Jul 31 2007

Fall Back on Black…

Published by Julia Stainton at 12:31 pm under Card Designs, Challenges

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

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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

6 Responses to “Fall Back on Black…”

  1. jacksonbelleon 31 Jul 2007 at 2:31 pm

    DARLING! I love this new stamp!! LOVE the way you color things! Fabulous job J!!!!!

  2. ~Carla~on 31 Jul 2007 at 5:58 pm

    Gorgeous card! :) Love the way you did the edges of your pp! Makes me want to dig out those deco scissors and blow the dust off of them! LOL!!!

  3. kimon 31 Jul 2007 at 8:18 pm

    This is GORGEOUS!!!! Oh I am so gonna cut some fancy edges on my next card!

  4. Joan Bon 31 Jul 2007 at 10:51 pm

    You have such an eye for color and design. I love what you did with this. The teacher and the blackboard and the patterned paper are adorable together.

  5. Nancy Granton 01 Aug 2007 at 3:51 am

    Absolutely fun! I love everything you did with this design! Your choice of colors, your coloring, and embellishments! Very original!
    :-)

  6. Bevon 01 Aug 2007 at 7:41 am

    Very cute card with lots of neat details. I really like the dp paper.

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