Flourishes!

Back when I went to the Copic Certification in Pensacola, I bought a few Flourishes sets, and I have been patiently waiting to ink them up...I had the BEST time that weekend, celebrating my Louisiana heritage and learning some fabulous new stamping techniques. This week's Flourishes paper piecing challenge was the perfect opportunity to finally ink up one of those new sets, so this is the card I came up with. I actually have an Ethan Allen chair that looks very similar in style to this one in a beautiful floral print. Mine has a fringed, striped pillow and matching ottoman, and I just love it!

I used Memento ink to stamp the upholstery for this elegant chair onto Basic Grey's designer paper...I stamped it again onto a piece of ivory cardstock, then colored the wooden parts with prismas and baby oil, first with browns and then with gold. I cut out all the upholstery pieces, then inked all the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink, and glued them in place, then shaded around the edges of the entire image with a Copic marker and blender pen. I constructed the card using a very simple layout of designer paper matted with a burgundy cardstock atop a River Rock cardstock base. I added a horizontal band of Basic Grey paper punched with a Martha Stewart doily edge punch...all the edges were inked with distress ink. Embellishments included a bow of sheer gold ribbon and a Tim Holtz keyhole accent.