A big, bold (but super easy) background!

I have to admit that before creating this card, I had never colored a mandala before (GASP! I know!). I'm so glad that I decided to give it a try because this Center Cut Burst background stamp from Simon Says Stamp is such a beautiful stamp and really fun to color. (And with this stamp you can even remove the middle part to make even more designs!)

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on a 4.25" x 5.5" Neenah Solar White Card Stock panel.

The Copic Marker colors I used:
V 06
RV 66
YG 17 & 21
BG 49
B 29

And of course I had to add some bling! I selected a few jems from the Rainbow Sparkle mix from Lucy's Cards. I adhered them with Ranger Multi Medium Matte and used a Marvy Jewel Picker to pick up the jewels and put them in place (makes it so easy!) I also chose a few jewels from the Ice Cube mix as well.

For the sentiment, I used the Big Friends wafer dies set by Simon Says Stamp and ran it through my Tim Holtz Vagabond 2 die cutting machine with a Stick It Adhesive Sheet applied to the front of a piece of card stock.

After peeling off the Stick It backing exposing the adhesive, I put down a piece of Heidi Swapp MINC reactive foil in silver over top.

Now, you could just burnish it really well to get the foil to stick, but I like to run it through my Mini MINC machine to get really good adhesion (a laminating machine would work too). Then, I removed the foil sheet and even though I've done this many times, I'm still amazed by the result! (It only sticks to the adhesive!) Pretty cool, huh?

I then adhered it to a strip of vellum I stamped with "to the absolute best" from the Mom and Dad Icons stamp set.

I wanted the vellum piece to be raised from the card so I die cut the shadow friend die from white fun foam and glued it to the back of the vellum - aligning it right under the foiled piece on the front. Then adhered the foam piece with the vellum attached to my card panel.

Quick tip: Use a very light hand when apply wet glue to vellum. The vellum wrinkles very easily with too much adhesive. I used just tiny dabs of the Ranger Multi Medium Matte using a precision applicator tip.

I really like this card turned out! The bold background sticks out, but adding the vellum let's the sentiment not distract from the background.

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