Awesome challenge Stef, I also, can't stay away from fabric...luckily patterened paper is rarely more that .99 a sheet. Remember that next time DH looks at the package you bring in and say, ".99 cents or $99.99/yd French brocade, dear?!!!" I was instantly inspired by the colors and texture...it was just a matter of picking my colorway.
For this card, I returned to Michelle Ward's Green Pepper Press chairs...I have used the smaller scale version before. I chose three that had large seats I could paper piece. Each chair is stamped in a different TI di color and embossed with clear ep. I painstakingly exatoed as much as I could to open each chair so the beauty of the design would show through (pun intended)! All my paper is from Cosmo Cricket 'Love Notes'. I used Copics to color the wood on each chair. The wallpaper, which Schumacher also sells, is a combination of 'love notes' below the chair rail and SU perfect plum above. The perfect plum has been run through the Cuttlebug with the textile (what else!!!!) embossing folder. The peach twill makes a great moulding, don't you think? I stamped please be seated onto a acetate tag with Stazon jet black, cut it to scale and added various fibers at the top!
So would you HAVE A SEAT...from left to right a Louis XV, Sheraton, or the Hepplewhite? What suits YOU?
Thanks so much for your gracious comments!
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Registered: July 27, 2005 Location: Texas USA Posts: 13067
Sun, May 25, 2008 @ 5:04 AM
OMG Unbeliveable! Amazing work here, this is beyond words!! But I'll try... ;) These chairs, that wall paper, the acetate tag, every detail here is wonderful!! The paper piecing just couldn't be more appropriate and perfect. What a great card, you blew this IC out of the water!!
Registered: March 14, 2008 Location: On a little farm in South Carolina Posts: 8210
Sun, May 25, 2008 @ 6:05 PM
Susan, this is so cool - it brings back memories of history of interiors class when I had to draw these... I actually have a sketch book of nothing but chairs through history! lol. Thank heavens I didn't need to paper piece them all!!! I love this!!