Use Ribbon {Moving Along With The Times}

Welcome, Blogging Friends! Hoping all is well with you.
For my friends along the Eastern Seaboard, I hope Florence's ferocities will be minimal and you will not suffer loss or serious damages from the storm.
Please be safe.

It's time to share a Project for the new Moving Along With The Times Challenge! Challenge #80's theme is RIBBON - for the next 2 weeks just make sure your project contains ribbon and upload it!

After coloring my impish fairy with Copic Markers, and die cutting her out, I applied a scrap of double sided Super Adhesive Sheets to my yellow cardstock, and die cut the shape out with the protective layer still in place.
TIP: when cutting double sided sticky tape, be sure remove the ultra glossy protective layer on the bottom first. The die will easily cut through the remaining protective layer, tape and cardstock.

   

The decorative border was cut to size, glued on the back of the panel, and then flipped over. I pulled off the protective layer from the yellow panel, applied the image, and then burnished with Velvet Micro Fine Glitter Butterscotch. 

I set the prepared panel aside to work on the card base. After dry embossing, Yellow Pearlescent Brilliance ink was moshed around the outer parts of the card.



I heat set it, and used a VersaMarker Pen around the edges and heat set with Buttercup Petal embossing powder. This color EP keep my yellow theme, rather than turning it gold. The added sparkly distressing brought more texture and a greater depth to the dry embossed area.

The greeting was also distressed with Buttercup Petal embossing powder. The close-up below shows the texture of this glittery EP on the edges of the card and greeting, and how shiny the velvety microfine glitter is:

 

FINISHED CARD:

On a Personal Note:

Early Mornings are often my favorite part of the day. In Florida, the past few mornings have treated us with a slightly lower morning temperature at 75F-24C so the ground is warmer than the air. A beautiful Stillness belies the cacophony of singing birds awakening - and my 2nd favorite thing - is when a special effect occurs after the night's thunderstorms, but before the sun has fully risen -- I marvel -- watching the warm ground releasing ribbons of dew rising from the pasture, creating a misty fog - caressing each blade of grass and every tiny leaf, in preparation for the heat of the day. It's like Nature lovingly kissing each of her children so they will have strength to stand tall in the humid heat once the sun rises. (If you are reading from my blog, click on the photos to enlarge).

The front gate is "down the hill" going left, and keep on going, past the fence, until you are nearly at that open space in the far right:



 The front and west pastures:
(already, the ribbons of fog have risen to feature a lush, green pasture from the previous night's thunderstorms). Isn't the Spanish Moss lovely hanging in the still morning air?


Thanks for stopping by, my friends! I sincerely appreciate your visits.

Products Used:

• SNS Pretty Blooms Rubber Stamp Set 873 (also available digitally)
• SNS Velvet Micro Fine Glitter Butterscotch GM2051
• SNS Buttercup Petal embossing powder EP389
• SNS double sided Super Adhesive Sheets
• Tonic Mixed Edge Diamond Layering Dies 
• Camellia Fairy Rubber Stamp (currently on sale 50% off) $3.50
• Camellia Fairy Die Set
• Camellia Fairy Rubber Stamp and Die Set Bundle
• All the Tonic Fairies- here
• Paper: SNS Neenah Solar White Cardstock (for alcohol markers), SU Daffodil Delight, Ballet Blue, Bold Blue
• Inks: VersaMarker Pen, Memento Danube Blue, Memento Paris Dusk, Brilliance Pearlescent Yellow
• Embossing Folders: Craft Concepts - "Secret Garden", Crafters Companion "Floral Wonder"
• Punches: SU Oval, MS Daisy Edge
• MISC: Copic Markers, Crinkle Ribbon from DLArt, Fabric Brad

Challenges I'd like to play in please:

1. Classic DT Open Challenge #9 AG DT 10/1 sep post
2. Crafty Creations Challenges #374 AG 9/26
3. Crafty Friends Challenge #92 Embossing Wet or Dry (two panels dry embossed. The back panel and sentiment are distressed with EP) 9/22
4. Crafty Gals Corner #174 "3+ Layers" (6 layers) 9/25
5. Crafty Girls Creations #50 AG 10/1
6. Crafting by Designs (Sept 12) Offer Encouragement - my sentiment does that 9/19
7. Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges #1836 AG 9/15
8. Creative Craft Cottage Challenge #111 Use Ribbon or Lace 10/3
9. Die Cut Divas (Sept 1) Use Yellow in Project (used 2 Tonic die sets) 10/3 (sep post)
10. Do-A1 Creative #21 Bingo Card (diagonal dies and punches - stamp - ribbon) 10/1

Crafty hugs especially for you,