SSS Be Creative Parallelogram

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Hey everyone!  I've got a card to share today featuring my latest background for Simon Says Stamp, Parallelogram.

I started by clear embossing the background on a piece of Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper.

I then sprayed Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, and Cracked Pistachio Distress Spray Stains onto my craft mat, and swiped my panel through the colors.  The panel was sprayed with water to get the ink moving a bit, and then dried the panel a little with my heat tool.  I then dabbed my panel into the leftover ink on the kraft mat, dried, dabbed a few more times until I was happy with the look.

To add a bit more dimension to the panel, I use a couple distress watercolor pencils.  I pulled color directly from the pencil using a waterbrush to add color to my panel.  I used Mermaid Lagoon to add color to the right angles, and Twisted Citron to add color in the corners of some of the parallelograms.

To finish the card off, I die cut the cloud piece from the Basic Card Box Beach and Sky dies, trimming off the flaps that are normally used to attach it to the sides of the card box, and adhered it to my panel.

The Missing You So Much sentiment was die cut three times from white cardstock and once from teal.  These were adhered together and then to my card.

The entire panel was then popped up with foam tape.

I'll have another Parallelogram card to share with you later this week.  Thanks for visiting!