Classic Elegance @ the Tea Room

This past Monday I was so excited to learn that my card was picked to be the in Tea Time Terrific Top 3 at the Shabby Tea Room!  (The card also earned top honors from the gals at JUGs!!)   I was really excited because it was only my second time participating in the challenge.  So... this week I just had to make a card.  The challenge this week is titled Classic Elegance and we are challenged to use red, black and white or cream.  I decided to go with red, black & white. 

For my card I used some fairly new Layers of Colors cling stamps, Victorian Frame & Floweret.  The Victorian Frame stamp was designed to be used with one of my favorite Spellbinders die, Labels 14.  I stamped the frame twice on white cardstock, one time in black and the second time in red and then die cut each using the largest Labels 14 die for the black frame and the third largest die to cut the red frame.   The floweret image was stamped on the red diecut frame and then again on white cardstock using black ink (Memento Tuxedo Black).  I colored the second image with Copic markers R36, R59, C1 & C2.  This was trimmed out and adhere to the red frame.   A strip of dotted red paper was adhered to the card base and the frames layered on top.  The sentiment from Hero Arts Find Joy set was stamped using black ink.  A couple of rhinestones were added to finish the card. 

I'm also going to put the card into the current Play Date Cafe' challenge:  Black & White with a splash of color (player's choice)... red being my color.

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; PTI Bitty Dot Basics Pure Poppy; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Real Red; Hero Arts rhinestones; Copic Markers;  Stamps:  Layers of Colors & Hero Arts.

A CASE Study @ The Play Date Cafe...

Happy weekend everyone!  In my corner of the world it's a three day weekend for my kids and my older one is very excited about that! 

From my post title I hope you figured out that my card is for the combined CASE Study & Play Date Cafe' challenges.  Yes... this week those two fabulous challenge blogs have joined forces to bring us a fantastic challenge and fantastic prizes.   The amazing sponsor of the challenges is Layers of Color Art stamps... a company located here in my home state of Washington!   With Layers of Color being the sponor I just couldn't pass up the chance to use my somewhat neglected LOC stamps.   

Because I'm a simple cardmaking gal... I well... simplified things a bit while still keeping to the overall design of February CASE study muse Eva's card.  I used two different LOC clear stamp sets (Flutterescent & Nature Walk) and one of their newer cling stamps Victorian Frame.  The sentiment is from the My Favorite Things set Polka Dot Greetings.   I colored the flowers with the Copic markers:  R46, R89, Y17 & Y19.   Because I went very simple with the card I didn't use any patterned paper.  I added some interest by stamping the flourish from Nature Walk on the card base using Versamark ink.   I stamped the flourish on cream cardstock with Memento Bamboo Leaves, trimmed it out and applied some Old Paper distress ink. 

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft & vintage cream; Stamps:  LOC Nature Walk, Flutterescent & Victorian Frame; MFT Polka Dot Greetings; Ink:  Memento Bamboo Leaves & Tuxedo Black; PTI True Black;Ranger Old Paper DI,  Copic makers; Spellbinders dies

Yellow Butterfly

The current Play Date Cafe challenge is black & white with a splash of yellow.  For my card I decided to use the new Hero Arts Classic Fabric Design background cling.  I inked up the image with PTI's True black and then laid the white cardstock piece on top and rubbed the back to pick up the color.  I adhered that piece to the Lemon Tart card base with foam dimensionals.  The butterfly was diecut using the Stampin Up! butterfly die and then placed in the SU! embossing folder Elegant Lines and run through the Cuttlebug.  I added a few black pearls to to the body. 

Thanks for taking a peek...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & Lemon Tart; Ink:  PTI True Black; Zva Creative black pearls; Cuttlebug; Stampin Up! butterfly die & Elegant Lines embossing folder; Hero Arts Classic Fabric Design stamp