I'm thrilled I stayed up late to finish my entry for CeeCee's Color Challenge #9. This week she chose one of my all-time favorite color combinations. How could I not play along? Entrants were to combine certainly celery, old olive, very vanilla, taken with teal and cool caribbean. (I still wish SU would bring back cool caribbean!)
I was inspired by the prints in the sample pieces and so I pulled out my new Papertrey Guidelines stamp set to create my own patterned paper. I stamped the design onto the cream cardstock using the other four challenge colors. Then I matted it to taken with teal stock that was layered on top of certainly celery cardstock. The base itself is cool caribbean and after stitching the cream layer I wrapped it in SU old olive grosgrain ribbon. A Bazzil blossom was decorated with some circles punched from cardstock and the sentiment is from Papertrey's Mixed Messages set. To balance the thickness of the ribbon I adhered the blossom using foam dimensionals.
Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time...M
Supplies:
Ink: SU basic black, old olive, certainly celery, taken with teal and cool caribbean
Cardstock: Papertrey vintage cream, SU old olive, taken with teal, certainly celery and cool caribbean
Stamps: Papertrey's Guidelines and Mixed Messages
Other: Bazzill blossom, SU old olive grosgrain ribbon, sewing machine, dimensionals
I'm thrilled you did, too! I love it!
Posted by: Courtney | June 29, 2008 at 08:45 AM
Haven't had coffee yet ... you aligned that stamping?! That's amazing! Really thought it was PP. TFS, Amy.
Posted by: Amy, Ottawa, Canada | June 29, 2008 at 09:12 AM
Gorgeous stamped background and wonderful card.
Posted by: SmilynStef | June 29, 2008 at 09:30 AM
Wow you are wicked tallented with those guide lines- I gotta play with those today!! This card is really nice!
Posted by: Regan | June 29, 2008 at 09:33 AM
This is just absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: Travelingmama | June 29, 2008 at 04:33 PM
Gorgeous!!
Posted by: Deanna | June 29, 2008 at 11:10 PM
S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G!!!
And I love your photos. Can you show us how you take photos, the lighting and background etc?
Oh, and I have a ton of Cool Caribbean.....I can share if you ever need any.
Posted by: Charlene Austin (Willow01) | June 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM