I bow to Queen Cathleen (ctorina) as our featured stamper today. Cathleen, you are the Queen of Elegance and Gorgeousness! I so admire your ability to create one gorgeous card after another. Your beautiful gallery just blows me away.
I cased your outta-this-world beautiful Thanks So Much Card here:
Things I changed:
1. stamps
2. colors
3. Nestabilities shapes
4. limited/different use of pearl embellishments
You make it look so easy to do gorgeous, Cathleen, but this card took me 42,000 hours to make!! After I settled on wanting to use Blush Blossom, I knew I was going to have to make my own designer paper, which I love to do. I stamped Baroque Motifs and Linen bg in Blush Blossom and then finger walked French Script in True Thyme over that. I used my finger dauber in Blush Blossom reinker to sponge the edges of each piece of cardstock.
I know my Oval All sentiment looks like it was stamped in black ink in my photograph, but it was stamped in True Thyme, which looks beautiful with the Blush Blossom IRL.
Cathleen, huge congratulations to you on this much deserved honor! It was a labor of love to case you!
Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010 GMT Views: 1504
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Registered: November 17, 2006 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Posts: 52798
Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 9:14 AM
wow, Charlene... this is gorgeous.. love the vintage look, pretty colours, pearls....flowers...you home made dp... awesome card and case of Cathleens...tfs
Registered: January 17, 2008 Location: Melrose Park, Illinois Posts: 40148
Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 9:46 AM
Oh My Charlene, I think I have cried 42,000 tears of joy today, and now I am adding more. Your card is breathtakingly beautiful, I just adore the background paper you made, stunning, just stunning! And the flowers and pearls are so perfect. Thank you Charlene from the bottom of my heart for being such a sweet friend and always having such a kind word. I am so humbled and thankful to call you my friend!
Registered: May 20, 2008 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 11608
Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 9:50 AM
WOW! Charlene this is GORGEOUS!!! This is sheer romance on a card, I love everything about this!! You nailed Cathleen's style on this for sure, have I said I love this yet... I love this, tfs!!!!
Registered: July 27, 2005 Location: Texas USA Posts: 13067
Sun, May 16, 2010 @ 10:11 AM
Oh my gosh! This is wonderfully vintage-y and absolutely gorgeous and I love Blush Blossom (so sad it's retiring!!). What a wonderful tribute to Cathleen's gallery, she's gonna scream!! Cover your ears!! I will definitely try the color combo of the Blush Blossom and True Thyme, sounds fabulous! A beauty my friend!!