Aloha, all!
This week's CASE (copy and share with everyone) challenge at my online demonstrator group, SUDSOL, was really a challenge for me. For one thing, I didn't care at all for the colors of the original. For another, I didn't have one of the primary products needed for the technique used in the original project I was supposed to copy. But you and I both know (from reading my blog if nothing else) that there's no requirement to use the same colors or technique to CASE a project.
But I did feel that I needed to do something other than just layer up a card. I needed to do something different with color.
The card I ended up liking enough to post here was about the 4th that I made by trying to do something interesting with color and the Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set. Here's a copy of the stamp set, with splatters, splotches, spots, and scratchy lines meant to muss up a background – or even a main image on a card. For the first few samples, I tried to make Gorgeous Grunge create the background. Then I stumbled across the Daffodil Delight-colored piece of paper from the Epic Day This and That Designer Series Paper set. I had pretty much always ignored this paper because it was so, well, splotchy! In fact, all of the papers in this set are splotchy, but mostly around the edges. Would you believe that I regularly cut papers for my projects out of the middle of the papers in this set to avoid the splotches?! (Shhh! That's our little secret.) It doesn't always work, but most of the time it does.
So there I was madly going through all my papers to try to find something that would work, and up this piece of paper popped! But would you believe that, for what I had in mind, it wasn't splotchy enough?! I had decided on the colors I'd wanted to use for this project during an earlier version. One of the colors was Tempting Turquoise, and the Pool Party splotches on this paper went well with this idea. Same for the Gumball Green streaks. Those mimicked the Old Olive I'd wanted to use, too,.
But there was no Rich Razzleberry at all on the paper. NOW there is!! If you look closely you'll see some of those Gorgeous Grunge splotches and splatters in Rich Razzleberry (and Old Olive) sprinkled around the paper, along with some added spots using Old Olive. That mussed up that paper beautifully (well, beauty being in the eye of the beholder).
For the central element, I used the scratchy line stamp, using all three colors (Turquoise, Razzleberry and Olive) to fill up the whole piece of Whisper White Card Stock I'd cut for the project. Then I cut the White Card Stock using one of the Framelits from the Deco Label Framelits set. No, I didn't sponge the edges because I felt enough was enough with the color splotches! I stamped the sentiment using one of the stamps in the Best of Greetings stamp set, and added a strip of Old Olive Card Stock, decorated with a Tempting Turquoise Button and a bit of Linen Thread to tie the card together.
While I was in the frustrating middle of this project I wasn't having much fun. But once my creativity kicked in and I found that paper, I really had fun finishing up this card. In fact, I think stamping messy images all over paper was quite the liberating experience. Now THAT'S fun!
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