Skulls and Roses Frida Style!

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Greetings! You've got Kathi here to share another card created for the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity's Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage Challenge 210 with the Frida Skull Rubber Stamp and a sentiment from the Travel Quotes Unmounted Rubber Sheet.

Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp the Frida Skull stamp in the center of a piece of white cardstock. 

Position a deckled oval die blade-side down and secure the die to the cardstock with low-tack tape. Run the image panel and cutting die through a machine. Remove the two cutting plates from the machine with the stamped panel and cutting die still inside, flip the sandwich over, and remove the top cutting plate to show the back of the panel. Using low-tack tape, secure the die-cut to the panel.

Flip the image panel and die-cut so that the image is facing up and is still inside the cutting die. Use a small blending brush to apply Antique Linen Distress Ink over the cutting die onto the die-cut to add a background. Don't worry about getting some Distress Ink onto the image, you can remove it with a wet paintbrush. Plus, Distress Ink plays well alcohol markers.

Carefully remove the low-tack tape from the front and back of the image panel. Remove the cutting die, revealing a white edge around the stamped image. Clean and dry the cutting die.

Use Copic markers to color the image panel. You'll note that the colors I chose match well with the patterned paper that I selected. When done coloring, set the image panel die-cut aside.

Select patterned paper that works well with your stamped image. Select cardstock to match the patterned paper and create an A2 card with the cardstock.

Position a sentiment ribbon-slide cutting die blade-side down on a strip of cardstock left from created the card. Secure the cutting die to the cardstock with low-tack tape, and run it through your machine. Tape the back of the die-cut to the cardstock strip, but remove the die this time. Secure the die-cut/strip combo onto a stamping platform with magnets and/or low-tack tape. Place a clear sheet of acetate over the die-cut. Position the chosen sentiment stamp facedown on the acetate, ink the stamp, and stamp onto the acetate to see whether the sentiment is straight. Adjust if necessary and test again.

Remove the acetate, ink the sentiment stamp with VersaFine Clair Ink, and stamp. Re-ink and stamp again if needed to attain a good impression.

Cut a thin strip of coordinating patterned paper. Edge the strip with VersaFine Clair ink. Trim the strip to 4.5" and thread the strip through the sentiment die-cut.

Trim the patterned paper to 4.5" x 5.25" to create the background panel. Apply adhesive to the two sides of the ribbon strip and adhere the strip/ribbon-slide die-cut towards the bottom of the background panel.

Trim the patterned paper to 4" wide then edge the background panel with VersaFine Clair Ink. Adhere the image panel as shown. The last step is to adhere the card front to the reserved A2 card.

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