A big congrats to Ann, the newest Featured Stamper! She has a big, beautiful gallery & it was hard to chose. I finally picked THIS to case, I kept the little oval but went horizontal w/ my layout, kept the kraft color but used different images & my bg is all one piece instead of several.
I stamped the floral S repeatedly across the kraft card stock w/ Versafine then added just a hint of color w/ a couple of Prismacolor pencils to the curvy letter S. The sunflowers were stamped twice onto another piece of kraft c/s (using my Misti)..first w/ Memento, then colored w/ Prismacolor pencils...then over stamped w/ Versafine. I love how this brings back the details that I used to lose when using Prisma pencils.
One image was die cut w/ an oval die & the other was fussy cut to add on top. I added a couple of layers behind it & on the large scallop kraft layer, I used a technique I devised way back in 2008 to "resize" the dies...I extended the length of the scallop rectangle. The original die is nowhere near as long as it is on my card. But as long as the original die is symmetrical, this technique will work. The Autumn die cut was added along with a white Candi dot. The white dots were added with a white gel pen.
Congrats again, Ann! Thanks so much for looking! Closeups & the inside are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2015 GMT Views: 1258
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Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83677
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 @ 4:27 AM
What a great look! So much going on and it screams Fall with a bunch of elegance too. Wonderful card Julie. Hugz
------------------------------ Nancy Williams - Hope your day is Spirit-filled and ink-filled (in that order)!DRS Designs-DT, Punchkateerforever, Dirty Dozen Alumni
Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26154
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 @ 7:35 AM
Gorgeous card! That background is so rich; I love the stamping and added colour notes! Thanks for the reminder about extending your dies. I forget about that and have a lot of square dies that would look great as rectangles. Those sunflowers are beautiful. You support them so well with your layered die cuts. Love this card!
Registered: January 26, 2010 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 79233
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 @ 9:50 AM
Julie,
Wow, thank you so much for making a card in my honor! This is just so warm and inviting! Beautiful fall colors and a fantastic layout! Thank you!
Registered: May 25, 2006 Location: So. Oregon Posts: 122048
Sun, Sep 13, 2015 @ 11:42 AM
I always find my dies are a sliver too small so, this is so cool to find today on several levels Julie. I love this, love the texture of the word and the spray of sunflowers too tfs!