Fancy Love Card

Hello everyone!  I hope that you enjoyed yesterday' vintage card.  Today I have another card with a vintage feel for you.

TIPS:

• You don't always have to use vintage items or images to get a vintage feel.
• Use colors associated with the era you are trying to get.  Colors are a very strong part of your card or art piece.  If I say "red and green, you think of Christmas. If you see orange, you think of Halloween.  So, you can use color to get a "feel" for a certain period of time as well.
• Use ivory cardstock.
• If you are trying to get an old fashioned feel to your card, try using lace or crochet instead of ribbon.

The card today turned out really nice.  I used copper embossing powder (fine).  You will notice below that I have layered a green card with embossing on it on top of what seems to be a copper piece of paper.  Actually this is also a piece of cardstock that I embossed the edges of in copper.  It brings out the copper embossing on the top sheet.

To emboss edges, take your cardstock and rub the sides onto versa mark. Then coat with embossing powder and heat emboss.  Remember that you don't need to always use a stamp when you are embossing. My favorite thing to do is to "Freeform Emboss".  I use just the paper and a direct to paper technique to apply the embossing ink or the versa mark.  This gives my result a rougher edge.  The bow is crochet from Really Reasonable Ribbon.

If you look at the copper embossed edges of the second layer, you will notice patterns in it.  This is the patterned paper showing through the embossing.  (I didn't think that it would show up in a picture because it's so subtle. But there it is!)

Below you can see my "fancy" love!  This die cut came from the Heritage Cricut cartridge.  I used gold glitter on the swirls.  I wove a beiger ribbon through the word and then attached it to the card.  

I hope that you enjoyed today's card. Stay tuned for tomorrow's card!  Another old fashioned one!

Two Women

Hello everyone!  Hope you are all having a good day. I am in a victorian state of mind lately. I love the old fashioned feel, the ornateness, the stateliness of the era.  There are such wonderful qualities to all the different decades. 

For the card below I used the Heritage cartridge from Cricut.  It really is a wonderful cartridge!  It has lots of old fashioned designs for cards, wagons and houses. What I like most about this cartridge is that it has shadow profiles for people.  I really like the look of them.  So stay tuned!  In a couple of days I will be posting a card with just this style!  For today though I thought I would use a fancy rectangle with pretty swirls in it, in two different sizes, and my 30s-40s women for a card.  I used papers from Basic Grey's Curio Line (simply gorgeous). You may also recognize the backgroun I used for my photo.  It's from Tim Holtz Paper Stash.

I used Ranger Sticky Backed Canvas in white to print out the images of the women using my inkjet printer. (The canvas feeds in just like paper. The print does not run or bleed.  One thing to remember is that canvas has a pretty big texture to it.  You will not get ultra fine details to look good here.)  I matted the pictures to black cardstock.

This is a close up of the flower and center. I like the unexpectedness of the center of the flower.

Hope you liked today's card.  Come back each day to see the other old fashioned cards I have made for you!