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Monday 24 June 2013

Be Unique!

I am writing this whilst a small fan heater is warming my feet, I am sure this is not the usual antics for a late June evening? but I suppose it is England!!! Summer where have you gone???? Weather that at least keeps us from wanting to go outside gives us great reasons to abandon all and escape into our craft rooms. I thought I would have a play with my recent purchase of Sweet Poppy glossy black paste (I am not the best at pushing product through stencils).
I have made an 8 x 8 card and used warming colours of orange,yellow and greens all from dylusion sprays. I stenciled the black paste through Andy Skinners Baroque stencil and then matted onto black card. the remaining card that I had I cut into strips and edged each strip with spiced marmalade (I don't like to see the colour of the original card). I then arranged them in a randomly striped effect and to add interest also included film strip washi tape stripes.  The sentiment "Be Unique" is from Steampunk shoes set by Creative Expressions. I have stamped it with versamark and embossed with detail white embossing powder.

Here you can see the gloss of the paste, I love the effect. There is quite a lot of dimension to the piece using pinflair silicone.

I would like to enter this card into the current challenge over at Simon Says Stamp & Show. where this weeks theme is Stripes.

thanks for stopping by I really appreciate your visit
thanks
Amanda X


19 comments:

  1. Love this, it's gorgeous, great striking colours too - lovely

    Sam xxx

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  2. Wow - that glossy paste is so cool, and your fabulous colours set it off brilliantly. Fantastic design with the stripes too - this is a great make, Amanda!
    Alison x
    (And, yes, I was back on two hot water bottles last night - bah humbug!)

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  3. Hi Amanda
    I am loving the face on this piece being done with the embossing paste it really brings dimention and brings it to life. Great colour combo as well a really striking piece of art
    Ria

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  4. Wow beautiful piece, love the glossy effect!
    Groetjes karin

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  5. Wow fabulous contrasts here Amanda with the gorgeous colours and black paste, love the design.
    hugs Brenda xxx

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  6. Hi Amanda, your post made me laugh. I use the hair dryer to warm my feet sometimes LOL! Love your card the colours are so striking and the vertical strips look amazing. XX

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  7. Ditto what Paula said above :) Fab work Amanda!

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  8. Cool card, and a great take on the stripes theme xo

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  9. This card looks great Amanda...what a great colours and the background is stunning. Gorgeoussss

    kind regards, Alie :-)

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  10. Love the vibrant background, the contrast of the black lines, the 3D effect the paste makes...love, how you combined it all together! Love it!!

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  11. Wow, this is fabulous Amanda - the design is as striking as the colour mix. Fab, fab, fab! Chris xxx

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  12. Wow, what a beautiful card. Love the colors and the lay out.
    xx

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  13. Great card. Love those warm colours and the black glossy works a treat

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  14. Amanda...I love this! Wow....seeing the thumbnail of this...I have to come check it out. Love the stark white background and the gorgeous warm colors you've used in your design. That face is amazing. Love that it's embossed in black! The stripes of black and white filmstrip behind her is stunning! This is such a gorgeous card! Thanks for sharing it with us at Simon Says Stamp and Show. <3 Candy

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  15. Hey Amanda, I love the vertical color strips in the background. Such a great design idea :)

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  16. What a fun and graphic card! Love all the stripes! Thank you so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Show. Hugs, Sandra

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  17. Hi Amanda! This is an outstanding piece of art and worthy of being selected for the Top 5 at Simon Says Stamp and Show. Congratulations!

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  18. Wow! this project is fab! Congrats for win on sss&s!!!!! BArbarayaya

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  19. Wow wow gorgeous stunning card. I love the colours and how you mixed up the stripes. The main image with the black gloss paste is awesome and the Washi tape really makes the whole thing pop. Absolutely amazing. I can remember how cold it was then lol but now it's way too hot lol. Kezzy :-) xxx

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