Rare Blessings

The OCD is so real that you can smell it!  I think that I've been in my house too long.  I can't seem to finish up any project in a timely fashion, but just keep adding layers and embellishments until I force myself to photograph the project and call it a day.

Or four days....

I wanted to use the new Ornate Layers and Ornate borders dies, but the Ornate Garden DSP and the Ornate Style stamps weren't clicking for me -- as usual, I wanted to do something with more a vintage look.  I found this old Afternoon Tea DSP and knew that that's the direction I wanted to go!

I really like the elegant, sinuous style of the orchid images from the Rare Blessings set -- I like how it looks against the lacy rectangles.  I stamped the image in Soft Suede, then measured and cut the image to fit mostly within the Mint Macaron lacy frame. The image was, of course, too large, but I fussy cut the tops of the flowers to fit.  The largest blossom is cut out and popped up with a Dimensional, to give it a little more lift.

Because I cut all the rectangle layers out of the Afternoon Tea DSP, I didn't realize that the brown layer was really Close to Cocoa, rather than Early Espresso, until I'd assembled all the layers.  (The striped layer and the chicken wire layers were just basic layering, with straight edges). After it all was glued into place, I saw that the Close to Cocoa really didn't work at all.  SO, I started cutting borders in Early Espresso, from the Ornate Borders dies.  

It took a lot of cutting and sliding bits and pieces around, but I finally got it down.  Thank heavens for liquid glue!!

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Rare Blessings

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Ornate Borders dies

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Ornate Layers dies

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Stamps:  Rare Blessings, Forever Blossoms 

Paper:  Whisper White, Early Espresso, Afternoon Tea DSP (retired) 

Ink:  Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Petal Pink, Flirty Flamingo, Mint Macaron, Garden Green 

Accessories:  Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly dies, Ornate Borders die, Ornate Layers dies, Ticket-Corner punch, metallic brads, Petal Pink metallic ribbon, Petal Pink organdy striped ribbon, Dimensionals, aqua painter, paper piercing pack, Wink of Stella

Tender Toile

Sometimes you just have to go with your old favorites!  I fell in love with SU!'s toile products from the mid-2000's, and they were some of the first sets that I bought.  I've kept all my toile throughout the various purges over the years and I've never regretted it.  I think that the Parisian Flourish 3-D embossing folder (lightly sponged with Old Olive) is the perfect background for this image.  The vines/florals peeking around the edges of the image are from Definitely Decorative Toile Blossoms.

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Parisian Flourish 3-D embossing folder

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Stamps:  Tender Toile (retired), Definitely Decorative Toile Blossoms (retired),
 Good Morning Magnolia, Toile Christmas (retired)

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Gold foil 

Ink:  Black Memento, Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard, Creamy Caramel, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow 

Accessories:  Big Shot, Parisian Flourish 3-D embossing folder, Window Frames framelits, 3/4" square punch, Ticket-Corner punch, metallic brads, Aquapainter, Dimensionals, paper piercing pack, Always Artichoke seam binding, Gold shimmer ribbon, Mossy Meadow stitched satin ribbon, Gold Wink of Stella

Winds of Change

I bought the Mosaic Mood DSP because I wanted to use it specifically with the Daffodil Delight ruched ribbon; however, this product didn't quite go into the place I wanted.  On the other hand, I've never had too many projects where I liked/wanted to use Terracotta Tile!  So, I found a new (old) color that I liked, but didn't use ribbon that I bought specifically for a purpose.  Who knew?

Using the DSP, I pieced together strips from the striped piece and created this strange mosaic for the background.  I made to piece of "notebook" paper by using a ruler to draw the lines on Very Vanilla yardstick with the retired Bordering Blue marker.  The sadly retired Spiral Notebook punch was the finishing touch!

