Thank You Card

 

I wasn't sure what to call this design. It reminds me of old Italian or Byzantine.  This is, of course, one of Tim Holtz' new Frameworks dies - called Trellis.  I really love dies that have designs tat I can play around with and change to my liking.  I can see the Frameworks dies being one of these.

 

I cut the framework out with some of the Tim Holtz paper stash I have.  I also cut it out of some dark purple and also out of grungeboard.  I used the little pieces from the purple ad the grungeboard to fill n the design in my card.

 

To prep the grungeboard, I simply added Tarnished Bronze Distress Stain to it. After it dried, I stamped some writing in StazOn Black.  If I had to do it again I would pick a stamp that had thicker lines as it's difficult to see my stamped image. One nice thing about the grungeboard is that its thicker than the surrounding paper, so it really adds a nice bit of dimension to my card.

 

 

 

I used glue stick to adhere everything onto a navy blue card base.  I added the blue bling last.

 

I colored my label (which was plain chipboard) and my ribbon (which was white) with Vintage Photo Distress Stain,  I also added some touches of the Tarnished Bronze to my ribbon.  It created a nice shimmer to parts of my ribbon.

 

I added a gold sentiment (Dazzles) and done.  I am thinking of changing this to a Happy Fathers Day card.  It has a nice masculine feel.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Lis

Celebrate!

 

I'm always looking for a way to make a birthday card a little different-looking.  With Valentine's Day in February and my dad's birthday on the 25th (he's 96 this year-wow!) I thought I'd try to do something in red and gold.

I decided on an ivory card base with a heart border.  I knew I wanted some gold matting and added some pink patterned paper (Bo Bunny) and some plain red also.  I used several Frantic stamper dies to decorate and the Perfect Layers rulers to make my mats quickly and ...well, perfectly ( no lie, these are great).

I'm a blingy kind of person and I used red glitter card.  I wanted a really nice flower so I layered green suede paper for the stem.  I really love crepe ribbon with its wrinkly texture.  I use it on a lot of my projects and I did here. I wanted to add something to fill up the right side of my card and thought it would be fun to have a set of goblets - to toast his birthday.

Now, guess what he material is that I used for a background mat - you know that bright gold, wrinkly paper?  It's crepe paper!  Yup!  Just like the kind we used as kids - except this kind is has a metal coating on it to give it that gold look.  I found this special crepe paper (and tons of colors as well as Desden Foil or German scrap) at Castle In The Air.  I like it so much that Ive added it to my favorites!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Products used:

• Frantic Stamper Precision Dies
• Oval Nested Frames (flower die included)
• Love Filled Heart
• Wine Bottle and Glass (set of two dies)
• Heart on my Sleeve Edger
• One inch base - Square die