For today's WT Challenge, Julia asked us to take our stamping to places we don't usually go. I found this one tough as I don't really have a single style. Here's why I think this qualifies:
I rarely work with patterned papers. I seem to have some kind of paper phobia and while I can spend ages admiring other people's work with them, I suffer brain freeze as soon as I pick one up, even if I'm only going to use it as a base layer.
I do vintage quite often but I rarely do retro kitsch so I tried for a bit more that feel, even though the image is vintage.
I almost never work from sketches. It's a bit like the DP problem - brain freeze! This is the CPS sketch this week.
I stamp partials quite often but I rarely think of actually cropping an image to a partial. This Santa stamp is gorgeous in its entirety but I think it works this way too and it's a whole lot less colouring!
Registered: January 28, 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 15323
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 12:43 PM
What a wonderful holiday card! Love the background dp, the use of vellum and the image display is just fabulous! Amazing coloring and perfect ribbon!! TFS!! :o]
Registered: April 21, 2007 Location: Mesa, Arizona Posts: 24458
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 1:49 PM
This card is just over the top gorgeous. It's cute and beautiful at the same time, and if this is how you get out of your comfort zone I say step out of the box more often. This is fabulous.
Registered: January 6, 2004 Location: Connecticut Posts: 20543
Thu, Sep 24, 2009 @ 1:53 PM
This reminds me of a Norman Rockwell picture. So cute!
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