La Femme

 

I purchased the Loretta die from Frantic Stamper a while back. It reminded me of Paris and I have a fascination for that city (I also have the poodle but haven't used that yet.)  I pictured her walking down the Champs Elisee shopping for the latest fashion.  Today I finally decided to do a card for her.

I started with an ivory card base.  Sharon, another design team member, has been making some cards with  punched design on the side. I really like the look so I wanted that for this card also.  I added some burgundy suede paper ad a piece of Tim Holtz collage.  I wanted Loretta to stand out so I decided to use this very glittery black with silver dot paper I had.  It turned out SO NICE!  I was looking at the die cut and realized that the die had even cut a part for her hand that was on her waist!  That was really cool!  I decided that Loretta needed a purse to hold because I wanted to highlight this little piece of 3-D.  I cut a trapezoid (remember your geometry!) out of silver glitter paper and glued it under her hand.  I also pushed the hand out a bit to make it stand out more. (Since the die cut is all one paper, I needed something separate to highlight the hand.) Anyway, it turned out great. 

I was thinking about the dress too.  There are actually crease lines for the dress on the die to emboss it.  I took some mounting tape and put it behind the skirt but only in the middle ...to poof it out a bit. 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

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Products used:

•  Frantic Stamper Precision Dies
• Loretta  FRA-Die-09091
• Materials for this project are available at www.franticstamper.com.

Talking to the Moon

 

I jus recently received a few western dies from frantic stamper.  I decided to used the coyote and cactus dies.  I have this wonderful embossing folder that looks like wind that I used on some brown cardstock.  I used a cosmetics sponge and some Tarnished brass distress stain to highlight some of the swirls on the embossed background.

I die cut the coyote from the circus papers from Graphic 45. 

 

I was so excited to see how well they came out.  This design really goes well with the whole western theme.  I decided to cut my cacti out of holographic paper. 

 

I had this one sheet that I got at a Michaels a while ago and just haven't done anything with it.  I do that sometimes - buy a sample piece of something different and then try it out later to see what I can do with it. I think it keeps me creative.

I used torn grey suede paper (yes, I tore it - it tears easily which surprised me) for rocks and used a little purple ink on the edges.  The gold paper is actually gold crepe paper. Pretty cool huh? You can get that at Castle in the Air! That is my newest online find!

Other than that I paper pieced the card.  It turned out ok-certainly not my best but as an experiment - ok.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Lis

 

PS: I am really enjoying my new computer.  I bought a laptop (they were on sale and I finally relented and bought one.  My previous computer was about 10 years old and SLOOOOWWW! My sister has been bugging me to get a new one for a couple years now LOL.  SO, I am getting used to Windows 8.  Overall its going well.