Friendship Quilt Card

 

Do you like Copic markers? If you wander around the blogosphere, you will see that many stampers use Copics to color  in their images. I sure love the look, but I simply can't afford to buy them. Then I came across this video on You Tube and found the Bic Mark-Its at Walmart for a great price. I've been trying my hand at blending, but don't have anything worthy of showing anyone except the trash can. One of the hints she gives in the video is that she heat embosses her images to keep the colors from bleeding into one another when you don't want them to. Super clever! I ordered Quilter's Sampler from Papertrey Ink just before I broke my ankle and am finally getting a chance to use it! I stamped each of the quilt squares in the set on white cardstock, heat embossed with clear powser, colored them, then punched them out with a 3/4 inch square punch-which is the perfect size for the quilt squares. Finally, I adhered them to a piece of white cardstock.

I love the colors that I chose, but didn't really think ahead about what color cardstock the colors would match. I decided on Bamboo. Then the white looked pretty stark, so I colored in the seam areas. I used my rectangle Nestabilities to cut and emboss. I decided to color the edge with one of the colors I used in the quilt. It ended up looking like a framed quilt to me. Not being sure what else to do to the card that would work, I just stamped the sentiment and called it good. While I think the card looks much better in person than in this photo, I like it well enough to share. It was fun to color in. Time-consuming, but fun!

Jeanne

Stuff I used:

Quilter's Sampler (Papertrey ink), Bamboo, Colonial White cardstock, Archival Black ink, Cocoa ink (CTMH), clear embossing powder, Rectangle Nestabilities, Bic Mark-Its.