Hello my true crime friends. I'm back today with another true crime story from the history books. Our journey today takes us to our nation's capitol, Washington DC.
But before we talk crime, let's talk about the coloring. I choose this rose stamp from Picket Fence Studios and I plan to water color it.
I'll be coloring it with my Mijello Mission Gold water color paints
And I'm planning on making it am orange rose. When we lived in Oregon, we had the most beautiful orange rose bush. I wish we had brough it to Virginia with us.
I will be using this Simon Say Stamp set for the sentiment and make it a Mother's Day card. I stamped it in white pigment ink from Concord and 9th then added white embossing powder from Brutus Monroe then heat set it with my heat tool.
I stamped the rose in Versaclair Nocturn Black ink, because it is waterproof, and it needed to be stamped 2 or 3 times because water color paper is textured. I also added some clear embossing powder from my stash to keep those layers of black in from smearing. It also creates wells that trap the pigment so I don't have to worry about working in close contact with each petal.
After I got everything painted, I had to come up with a card layout.
My mom was here and thought a gate fold card would be perfect with this large flower. And then we decided to make a background with alcohol inks.
I selected green and gold inks and a sparkly ink blending paper from Tim Holtz. Green and Orange are split complements, and the green back ground works as foliage for the flower.
I used the Tim Holts blower to move the ink around the paper. I had to give it a try to see if the green and gold ink would look good on the sliver shiny paper, and it did.
When I made the card base, I chose a piece of black cardstock that was 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Then with the long side up against the top edge of the score board, I scored it at 1 1 /2 inches and 5 3/4 inches.
What I forgot to do was cut the alcohol ink paper along the long side so I didn't have the right measurements. But I'm not throwing this paper away, so plan b was a white card base with a black border around the green ink blended paper. And it worked.
I fussy cut the rose, leaving a small white border. I spent a long time trying to decide where to place it on the card. It needed to over hang from the larger flap onto the smaller flap. Eventually I made a decision and added double sided adhesive to one half of the rose.
I also fussy cut the sentiment, and spent almost the same amount of time figuring out where to place that too.
And of course we need bling. I dug through my stash and found some flat back beads from Spellbinders that were the same shade of gold as the alcohol ink I used. Naturally there was an internal argument between even and odd, so like usual I added two groups that ended up an odd number of beads.
And here is the finished card.
Now to the crime. Today our story is about two Kentucky men who both make their way to DC; one as a politician, one as a reporter. Unfortunately, they weren't friends, and their acrimonious relationship ended in a fatal gun shot. And an ending you might not expect.
So grab your beverage, get comfy and let's talk true crime.
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