Vintage Veranda 2nd Challenge for October 2008

Here is my card for the 2nd challenge on the Vintage Veranda website. The challenge was to create a harvest piece. This scan looks much darker than the real card. If you double click on it, the close up is much more like the actual colors. I did a collaged background with many layers of bits and pieces of images layered with lots of gesso, acrylic paint and inks. The stamped images are from Stampin' Up (SU) Autumn Harvest and Lovely as a Tree; and a pear from unknown. The button is from Stampin' UP. The cardstock is SU's River Rock, Really Rust and a piece of Bazzill. I made the label with my label maker and added color to it with SU Pumpkin Pie and Really Rust. I did a lot of distressing on the edges, piercing on the photo corners and used some direct to paper ink on the outermost edge. I liked this piece much better than the previous one!

Vintage Veranda First Challenge

I made this for the first challenge on the new Vintage Veranda forum website. If you like paper crafts, mixed media, etc. in the vintage style, you will love it! Lots of nice friendly people. You can see the website here http://www.vintageveranda.com/.

The challenge was to create a piece using recipe as the inspiration. For the background I used a printed scan of an old recipe booklet from a waffle iron my inlaws received as a wedding gift in 1948. The man and woman eating is an image transfer over gesso and acrylic paint. I added some color to it with gel pens to try and bring it out a little more as it seemed kind of lost. The photo doesn't show it very well but I added silver glitter with a gel pen on the birds, the little flower edges and the star fish. If you click on it to see it really close up it shows much better.

I used Stmapin' Up Always, French Script background and Balmy Breezes stamp sets. It took me forever to get this one done. Just couldn't seem to get it to come together. I finally decided to just stop!! LOL

Card for Guys

I need a lot of masculine cards and they seem to be hard for me to come up with. This is one I made using Stampin' Up's Artifacts and Alphabits stamp sets.

I started with olive green cardstock for the base. I added a green/blue small check background. Navy blue cardstock behind the circle. I stamped the star with navy ink and cut a circle around it using a Coluzzle circle template.

The Alphabits stamp was stamped with navy and then I used a 1/4 inch circle punch to punch out the letters I needed. I could have used a "happy birthday" stamp instead of using the alphabits stamp. The little letters were really tedious to get glued down and get the spacing right. I had more glue on my fingers than on the letters!

The center of the star is a flat top eyelet. I really like these. They look like a brad but don't leave bumps under the card stock from the prongs. They are a little bit hard to find in stores.

This was a very simple card to make. I kind of like the way it turned out, I hope you do too!