Crazy Crafters April 17th Blog Hop - CASE-ing Brian King

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Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Brian King - we are thrilled to have Brian join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by him.  We hope you find great inspiration from the projects.
Whether you are starting the blog hop here at my blog, Stephanie Fischer - The Crafty Thinker, or have come from the person before me, be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey on this blog hop.

This is the card by Brian that I have chosen to CASE. The layering really appeals to me and I like the simplicity of the colour scheme.

It's a girly version!

The first thing I did was to stamp and watercolour part of the beautiful floral image from You've Got This (I omitted the stem and leaves).  I stamped it with Blushing Bride ink onto Blushing Bride cardstock and then watercoloured it with Blushing Bride, Rose Red and Cherry Cobbler inks.  Although I used several ink colours, the basic method I used was the same as I use for monochrome watercolouring.  The links to my video tutorials can be found on my Video Tutorial page (see the tabs above)

I decided to make my card and mats for the layers in Cherry Cobbler cardstock.  I cut a 12" square piece of Cherry Cobbler to 6" x 5.25" and folded it in half.  Then I cut a Blushing Bride layer 1/8" smaller.

I decided on the sizes for the rest of the layers by first trimming the flower to as narrow a strip as possible and then creating balanced layers from that measurement.  All the mats are 1/8" larger than the patterned pieces.

Once I'd trimmed the painted flower layer to size, I added a greeting from Butterfly Basics, stamped with Basic Black ink.

Close up of the watercoloured panel

Brian took a lot of trouble to stamp the middle layer of his card but I decided to take the opportunity to use some beautiful Designer Series Paper and chose a couple of patterns from the Birthday Bouquet DSP.

The candy dots I used are Cherry Cobbler from the Regals set.

Knowing that Brian is fond of dimension, I used LOTS of dimensionals to adhere the layers to the card!

Lots of dimensionals to honour Brian!

Sizes for the layers:

Bottom layer:   Mat    2" x 53/8"                           DSP  17/8" x 51/4"

Middle layer:    Mat   41/2"x 43/8"                        DSP   43/8x 41/4"

Top layer:         Mat   2^5/8" x 37/8                       DSP   21/2" x 33/4

To purchase from my online store, click on one of the product images below.

I hope you've enjoyed this card and I welcome your comments. 
Thanks for taking part in our blog hop. Remember that currently you are at my blog - Stephanie Fischer - so click on the next name in the list to ensure that you don't miss out of seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration they contain.

'Til next time.
Stephanie

Product List

You've Got This Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139575]

Butterfly Basics Clear Stamp Set

[138816]

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

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Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

Cherry Cobbler 12" X 12" Card Stock

[124272]

Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride

[131287]

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

[131172]

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[131157]

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[119788]

Rose Red Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[102109]

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

Many Marvelous Markers

[131264]