Pedal Pusher Party Pants

How’s that title for a bit of alliteration? Today, as we get to the final days of Sale-a-bration, I’m using two of the free products that I got over the last few months, Pedal Pusher and Party Pants. This is a quick and easy card, easy to mass produce and easy to change by changing the colours.

Stampin' Up! Party Pants and Pedal Pusher

I stamped the bicycle on very vanilla in archival black ink. I find that I need the piercing mat underneath to give extra cushion when stamping this or the middle of the image isn’t crisp. Adding some ink from the re-inker to the pad helped too. Be careful after you’ve stamped, it’s very easy to smudge this. I added the basket and the picnic image since that seems appropriate for a birthday. I then coloured in the bike using my lost lagoon marker and then added a touch of the clear wink of Stella on top. The bike I got at 13 was a metallic blue and this reminds me of it. I stamped the sentiment from Party Pants in versamark on lost lagoon (after using the embossing buddy) and then used the gold embossing powder. Once I’d heated it to the lovely raised shine, I wiped a soft cloth over it to remove any remnants of the embossing buddy powder. Next I used the Balloon Bouquet punch to get my balloon. The balloon string was hand drawn with a black Stampin’ write marker before I added the balloon, popped up with stampin’ dimensionals. I mounted this on a lost lagoon cardbase.

Lost lagoon is one of my favourites of the soon to be retiring in colours. It’s hard to pick an absolute favourite, I have a trio instead – lost lagoon, mossy meadow and blackberry bliss. The other two of the five are close to colours currently available but these three are beautiful, rich and unique. I’m going to miss them. Fingers crossed that they come back in a colour refresh someday.

I’ll be posting later tomorrow – at around 8am – since that’s the time that the new challenge is posted at CAS Colours & Sketches.

See you then,

Liz

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