I think I made my top panel too long on this sketch, but I had to in order to fit my couch and chair on there! (That actually happened to us IRL - shortly after my husband and I got married we seriously misjudged or mismeasured the size of our first furniture purchase of a couch and two chairs - when they got delivered we sat down on our new couch and found we could literally prop our feet up on the coal fire "across" the room in our first tiny home here in Belfast!)
I popped up the cushions on these chairs, added brads to the pillows, and lightly sponged around the edges of just about everything with Ranger Distress Antique Linen.
I masked around the edges of the border with post-it-notes and sponged inside. The two top panels are framed in brown, though it photographed more like black.
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 GMT Views: 1494
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Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44975
Wed, Apr 13, 2011 @ 5:55 PM
Oh, this couch and chair look so inviting!!!! I love how you popped up the cushions and how you sponged in the center of that panel!!!! Brilliant idea!!!! Love your darling card!
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Registered: April 20, 2005 Location: The only Eaton Rapids on the Earth, Michigan Posts: 57568
Wed, Apr 13, 2011 @ 5:57 PM
Hey, you wanna come over and decorate and furnish my home? I am soooooooooooooo LOVIN' the checked couch and chair and those sweet pillows. Great choice of dps, too. Fabulous card, Bridget!!!
Registered: February 12, 2006 Location: IL Posts: 1554
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 5:49 AM
I think this is the best card EVER. I love chairs! The sentiment is punny, the papers are awesome, that furniture is so inviting with the popped cushions and 'buttons' on the pillows, the sponging is perfect (makes the furniture look at home), I love the texture on the red and three colors of bakers twine! WOW. What a card. Bridget, YOU ROCK.
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Registered: June 10, 2007 Location: BC Posts: 44872
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 5:58 AM
Oh this is darling! Bridget, I have this set, but not the PTI diecuts!!! You are enabling me once again!!! Darling card! Okay, that's it - I'm off to order from PTI!!! I chairish your card!!!
Registered: December 2, 2009 Location: Chesapeake, Virginia (minutes from Virginia Beach) Posts: 4522
Thu, Apr 14, 2011 @ 1:48 PM
What a sweet card, Bridget!! I love the sofa and chair...and what a cute sentiment and wonderful papers!! I love how you are using that baker's twine....tripled on this one...lovely!! I loved your story...toooo funny...oh the things we learn....after!!!
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