Branch Out – Friendship

Hi Everyone

Welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space.  Our cruise ship was docked in Livorno today, day 2 of our transatlantic cruise.   Cruising is so relaxing.  The ship is beautiful.  Last year we sailed on the Azamara Quest on a western Mediterranean cruise.  The Quest was a third of the size of the Solstice.  We'd chosen the Solstice this year because we wanted to be on a larger vessel crossing the Atlantic!  She is certainly a gorgeous ship!

Today's card uses one of my favorite sets – Branch Out.  I love the flexibility of this set and still want to try a Christmas card with it.  What am I going to do when I can't make Christmas cards???? "-)

Splitcoaststampers have a challenge called featured stamper and the key is to take one of the featured stamper's cards and change at least two things about it.  I thought this was an interesting challenge – because it really symbolises a CASE. TreasureOiler had done this fabulous card using the Branch Out, so I decided to keep the same image and layout but change everything else.  I loved her color scheme, but wanted to feature a fall color scheme for my version.

Card recipe:

• I used Dusty Durango and Very Vanilla Card stock
• Dusty Durango and Old Olive DSP
• Dusty Durango polka dot ribbon – reversed
• I inked the image in Chocolate Chip and stamped it on the Very Vanilla paper. 
• I then inked the leaves in Dusty Durango and stamped them using my stamp-a-ma-jig.  To get the lighter color leaves, I used my marker pens for the second round of stamping.  I could have used a different color pen – but wanted to keep to a limited number of colors
• I stamped the sentiment (from The More the Merrier set) directly onto a piece of DSP instead of onto card stock
• I stamped the tire using my black marker pen, as I wanted a faded look.  The boots were stamped in Old Olive
• I kept the idea of the clip from the original card

I enjoyed working with the layout and was pleased with the overall result.  Now I think I might have to do a spring version next!

I hope you have a fabulous day.  As always, thank you for spending time in my area of the stamping blogosphere – your visits are always appreciated. 

Jaydee