Hello all!!!! Thursday means another sketch over at the Creative Sketches blog. But this week is the added the twist of also making your card a holiday card!!! Any holiday will do, I just chose to make a Christmas card. Never to early to get started on those!
I started with a Cherry Cobbler base, top folded, and layered with a piece of Deck the Halls dsp. I also used the Deck the Halls fabric for my "ribbon", which I actually tied all the way around the card front! (That means inside too, which I rarely do.)
The sketch shows the front panel straight, but I slightly tipped it once I picked out my stamp set to use. The set I used on here is Winter Post and will be found in the new 2011 - 2012 Idea Book & Catalog due out July 1st!
What is hard to see in the photo is the piece on the smaller Cherry Cobbler panel. This was actually sprayed with the gold Smooch Spritz onto Whisper White and dried. It does curl it up as it's drying, but I was able to straighten it out and I did use the Tombow glue to adhere it. Then I knew it was going to stay down! This was actually left from another idea that didn't pan out. I also spritzed the Soft Suede marker over some areas before stamping the postmark in Cherry Cobbler.
The couple were stamped in brown staz on and water-colored with the ink from the stamp lids and an aquapainter. Once that was dry I went over some areas with a marker for highlights. Soft Suede ink was sponged around the edges and the smallest of the pearls put on each scallop. The "Do Not Open" tag is stamped in Cherry Cobbler onto the same gold Smooch paper and punched out with the Designer Label Punch. A lot of dimension going on with the image panel too!
I was trying for a vintage look here. Did I succeed??
Happy Stamping!!!
~~~Ann~~~
1 comment:
So glad you used this set Ann.. I think it's my most favorite of all the old fashioned Christmas sets...beautiful job!!
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