Happy Birthday Suze

Evening Everyone
I have been very lucky on my Creative Journey to have made the acquaintance of some of the 'Greats' in Crafting. People who inspire you with their amazing creativity.
One such lady is Suze Weinberg who I met on several occasions when working at the Craft Barn many years ago.
It is this lovely lady's birthday today and so I would like to wish her many happy returns with this card.

The central panel has been stamped and embossed onto a piece of card that has first been painted with coffee.

I added extra colour to the flower using Distress Inks. The swirls at the side have been painted using thin undiluted bleach.

The background panel has been created using stamping, embossing and sponging.
Unfortunately I don't have an address for Suze to send this by snail mail, so I hope that she will accept it via the  wonders of the Internet.
Happy Birthday lovely lady, here's to many more.
Hugs Kimx

Belated Birthday Wishes Suze

Evening Everyone,
Happy Monday to you all.
Yesterday was the birthday of a fabulously creative lady, the lovely Suze Weinberg.
I had been inspired by Suze in print before I was lucky enough to meet her when I worked at the Craft Barn, many years ago.
At that time the only good crafting magazines were from America and that is where I first encountered an article by Suze on the 'Polished Stone' technique.
Alcohol inks were not readily available in the UK at the time so I played with dye based inks and put my own spin on it to produce backgrounds by the 'Drip, Spritz and Smoosh' method lol.

Drip drops of dye based reinkers onto glossy card stock, spritz with water and smoosh a second piece of glossy card stock over the ink to produce two pieces of fabulous background paper.
They look a bit like ink blots to me but I won't try analysing them.
You have to leave them to dry which is always the hard part, but then you have handmade background papers ready for any eventuality.

With Suze in mind I thought that I would make a card using this ready made piece of background.

The stamp I have used is 4240K Flamboyant by Penny Black (how appropriate when I think of Suze) which I have stamped and embossed in black and then cut out using a nestie.
The background has been created using an Embossalicious folder and white card which is then sponged with pale lilac ink.
Of course there had to be some ribbon, lace and pearls.
I hope that you had a great day Suze, and thanks for all of the inspiration.
hugs Kimx