Sunday, November 8, 2009

Plaid With Gratitude

I was away for most of the day Sunday but my stamping friend Christine (chrisations.ink) was the featured stamper over on Split Coast- so I just had to CASE one of her cards. I chose this pretty card.


I liked the plaid designer paper she used and wanted to use my Off Beat Background set by Waltzingmouse Stamps to make my own stamped plaid DP. The beautiful fall wreath and sentiment are from the Peace and Plenty set. I used Circle Nestabilities to cut them layering the sentiment over the wreath after sponging the edges with chamomile ink.

I used different stamps and colors than Christine and placed the sentiment inside the wreath rather than on a separate panel.

A friend of mine at work commissioned me to make 10 thank you cards - so this will be one of them. I think he'll like it.


Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps: Off Beat Backgrounds, Peace & Plenty
Paper: Vintage Cream - PTI
Ink: Adirondack Lettuce, Espresso and Sunset Orange, Memento Tuxedo Black, Chamomile - PTI
Accessories: glue dots, foam dimensionals, circle nestabilities, Copics: YG95, E59, E35, YRo4, Ribbon - Kiwi Kiss SU, sponge

14 comments:

pescbrico said...

Very beautiful!!!

Jodi Collins said...

This is GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS Julia! LOVE the colors, that paper and the layout!

Sharli Schaitberger said...

Julia,
I love it when you show how to get the best of the background stamps - I was looking at that set on Claire's web-site just this morning and didn't "get it" about the graph paper stamp. Wowie, your plaid is just beautiful! It makes sense now.

This is a wonderful card. I wish I could commission you to make me 10 thank you cards! I'm afraid that's exactly what I need to be doing and all I can produce is Christmas cards (or so it seems!).

Hugs.

Unknown said...

Oh WOW Julia, fab use of graph paper stamp!!! Gorgeous card, I need to get me a thesaurus I'm running out of good words for your comments!! lol

Cheryl said...

Lovely card! Plaid is a fvorite of mine and yu've made it look elegant on your card!
Also love ALL the boxes you've been creating! YOU are a clever girl!!

Anne Harada said...

Fabulous case my friend!! I love the DP you chose and the wonderful focal piece! It's so funny, I just made a similar style card too - I thought you were doing the same sketch from Beate's challenge!

B said...

Absolutely gorgeous!!! Love the plaid you stamped and the colors are absolutely divine!

dpkennedy said...

Just gorgeous Julia!

Lisa Foster said...

This is so Beautiful!!! Elegant!!! Gorgeous!!! 9and all of the rest of the adjectives that describe this amazing card!) Love it Julia!
Hugs,
Lisa

Joanne (jojot) said...

CAS perfection...love it

Pat (mspfd) said...

I love this design. Wonderful card, Julia.

anya said...

Very pretty Julia! I love the layout and the colors (and you know how I feel about plaid! ;)

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

I love how you colored this wreathe to match this gorgeous plaid paper!! Beautiful design!!

Bonnie said...

This is fabulous Julia! Love how you used those background stamps and now that I have them - well, you know the rest haha!