It will be over before we know it. So take make sure you go to the A Muse A Palooza blog on Friday!
“ Psssssst! A sneak peek is coming! Our first sneak peek was super sneaky and some of you missed it. So we are letting you know that FRIDAY is the day to see the next one! It will only be up for 24 hours so see it while you can! Any guesses as to what it might be? “
Okay….so I am very late for this challenge. But I knew on Sunday already that I wanted to case the layout Tosha used on THIS card. Check out the rest of her gallery. Her work is amazing! I am so grateful for Beth to have started this challenge. I love finding new amazing stamper and their galleries. There are too many uploads every day on SCS to keep up.
UPS came very late and I didn’t get all my stamps mounted until about 9:30 p.m. last night. That didn’t stop me though. I REALLY LOVE Baroque Motifs. The swirls in the set are gorgeous and big! Oh my…it’s just a stunning set. I think I will use it a lot. So far the two in colors I like most are River Rock and Purely Pomgranate.
I started with a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ Pomgranate piece of cardstock and folded in half for my card base. The greenish layers are River Rock cardstock. The center panel is stamped with those gorgeous swirls from the set as well as the tiny flower in River Rock. The River Rock cardstock in the back is stamped with Linen in River Rock. The edges of that cardstock are sponged in Chocolate Chip. The pinkish layer is Groovy Guava cardstock stamped with Groovy Guava ink and the flowers of Baroque Motifs.
I love how Stampin’ Up! showed off the flowers in the catalog and made a layered flower like that for my focal point. I stamped the bigger flower in Pomgranade on Guava cardstock twice. The first flower I cut around the dots, the second image I cut right around the flower. I sponged both flowers with chocolate chip ink and topped them with a tiny flower stamped in chocolate chip on Guava cardstock.
All brads are from the Vintage Brads Selection. I always use the brass one up first. I wish we could buy those and the black ones seperately. Never use the copper and hardly ever the diamond shaped ones.
The Faux Stitching around the center panel is done, you guessed it, with All in a Row. The two other panels are paper pierced and on the River Rock panel in the back I used the chocolate chip marker to add Faux Stitching.
Finally I stamped the word Cherish from the set on the upper part of the main panel in chocolate chip. I had a blast making this card, even though it took a while to make it look like I wanted to.
It took at least an hour. But I had Jude Law, Jack Black, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslow keep me company in the movie: Holiday. I love chick flicks! I didn’t like the ending of the movie. The problem of the long distance relationships wasn’t really resolved. But it was a sweet movie!
Talking about movies. The other night I watched the movie with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant…something with Lyrics. Dang, I loved that one. I loved the video in the beginning, his dancing and the music…It was so much fun to watch!
Debbie Fisher, one of the original Dirty girls from Splitcoast, as well as one of my first online stamping friends, send me this gorgeous card. She is part of SCS’s Blogger RAK club. Check out her blog, Snickerdoodle Dreams. I always loved how Debbie used Earth colors and sponged her work to age it.
Debbie, I love this card. I love how you sponged the edges. I love the stamp set you used and that you stamped the background of that set on your Designer paper! Thank you so much!!!
