While there, Lynette graciously offered to give me some Christmas images she had stamped and not used. I was excited to receive them as they would help put a dent in my Christmas card production.
Since visiting with Lynette, I have colored all seven of the images and made them into cards.
I handled the first four in a very traditional way, coloring them with my ProMarkers, adding a green panel (1/8" on two of them, 1/16" on the other two) and tied with a red ribbon. My red card bases were some pre-cut ones that I bought at Michael's during the after-Christmas sales last year.
I added a gray shadow around my image but it's rather hard to see in this photo.
The inside was constructed the same way as the front of the card, only with a stamped sentiment (Penny Black).
With the last three cards I decided to do something a little different. I made a copy of the stamped image and sentiment. I fussy cut them out, then laid the copy on top of the stamped image while I spattered the panel with gold metallic paint. Then I used gold metallic cardstock as my shadow panel and a gold ribbon.
I didn't have enough gold CS to do a panel on the inside of these cards, so I accented with a narrow strip of it.
Thank you again, Lynette, for hosting me and sharing your fabulous supplies and tools. I'm so glad I finally got to meet you in person!
And thanks to all of you for stopping by my blog today. I hope you've got some fun plans for the weekend. And remember to laugh-- a little or a lot--every day.
Cheryl
7 comments:
What a great friend to give you Christmas images. These are great use of those panels. I especially like the gold speckle one. So you are ahead 7 cards for Christmas. Way to go.
Cheryl, those cards are just BEAUTIFUL! The coloring is really awesome!
You are way ahead of me on my Christmas cards - what a beautiful image - and the coloring is done so pretty. I am a fan of the splattering so I love the gold splattered ones. Your bows are very pretty.
Off to the "annual" stamping convention in Illinois tomorrow - there will be about 40 vendors there and there are a group of us that goes every year. I have been "stashing" some extra $$$ to spend tomorrow IF I find anything that I like (wink wink).
You are a factory of talent, Cheryl! All of these are impeccably made and your attention to detail is amazing! You were so brilliant to make a copy of the image to use as a mask for your last three. They are my faves! I love that you and Lynette had a play date and I hope you get to do it again soon!! Hugs, Darnell
I'm happy that you were able to make use of them, Cheryl - and they turned out so beautifully!! If you want more, I do have the stamps:) We sure did have fun that day, but it went way too quickly.
These are lovely Cheryl, that's such a pretty image and you've coloured them beautifully.
These are beautiful! Lynette is such a generous, sweet person! I'm sorry we don't all live closer - would be great fun to craft together!
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