Wow talk about a pressure!! Peggy (jasonw1) aka Queen of Drop Dead Gorgeous Monochromatic Masterpieces, is hosting this weeks Teaparty along with Sheri and our guest of honour is Pam aka yorkiemoma...none other than the the Die-Cut Diva herself!!
Our challenge is to bring layer upon layer, unfortunately layers means serious postage dollars. I remember my first ever Teapot Tuesday card cost almost $13 to post, so I learnt after that to tone it down a bit so it costs around $3 a card. I love making stair-steps for international post as depth can be achieved without adding "thickness" to an envelope.
As Pam is a Splitcoastie, she will know to foof (I think that is a word) up the butterfly wings and tweek the little flowers a bit after their long voyage. Lots of dies were used here, including a a RAK flourish die from Peggy. The Spellbinder gate die is a dream to use now, also thanks to Peggy who sent me the video about using dryer sheets on stubborn dies.
The diecut tree and butterflies on the backstep are adhered to a piece of acetate, so is the lower trunk of the tree at the front. The tree at the front is a die with a border around it - I just lopped off the border and only used the tree. I embossed a scrap of the metalic cardstock with the Swiss Dots EF, then used a couple of ancient EK Success punches - it is nice to know that some tools never date...unlike their owner!
I made the stairstep base and folded all the steps before embossing it. Whilst I had a lot of fun making this, I was itching to use some colour. My inner Peggy told my inner Susie to be quiet and just have a glass of red wine and not to add colour to the card. That worked, oh I should mention I made this late last night...I didn't have wine with my brekkie!!
Thank you for looking and have a great week ladies.
P.S. I am hosting next weeks Teaparty. If you would like a cheater email for next weeks challenge, PM me your email address and I will send it to you next Saturday USA time.
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 GMT Views: 6014
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Registered: February 28, 2010 Location: Eastern Ohio Posts: 6288
Wed, Mar 18, 2015 @ 11:11 AM
A magical card this is---love the die cuts, flourishes, eb background and gate--all is so pretty done in white and the butterflies are darling--I tooooo tend to forget when making cards and pop up to much then my postmistress says ah a bump so extra postage no matter how I try to hide the bump she finds it---LOL
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Wed, Mar 18, 2015 @ 2:17 PM
I think this card safely puts you in the running for the Die Cut Diva title! Susie, this is Gorgeous (with a capital G!) Unbelievable! Love it!
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Thu, Mar 19, 2015 @ 6:54 AM
Wow, wow, wow... is there any style you can't master. This is so amazing. Very magical and peaceful... like a palace for a nice snow queen. Most of the stories I read to my sons with snow queens depicted evil ones, but only the sweetest queen could live in this gorgeous setting. I know about the stress of making monochromatic cards, and all white would have sent me running down the street in my underwear. Sounds like a chocolate binge might be needed. Into my favs.
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Thu, Mar 19, 2015 @ 12:02 PM
Wow this is like pearly gates to heaven, or I mean what they. Might look like. Awesome idea to get depth while keeping it flat. Glad you had the glass of wine, wish I was there to join you tho, but this is gorgeous in all white, I am imagining the 2 girls playing peek a boo around the corner. I am excited for next week, will be fun...:p...TFS.
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Fri, Mar 20, 2015 @ 2:44 AM
I'm playing catch up in the galleries - so glad I have not missed this, Susie!!! Beautiful card for Pam, love the Peggy colour scheme and so glad to see you kept the red wine well away from this!!!
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