Inspired by Stamping Guest Designer!

Hello!!

Today is an exciting day as I've been asked to be this week's Guest Designer for the ever so lovely challenge blog, Inspired by Stamping Inspiration Challenge (IBSIC).  

Each week they offer a different color challenge and wonderfully creative, diverse inspiration samples from their very talented Design Team, and it is huge honor to get to play with them this week!

Today's card is for this week's Challenge #43 and we are to use the colors white, saffron yellow and pink.  If you don't have exactly those colors, no worries!  Just come as close as possible with what you do have.

I love these colors, and it seemed only natural to make something romantic with lots of lacy effects, hence my anniversary easel card.

The sentiment and frame stamps have been embossed in gold, plus I've created my own background papers on some of the layers, including stamping on already- printed dp.  The large yellow rose was made by me, the little teeny tiny roses are from IBS.  Sooo cute!

This little heart is made of wood, which I've painted with several layers of CI paints, Ivory and Tutu Pink. I would have loved to have painted a rose on it, but my painting skills are less than noteworthy, especially when it comes to roses, one of the most difficult of all flowers to paint.  I'm going to learn!  In the meantime, this is a small sticker which I've sealed with a couple of layers of Mod Podge.

A few loops of various ribbons, including a small piece of crochet ribbon, a few leaves and pearls, and my card is complete.

Thank you for taking time to stop by today, and do try to visit IBSIC to play in their challenge.  They would love to have you!  

Happy crafting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Vintage Frames, Delicate Doilies, All Year Wishes I, Paris (All IBS)
Ink: Pink Pirouette, So Saffron (SU), Versamark
Paper: Whisper White, Subtles DSP Stack (SU)
Extras: SB Labels Twenty, Labels Eight, Decorative Labels Eight; ribbon, pearls, MS pine branch punch, gold ep (SU), tiny roses (IBS), CI paints, wooden heart, pearl trim, dimensionals.

Challenges entered:

ALOTA99 - Make your own background
TSTR#150 - Make It Pretty (The SU dsp has a wallpaper striped effect, and the yellow rose is made with striped dp.)
Simon Says Stamp and Show - What are you known for? (Lots of layers, flowers, embellishments)
Tammy's Scrapin' Corner #46 - Red and/or hearts
Creative Card Crew #28 - Girly
Crafts and Me #117 - Vintage
Crafty Ribbons Challenge #37 - Love/Romance/Anniversary
Allsorts #190 - Flower Power
Pile It On #3 - Have a Heart
Sugar Creek Hollow - Tic Tac Toe (flowers, pearls, diecut)
City Crafter #143 - Forever Mine 

In Love

Hello and good morning!

This is a short post today because the Christmas rush is upon us and time in the craft room has come to a near stop.  Not completely, there are a still a few DT cards to make and post (yay!), but there's baking to be done, presents to wrap (and finish shopping for!), and...well, you know how it is.  So some of my upcoming blog posts are going to be pulled from my recent archives which are quite simply the cards I made right before discovering the wonderful world of blogging this past Sept.  They are recent cards, and it'll be like a mini-trip down [recent] memory lane.  You don't mind, do you?  I figure cards don't always have to be submitted to challenges to count, right?

Since today's card is one from the archive, there are no extra photos of details.  I didn't start doing that until very recently.  This is the card I made for my step-daughter and her fiance who the whole family loves to the nth degree.

I love this stamp set from SU, Take It to Heart.  The images are perfect for heat embossing, which is what I did here.  Then I die cut it and the background black layer and popped them up on the white layer that was first stamped using Versamark and SU Everything Eleanor, then brushed with Perfect Pearls in Pearl.  I think it gives a great tone-on-tone appearance.

Let's talk about that white layer.  I cut the card base using the SB Lattice Rectangles die and offset it from the top just a teensy bit so that it wouldn't cut across the top, but you can't see it because I then cut a second, single layer from the same die and layered it onto the front, matching up the lacy sides.  I love the look it gives the card - very wedding-y.

Two layers of ribbon, a double bow, and a couple of Tiny Tags finish this card.  It's almost CAS, yet there is still plenty of detail.  One thing is for certain - this card is a perfect candidate for my card jewelry - pity I wasn't making them when I made the card.  NEXT TIME!

Thanks for stopping by, and here's wishing you a lovely day and a lovey with which to share it, be it a friend, spouse, child, pet...

And of course, Happy Crafting!!

Ingredients:

Stamps: SU Take It to Heart, Everything Eleanor, Tiny Tags
Ink: Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Real Red
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories: SB Lattice Rectangles die, SU Framelits Heart, Jewelry Tag, Black ep, ribbon, baker's twine