Greetings fellow stampers! I hope you are all having a wonderful day. The card for today is celebrating two of my favorite vices, tea time & flowers. Here's how it came together.
I started with a kraft colored card base and added a vintage background paper print. As I was collecting all my components for this card, I found a small piece of embroidered rick-rack whose colors matched my components. I adhered a scrap band of pink and yellow polka dot printed paper to the bottom of the background paper, and then adhered the rick-rack on top of where it came together. I then adhered the entire background to the card front with double sided tape. I usually forget to pre-plan this last step, and end up just gluing the ribbon on top of the card. It looks better if you adhere the ribbon or lace first, because that way the ends are adhered underneath and there is no way for them to come loose or ravel out.
I then went about constructing the image embellishment. I had the tea cup with daisies from Inky Antics Stamps, stamped on white card stock with tuxedo black Memento ink and colored with Copic markers. I fussy cut around the stamped image and adhered it to an oval cut from kraft colored stock, and matted with a bright pink stock.(Razzleberry pink from My Favorite Things) The oval unit was cut with my Spellbinders Nestabilities Card Creator Set titled A2 Filigree Delight. I adhered the tea cup to it with foam mounting tape to give it dimension.
To give the card a little bling, I attached beautiful hot pink pearls below the rick-rack trim, and mini hot pink acrylic stones to the centers of the daisies. The pearls and stones were from an embellishment pack from Prima. To finish off the card, I stamped the Happy Birthday greeting on the polka dotted paper strip with black Archival Ink. This ink is a heavier ink, and always stamps dark on printed paper.
I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday, and that you will join me again on Friday with a special post, that has been a long time in the making. Take care, and see you again soon.
Mindy
Gorgeous!! The flowers are so beautiful!! I love the colors and design!! What a fabulous card, Mindy!! Have a great evening my friend :)
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Mindy, My fabulous Blog-adversary package came in today's mail. A notecard journaling set full of beautiful designs, tag pad, flowers, frames, patterned papers and the list goes on. Plus a lovely summertime 3dimensional "thank you" card!(The bow was placed on the card before it was adhered to the underneath layer! The happy dog with the bone... :)) I'm going to have a wonderful time playing with al of the goodies. THANK YOU!
ReplyDeleteYou are so very welcome! I hope you will have lots of fun, and send me a picture, if you can, of what you make with it.
DeleteMindy
Beautiful. This card would be great for many different events!
ReplyDeleteToday's explanation included some points I hadn't noticed or thought about. You do an exceptional explaining how you design and construct your elements. I counted 6 layers in making this card. The yellow cup is light and pretty. I'm thinking the cup could have been a light blue color and still matched the rick-rack and background paper color. Would blue have worked?
You bet! The image was previously colored some time ago. I have a little envelope book that I made, where I keep images that I stamp and color at other times. The book is organized by themes, so when I need an image for a card, I can thumb through the pre-colored images and see if there is anything I can use before stamping another image.
DeleteThanks for your great question.