Thanks to sumtoy for suggesting today's color challenge and as always, Emily for tying it all up! I wasn't so sure about the combination at first; however, I'm mellowing...
After seeing NancyRuth's gorgeous lily of the valley card ic121 close up, Lilies of the Valley In teapot, NRL by NANCYRUTH at Splitcoaststampers last week, I've wanted to pull my lily of the valley stamp out and play with it! I often use it as the letter *C*...and that's exactly what I did here. This is a Stamp Francisco image which I inked in Peeling Paint by Tim Holtz on the mellow moss, embossed in clear ep and bleached out the flower bells. I went back over them with the Signo white gel pen for depth. I fussy cut, used markers on the ribbon and added vintage velvet finally popping on foam. The cherish definition part of the SU set lexcion of love is stamped onto Making Memories Noteworthy spiral paper with worn lipstick ink. I matted the note paper with Appealing Apricot which has been stamped and distressed with ChalkBox rose coral ink. I used a Judikin crackle bg stamp. This is mounted on Basic Grey INFUSE (which has creamy caramel in it!!!) paper and my card base is Cameo Coral. It is a smaller square card, 4.25".
I'm pleased with the combination of colors...what do you think?
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 GMT Views: 921
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Tue, Apr 01, 2008 @ 12:44 PM
wow!!
------------------------------ Melanie
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Registered: March 21, 2006 Location: sunny southern california Posts: 20098
Tue, Apr 01, 2008 @ 1:08 PM
Yes!!! *C* for Christine, right??? Love this one. Textures, colors, embelies EVERYTHING!!! *C* for Christine, I'm sure of it!!
------------------------------ christine m.aka summer and weekend stalker DOT INK (My yadda yadda) Don't magnify your problem . . .Magnify your God
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Registered: August 8, 2006 Location: Roseville CA Posts: 18519
Tue, Apr 01, 2008 @ 1:18 PM
ok, WOW!! those lillies of the valley just pop, the C is great, i love the cherish definition, the bracket shaped framing, the distressed bg paper, the tim holtz touch, the vintage ribbon, the collage-y-ness (is that a word?), the notebook edging.... WOWWWWWW. great job and TSMFS! lela