I made this for Cindy's teapot challenge #11 - http://mothermark.blogspot.com/2008/...uesday-11.html . It also qualifies for today's WT challenge, white gel pens. After going through ALL my patterned paper looking for spotted paper for the background, I decided I must have been thinking of my Dresden coffee cups when I thought I had something exactly the right colour. So I had to make my own, using a gel pen.
Right - pumpkins don't figure largely over here although they will be in the shops in October. I thought I could probably make one with an oval punch, but I decided to just use the pumpkin vine instead. I presume those yellow flowers were the pumpkin flowers? I wouldn't know one if it bit me on the nose, but it looks quite like a courgette flower (zucchini - see, I don't even know how to spell the darn thing in American, I had to look it up ) and they're both squashes, yes?
The card base is white linen finish. On to this I put a layer of orange Basic Grey. Then a layer of hand-spotted fawn, beige, tan, whatever. For the scalloped edge I cut small strips of orange, green and pale yellow and stuck them to a strip of card, and then made the scallops with the slot punch. The main image is a Rhonna Farrer flourish stamped with Brilliance Ivy on watercolour paper. For the flowers I used a Hero Arts stamp from Small Paisley designs, stamped with Brilliance Sunflower Yellow and highlighted with brown Marvy marker. They are up on foam. The sentiment is also from Hero Arts, stamped with green onto an orange circle and layered onto a green circle.
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008 GMT Views: 1326
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Thu, Sep 11, 2008 @ 6:50 AM
Oh how cool! I love that you made your own background polka dotted paper with a gel pen! Very creative...I love the side panel too picking up the striped scallops on the t-pot and what fun to focus on the little flowers as opposed to the pumpkins! Its perfect! I love it.....happy to see you making this card....that makes me think you are feeling better!
Thanks for coming to my tea party and for sharing the link!