Jun 21 2007
Silhouette Revealed
I didn’t think I was going to have time to stamp today but Life is full of surprises. Just so I’d have something creative to do on my breaks at work I took a few things with me to fool around with a background. I get so caught up with my designer papers these days I tend to neglect the resources I relied upon previously. I made a couple of different backgrounds, but the other one is in the scrap drawer now. It may reappear later as those rejected backgrounds have a way of doing.
I set out to use this Watercolor Vine wheel but wanted to combine it with another background as well, so I stamped French Script in River Rock and wheeled the vine over it with Mellow Moss. That was my morning break. Well, gosh, that went so fast I had time to do a little something more in the afternoon. So at lunch time I looked for a main image stamp and was happy to see how the form and movement of this Garden Silhouettes stamp would grace this background nicely. I selected a few markers and a scrap of Very Vanilla and headed back to work. In the afternoon I colored and stamped the flower image. I was getting together with some friends after work so I figured that was the end of it but I just couldn’t let it be. I put the rest of it together as quickly as I could, relying on some comfortable old favorites — Print Pattern and the Thoreau quote from The Art of Life. The flower pot from Fun Filled was an afterthought and that’s how it wound up “out of the box” — there wasn’t room to fit it into the main image panel. I stamped it in Groovy Guava, shaded it with the Really Rust marker and mounted it on dimensional tape.
It’s a quick and simple layout, not too much fiddling around and not a lot of “extras” on it, but I’m glad I found time to stamp this card. It felt good! I hope you had a pleasant day, too, whatever you were up to! Happy Friday!
All supplies are Stampin’ Up! except the ribbon, brads and mounting tape.
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, Watercolor Vine jumbo wheel, French Script, Print Pattern, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Fun Filled, The Art of Life
Paper: Mellow Moss, Blush Blossom, Very Vanilla
Ink: Mellow Moss, River Rock, Blush Blossom, Groovy Guava, Always Artichoke, markers: Always Artichoke, Regal Rose, Rose Red
Accessories: Ribbon, brads, Scotch brand mounting tape
This is a beautiful card Les. I love the colors and the simplicity of it. It reminds me of a quiet summer morning. Thanks for warming me up.
This is beautiful! Love the colors!
This is a beautiful cards! What great colors!
I so love all of this. The design is wonderful. Love the flower pot out of the box. I would like to use this design sometime if you wouldn’t mind. Don’t you love the Garden Sillouettes? So many possibilities with it. Beautiful card.
And with all of the styles that you have, every one of them are gorgeous! I know what you mean about relying to heavily on PP, as I’ve been trying to get a little more back to the stamping myself! I love what you did with all of the backgrounds - and the rust on the guava looks fab! You rock, girl!
This card is great. I love how you combined the wheel and bg stamp. I also would have never thought of using Fun Filled to complete the look. Great dimensions.
Dawn B.
OMGoodness. This is beautiful! TFS!
Love this one!! The colors are fabulously orignal!
Do love the colors too, and the vine with the french script is just gorgeous!!
Beautiful. I can’t believe the pot was an afterthought. It’s perfect!
that one is really pretty! I like the double background - it really adds a new twist on an old background. Oh, and I like the out-of-the-box look anyway, so what a wonderful extra surprise. Great job!
This is as always just gorgeous! I was recently thinking the same thing about my designer papers. They are so beautiful that it is
hard for me not to want to use them on every card I make! But this is such a fresh and wonderful return to some ‘comfortable old favorites’! Thanks for the inspiration again and again.
What a lovely card! I can relate to neglecting my DPs too! I love your blog and look forward to seeing more of your fantastic work! Thanks for the inspiration!
Just stunning, Leslie — I love it when you stamp!
What a stunning card! Love it!
absolutely beautiful Leslie! you did an amazing job!
Beautiful Leslie!!! Your work continues to inspire me!
Vicki
your colors, shading, and background are gorgeous, Leslie!!
I really really love this card, it is very beautiful :)!
Now this is what I call beautifully “stamped”! Love the layout and color combination. TFS!
This is the perfect card to CASE for my little stamping playdate today with my new to stamping friend. Kathy wanted to play with BG stamps, since she just got French Script. TFS your gorgeous card and layout.
This is gorgeous! I know what you mean about that designer paper. It’s so addicting and makes a quick card, but it’s also worth the time to stamp a pretty background like yours.
Leslie - this just blows me away! I was planning to get rif of Fun Filled - but the pot is so perfect for this image. Once again - WOW!
This is just so soft and beautiful - love the colors and the way you colored the flowers!
This is just lovely!
Lot of work for one card - but so worth it! Really pretty.
This is so pretty! I love how you stamped the vine over the French Script. I love the dimension, colors and the ribbon! So lovely!!!
Love the leaf prints wheel over French Script! (Can you believe they’re retiring that one?) Anyway, I like the River Rock with Mellow Moss as well…I’ll be trying that color combo.
Oh, Leslie…this is wonderful! These colors are so soft and calming…but at the same time so yummy! I, too, love that “flower pot”…it’s perfect “out of the box”. Beautiful card!
This is gorgeous!! I love the way you stamped the backgrounds, just beautiful
This is very unique and beautiful! The colors are serene, and the popped out pot is an awsome touch. I also like the uneveness of the french script layer. Great card!
WOW this is just gorgeous! I LOVE the colors and layout! I LOVE the mix of stamp sets too! Fabulous as always!
This card is so lovely. Fabulous job
So pretty, Leslie! Wonderful combo of backgrounds, stamps and colors, and what a great idea for that flower pot! And you know I love that ribbon! Linda
Oh my! I love how you placed the pot out of the box! Such soft, pretty colors too!
What a gorgeous card!! All of your floral cards I’ve seen just now are sooo beautiful. I just found ya (again) and gotta head off to work, but love all your work. I’ll be back!
This is so pretty - how fun that you can squeeze a little stamping into your work day, that would have made work considerably more fun for me back when I was working!
And I love Thoreau - I just “had to” go on an SU shopping spree when Art of Life was the hostess appreciation set a while back, just so I could earn it!!! That’s the set I used on the card I sent to you, but sadly that’s one of the very few times I’ve actually used it!!!
Gorgeous card Leslie! Love your combinations of colors and layout.
Linda
WOW oh WOW! Such a soft and sweet beauty!
~Angie
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