Hello my true crime and crafty friends. I hope you're having a great day. I'm back on our alphabetical journey through the US to talk about some of the earliest (and weirdest) crimes. But before we talk crime, lets talk about the coloring.
I'm using copic markers to color this magnolia image from the Altenew-Hero Arts collaborative set Bloom & Grow. I'm pretty sure I bought this one from Joann's a while ago.
The first thing I want to do is add a little interest to the background of the card with some heat embossing. I will line the card base up in my MISTY and stamp the image off two corners with clear embossing ink, then add some clear embossing powder to the ink. I used a couple post-it notes to keep the back of the card clean.
After I have stamped and heated the powder, I will stamp the flower on a piece of Neena 80 lb solar white cardstock in a black ink that is alcohol ink friendly. I stamped it twice because my ink pad needs reinking.
Then while I had my MISTY and embossing powder out, I stamped the sentiment on black cardstock and heat embossed it with white embossing powder.
I used this color pallet to color my mostly white magnolia. Our first house here in Virginia had a magnolia tree in the front yard. It had the biggest blooms. They were the white blooms that lean a little cream or soft yellow, but I decided to color this bloom with pink undertones and center.
Once the coloring was complete, I fussy cut the image and the sentiment out with a pair of little, sharp scissors. When the flower was cut out, I went around the outside edges with a black marker to clean up the parts that weren't cut super well. In the end, no one will be able to tell I cut a little too close to the lines. The sentiment isn't cut very cleanly, but that's ok, it works.
I added the flower to the center of the card base, and trimmed the tiniest pieces of each side with a pair of scissors. Then I added the sentiment across the flower.
To add a little something special, I added some Altenew gem stickers. And then the card was done.
No to the crime. The story today is about an (probable) Italian man who made is way to Utah in the mid 1800's and found a job as a grave digger. He married a local lady after building a house near the cemetery.
Then when one of the men killed after running from the police during the beating of the territorial governor, was exhumated and found to be completely naked, our grave digger was found to be a grave robber as well.
You'd think with such a crime as this there would be plenty of information about the demise of said grave robber, but alas, not so.
To here the rest of the story, and see how the card came together, watch my video here:
Thanks for stopping by and have a really great day.
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