Blissfully Vintage

Well I'm here to show you a card which I have duplicated so many times since first seeing it. I LOVE this one so much I made one for myself for my craft space. I initially saw this card and was in love. But I realised that I didn't have the paper or the stamp set that was used, so I used my retired 'Bliss' stamp set.

The colours I used were 'cherry cobbler' and 'very vanilla'. I pulled out my stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the stamps for the back panel and then ran the whole panel through the square lattice embossing folder, which had been inked with crumb cake, just so I could have more definition. The middle panel has been stamped with the 'bliss' stamp, then I sponged the edges with crumb cake. I cut the butterfly from 'Beautiful Butterflies' die cut and partially stamped it in 'cherry cobbler'. 

As I said, this card has become my favourite, and it is also a little vintage which I'm also proud of!

Thanks for looking!

JAI 95 - Bah Humbug

Oh boy, it's been a while since I have played along with Just Add Ink. I was determined to sit down and join in on their challenge, which was to create a Christmas project with no Christmas paper or stamp set except for a sentiment. I took the 'no Christmas paper' quite literally, as I also scrapped traditional Christmas colors all together.

I've used melon mambo, daffodil delight and tempting turquoise as my main colours and the trees are old olive and crumb cake. For the background I used "Bliss" stamp set and inked it in melon mambo and stamped using my stamp-a-ma-jig to get every thing looking straight. My trees are from "Trendy trees" and the sentiment is from "Best yet". I had a lot of fun creating this card, as the colours were so summery and kind of fitting for an Aussie Christmas (well I think so :)

Thanks for looking and pop past Just Add Ink to see all the other amazing creations!

Mojo Monday 204

I loved this weeks sketch at Mojo Monday. So here is my entry for this week:

The photo doesn't do this card justice and once again I've done another Christmas card. When it comes to Christmas cards, I can tend to be pretty traditional. I used the motif stamp from "Bliss" for the background and then used the "French script" for the background for my centre square. All the red card has been sponged on the edge to give it some depth. I love the end result, hope you do.

Heres the sketch:

Hope you have a great day!