Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious…

I’m sharing a card today that mostly features sentiments from the Stuff to Say set by Tim Holtz.

The design is from a tut on the Joy! Crafts site by Geertje.  It was a bit tricky getting the base right but once I did this turned out to be a really awesome card.  Being a special shaped card I am entering it in the current challenge at Creative Shopping.

To help me decorate the card I used the current board over at Tic Tac Toe and took the centre vertical line.  This gave me my base colour of grey, used a light grey for the card itself and then a darker one to frame my designer papers.  Some of my diecuts are also embossed (dry) and my sentiment, stamped images and some diecuts are also heat embossed.

I also took on the challenge from Frilly and Funkie to find an image and use it as my inspiration.  So I searched Google for shabby chic and vintage French and this image was so pretty I based my design around it.

I took the rose pattern and the stripes from the bed covers and found matching designer papers and for my third paper I took the damask pattern from the wallpaper.  I also picked up the cream and light brown colouring in my choices.  This view of the inside of the card insert shows how I recreated the three pictures from the wall in my card using images from the Beautiful You set by Stampin’ Up!.

As there was nowhere to really write on the card I made tags, I’ve got one in the photo.  I actually made five with digis that resembled the others in my team who also signed this card for a colleague who is leaving.  Picking up the floral decorations in the room I chose roses for embellies.  Rather than a filigree heart or the clocks I chose a butterfly for the suspended embellie, cutting one from ice blue vinyl (looked similar to the colour of the clocks in the picture) and didn’t back it so it had the filigree look of the heart on the wall.

Really love how this turned out.  Was up late last night and had to finish it off quickly today at work as we had a farewell lunch today but worth the effort as our colleague loved it.

 

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Shabby Pink

Ranger Embossing Powder~ Clear Super Fine Detail

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

BoBunny Dies ~ Lattice Frame & Ornate Frame

Cheery Lyn Dies ~ DL113AB Small Exotic Butterflies #2

Frantic Stamper Dies ~ FRA-DIE-09497 Trio of Swirls

Embellishments

I Am Roses ~ R2-518 Pale Pink Variegated Mini Roses & R8-15 ½'' Open Roses

Kaisercraft Pearls ~ Chino

Pink Pearl Stamens from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No 10 White, No 20 Black, No 36 Wine Red, No 44 Light Brown

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing, Hickory Smoke & Tea Dye

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Hickory Smoke

Tim Holtz Distress Permanent Mixed Media Ink Palette ~ Hickory Smoke

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Tattered Rose

Papers

Arches Watercolor Paper ~ 185gsm Smooth

Cordenons Cardstock ~ Cream

Dark Grey Smooth Cardstock from stash

La-La Land Adhesive Foil ~ Ice Blue

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 2nd May, 5th May, 9th March, 1st April

Pion Design Palette ~ Grey I

Reprint Hobby Summer Wings ~ Love Song

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS110 Stuff to Say

Stampin’ Up! ~ Beautiful You

Various digis cropped

Ribbons & Trims etc

Cream Lace from stash

Hug Snug ~ Seam Binding Ribbon

Various Satin Ribbons from stash

Challenges

Creative Shopping #52 ~ Special shaped cards

Frilly and Funkie ~ You’re my inspiration

Tic Tac Toe ~ Board #2

Thanks for stopping by!