Miss You

Hi bloggers!  This card was my first experiment into my high-low technique several months ago.  I liked the results so much that I had to use it in a card so here is what I made.  To start from the very back up, though, I used the Dainty Doily stamps from Justrite and stamped it all over black card using a clear Perfect Medium pad.  I heat embossed it with black embossing powder for the tone on tone look.  Next I covered a piece of card with a self adhesive sticky sheet.  I peeled the backing off exposing the adhesive and placed my "Funky" mask on it (after I inked it with perfect medium to help it release).  I covered the exposed area with Diamond Sprinkles glitter.  I tapped off the excess well, then carefully peeled up the mask.  This exposed a different area of the mask design.  This time, I covered the exposed area with clear micro beads which completed the design but gave a different height to it as well.  Thus the "high-low" technique was born.  You can achieve this look with a number of products from mica powders to glitters to gilding flakes to micro beads.  You can use contrasting colours or do as I have done for a tonal look,but it always looks smashing!  It adds lovely combination of interest and texture to your cards.  As a bit of a teaser, I have been playing around with variations on this idea some more and plan on showing you the results when I film the next lot of videos when I get home.  To finish the background, I wrapped some black seam binding around the card in both directions, then added some thin black and white mats before attaching it to the larger stamped background.  I used the Delicate Doily dies for my focal element.  I cut two in white, one with just the outside die and the other one using both the decorative insert and the outside die edge.  I cut one more black one that I glued behind the decorative one so it showed through all the detail.  I offset the one one with it and glued them in the centre of the card. I stamped my sentiment and cut it out with a smaller die in the set and added in the smaller decorative die to emboss the detail over the sentiment.  I inked the edges lightly with Black Soot and added some flatback pearls before gluing it in the centre of my card.  I tied a messy bow out of black seam binding and added it to the ribbon crisscross section.  I made a small white flower using the heat gun method to melt the edges and used it on my bow.  I added some black pearl swirls to the upper corner and finished with a double white pierced mat.  Finished dimensions are 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" in size.