Pink Card and ATC for October

Hello everyone! Welcome to my first Altered Pages post for October.  Can you believe Fall is here already?  And since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, I thought it would be fitting to make a card and ATC in honor of it.  We also have a wonderful sponsor this month, Royal & Langnickel, makers of many fine art products.  I hope you will stop by and check out their website.

Here are the parts I used to make the card.  I started with a kraft card (A2 size), trimmed paper slightly smaller than card front, and die cut the pieces shown with label dies.  The middle solid pink piece was made by tracing around the smaller die and fussy cutting.  I did not want too much of the brassy gold paper to show, and this particular die set does not have another in-between size.

Edge the print layer with Delicata Gold ink and the blending tool, adhere to card front.

I needed to color my dyeable seam binding to a matching pink color, so these are the products I used to do this.  The Royal sable brushes worked like a charm and were so soft and silky smooth that they just glided across the ribbon.

A tiny dot of the Magenta Splash ink on my craft mat was all that was needed, adding lots of water and picking the color up with the Royal sable  brush.

When dry, I folded it in the shape used to promote breast cancer awareness, stapled in the center, and covered the staple with a dew drop.

I also made an ATC that I thought would be nice to include inside the card.

Once again, I used my Splash Inks to color this beautiful gypsy lady.  She was stamped with black Stazon ink onto a piece of print paper from the Pretty in Pink pad.  Stazon ink is waterproof and will not bleed when I add water.  

I put a few drops of each color and one drop of white acrylic paint onto my craft sheet.  With a wet brush, I picked up the colors, as needed, mixing colors to make new colors, and adding the white if I needed a more pastel, and somewhat opaque, color. The possibilities are absolutely endless with these highly concentrated inks.  

When the paper was dry, I adhered it with glue stick to a darker pink paper layer, which was glued to a slightly larger ATC sized kraft card.

Supplies:
Altered Pages Collage Sheets:  ATC Beauty;
6x6 Glitz Paper Pads (Pretty in Pink)
Rubber Stamp Sets: Gypsy Journey set
Kraft envelopes & cards
StazOn Midi ink pad Black
Delicata Ink Pad Gold
Ranger Blending Tools
Dyeable Seam Binding
Splash Inks
Dew Drops (Pink)
Glue Stick
Double Side Tape Mini
Royal & Langnickel SableTek brush

White acrylic paint

Big Chat stickers (Remember)

Altered Pages will be having a Royal Brush PINK giveaway this month, so be sure to leave a comment on their blog for a chance to win.  And while you're there, take a moment to check out the new products in the Altered Pages shop.  Good things await!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful and creative week!

Barbara

Think Pink! Challenge for Altered Pages

As most of you probably know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Altered Pages is hosting a Think Pink challenge this month to remind us of the importance of getting ourselves checked. So, my Think Pink challenge piece is this cute candy jar that I cut from a Sizzix die designed by Eileen Hull and covered with BoBunny Double Dots paper.  In this photo, you can see the dimension of the piece from the side.

The photo below shows the candy jar from the front.  I used a Spellbinders die to cut the layered lacy rectangular piece and a Sizzix vintage die to cut out the image of the beautiful woman in pink from the Altered Pages Think Pink collage sheet.  I edged the pieces with Pumice Distress ink, and I used the same color Distress Stain to color off-white ribbon to match.  I also made the ribbon flower that sits just above the central image.  I think it looks so vintage.  I cut out the "Make a Difference" phrase from the Altered Pages Thanks for the Support collage sheet, backed it with some of the pink card stock, and inserted it into a trinket pin.

The photo below shows the back of the candy jar.  I used the pink ribbon with flowers, also from the Think Pink collage sheet, and added teeny tiny flowers from the ribbon that I used along the bottom of the jar.

The pictures below simply show the two chipboard pieces (center) that I painted pink around the edges,  and the four pieces of card stock that I die cut from the double dot paper to cover both sides of the chipboard. The piece pictured above the jar pieces is simply the piece that holds them together, and is part of the die.

I wanted the candy jar lid to have some dimension, so I cut a smaller piece of chipboard from the top of the die, painted the edges and covered only one side of the lid piece with contrasting paper.  I stamped a non-descript image on the lid, also using the Pumice Distress Ink.  To get the rounded bottom for the lid, I used the bottom of the candy jar stand to draw a line where I removed the excess chipboard, giving me the curve I needed for the lid.  

I hope you enjoyed my project for today.  I love the vintage feel of this piece, and since pink is my favorite color, I am so happy to be able to participate in this challenge this month.  When it comes to breast cancer, not only women, but also men, need to be vigilant always if we want to try to beat this awful disease that strikes so many of us.  Having said that, thanks so very much for stopping by, and have a pleasant and joyful week.  

Barbara