Meadow Greens

Hello friends.  I had been looking at some of my older PTI sets the other day and pulled out Meadow Greens which has been a long time favorite of mine.  And then yesterday I went to visit a couple friends blog posts and low and behold, they both had used the same Meadow Greens stamp set for the challenge at JUGS which is for us players to CASE a DT member.  Lisa and Bobby had both used the Meadow Greens stamp set so beautifully that I just had to CASE them both!!

I probably CASE'd Lisa's card a bit more by staying in the green & white color family with my cards (I made 2), but I sure did love Bobby's card just as much with her beautiful blue background!  Here's what I came up with for my 1st card...

  I started with a panel of kraft cardstock and stamped the ferns in Old Olive ink and the leaves in Mossy Meadow ink (both SU!).  Next I embossed the Queen Anne's Lace stamp with white over my ferns and leaves, and then dry embossed the whole panel with SU!'s FERN embossing folder.

 Here's a close up so you can hopefully see a bit of the fern embossing in the background.  I did go over the edges with a bit of Walnut Stain DI and my blender brush.  I stamped my sentiment (The Greetery's New Day Sentiments) on vellum and then tore the edges before wrapping it around the stamped panel and attaching to a white card base.  

My 2nd card is embossing on the front of a piece of vellum (the Queen Anne's Lace and the sentiment) and then stamping on the back of the vellum with the ferns and leaves (all from the Meadow Greens set).  I had first tried stamping on another piece of kraft with the ferns and leaves, but because I was using a thicker vellum, the ferns and leaves didn't show through hardly at all.  Stamping directly on the back of the vellum made them show up a bit better, but it's still a very soft image.  You can see it better in my close up photo...

After my vellum panel dried, I attached it to a piece of white cardstock at the top and bottom by cutting my vellum a bit bigger length wise so I could fold it over and adhere to the back of the white panel.  Both layers were then attached to a kraft card base.  I fussy cut a couple extra leaves out and attached them to the front panel and also tied a piece of twine to the left side.

I'm going to add this 2nd card to the gals over at GO7 where they are playing with vellum this month.

  You can check out all the fabulous cards from the DT's at both challenges HERE (for JUGS) and HERE for GO7.  A BIG THANKS to Lisa and Bobby for their beautiful inspiration that got me started!!

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!