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.
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010 GMT Views: 611
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Sat, Nov 20, 2010 @ 8:10 AM
Fabulous use of these colors, and absolutely wonderful stamping - I love how you've created the layers and framing so that it's just like a tree outside a home! Beautiful!
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Sat, Nov 20, 2010 @ 12:05 PM
What fabulous images and I love the look of the green and gold here.
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