Good morning, everyone and Happy Fall! With all the excitement and preparation for launching our new SUDDEN_response network to help demonstrators who have lost all or most of their stamping and business supplies, I completely forgot to celebrate the first day of Fall -- my FAVORITE time of the year. I made this little shadowbox card using the Season of Friendship stamp set, new in the Holiday Mini Catalog and available for purchase on October 1st! I stamped the tree image on Natural White Cardstock using Close to Cocoa, Always Avocado, Really Rust, More Mustard and Ruby Red inks. The front of the shadowbox is Really Rust cardstock, wheeled with the Watercolor Vine Jumbo Wheel and Versamark ink. I cut out the oval using the Coluzzle Shape Cutter and inked Really Rust on the opening with a sponge. The sentiment is stamped on Natural White and mounted on Always Artichoke. The chipboard leaves were created by gluing Juntos DSP (from the Spanish Supplement Catalog) onto scrap chipboard (I use what comes in packages of paper), cut on the Big Shot Die Cut Machine using the Leaves #2 die. I inked the edge of each leaf with Really Rust ink and attached it to the card using SNAIL adhesive. Humm ... I can smell fall in the air just by looking at this card!
To make the shadow box card, I cut the front and back cardstock to 5.5 x 6". Score at .5 and 1" from each short edge of both cardstock pieces. Stamp your image on the back layer, decorate the top layer as you desire (including cutting out the window opening). Fold on the score lines so that you have a bit of a "box" shape and attach the two pieces together using Sticky Strip!
I am once again taking orders for the Designer Series Paper and Ribbon Sampler Kits. These have been so popular and I continue to have people ask for them. This is a great way to get a little bit of everything without having to buy complete packages of paper or spools of ribbon. This is a limited time offer. Deadline for ordering the Sampler Kits is Sunday, October 5th at 11:59 p.m. (central time). I will place the order with Stampin' Up! on October 6th and you will receive your kits in the mail about 10 days after that. Click on the links above for more information.
Again, Happy Fall everyone! Hope you come back to visit soon. Blessings, Gretchen
wonderful card!
Posted by: Sue Kment | September 28, 2008 at 02:57 PM
Absolutely amazing.I LOVE her work!! Would love to see MORE!!this is AWESOME
Posted by: postcard printing | May 15, 2012 at 04:45 AM