As we spent the weekend drinking frozen margaritas whilst watching glastonbury I thought it would be fun to make a summery card with margarita vibes to match our mood.
I started with a panel of white card and using an embossing mat in my die cut machine ran the margarita glass through the machine to get an embossed background. I added the lime slice over the glasses in the same way. I used a pale lime pencil to shade the glasses and limes for some subtle background colour and added some highlights on the limes with a faber castel gelatos (well the colour is called margarita so it had to be done!)
To create the focal panel I die cut a green oval using the new Nesting Piercing Oval Dies from Waffle Flower - the pierced detail is really pretty.
The glass itself I cut twice from acetate. I used copics to colour both the front and back to get a nice deep shade of the "inner bit" for the margarita liquid and just used one layer for that part. I glued two layers of the glass together with glossy accents - we all know glueing clear things is difficult and in this case it didn't dry perfectly clear but it has given the glass a frosty look which I like and matched my frozen vibe! If it really bothers you then sticking to a sheet of glue paper before die cutting acetate and vellum is the best method I've found.
I die cut the salt rim from glitter card - once on the glitter side and once on the back - that way the one on the back was the right curve for the back of the glass so you can see the salt rim goes all the way around.
The lime cuts in 3 pieces - one solid piece which you stick it all down to, cut from green card which gives the zesty layer of the lime. I cut the inner bits twice - once from the green, once from white and I used the gelato to get some highlights onto the green segments. I used the white one just for the pith and used a cream pencil to get some shading on it (you could just colour the white bits green to save the extra cut, but the lime shade I got with the gelatos on white was too yellow for me so I did the green) I cut a slit so I could hook it into the glass.
I glued it all in placed onto the green oval which I'd already glued centrally to my embossed panel. I trimmed the panel down to be smaller than my base card and used a green ink to add some shading to give the effect of a green matt layer.
To finish I stacked a double cheers sentiment over the stem of the glass using a white layer to make the green pop more from the green background (hopefully they will bring out a shadow die for the cheers sentiment soon but it in the meantime a double stack does the job!)
Is it 5 o'clock yet? The office is so hot already this morning, I could do with another frozen cocktail!
Happy Crafting!
Tara
