Oct 07 2007
Celebrating With Pollen Dust
In honor of World Cardmaking Day I thought I’d have another go at Pollen Dust. Actually, I spent most of the day cleaning house and doing laundry but I fit a little stamping in between all that.
I used no designer papers on this card. As much as I love my designer papers I thought it would be fun to do it all with stamps for a change. I started out with Whisper White cardstock and TP’d first with CTMH Vanilla Cream and then SU!’s So Saffron. Click here for the TP technique. The Pollen Dust images were stamped over that, followed by the Sanded background in So Saffron. I used just a narrow border of Print Pattern because I didn’t want to cover up too much of those beautiful Pollen Dust swirls. The sentiment panel is stamped with Linen in River Rock ink.
The big flower stamped very nicely with SU!’s classic Ruby Red after I thoroughly rubbed the stamp with an eraser. Rather than tapping the stamp directly into the pad, I used a sponge dauber to apply ink to the stamp. I do this with rubber stamps sometimes, too. It completely eliminates the cloth texture that can show up on the stamp and can give the image a softer look, depending upon how much ink you apply.
I hope you had something fun going on to celebrate this day. Just think how many of us there are who have our love of this craft in common! I’m so glad that, thanks to the internet, we have many places we can meet and share our work and the things we’ve learned along the way. Have a great rest of the weekend!
Stamps: Pollen Dust, Sincere Salutations, Print Pattern, Sanded, Linen
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: So Saffron, Vanilla Cream, More Mustard, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, River Rock
Accessories: Kraft taffeta ribbon, brads
Oh My.. Leslie this is wonderful!! I love the background it looks like dp. I can see you used several stamps from this set to create it including that circle stamp ( I never fiquired out what to do with it) the tp is fantastic. I love the look of the big flower with the brad center. Once again you have knocked my socks off with your creative design.
Beautiful background and card. What a cool,creative idea. You red flower is a lovely focal point, too. I agree - how fun it is for all of us to share and enjoy.
Leslie,
You did it again. You truly amaze me with your creations! Such a beautiful card.
WOW! An amazing card! I love every thing about it! Fabulous!
WOW…your card is incredible! Thank you for showing us how you made that gorgeous background paper. Now, I KNOW I need that Sanded background stamp.
GORGEOUS!!! I am so glad I learned of your TP technique–it is so effective–and I too am thinking I need sanded and you are not helping, (or maybe you are).
Thanks, Laurie
Stunning card! Deb
This is just the inspiration I needed today!!! I’m so going to pull out that set and make some fall/wintery floral cards!!! Thank you!!!
Beautiful card. Love the images and the colors… you made it look like it’s a DP… love the tag and the strip of Print Pattern… TFS!
GASP!!!! Incredible Leslie!! I absolutley LOVE what you did with this set!! LOVE The colors too! Great job!
Gorgeous with a capital G!!! Just beautiful!!!
Amazing! I can’t believe the background is stamped. You rock! Really gorgeous card…I wish housecleaning inspired me to such creativity!
Shawn K.
Beautiful work on the paper, love the way the sentiment has been done, Beautiful card all around!
Beautiful! The heart flowered stamp’s hints are very helpful - I now know I need to do a better job with the eraser on my stamps.
May I ask how you store this beauties? - back in their original place? I guess the temperatures where you live are friendlier to these stamps than here.
Your layout for the stamps and colors selected really do remind me of Basic Grey papers.
No stamping since I am not home, but I have celebrated this special day by enjoying many of my fav. stampers gorgeous creations……..including my top favorite stamper “leslierich”! Love your latest creation Leslie. Have a great day, Nancy
Stunning card Leslie! Gorgeous layout and I am amazed you used no DP, WOW. Jennifer
My goodness this is gorgeous!! That flower almost looks real, and thanks for the sponge dauber tip. I haven’t had success with an acceptable image with that flower yet. I will have to try it again.
Your card is absolutely stunning!!
Amazing card!!! It is GORGEOUS!!! Love the gorgeous b/g you created — it could certainly pass for very expensive DP — but it is TP — too funny!!!! Love the border, flower, torn sentiment — all fabulous elements — love the depth of color on this card — all pulls together wonderfully!!!
This is so beautiful! Love the TP, the layout, the colors — all of it! Thanks for sharing!
this is just beautiful leslie!
AMAZING! Love how everything on this card just fits perfectly together! Your red flower is beautiful! Great job!
WOW, you know how to work magic with this set, Leslie! Absolutely stunning!
Gorgeous! Love that pop of red!
Yay, Pollen Dust! Beautiful design. What a gorgeous background layer you created, and I love how you did that big flower! Thanks for the great tip on inking up that kind of stamp with a sponge dauber. Linda
That flower just stands out and grabs your eye! It is such an eye popper. Love the whole layout and using one simple image to make a phenominal focal point!
Love this layout and colors, Leslie!
Gorgeous Leslie! I indulged in Pollen Dust a little while back and have yet to really use it. Thanks for the inspiration. I love the swirl stamped on the background paper.
Linda