One of the lessons at the Online Card Class Spring Card Camp 2 was on creating vellum overlays. I loved the three cards Caly Person created and set off to create some myself. I have to admit I'm lukewarm about the results. I find vellum difficult to work with, and tried a variety of adhesive sprays and techniques, none of which worked quite the way I would have liked. In retrospect, I should have used a product called Stick-it which I own, but for some reason never considered. More than one attempt hit the circular file. Nonetheless, I ended up with four cards--some of which I like better than others. The first card incorporates an Altenew flower that I created after seeing a video Erum Tasneem posted a week or so ago. It's a loose watercolor technique that used watercolor markers. Here's a look at the flowers that I posted on Instagram.
And here's the first of the vellum cards.
The Bold Border die from Papertrey Ink is called Wave, and I've used it to great effect by cutting it from black and layering it on a white card. It's OK on this card, and it was one of the few where I didn't have a lot of trouble with adhesive.
Next up is the first card I created. I used another Papertrey Ink die, this one is the Butterfly cover plate. It's perfect for Caly's technique, but I didn't think the butterflies offered a lot of contrast over the ink-blended background. I added some shimmer to the middle butterfly and some sequins as well. It is, however, another good entry for the AAA Birthday challenge: Wings.
The next card presented the worst of the adhesive problems. I die cut the border frame by Ink to Paper from dotted vellum. I decided the border was too wide, so I used a rectangle die from Spellbinders to cut it down a bit, and ended up with a smaller frame you'll see in the next card.
The flower was another one I colored with watercolors for the #100DayProject. I die cut all of them and have them in a small bag to use as needed. The sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh was white embossed. It's a pleasing CAS design despite the difficulties.
The last card uses the smaller vellum frame and some more of the watercolored flowers. Of the four, it's my favorite, but the least like any Caly presented during the lesson.
The flowers are from a Simon Says set, Spring Flowers. I have had two of their spring flower sets forever, and had never used them before. I knew I'd like them. Why it's taken so long to get them out is beyond me! The sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh as well.
