Love all the vintage stuff on today's Inspiration Challenge! Especially the Hawaiian shirts. I LOVED shopping at Hilo Hatie's! I think I still have a few things from there. Anyway, I chose this Hukilau Green shirt. The green and gold looked so good together and I think the tone on tone stamped medallion on my moss bg mimics all the pattern going on in the shirt.
All images are [ Innovative Stamp Creations. Out of the box is one of my fave techniques and I'm really enjoying the reverse (sort of into the box) of it. The principal is the same it's just what you cut that is different. For this, I first stamped the tree with the green and brown inks and added highlights with a marker. I traced the Spellbinders long rectangle around the tree and cut around the part of the tree that was inside the rectangle. Then I cut the rectangle the same way I do in the out of the box method.
The building image was stamped first with green ink, then overstamped with the honey ink. I used a smaller rectangle to die cut it. The green background was stamped with a medallion image from the Christmas set. Finished card measures 5.5 x 4.25.
Thanks so much for looking! Close ups are on my blog: The Write Stuff.
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Fri, Nov 19, 2010 @ 10:32 PM
Julie, what fabulous coloring/shading! The design is spectacular ... what a great card to say thanks to someone.
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Sat, Nov 20, 2010 @ 4:44 AM
Julie this card amazes me! I love how beautifully composed this is. The use of the inks on this image is phenomenal. I am in awe of your gorgeous work.
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Sat, Nov 20, 2010 @ 6:57 AM
Absolutely gorgeous Julie!
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