Sunday, January 4, 2009

Celebrating with Melanie

My fellow Paper Craft Planet design team member Melanie is having a huge "blogaversary" celebration with fun, games, and prizes, too. This weekend I got my first Melanie sets from Gina K Designs and tried out one of them for Mel's challenge to create a card with the sentiment as the centerpiece.

I used one of the sentiments from her new Hand-in-hand set as the focal image on my card. I stamped the sentiment in black ink, then stamped the hand image over it in softer gray ink. I used the Nestabilities Labels 1 die to cut out the sentiment. I cut a mat for the sentiment from a larger label die. It was a little larger mat than I wanted, so I carefully trimmed it down, following the shape of the die. Not perfect, but close enough!

I used a piece of Basic Grey's Urban Prairie designer paper to create a panel for the cardfront. I used my sewing machine to stitch a strip of Blue Bayou paper to one side of the panel, then attached it to the cardfront. I layered on the sentiment panel, then attached a pair of coordinating Prima flowers to the card. So pretty!

Materials Used:
Hand-in-hand stamp set (Melanie Muenchinger for Gina K Designs); Tuxedo Black and London Fog inks (Memento); Real Red, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, and Whisper White cardstock, Real Red grosgrain ribbon, mat pack and paper piercing tool, dimensional (Stampin' Up!); Labels 1 die (Nestabilities); flowers (Prima); rhinestone brad (Target); patterned paper (Basic Grey's Urban Prairis); sewing machine

13 comments:

  1. sweet, Lori!! I love these colors together!! :) we're adding you to our blog hop tongight,thansk so much for playing with my stamps! hugs!

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  2. Ohhh this is just gorgeous!!! I love the colors!!!!

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  3. Love how you stamped the hand in hand image behind the sentiment, Lori! This is fabulous!

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  4. What a darlin' card! The colors are beautiful together and the sentiment is just perfect!

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  5. Super cute, Lori! I love those colors together!

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  6. Beautiful! I love this color combination!!

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  7. Love this card Lori! A very pretty colour combo!

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  8. What a great card to give to a friend. I love the paper! Great way you matched it with the flowers too!

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  9. Great colors and so vibrant! The flowers and sentiment are perfect!

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  10. Wow, I love this card. Can't believe you did hand trimming!

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