Welcome! I got back home from the Milwaukee area last night--had a great group of ladies for the Copic Standard Certification in Brookfield on Friday, and then had a chance to demo Copics at Artist and Display in Wauwautosa for a few hours on Saturday--what a fun art store! Lynn and Nora are always gracious hostesses, and Benjamin got to meet Erica the Art Dog as well.
Tonight I have a simple card to share, but it reminded me of of a sunny day with blue skies--or maybe lemon card with blueberries. I started with a shaped base, slightly under A-2 sized, at 5" x 3-1/2." I used a Spellbinders Paper Arts Grand Labels Eleven for the card base, then scored it at the half-way point. For the yellow layer, I used the same die, but then hand-trimmed at the embossing line.
The stamped background is Papertrey Ink's Lemon Tart cardstock stamped with Summer Sunrise ink using Background Basics: Gingham. Both the sentiment and the leaves are from PTI's Sending You set, and the buttons are Blueberry Sky and Spring Rain Vintage Buttons. Blue and yellow are such yummy Swede-colors! To cut the the sentiment layer, I used a Spellbinders Labels Eleven die, then trimmed the top off to mirror the card base layer. Next I used a Classic Rectangles Large die and aligned my trimmed straight edge with the straight edge on the die and embossed its line by hand with an embossing stylus. Otherwise I would have had one plain un-embossed edge that wouldn't have quite matched. Make sense? Inks are Adirondack Stonewashed and Versamagic Tea Leaves.
Now, [insert drumroll here], the winner of Marianne Walker's new Shadows and Shading book on this blog is number 195, princesskitten. So, Princesskitten, I'll e-mail you for your address. Thanks for playing, everyone!
