At Convention I photographed a card up on the display boards and now I have made my own CASE (copy and share everything) ... it may not be an exact copy but it is probably pretty close.
I just love the colours together: Rich Razzleberry cardstock with the Cottage wall designer series paper.
The background stamping is Upsy Daisy in rich razzleberry ink. Have you notice how stampin' up ink is always a tone darker than the cardstock of the same colour? so that you can get this shadow stamp affect.
The page of writing is half a Top note cut with my Big shot machine and sponged around the edges with ink.
The script is stamped with the rustic rooster background stamp in pale plum ink to give it that rustic vintage look. I have edged the "page" with the spiral bound punch.
The bird punch is just heaven to use as it is in the new punch style. Much easier to store because they are flat and like a good hole punch very easy to use.
I love how you can position the birds wings taking flight, or resting when the bird is on its branch.
*Two step bird punch $30.95 will be going up to $33.95 after 1 September!
After folding my card into 3 uneven folds, I stamped a flower outline from Embrace Life stampset in black stazon ink onto whisper white cardstock and watercoloured the flower in baja breeze and Certainly celery ink. Straight from the ink on the stamp pad box lid with a water colour brush.
I have cleaned up my dining room (aka Nerida's craft table) . . . so in order to finish this scrap book page I had to wait a week, we had visitors and they might have wanted to use the dining table occasionally. So I haven't made a card for days... not that you would notice. I usually make up for a gap in stamping with a flurry of activity and ideas.
I've pulled out the embossing powders again ... This time upsy daisy in silver embossing powder matched with the gorgous Designer series paper Urban Garden - I didnt even notice that this image was such a perfect match. But then Stampin' up always have the coordinating paper, stamp, colour ranges available for making a project work. That's why I really like these products.
The title for this page is embossed in white -I have used the quote from Van Gogh - The way to KNOW LIFE is to LOVE many things. (From the dreams du Jour stampset.)
It reflects a child's attitude to life , I believe: love everything, be passionate about the simplest things and really enjoy every moment of the present. Be it a garden bed of daisies, an ant hill on the side of a bush track, a lizard sunning itself on a rock, pretending to be an explorer of strange and wondrous places...
I like this layout because it is so simple. Kiwi kiss goes beautifully with chocolate chip and kraft in my opinion. The tree is inked in kiwi kiss, then with a marker I coloured the rubber in close to cocoa. After I stamped the tree I used the marker again to blend in the branchesfor a more tree bark effect. Then swiped the kiwi kiss ink pad around the edges of the cardstock, more at the base to simulate grassy hills behind the tree.
I made this one today and finished it this afternoon with a background of circle circus stamping and some purple grosgrain ribbon. The Cardstock is Pacific point, a really nice ocean blue in my opinion and it goes beautifully with perfect plum.
I created a second layer of rose by brayering two images and cutting out the second one so that I could put it on top with dimensionals. Then just because I am currently obsessed with it, added a few petals of crystal effects. I do like how the colour of the ink changes colour when you add the crystal effects - deeper and transparent.
Then I finished off the card with a sentiment stamp from Upsy daisy: Birthday Celebrations!
