Welcome to day three of the JustRite Stampers October release, today showing you Grandma's Doilies combined with Old Friends. I also added in the Lace Borders set that we introduced yesterday.
The Grandma's Doilies set is comprised of eight pieces; the centers are separate so that you can switch them out with other centers. I chose a center from the Old Friends set because I wanted a sentiment in the center of my doily. My favorite doily is the one that looks like Battenburg lace, especially since there is a coordinating border in the Lace Borders set.
To get the small doily aligned on the background, I first penciled in a grid. You might be able to see where I added four little hatch marks to my acrylic block; those helped me with alignment. I stamped the images in Versamark ink before using Filigree detail white embossing powder to heat emboss the pattern. I did not have as much contrast as I wanted when I had finished, so I used sponged-on distress ink to make the white pattern "pop." (Patterned papers are My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Portabello Road 6" x 6" pad.)
Here you can see that I layered both the Battenburg lace doily center with one of the scalloped centers (die cut with a Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Circles Large S4-124 die. I hand-cut the top doily on the outside edge, and used a Spellbinders Standard Circle Small to cut out the center. For the lace strip at the bottom, I heat embossed Lace Borders on cardstock weight vellum and trimmed the lower edge by hand. Ribbon is off white seam binding, and button is from Papertrey Ink. I added two little sprigs of foliage with a Spellbinders Foilage die template because I liked the lacey appearance of that particular leaf pattern with all of the rest of the lace on the card. A bit of stitching and distressing, and that's about it!
Would you like to see more with either Grandma's Doilies or Old Friends? Then be sure to see these blogs:
JustRite Inspiration
Becca Feeken
Debbie Olson (here)
Mona Pendleton
Sharon Harnist
Kathy Jones
Kazan Clark
Stephanie Kraft
Heidi Blankenship
Michele Kovack
Sankari Wegman
Kellie Fortin
Angela Barkhouse
Barb Schram
Also, just another reminder: Blog Candy on the JustRite Blog is a $ 50.00 shopping Spree. To enter to win go to the JustRite Blog and answer the blog candy question. The Blog Candy is open for comments until Friday Night at 12 pm EST. The winner will be announced on the JustRite Blog on Monday October 3rd during the release post. Good luck to everyone!
