Tuesday, September 22, 2015

MIM#224 Two-Toned Stamped Sentiments

Hello friends.  Danielle Flanders has a great video this week for the Make It Monday challenge!  I love black and white cards and Danielle's cards are absolutely fabulous for this two-toned sentiment challenge!  I don't have the striped cover plate that Danielle used (and was too lazy to do all the work involved with the manual way to create the striped pieces!!), so I improvised with my Chevron Cover Plate die.  Take a look:



I know, I know, my sentiment looks like it's been tipping the bottle a bit with all those crazy zig zag lines from the Chevron cover plate, but I think my daughter that's away at college will love it, so it's all good!!  I didn't have any flowing and scripty lettered sentiments from PTI, so I used the hello stamp from Hand Lettered Hello by WPlus9.  I've been working on a CAS challenge with my friend Birgit for tomorrow, so I had lots of flowers (Vintage Linens) and tea cups (Fancy Tea Cup die) laying around, so decided to add them to my card.  Doesn't the tea cup remind you of that blue Delft china that used to be so popular?  I used Cobalt Blue Brushos on water color paper before die cutting the tea cup, and then brushed the edges in Versamark and gold embossing powder.  The back piece of the tea cup die was also cut out of some gold cardstock to give the cup that sort of timeless vintage pattern.  The flowers were embossed in white and then water colored with watered down Orange Zest, Hibiscus Burst, & Lemon Tart inks. 

You can check out Danielle's beautiful cards and great video right HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today...I love it when you do!! :0)

15 comments:

Danielle Flanders said...

The chevrons are so neat and add so much to the card! Great idea!

Linda said...

Marcia, I think the chevrons look great and love your beautiful flowers.
Great take on this challenge.

Jenelle said...

This is gorgeous, Marcia! I love the chevron with that sentiment and your flowers are beautiful! :)

Nancy Penir said...

You are too hard on yourself, doesn't look a bit tipsy. Looks wonderful. The gold on the teacup is beautiful as is the blue. Striking card Marcia. Know your daughter will love it!

Kathy Mc said...

Your cup runners over with beautiful flowers, Marcia. Sure stands out on the black chevrons!

Tracey McNeely said...

Lovely Marcia!

Colleen said...

Chevrons work..you just proved it!! Awesome card, love the tea cups and WOW, those Brushos really pack a punch, don't they? Awesome card, Marcia!!

Marybeth said...

Your improvising is a great idea,this works great! Love the beautiful flower filled teacup, Marcia!

Betty said...

wonderful card Marcie - i'm going to use the chevron plate too as i don't have the striped and also am too lazy to do the manual bit - besides i'd probably spend forever getting it all straight!

Manuela said...

great look with chevron plate and the pretty blue teacup with the flowers

Helen F. said...

Love how the chevron cp adds a unique twist to your card. The tea cup full of flowers is beautiful too. I'm sure your daughter will love it.

Rema DeLeeuw said...

Lovely card Marcia and those pastel flowers are stunning!

victoria h said...

wow- such a beautiful card

Marlena M. said...

I like the chevron look! I think your sentiment is perfectly aligned~
By the way, I was too lazy to make my own stripes too ;)

Birgit said...

Oh, everyone told you ..... BUT ... These chevrons really DO work wonderfully with this technique! Your daughter will be very happy with your card!