Baroque Holiday Thanks
I knew I wanted to incorporate the quilted lines of the bed cover, the straight lines of the layout and of course the very elegant looking color combo from today’s inspiration piece. Here is what I came up with:
I picked Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky and Whisper White as my colors.
Bordering Blue and Close to Cocoa were a little closer to the inspiration piece, but I thought this combo was more elegant and went with that.
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock folded in half.
Adhered to that is a 3 7/8″ square of textured Soft Sky cardstock with a dotted white gel pen border.
For the center layers I took a 3 1/4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock and scored it with my Scor-Pal every 1/2″ diagonally both ways to get my grid lines. Next I stamped the swirl from Baroque Motifs over it in Soft Sky and sponged the edges heavily, the rest of the cardstock lightly in the same color.
It was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Chocolate Chip and the edges were paper pierced. 5/8″ wide Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon was tied around both layers before those were attached to the card base.
I stamped Thank you from Holiday Blitz in Chocolate chip on Whisper White cardstock and punched it out with my 1 1/4″ circle punch. That was layered on a 1 3/8″ chocolate chip and a sponged and dotted Soft Sky scallop circle before the inner circle was paper pierced.
I stamped the small flower from Baroque Motifs in Chocolate Chip on Whisper White cardstock, cut it out adhered it to the circular layers with dimensionals and added a Circular Ice Rhinestone brad in the flower’s center. The sentiment layers were attached to the card with dimensionals.
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GORGEOUS! Love your choice of colors and the flourish is the perfect touch!
Posted by: Charmaine | May 13th, 2008 08:42
Wowza! This is just beautiful, Beate! Thanks for sharing and for another great inspiration piece! Take care and have a wonderful day! Hugs
Posted by: Jennifer Buck | May 13th, 2008 08:42
Oh, wow! What a great idea with the quilting! I’m totally going to try that! TFS!
Posted by: Tina (travelingmama) | May 13th, 2008 09:30
Your inspiration piece is so pretty,and you’ve really captured it with your sample! I love the swirls, embossing, piercing, and pretty blinged out flower!!
Posted by: Rose Ann | May 13th, 2008 09:40
So elegant! I love the score lines!
Posted by: Jamie Sears | May 13th, 2008 09:43
You have a way with piercing! I never thought to team it up with scoring too! Looks beautiful!
Posted by: 2stampis2b | May 13th, 2008 09:56
This is gorgeous Beate! I love these colors - I might have to find some time to play along!!
Posted by: Christie Ortman | May 13th, 2008 10:08
Meine Güte, ist die schön Beate, die Idee mit dem Scor Pal ist so genial…:-) ich wünsche dir eine schöne Woche und hoffe, ihr hattet ein schönes Wochenende…und du einen tollen Muttertag! Liebe Grüße…, Silke
Posted by: Silke K. | May 13th, 2008 10:09
You ROCK girlfriend.. this card is stunnnning!!!! Love it! Patty
Posted by: Patty Bennett | May 13th, 2008 10:47
Oooh, these colors are so yummy together - what a beautiful inspiration card, Beate!
*STAMPIN HUGS* Alex
Posted by: Alexandra Hobson | May 13th, 2008 11:01
You’ve outdone yourself on this one. It’s truly breathtaking. Thanks for sharing and for the awesome inspiration
Posted by: Britiney | May 13th, 2008 11:26
Ohhhhhhh !!! I love the colors and layout !!! Gorgeous, girlie !!
Posted by: Corinne (aka Roxy) | May 13th, 2008 11:26
Wow what a gorgeous, elegant card! Love the texture you created with the Scor-pal!
Posted by: Kim/Kauai17 | May 13th, 2008 12:18
Gorgeous card! I just love those colors together and all your little touches finish it off perfectly.
Have a good day!
Posted by: Tiffany | May 13th, 2008 12:27
Beautiful Beate. Love the elegance of the card.
May have to try this out later tonight:)
Have a wonderful day.
Posted by: mj albright | May 13th, 2008 12:32
Wonderfully beautiful card… I love the scoring and the piercing. I also like the bedding which gave the inspiration. Joan
Posted by: Joan Jeffery | May 13th, 2008 12:42
I love your style. It is so pretty and elegant yet fun and fresh at the same time. This is such a beautiful card. Wonderful job!
Posted by: Leah | May 13th, 2008 13:33
Love the inspiration piece!! and everyone’s inspiration!!!
Love your card…when you do the white gel pen “piercing”…do you use the template or free hand it…’cause it is pretty much perfectly spaced.?! You are amazing!
