10/16/2010

Open House French Foliage

My belated World Card Making Day Open Houses were today. Great stamping day!!!  LOVE it when I have a house full of stampers!!  As someone said on their way out the door, maybe we need to do this more often :)  Here is card one from today.


My new favorite fall set! These leaves blend SOO well together. Colors are Elegant Eggplant, Garden Green and More Mustard, a Color Coach combo. Card base is Elegant Eggplant. Background layer is Naturals Ivory. We stamped it first with leaves in Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard and Garden Green. Bare areas were filled in with River Rock 'spots'. The edges were sponged with River Rock before texturing in the Big Shot with the Square Lattice folder. The saying is from All Holidays. I also had an alternate saying available, the "Sending Thanksgiving Wishes with Gratitude & Appreciation for you" from the Seasonal Sentiments set in the Holiday Mini. For the saying, we stamped it on Naturals Ivory in Elegant Eggplant and then added two Mustard leaves and some River Rock spots. The Very Vanilla wide grosgrain ribbon was knotted around the background layer. I added a safety pin to the knot from the Vintage Trinkets because it needed just a little something more. The saying was layered onto a Garden Green layer and attached with dimensionals over the ribbon. Quick and easy card!

Stay tuned this week for the other 3 cards done today! Hopefully back to regular stamping this week, once I get everything put away anyway!! :)

SU! Catalog Items: 105126 Elegant Eggplant Card Stock * 102584 Garden Green Card Stock * 101849 Naturals Ivory Card Stock * 105210 Elegant Eggplant Classic Ink * 102272 Garden Green Classic Ink * 103162 More Mustard Classic Ink * 118764 Vintage Trinkets * 109955 5/8” Grosgrain Ribbon * 101610 Stamping Sponges * 104430 Stampin’ Dimensionals * 113439 Big Shot * 119976 Square Lattice Embossing Folder

Mini Catalog Items: 121130 Seasonal Sentiments clear (120821 wood) * 121166 French Foliage clear (120845 wood)

10 comments:

WebDeb said...

What a beautiful card -- the lattice is the perfect touch!

ktstamps said...

This is absolutely beautiful. will be casing this card....I love it sooo much. Thanks for sharing! kt

Created By You said...

Beautiful Jennifer! I had to come to your blog and take a closer peek.. The texture is fabulous. I love this stamp set as well! It really looks fabulous when you Shimmer Your Ink Pads too...

If you haven't seen the technique, I added a free tutorial to my blog.. the link is on the tutorials tab :) Hope you'll give it a try!

Sara Mattson-Blume said...

So cool. I love these colors.

Yapha said...

Great colors! I love how you did the background of the card!

Tanya Boser said...

Striking color combo, LOVE it! The texture is wonderful also.

Jen Timko said...

Your colors are so beautiful! Perfect word stamp to use, too!

Carmen said...

I;m loving fall cards right now and this one is great!!

Holly/Rubber Redneck said...

Beautiful Card!!!

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