Victoriana - Lets Play!

Hello everyone and welcome to my Blog!  I want to share ideas for creative card making and design.  I hope you enjoy looking through my sample cards.

Today's card is called Let's Play! 

I used paper from a new company called Authentique.  It's really pretty and has some lovely designs and colors. (If you want to see it, go to http://www.franticstamper.com/!)   I chose paper from the Splendid collection (paper is called Renown). 

I really liked the way it had these blue accents on it.  Very pretty!

I added an old picture I got from a collage class and accented that with a punched design on the right.  I added the dark pink ribbon and done!  It's a very easy card to make and takes very little time.  Try it with a different color scheme!  This would be a great Christmas card with a picture of the family!

Close up!

I added pink jewels which matched the dark pink ribbon I used.  I know that when my Great Aunt was alive and younger in the late 1800's, her sewing box was full of dark colored threads including greens, auburns, browns.  They were beautiful. (My Great Aunt got a sewing machine - a treadle one - which was handed down to my sister.  The thread she used was still in there.)

I hope you enjoyed today's card!  Come back again for more creative cards!

Lis

Victoriana - Green Pearl Hearts Card

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! 

Today I'd like to share a card that I made that has a green color scheme.  I used a green distressed cardstock for the background and ivory for the base card.

I added some torn music paper (from Penny Black...it's gorgeous - not new - but it's one of the few that she has done.  She has this in both the beige and the white.  The previous card I made just before this one (with the mirror) also uses some Penny Black paper only it has gold foil writing instead of music.

I edged the music with forest moss distress ink and glued to the background paper.  I punched out10 leaves from dark green Bazzill cardstock and embossed them.  Doesn't the embossing look great?  This is actually a TWO PUNCH SET.  The first punch punches out the shape and the second one embosses it.  I love the way the leaves come out.  I spray a fine mist of water (just a little) on the punched leaves before I emboss them to make the embossing go a little easier.  I attached my leaves with mounting tape.  (You can find these great punch sets on http://www.franticstamper.com/dutchpunch.htm.   These are dutch punch sets.)

 I added some crotchet ribbon on both the top and bottom of the card.  I love the way crochet looks.  It gives the feel of Victorian days, doesn't it?  I added little green pearl hearts to the center of the leaf clusters. I finished it with a beige ribbon and bow.

I hope you liked this card. Come back again!

Lis