LIM 11 - Let's use Acetate

What a great idea...let's use acetate!  This is the challenge that has been presented to us by Chrissie and Mandi this week at Less is More.  I hear that we're now being called the LIMettes.  T-shirts and pom-poms will surely be next! You don't want to miss out, so you probably should hurry up and finish your card for this week's challenge and get it posted over there!  Well, I've completed a card...but I'm not too sure how I like it. I might just end up making another one this week...we'll see.

For my card this week, I used Papertrey Ink's Friendship Jar and filled it with gumballs also from Papertrey Ink's Friendship Jar Fillers.  I stamped my jar and lid on acetate with black Stazon ink.  I cut out a large rectangle around the jar, and cut the lid out close to the edges.  I embossed a piece of white card stock with a Cuttlebug large dot embossing folder Seeing Spots.  Using my largest rectangle Spellbinder die, I cut the center out of the embossed piece and set it aside.  I stamped the jar again on the card front with Memento's black ink, and stamped the gumballs inside the jar with the Memento black.  I colored the gumballs with several different colored Copic markers. (Drew a line to ground the jar...you know I have to have my images grounded! LOL!)  I then placed the image of the jar on the acetate on top of the image stamped on the card and adhered the embossed piece to the acetate, so that my images would be right on top of each other.  I adhered the lid to the jar (which is also stamped on acetate) at an angle on top of the jar.  I added a little shading with a light gray Copic marker.  The sentiment is from the same Friendship Jar Fillers collection. I stamped it on white, punched it out with a 1 inch punch and then punched a 1 1/4 inch red circle to back it. I used foam tape to raise the acetate and embossed layer off the card front. The "candy 5¢" tag is also popped up with foam tape.  I added a doodled dashed line around the edges of the tag.

I've added a close up shot taken from the side to try to show the depth on the card.  From the front of the card, you can see that it looks like one stamped image, but here you can see the lines behind the acetate (I hope!)

Thanks so much for stopping by and I truly appreciate all the wonderful comments!  Until next time...

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