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Another magazine clipping combined with some stickers (seals, black script, and 'family' text) and rub-ons (postage elements) are combined to create this card. The striped background is wrapping paper and the picture border is scrapbook paper.
I used an orange card base.
Ddd
From my file of magazine clippings comes this grat photo of a basket display. I played up the yellow tones with the base cardstock and a thin mat around the photo. The rustic element is echoed in the brown crackle paint printed scrapbook paper.
The clear text sticker is burnished directly on the photo so the message appears very subtily. It reads "It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting."
Ddd
This violet mum is created from three layers of scalloped circles in graduated sizes, plus three punched flowers and a flower brad. These, except the brad, were all burnished over a piece of craft foam - some from the front and some from the back - to create depth.
Other punched flowers and leaves were arranged around for setting. The text is a clear sticker.
Ddd
A grouping of kitchen tiles from a catalog provides the centerpiece for this card. I pulled yellow cardstock and used the Scor-It to create tile-like lines for a background. After mounting on blue cardstock I added a text sticker and sticker flowers.
These flowers appeared originally on a birthday card I got. I used the square punch to make the squares and mounted 7 of them on purple cardstock. The two lower right blocks which were white have been replaced with a purple tag on which a ribbon bow is tied.
I added two vellum text stickers, one on the tag and one along the left side. I used a craft knift to remove the sticker background from the spaces on the left.
Ddd
Today's inspiration piece is tableware called Evening Sun from Linens n Things. I was inspired by the bright colors of these flowers and chose to use a single bloom in my card.
This flower is a scalloped circle. It has been cut between each scallop toward the center, the tips burnished to cause them to curve and then the piece is folded in half. The center is a punched dot with one side cut off. I used a marker to polka-dot it.
The leaves are cut from a scalloped circle and the whole thing is layered on orange, blue and burgundy. Those dots down the right side are to pull in those on the flower center and the text is a fabric sticker.
Ddd
Another photo from the scrap pile... I tore the edges and mounted on handmade paper. This is is layered on scrapbook paper which I rounded with the oval Coluzzle. The dot is a puffy acrylic sticker.
I used three copper brads at the bottom.
Ddd
I used sharp scissors to trim this fruit illustration, then used a craft knife for the inner areas. Before mounting on the basket-weave scrapbook paper I used a warm grey watercolor marker to shadow the lower right to add dimension. I used the same marker to distress the border of the tan card base.
The text is a vellum sticker.
Ddd
Orange brads anchor this artwork to an orange cardstock which I've glued onto a printed scrapbook paper and then to a green card base.
Ddd
This floral was part of my 'junk mail' this week! I used a Fiskars border punch on both edges and mounted it on yellow to pick up the center of the white flower. A white and a pink ribbon are tied at the top.
The text is a white rub-on - I love the scrolling font of this set.
Ddd
This is the third of the fruit illustrations and I used the same mounting techniques as on the other two. For this one I added an oval purple sticker with white text and then added a white rub-on below that.
Here's the second of the fruit illustrations and again I used some cardstock printed with a canvas painting. I used a text sticker at the top and used a black Sharpie to add lines around it.
Years ago I found an ad with these and two other fruit illustrations. Nicely done, aren't they? I tore out these apples and mounted on a cardstock that is imprinted with 'painted canvas'.
Over the right side I placed a translucent sticker and then used a Sharpie in red to echo the line around the illustration. The whole piece is mounted on a white card base.
Ddd
The fall leaves are back. This time I used a burgundy card base instead of the brown used before. After cutting the oval with the Coluzzle I liked this layout better on the horizontal. I had a lovely sticker for text but it was large and square. So I took the Coluzzle to it as well and cut it to fit in the oval frame window.
A local activity center sent out advertising with these beautiful leaves on a glossy white background. Now how could I NOT use them? This is a simple mounting on orange card base and addition of a puffy acrylic sticker that says "enchanted".
I've had this advertising page of eggs in a nest for years. I tore out a frame using my handmade paper and mounted both on scrapbook paper and a golden card base. A raffia tie finishes off the bottom.
The text is provided on a thick acrylic tile.
Ddd
A kitchen decorating catalog yielded up these painted tiles which I mounted on a blue panel. The printed background is scrapbook paper to mimic the backet on the tiles. a gold-toned ribbon is knotted at the left and held in place with square rhinestone brads.
Everything is then mounted on a green card base and a thick acrylic tile sticker provides the text.
Ddd
The other day I needed a punched square for a project. So I punched it out of the front of this card base leaving an aperture card. From the scrap drawer I used an advertisement from a frame company and mounted it on the back wall of the card leaving these two ladies showing in the window.
The text is a clear sticker and the two side panels plus the circle are also stickers.
Ddd
Giant fall leaves of paper were advertising of some sort I saved years ago. I glued them around the edges of a card base and then used the Coluzzle to cut an oval in the front cover. This was mounted on a folded card with 3D dots. I added some tags and ribbon as accents.
As soon as I saw this set at Linen & Things I was attracted to the leaves and thought of the skeleton leaves in my stash. The random color blocks that set them off seemed like a reasonable element to replicate.
I started with a piece of vellum that has very light gold roses printed on it. I ran this through the Xyron for overall adhesive and applied blocks of mulberry paper in four colors to it. I burnished it from the back to make the texture of these papers show through better. After cutting to size and mounting on a cream card base, I glued three metallic skeleton leaves on the front.
The grey background is for viewing contrast only and is not part of the finished card. The double square in the lower right is a thick acrylic sticker.
Ddd
