I had this focal panel in my "too nice to throw away" scrap box and kept struggling with what to mount it on. I pulled out some Lovely Lilac Stampin' Up cardstock and I felt it sort of worked. I tried a few other things but blue drained the rich blues and greens drained the greens. This seemed to be it. I found a scrap of textured soft green paper and that was good as an accent and for the sentiment.
The panel is kind of fun - I had been playing with Adirondack color wash sprays and soaked up some of the overspray with watercolour paper. I used this to stamp a nice modular Magenta stamp and embossed in some different powders. I don't know what I used - I think there is a bit of Moonstone and one is the last of a custom mix to use up the dregs so I could have the container back. It's a bit of blue and eggplant and moonstone and I don't know what else. I just know that I am reminded how much I like to mix my own embossing powders. That makes me think of my dear stamping friend, Fran, who was a so good at artful combinations of embossing powders and accents in her own cards. I miss her! I'm glad of these memories of her, that come to me when I am stamping and think of how creative and how inspiring she was, and how inspiring her memory continues to be.
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