Posted by: Shelly Kettell | May 13th, 2008 14:53
Wow, I love this card it is so beautiful. Wonderful colors and great work on the layout. Thank you for the inspiration. I am completly amazed by your work. Thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Brenda | May 13th, 2008 15:34
This is absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: Lori A. | May 13th, 2008 17:04
This is a beautiful card. I love your color choices
Posted by: Mauna | May 13th, 2008 17:22
Totall love the color combo I want that in my bedroom. I love all the texture the card has. That’s one amazing card I will have to case.
Posted by: Brooke S | May 13th, 2008 17:30
I love, love, LOVE the colors!
Posted by: Christie | May 13th, 2008 17:58
Beautiful! Love the colours and that scored and scroll stamped background is just gorgeous - thanks for the excellent technique tip!
Posted by: Joanne | May 13th, 2008 18:01
This is gorgeous! Maybe I just found my next Stamp Club project, love this technique! Also love your inspiration challenge, I’m going to play later (hopefully!)…it’s the perfect bedding for my *modern* home…it’s important to have a home and proper furnishings for all of the looks/home fashions you like!
Posted by: Angie Tieman | May 13th, 2008 18:11
Fantastic card - Beate!!! Love everything you have done with it!!!
Posted by: Silke Ledlow | May 13th, 2008 19:08
Wow!! Very stunning card!! Great job…I love the soft sky and Chocolate Chip color combo…also makes a great elegant baby boy’s card. As usual, thanks for the inspiration.
~Lacey
http://www.handstampedbylacey.typepad.com
Posted by: Lacey | May 13th, 2008 20:17
Really beautiful, Beate!
Posted by: Wendy | May 13th, 2008 20:17
This is gorgeous!! I love the scoring!!
Posted by: Jessie/knightrone | May 13th, 2008 22:00
This is Breathtaking! I love that something so simple can look so wonderful.. WOW!
Posted by: Selene K | May 13th, 2008 22:09
Such a gorgeosu card Beate! One of my all time fav color combos! Hot stuff! Have a fab evening! Hugs, Deb
Posted by: Deborah | May 13th, 2008 22:50
Beate this is absolutely gorgeous. Love the soft sky and chocolate color combo and all the swirls and piercing. Beautiful!!
Posted by: rainy | May 14th, 2008 02:19
ooo Beate I love this … the colours are so clean & crisp - and the colours are sooo nice. Hope you had a good mum’s (note correct spelling) day!!
Posted by: Leonie | May 14th, 2008 05:22
another beauty, Beate! love the squares and the quilted look you gave the image.
Posted by: lisa henke | May 14th, 2008 07:10
this card is absolutely gorgeous!!
Posted by: stephanie | May 14th, 2008 07:20
Beautiful card Beate! Those colours are so yummy together!!! Love your scor pal background too!!
Posted by: Dawn Easton | May 14th, 2008 07:29
I love this card. I have the scor-pal….I will be making (trying to) this card. You have such wonderful talent.
Thank you for sharing with us.
Posted by: Vivian | May 14th, 2008 07:31
BEAUTIFUL card!!!
Posted by: Mary Anne | May 14th, 2008 07:37
This is a really beautiful card, Beate! Seemingly simple and yet so detailed and so elegant!
Posted by: Mary | May 14th, 2008 08:37
Wow the quilting is gorgeous! I love these colors together! Great card!
Posted by: Danielle | May 14th, 2008 08:50
Wow the colors are sooooo nice….. love that scoring, makes such a nice effect - well done!!
Posted by: antje | May 14th, 2008 09:38
This is beautiful Beate! The score lines look so elegant. TFS!!
Posted by: Emily | May 14th, 2008 10:58
This card is really beautiful, Beate!! You continue to amaze me. Everytime I see one of your cards, I think it is the most beautiful, but you continue to come up with more…..
Posted by: CShaffer | May 14th, 2008 14:12
I absolutely love this–great design!
Posted by: Karen | May 14th, 2008 18:58
This is so pretty, Beate!
Posted by: diane (cookiestamper) | May 15th, 2008 07:19
This is absolutely lovely!!!
Posted by: kimcrafts | May 16th, 2008 05:19
I just want to say Thanks for sharing all the beautiful cards you do. You are such an inspiration to us all.
This card is my favorite one you have done. I loved the colors and design.
Beautiful,
Have a blessed day.
Tammy
Posted by: Tammy | May 20th, 2008 21:14