had been punched with the Eyelet Border Punch. White Organza Ribbon was tied around it. The angel circle was adhered over the Whisper White circle and taped to the card front with dimensionals.
For the sentiment I stamped the ornamental stamp from Framed with Love in second generation Sahara Sand on Whisper White and cut it out with my Large Oval Punch. Next I inked up only the word Peace from one of the greetings from the set Four the Holidays (Mini catalog) with Taken with Teal and stamped it in the center of my oval. The white oval was taped to a Chocolate Chip scallop oval that had been punched out with the Scallop Oval Punch. I added a paper pierced row under the sentiment. To finish off the card front I added two medium size half pearls from the Pretties Kit on the top right. One of the Felt Snowflakes from last year’s mini catalog was adhered with a dimensional next to my angel and topped with another half pearl. If I would recreate this card, I would probably emboss the sentiment to make it pop more. Some things you see only when the card is almost done….and since I stamped it this morning (flaked last night and watched Diaries of a Vampire instead! I will have to get me those books!)
Before adding the oval greeting, I had played around with a frame from Framed with Love. I had stamped it with Chocolate Chip Craft ink and embossed with Clear embossing powder twice. Once I cut it out all the way, once, only the center. In the center I stamped the sentiment and ornamental stamp just like on the greeting in the front. Except for here, I added colored in the inside of the oval with a Versamarker and clear embossed that oval as well. Unfortunately this frame was too big for the front. I thought though…that it might work for the inside of my card.
The inside layer for my card is a 3 15/16″ square of Sahara Sand Cardstock. I added another 1 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ strip of Holiday Lounge Designer paper over it with a Eyelet Border Punched piece of Taken with Teal.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Austin is off today, so I think I might go and play some tennis with him. I haven’t worked out as much as I should the last two weeks.
Hugs and smiles
Beate
Stay at Home Mom of Three, Splitcoast Team Member and Copic and Spellbinders die Lover.19 Responses to “Angel under Cracks”
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Beautiful!!! Your coloring is amazing. Love the cracked effect. The inside is just as beautiful.
Have a wonderful weekend…and thanks for another awesome sketch:)
OH WOW!! This is just lovely! All the little details that make this just WOW!!
Love your post title, B! What a gorgeous angel — the colors and cracked glass are perfet for her. Looks like beautiful stained glass! Thanks for another wonderful sketch!
hey, beate! This was a fun sketch. love your colors and layers and everything!
Gorgeous!!! …as ALWAYS!!!
Great sketch. 🙂 Love your vibrant angel.
Stunning!! Wow!!!
That angel looks so lovely with the cracked glass. Beautiful card!
A lovely stampin up card! Wish I had this angel. dang it! Anyway, thanks for sharing another inspiring piece of art.
barb
This is just so pretty, and elegant, Beate!! Love the wonderful colors, the larger half pearls, the snowflake and of course, the fab sketch!!
Gorgeous colors, Beate, and I love the cracked look!
Beate – Amazing! I love your detail on your cards – I love this card! Beautiful colors together!
Beautiful card and technique, Beate!
Gorgeous! I just tried this technique the other day and was disappointed that it didn’t crack properly even after being coated several times. Do you reapply the versamark in between the embossing?
Gorgeous card, Beate! I LOVE that technique and you make it look so fabulous!
This is just beautiful! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Beate – this is one gorgeous card for the holidays!!! Hugs ~S~
This is so beautiful, Beate!! Your coloring looks wonderful, and I love your cracked look!! Love the colors and all of your fabulous details as well!!
I love the boldness of color in the card, for one. I am assuming, as you stated, that is a result of Cpoics. I will have to buy some! I made a project a couple weeks ago with my friend using cracked glass technique.I used 3 layers of SU embossing powder and put my cs in the freezer., before bending it.It looked more like shattered glass! My friend used 3 layers of UTEE(you couldnt tell the difference at all), but she let her’s cool to room temp and it cracked gently and nicely. My question for you is this- You said you bent your cs. Was the whole card assembled giving it more structure before bending, or did you just bend the stamped image? Nice job, as usual!