Herb Expressions meets Vintage Vogue

Hi Everyone

tonight's card uses Herb Expressions (11324)  with a touch of Vintage Vogue (118598 clear mount and 117690 wood mount).  The Herb Expressions was another set I passed up…. and have really appreciated playing with this weekend.  

Before I get started on the details of tonight's card… a MASSIVE SHOUT OUT to Adelle.  Adelle let me know that she had sent me a box of cards she had made for the card drive for the children and the troops.  However, what I didn't realize was that she didn't just mean a box… she meant a BOX of cards.  I'm waiting until after dinner to look at all the cards.. there are a LOT of them.  I am so grateful – as I know the recipients will be… so Adelle, thank you! you rock my world!  I'll be choosing a few of Adelle's cards at random and will feature them on my blog for you.

For tonight's card I re-used the sketch from the stamping 411 team again this week.  I told you in last night's post that I had used the same sketch – and that you wouldn't believe it was the same sketch.  But it is… I promise.  The challenge on the splitcoaststampers clean and simple challenge was to create a clean and simple card using Teal, White and one other color.  Now, I can hear you asking… how did you make a clean and simple card out of the sketch you used last night?  Well, that's the thing about a great sketch 🙂  so my thanks to the operators at stamping411.  For the clean and simple challenge I opted to use Taken with Teal, Whisper White and Chocolate Chip.  However, I needed to downplay the Teal because it is such a strong color.  I made two versions… I prefer the first – but have added them both for you.

Card recipe:

Firstly I apologize that you can't see the polka dot detailing as well as you should… I'm still having issues with trying to work with my new light tent.. you can see more detail in the bottom left hand corner!

• Whisper White and Taken with Teal card stock
• Polka Dot Embossing Folder (117335), which I used to create the vertical strip on the left hand side.  I used only a piece of the embossed card stock and adhered that using snail
• I then stamped the "may happiness touch your life today as warmly as you have touched the lives of others" from the Herb Expressions stamp set in Chocolate Chip – this was my third color.  I wanted to subtly introduce the 3rd color and so opted to use it only on the sentiment.
• I then stamped the flower from the Vintage Vogue set in Taken with Teal and then rolled it using the "rock and roll" technique in the Chocolate Chip.  That helped me to tie in the Chocolate and Teal elements.
• I then cut a 1/8th" matt out of the Taken with Teal and mounted that behind the sentiment.
• It's so rare that you get to put the entire focus on the sentiment – and I really enjoyed doing that.  This set is great for that!
• I adhered the sentiment and the matt to the card base using dimensionals and then secured the flower (which I cut out using my snips) with mini glue dots -and adhered the pearl with 2 more glue dots

I was actually very pleased with it.  It certainly fits the clean and simple mantra, but still has a lot of detail with the white on white embossed paper, the two color flower and the pearl.

Here's the second version I did. This time, I put a Teal matt behind the embossed polka dot stripe.  I like it – but I preferred the version without the second matt treatment.

Now… I'm off to finish the 3rd.. yes 3rd .. sympathy card for this week!  3 is bad enough – but all of them were in their early 50s……  however, in the cycle of life, I get to make a baby card for twins!

I hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday and thank you for taking the time to view my post. Your visit is greatly appreciated.

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Hugs

Jaydee