Time is flying by, it's hard to believe that this is the 4th Tuesday in May. The snow has finally stop falling here. I was finally able to begin planting some vegetables in my garden this weekend. So I went with the garden theme for my card this week. I thought this would be a very simple card to make but it wasn't. The only color that I had was old olive. I went through some old Stampin' Up! catalog looking for the color of watermelon and I think I was able to get close. I didn't have smoky slate but found a basic gray and a light gray scrap.
***Stef is the hostess this week and she picked:
Old olive
Watermelon
Smoky slate
Dessert is a die cut
I ended up with 15 cards that are similar some in colors and others in style. So a big shout out to Stef for kick starting me to make some useful cards for summer.
*****card recipe*****
I had some old royal fiber card stock left over from the last millennium. I combined that with an old 6 x 6 pad that was possibly a celebration choice and finally opened some craft ink pads that have to be at least 10 years old and maybe older. I ordered the entire set and they are still in the plastic in the original box. You can relate right???? Please tell me I'm not alone.
My card is 5 x 5, the corners were rounded using the We R Memories 1/2" Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper. This is an easel card. I used the Aurelie Dutch shoes embossing folder and the technique of faux letter press. I used the old olive on the flat side of the folder, embossed, then heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I used a Vera mark marker on the shoes and Again heat embosses with clear.
The Ann-Ticipations apron was stamped in Old Olive Craft and embossed with clear. I had to fussy cut because I could get the SNC to pick it up. I added spare parts button brads and jute.
Stampendous seed background was stamped in Vera fine Smokey gray on royal fiber. I cut pieces of the image out with a stitched rounded rectangle china die. I sponged the edges with smoky gray.
The hello my name is, is a $1 stamp from Michaels and When I bought it I had no idea what I would use it on. Lol
The Dies were cut and sponged with the smoky gray.
-Impressions Obsession water can
-frantic Stamper garden tools cut in 2 colors and pieced together
As always I appreciated you comments. They make me a better crafter.
Happy Stamping Tonda
Date: Monday, May 21, 2018 GMT Views: 1866
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Tue, Jun 05, 2018 @ 8:18 PM
Hey Tonda,
This is just so creative. I love the gardening and the apron theme. So perfect for this time of year. The blend of colors is perfect, and I love the name tag stamp. Well done!
Oh, wow!! This is a super cute card! I love all the elements you added. The apron captured my attention from the thumbnail and I had to take a closer look! So pretty!