Happy Friday! Mo took the day off and we went on a day trip with the kids to one of my favorite places - Newport. Mo and I have a weekend away every year to Newport and we always say we'll come one day with the kids and picnic and fly kites and make a day of it. Well, today was the day. It was a great day (if a wee bit windy) and I'm tired and probably off to bed early. But I have a card from yesterday to show you.
All the stamps from today's card are from Paper Makeup. They not only have their wonderful fairies but some pretty neat other stuff as well.
To make the background, I took a glossy piece of cardstock and 91% rubbing alcohol. I combined the alcohol and key lime reinker (CTMH) on a felt pad and dabbed it all over the cardstock. I then added breeze reinker (CTMH) to the same felt pad that had the key lime and alcohol and continued to pounce away. The background you see is my final result.
Then I stamped the tree with Stazon Ink. The sentiment is stamped with palette noir ink and punched out with the SU oval punch. I finished it off with some dew drops/rain drops (don't know which) and decided to call it a day as I'm all for simple.
I was hoping to blurf a bit but I might call it a night instead. Have a great weekend!
Great card!! tfs!!
-t
Posted by: Tenia Nelson | April 22, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Wow, I love how the background turned out on this! That tree stamp is awesome too!
Posted by: Jennifer | April 22, 2009 at 03:48 PM
SO pretty!! I love that tree image and the sentiment is very cool.
Posted by: Joanne Travis | April 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Oh Laura this is soooo pretty! Love this tree image... love the silhouette against that background! Wow!!!
Posted by: Grace Nywening | April 19, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Love the background you created here, love that you can see the different colors. I also have a special fondness for tree stamps.
Thanks for my happy mail!
Posted by: Gina Lindsay | April 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Ok that sounds really complicated - but I love the outcome. All green...how pretty is that? Glad you are having great weather and getting some time away!
Posted by: Michelle | April 19, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Very pretty - and I love the background. I'll have to add that to my ever expanding list of things to try
Posted by: Kay | April 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM
This is beautiful. Love what you did to the background. very serene!
Posted by: yuki | April 18, 2009 at 05:50 PM
Wow, that made a gorgeous background paper. Very nice technique. I just ordered a few stamps from there myself! Can't wait to play. Isn't it funny how tired kite-flying can make a person!
Posted by: Rebecca | April 18, 2009 at 10:36 AM
That background is just perfect Laura! I love it! I saw this stamp on her website and almost bought it. I went with some aliens and fairies instead! Bad me!! ;)
Posted by: Siobhan | April 18, 2009 at 04:02 AM
I just love silhouettes and this one is beautiful. Love the "frilly" look of the tree. Great job!
Posted by: Diane Noble | April 18, 2009 at 12:58 AM
very stunning card Laura
Posted by: Erika Taylor | April 18, 2009 at 12:08 AM
snazzy looking tree, love the back ground
Posted by: Rebekka | April 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Lovely card Laura, with a really pretty background!
Posted by: Michelle Walpole | April 17, 2009 at 08:36 PM