Friday, May 16, 2008

Coming Home to the Tree

Happy Friday!! I'm a day late and a dollar shy with this card tonight......

I made this card for Kristin Werner's Color Inspiration challenge this week - but when I went to load it tonight - I realized the deadline was yesterday - so I missed it!! So here is my card using the colors of real red, so saffon, pumpkin pie, old olive and tempting turquoise! (with some Taken with Teal card stock since I didn't have Tempting Turquoise).

I used this fun new stamp from a Swedish company called Scrapmagasinet and the stamp is called Tretoppen. I purchased it from a woman in Canada who runs a stamp/craft shop up there. She also sells the cute Tilda stamps from Magnolia. I found her name on someone's blog as a person who sold the Magnolia stamps so I contacted her since I was not having any luck finding where I could buy some!

I stamped 'Happy Anniversary' inside the card. The outside sentiment (which I love!) is part of a stamp by Penny Black - it has a house above it on the stamp but I only inked the sentiment part for this card. I used my Floral Fantasy cuttlebug folder for the background. I sponged the edges as well as the cuttled panel with so saffron ink to tone down the white a bit.

We're having rain tonight and supposedly on and off throughout the weekend - so it will be a good time to be in my stamping room - not feeling guilty that I'm not out in the sunshine!!

Thanks so much for coming over to see me for a bit - check back over the weekend - I'm sure I'll be doing the Inspiration and Featured Stamper challenges on Splitcoast.

Today's quote from Poor Richard's Almanack by Ben Franklin: "He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares."

Stamps: Treehouse: Scrapmagasinet
Paper: White: PTI, taken with teal, real red - SU, green bazzill
Ink: onyx black Versafine, So Saffron
Accessories: cuttlebug, Floral fantasy folder, dimensionals, glue zots, sponge, SU markers, Prismacolor marker: sky blue light
Techniques: Cuttlebug

6 comments:

Beverly said...

oh man Julia! I'm sorry your were too late.. but, I am glad that you shared it with the rest of us. I love this stamp and sentiment.. how nice! Who wouldn't love getting this card.. and the colors are so bright and cheerful!
Thank you so much for the card.. I got it in the mail today with the images! That is such a wonderful poem.. I couldn't read it in your photo.. I just loove it! Thank you so much for thinking of me! You're the best!

Deb Wood said...

This is so cute and fun, love the colors and the sentiment!

Giovana said...

Your card is so cute!!!

Giovana

LeAnne said...

Wow, what a cute image....fun & colorful!
LeAnne

Anonymous said...

Super Anniversary Card! Love the sentiment!

Pat (mspfd)

dpkennedy said...

I love this card! What a fun image! Great colors and great coloring too! This is really cute!