Anything Goes... a Screen Card

This month at Stamping Sensations, we are asking you to show us what you've got. Anything goes, and there is a fantastic prize on offer as always, this month we have a mystery box of fantastic crafting goodies! So what are you waiting for, oh, hang on, let me give you a bit of inspiration with my screen card...

"Front and box"

Here's a little tease, showing the front and the box, both of which are embossed before rubbing with Pinflair Buff-it. If you want to decorate your box like this, you need to do the embossing before sticking the box together, while it is still flat. Ask me how I know :-)

"Inside"

The frames are made in the same way, with embossing and gilding. The background for the screens is done using a marbling technique. The stamping uses some of my favourite Crafty Individuals stamps and the same distress ink colours as used for the background. Finally, the gilded images are diecut from double-sided adhesive paper and covered in gilding flakes.

"Reverse"

This sentiment from Chocolate Baroque is a great fit with the Sizzix Cabinet die, and the birds are coloured with distress inks and a water brush for an ethereal look.

"Sentiment"

You can see my favourite Crafty Individuals stamp from CI-234 in this photo, around the outside of the sentiment. It's great to just ink up bits of the stamp and do random branches. Well that's it for today, if you're wondering what I did with the cutouts, please come back tomorrow and see :-)

Ingredients:

Crafty Individuals rubber stamps CI-234, CI-209, CI-287

Chocolate Baroque rubber stamps Live Out Loud, Fly Away With Me

A4 Embossalicious Embossing Folder Tumbling Leaves

Sizzix M&S dies: Cabinet & Mini-Cabinet, hole punch 1/4"

Marianne dies: tree, bird and branch large, bird and branch small, birdhouse

Memory Box die: birdcage

Pinflair Buff-it, Gold, Blue

Ranger Tim Holtz distress inks and markers, various colours

Archival ink, coffee

IndigoBlu gilding flakes, Morris Dance

large jump rings, beads, charms

lock and key brads

cardstock: brown 300gsm+, white 160gsm

Entered for the following challenge:
Artistic Stamper - in the Garden