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Winds of Change

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Stamps:  Winds of Change, Daisy Lane, Clearly for You (retired), Postage Due (retired) 

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Mint Macaron, Mosaic Mood DSP 

Ink:  Black, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, More Mustard, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Bordering Blue, Flirty Flamingo, Rose Red, Mint Macaron, Garden Green 

Accessories:  Spiral Notebook punch, Postage Stamp punch, metallic brads, Terracotta Tile satin ribbon, Dimensionals, Aquapainter, white gel pen

Hello

I was really trying for a cleaner look here, but as usual, I ended up doing too much.  At least there's no ribbon!  I love the Ornate Floral 3-D embossing folder -- there's so much texture, but it's a small repeat, so it's very easy to work with.  The pointy border at the bottom is from the Delicate Lace edgelits dies.  Again a very small repeat, which makes it versatile and easy to work with.  The final bit of texture comes from a background stamp that is sadly retired, Diagonal Stripe.

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Winds of Change

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Delicate Lace dies

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Ornate Floral 3-D embossing folder

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Stamps:  Winds of Change, Grace's Garden, Diagonal Stripe (retired) 

Paper:  Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Basic Black 

Ink:  Black Memento, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard, Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede 

Accessories:  Big Shot, Ornate Floral 3-D embossing folder, Delicate Lace edgelits, Stitched So Sweetly dies, white gel pen, Ticket-Corner punch (retired), black brads, Dimensionals, Aquapainter

Shabby Daisies

How do you shabby up something as intrinsically cheerful as a daisy?  Well, it take some work, a bunch of Soft Suede ink and about three days!  

There are a lot of moving parts here, the best of which is an old trick of mine -- making a piece of a page from a spiral notebook.  The lines are drawn with an old Bordering Blue marker and I used the old Spiral punch for the wholes.  I've also used another old favorite, torn wallpaper.  A sheet from the Delightful Daisy DSP is layered over a sheet from the First Edition DSP, then torn and sponged to give it an vintage look.  If you still have the old SU! Tearing Edge in your toolbox, it will help give you the perfect torn edges.

There's a daisy that's made by using the Medium Daisy punch with the Perennial Essence Floral Centers embellishments.  There is another daisy from Daisy Lane using Soft Suede ink and cut out to give it more of a botanical sketch in the notebook.  The ferns are done by inking the whole stamp with Pear Pizzazz ink, then adding some lowlights with Mossy Meadow marker, the fussy cut and adhered, giving them a light, weightless feel.  The bottom and top edges are taken from the Delicate Lace edgelits, then torn to mimic the torn layers of wallpaper and a very thin piece of Gold foil is adhered above the torn border die.

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Daisy Lane bundle

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Delicate Lace dies

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Stamps:  Daisy Lane, Postage Due (retired), Clearly for You (retired), Fanciful Fragrance 

Paper:  Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Delightful Daisy DSP (retired), First Edition DSP (retired), Gold foil DSP 

Ink:  Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard, Bordering Blue (retired), Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow 

Accessories:  Big Shot, Delicate Lace edgelits, Ornate Layers dies, Ornate Borders dies, Medium Daisy punch, Postage Stamp punch (retired), Spiral punch (retired), Perennial Essence Floral Centers embellishments, Pear Pizzazz seam binding (retired), Burlap ribbon, Old Olive 1/4" woven ribbon, Daffodil Delight ruched ribbon, stapler/staples, metallic brads, Tearing Edge ruler (retired), sponges

French Countryside

I'd been really wanting to get French Countryside out of the new Occasions mini, and I'm so glad that I did!  I love the thin line drawings and really enjoyed mixing and matching images to come up with this scene.  The Ornate Layers dies were a perfect match to frame my farm wagon and I used the smallest "loop" in the Ornate Borders dies to embellish the top and bottom of the brick layer.

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French Countryside

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Ornate Layers dies

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Stamps:  French Countryside, Grace's Garden

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Terracotta Tile 

Ink:  Black Memento, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Riding Hood Red, Cajun Craze, Flirty Flamingo, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Garden Green, Melon Mambo, Flirty Flamingo, Purple Posy 

Accessories:  Big Shot, Ornate Layers dies, Ornate Borders dies, Brick Wall embossing folder, Petal Pink striped organdy ribbon, Terracotta Tile satin ribbon, Aquapainter, white gel pen