Betsy’s BBQ invitation

Hello everyone!  Betsy here sharing with you this wonderful and very fun BBQ invitation using the Al Fresco Digital Stamp Set!  I actually put mine on a card base, but you could just adhere a white panel of a regular card instead!  Let me show you how I made this project!

First I printed out all of my images onto white card stock.  I knew I wanted to use a postage collage die and stencil for this project. There was a fair amount of time spent sizing my images.  Some of the images were easy, where others, particularly the ones where I used more than one image, were a bit more time-consuming.  Both images would have to be sized to fit into the space.  I die cut the postage collage using white card stock.  Then I printed this sheet out and edited the size more than once, every time printing it out onto copy paper.  Then when they were all sized the way I wanted, I printed them out onto white card stock.

As I was choosing my background paper, I came across paper that was brightly colored and included a wood grain print.  When I saw the brown I knew I wanted the “BBQ” to be printed on that.  So I taped a piece of the patterned paper to a copy paper version of what I printed on card stock and ran it through my printer. I chose a red gingham patterned paper for the postage collage die to sit on.  I really wanted to incorporate bright colors and this red really speaks to me of backyard BBQ’s.

Once the letters were printed I used a few Copic markers to define them.

I then began the coloring.  Although there is a fair bit of coloring on these images, they are small so they really didn’t take that long.  I started with the burger and the hot dog.  If you are wondering why I colored the hot dog red, it’s because those are the ones my family loves.  They snap when you bite into them because of the red casing…so yummy!

The salad and corn-on-the-cob were next.  I introduced blue to the mix of colors by coloring the bowl with the BG family of colors.  I knew I wanted to use Salvaged Patina Distress Ink for the stencil in each of the sections.  The BG family of colors matches this really well.

These were the last of the images to color.  I added touches of red to match the red gingham of the background paper.

I stenciled each section about 2/3’s of the way up.  I have to say in this photo the Salvaged Patina Distress Ink looks really blotchy.  But, as with all dye based inks, this evened out and thankfully became a lot softer looking when it dried.

I fussy cut all the elements leaving a very narrow white border.  I stamped “YOU’RE INVITED” with a stamp from my stash.  I adhered each of the elements in their respective sections using foam tape.  I used Glossy Accents on the butter on the corn, the cheese on the burger, the barbeque grill, the mustard on the hot dog and the ice in the glass of lemonade.  I used Stickles on the lemon slice, the paper lanterns, the tomatoes in the salad, and the seeds on the burger bun.  I used a shimmer pen on the letters, and the salad utensils.  And that finished my invitation!

Til next time…

Betsy

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