Mar 09 2008
Heirloom
Hello! Is the weekend really over already? So soon? Gosh, I was just getting started! On to another work week…
I’ve finished up my weekend with a few things to share with you this week. I was asked to make a card for a baby girl so I thought I’d make two different cards rather opposite in style. I haven’t made the other one yet. Who knows…maybe I’ll make more than two because I sure enjoyed making this one. Vintage feminine is one of my favorite stamping styles. However, I also made something bright and perky and fun this weekend and I had a great time with it. Oh, heck, I just love to stamp. It all makes me feel good!
I used two designer papers I’ve been saving just for this card. Honestly, when I bought these papers I pictured this card exactly. I always planned to make it whether I needed it or not. It just happens that I need it now. The papers are both My Mind’s Eye – the upper panel is Tres Jolie and the lower border is Signature Life. The dress is from the very beautiful but retired Stampin’ Up! set, Buggies & Booties. It’s stamped in Timber Brown Stazon on 90# hot press watercolor paper (very smooth) and watercolored with reinkers. The dress is a very dilute Regal Rose with Blush Blossom trim. I mounted it on Blush Blossom textured cardstock.
I usually like to add some sort of sentiment or words to the card front but I didn’t want to detract from the delicate papers and image, so I stamped “baby” in Regal Rose vertically alongside the main image mat — just a faint suggestion. The rest of the sentiment is inside the card and reads “You are the miracle of all creation” – another retired SU! set called That’s Nice. The two snaps match the Sage Shadow middle panel as well as the little bit of sage in the designer paper. I smudged them with Timber Brown Stazon for aging. The ribbon is SU!’s pink taffeta.
I think that about sums it up. Ingredients are listed in their entirety below. I have to dash off to other things now. I hope your week starts off good and gets better as it goes along. See you again soon!
Stamps: Buggies & Booties, That’s Nice
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Sage Shadow, Blush Blossom textured, 90# hot press watercolor, My Mind’s Eye designer paper
Ink: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Blush Blossom, Regal Rose, Timber Brown Stazon
Accessories: Ribbon, Making Memories snaps, Scotch brand dimensional mounting tape
Love this vintage look. That is one of my favorite images, too, even though I don’t own the set. Aren’t there just so many beautiful sets? And more to come from so many new companies, too. Beautiful card, Leslie.
lovely really like this vintage look .
What an absolutely beautiful card. I am a fairly new SU demo and wish that SU would bring back this style of stamp. How elegant.
Absolutely stunning!!!
Perfectly beautiful! Love that style and your watercoloring is wonderful!!!
This is absolutely beautiful !!
Love your work.
Vintage stamping is just exactly what this is. Whoever receives this card will absolutely want it framed
darling, those papers are perfect with this gown, Love it!
Wow, this is just stunning! I was in awe over your choice of image, colors and dp!
This is breathtaking! That image is beautiful and the layout with the papers and everything is absolutely fantastic!
I love this set, I don’t know why they retired it….grrrrr! You did a wonderful job with it–so pretty, it could be framed and hung on the wall!
LeAnne
Absolutely perfect. This is one stamp set I wish was still available!
this is gorgeous, it should be framed and placed as artwork in the baby’s room
This is so beautiful and so YOU!!! Love this set and I especially love all that you have done with it, including this creation!!! Just love this layout and ribbon treatment — fabulous colors — and that beautifully watercolored dress!!! Gorgeously created!!! Can’t wait to see the others!!!
Ok so when I saw this card my jaw dropped! That dress reminded me of my Gabi’s christening dress and I read the set was retired.. SO off to a hunt I went and GOOD old Ebay helped me and I got that set! lol OH I love how the rest of the stamps look vintage as well oh the little baby buggie is so sweet and the stork!! OHHH I can’t wait to get it.. Thank you for the enabling! lol I love your work it always makes me just stare in awe!
I Like this card very much! Everything works! WOW!
I love your vintage feminine style! And I love MME; I wish Michaels carried it.
Absolutely gorgeous! I have this set and love to use it, but I have never seen such a stunning card made with it. Every detail is perfect! Love your style…
Oh my………Leslie, did you hear my sigh?!? Gorgeous, gorgeous vintage look……just Stunning! TFS
WOW! This is the most beautiful card I’ve seen in a long time. Absolutely beautiful.
Absolutely gorgeous!!!
Beautiful! Simply beautiful! Love that paper too! Great job!
Hugs,
Joani
Beautiful! I love the muted ‘baby’ stamp on the side. It looks so vintage in this setting. I never thought of if that way before.
This is my first visit to your blog and all I can say is WOW!!! Your work is stunning, you have some really gorgeous creations.
Your distressing and coloring is so perfect on this!! Beautiful card, Leslie!!
Just love that DP and I’ll never get tired of that classic stamp set! I too love the muted vintage feel of this! Love it!
This is such a lovely card! You are so good at vintage, Leslie, and I am so not - which is probably why I enjoy looking at your creations so much. This is a stamp that I would have never even looked at twice, much less considered getting. Yet here you have made such a sweet, wonderful card with it that it almost makes me want it. But then I wouldn’t have clue as to what to do with it unless it was to CASE you!! LOL!
love this stamp and what you have done with it, Leslie! vintage perfection
Stunning card, design and paper Leslie. Just gorgeous, Jennifer
Ahhhhh….my favorite baby set again. You’re inspiring me to blow off the dust and make some vintage cards! Yours is lovely!
Breath taking, Leslie!! Oh my gosh this is so so beautiful. Vintage and feminine doesn’t get any better than this.
This is so beautiful. I’m not really the “heirloom type” myself but I so love it whenever you make something vintage! Gorgeous!
What a beautiful baby card! I love everything about it.
Oh my! How lovely this is! Now this is a set I will never part with! How wonderful that you can visualize a card like that in advance. It never happens that clearly for me. It’s more of an evolution process. Your design and papers showcase this vintage image so beautifully. Really outstanding. Linda