Daily Archives: July 31, 2007

This card design is for Juliehrr‘s DTGD Challenge today! I just love Julie’s clean style, one layer cards and acetate windows so I had to give this challenge a try! 🙂

Window of Treats

For this design, it definitely looks better in person! I just couldn’t get a pic I was satisfied with this time…oh well! Anyways…my one layer of cardstock is a piece of Shimmery White and it looks so elegant in person. The front panel is stamped with simply a little sentiment from Flourished Words on the bottom right hand corner. I then cut a nice oval shape from the center of my cardstock.

For my acetate window, I stamped the Tier of Treats stamp by Stampendous onto a sheet of acetate. I carefully colored it in with some Sakura Gelly Roll Glaze pens and allowed it to dry. Then I adhered the acetate sheet to the inside of the card and stitched around the window with my sewing machine. It needed a little touch of embellishment on the front so I adhered a little scrap of dotted celery ribbon. To add some interest to the interior of the design and to peek through the window to the front…I stamped one of my favorite background stamps, Dots and Daisies, with Pretty in Pink ink. So fun! I’ve got to try this again! 🙂

Fall Back on Black is one of today’s last DTGD challenges. I couldn’t resist pairing up the fall back on black challenge with this “back to school” design featuring My Favorite Things stamps. This is a new release for MFT and will be released tomorrow. HUH? Why do I have it already? 🙂 I’m very excited that Kim has asked me to be part of the My Favorite Things design team! How cool is that?

Now we’re not quite ready for back to school here. Don’t even want to think about it actually! I’m really enjoying the summer home with my kids…..well, most days! 😉 Here in Canada, school does not start until after Labour Day…the first Monday in September.

Back to School

For this design I started off with a black cardstock 5.5″ square base. I wanted to try having a little more fun with my Daisy D’s swatch patterned paper. I just love its double-sided patterns and darling pinked edges. 🙂 This time I cdecided to fold back the top right corner to show off the other side of the design. And just to enable you 🙂 Jacksonbelle has a new shipment of brand-new Daisy D just arrived today!

For the main panel, I stamped the blackboard onto the whisper white cardstock. To make it easy to add the teacher in front of the blackboard, I stamped her onto another piece of whisper white and then cut her out after watercoloring her. To go with the school/notebook look, I used my SU spiral punch to punch along the left side edge. The sentiment was stamped in versamark and then embossed with White embossing powder.

You really can’t see it in the pic, but the Ruby Red layer is stamped in the same ink with the tiny little apple stamp. I added a little paper clip embellishment to further enhance the school look and tied a little scrap of dotted black organdy to the top.

Have a fabulous day!

Supply List:

Cardstock: Black, Ruby Red, Whisper White – SU

Patterned Paper: Daisy D’s

Stamps: Back to Class – My FAvorite Things

Ink: Black, ruby red, soft sky, wild wasabi, close to cocoa – SU, Versamark – Tsukineko

Other: staple, paper clip, ribbon, aquapainter & Button & Spiral punch- SU , cord, white embossing powder – Stampendous