French Foliage – Thank you

Hi Everyone.

I saw the color challenge across at Embellish magazine.  Three colors that I generally do not combine.  Well, you all know….. that's the reason I do challenges!  The additional challenge – something vintage… well, I really wanted to use the French Foliage set for this color combination and decided to keep the layout clean and simple but add a couple of more vintage touches. 

I was a little concerned about how I would incorporate the green, especially as Garden Green is a color I so rarely use… however, when I started working with it – I realized what a great vibrant color scheme that it is.  For the yellow, I decided to go with a mustard yellow – as it helped to keep with the other colors.

Here's what I created

My vintage elements…the twine – I thought it worked really well with the leaves.  The button with the string and the old fashioned mini library clip.  I love the textured paper, too.

I inked up the images using classic inks – except for the one leaf.  That one I hand colored the stamp using my stampn' write markers.   I used the masking technique to make sure that the stamps didn't all jumble over themselves.

One of the things I love about the French Foliage stamp set, is that the leaves have a transparency about them when they are stamped.  I really think it is a cool sketch.

Additionally, I pulled out my petal card punch, my inchies and created a little tag and pocket for the thank you.

Card recipe:

• Card stock:  Garden Green, More Mustard, Cajun Craze
• Stamps:  Cute by the Inch, French Foliage
• Accessories:  Hemp twine, button, string, mini library clip
• Tools:  Petal card punch, stampin' dimensionals

On a personal note… Lou and I have two weeks together and have promised each other that we will spend as much of our time TOGETHER, as opposed to together but doing lots of other things.  We have been apart so much the last two years, that spending two weeks is going to be great.  Consequently, my posts will be a little shorter than normal.  I will continue to post, new projects though.

As always, prayers to those in need and those that just need a little lift.

Your visits, your support and your comments are very important to me.  So thank you.

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Hugs

Jaydee