Mondays: with Brianna French
Today I am sharing a card that was so much fun to make. In the 'Mondays' stamp set the sentiment that popped out to me the most was "Just Another Manic Monday". I thought of my sister-in-law and how "adulting" is super hard for her. She was part of the interior design world for about a year and the entire time all of her stories she would tell would seem extremely manic to me.
For some reason I kept thinking about the dizzying effect the old-timey 3D pictures would have, with and without the red and blue paper glasses. (I may be showing my age a bit if you have no idea what I am talking about) I wanted to try and create a background using this type of effect. I had never seen this done before or if it was even a thing. I just knew that I wanted to use a raspberry pink/red color, a bright yellow and a light blue/green color. I also knew that I needed to offset each line from one another to create that iconic 3D effect. My first try at this failed. I used a stencil and traced the pattern, then I used markers to try and create the 3D effect as I saw it in my minds eye. It bombed. It just didn't look good, it was too distracting and not subtle enough for a background. So, onto plan 'B'.
This time, using the same stencil, I used distress ink in the colors I needed and blended the ink using a blending brush. I started with yellow, then moved the stencil ever so slightly to the right and up a little bit and then used the pink/red color the same way as I did with the yellow. Finally, I moved the stencil ever so slightly to the right and then down some and again used the blue/green ink as I did with both of the prior colors. The final outcome was exactly as I had intended! I LOVED IT!
Now that I had my background, I decided to use a little dark humor and I chose the 'prescription pill bottle' and the 'hand holding a martini' from the Karen: Vol 1 stamp set. I used a waterproof black ink and once stamped onto white watercolor paper I painted each image and then fussy cut them. Using foam double stick tape I positioned the images to my liking .
For the sentiment "Just Another Manic Monday" I used the same ink colors as I used for the background. With an acrylic block I first stamped with yellow on white card stock. Then, stamped with red, then blue and finally black. Each time I stamped I would shift the words just a bit to create the psychedelic dizzy feeling you get when looking at the words.
I found the perfect colors of card stock in my collection and used two layers to create my border and adhered all of them onto a blue A2 note card. Likewise, I created a border around the sentiment and then using foam double stick tape adhered the sentiment in the upper half of the card.
Finally, I carefully added some iridescent gems for necessary bling!
On the inside I wanted to shed some light on my rather dark card front, so I chose "Punch (fist) today in the face" from the 'Mondays' stamp set.
If this card has inspired you to get psychedelic with your materials, the 'Mondays' stamp set is where it's at!! You can use promo code BriannaF10 and get 10% off of your order at Ink Road Stamps.