It’s Thursday and time to play at Pals Paper Arts. This week we have a color challenge for you featuring those Nutty Neutrals…Early Espresso, Soft Suede and River Rock. The uber-talented Artistic Avenger herself, Carrie Gaskin, will be joining us as our Celebrity Guest Designer to provide you with fabulous inspiration! We hope you will play along!
The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips: Shabby-Vintage
(This card measures 5-1/2″ wide by 4-1/4″ long.)
- Texture! Shabby-vintage cards are rich with texture…and what could be better to add a vintage touch than Stampin’ Up!’s Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing Folder!
- Vintage vignette! The Dress Form from Established Elegance creates a stunning focal point, especially when “painted” with Dazzling Details. Flowers, created with the Boho Blossoms Punch, received Basic Pearl centers and were perched upon bases made with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch.
- Whimsy! Victoria Crochet Lace Trim was pleated and held in place using pins and brads from Vintage Trinkets, and Linen Thread mini-bows!
- A Blossom Bouquet Border! The Large Decorative Trim Scallop Border is paired with the “Eyelet Scallop” punched with the Blossom Bouquet Triple Punch for a unique and vintage border!
- Swirls! The “Create” sentiment from Creative Elements, inked with Soft Suede and stamped onto Very Vanilla, was punched with the Modern Label punch and perched atop the “Banner” image from the same set. Basic Pearls on the flourishes add the “pearl-fect” touch!
I hope you enjoyed today’s shabby-vintage card. Won’t you please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of it? And as always, I love teaching you how to create the cards that I make and how to do the techniques that I use…so please, if you have any questions, I am only an email away! Until next time…
Today’s shabby vintage card is fabulous! I love the crochet trim tied with thread and trinkets. Perfect!
Ann, you rocked this color challenge. The pearls running horizontally across the elements, really tie the card together, and keep the eye moving along. Fabulous!
hugs
jaydee
Oh wow! Ann, you have done it again. Your card is so beautiful. I love that you made your card Victorian style. The colors that are being used for this challenge are perfect for every style but Vintage and victorian for sure. 🙂 Every week I look forward to your cards, your tips ad your instructions on how you make your cards.
Have a wonderful rest of the weekend.
Mary
No one does vintage like you. Your card is beautiful. I’m always amazed how your added elements are always so creative and work together so well.
OMGosh absolutely BEAUTIFUL, your cards are always a work of art!! I’m also loving the seam binding flower tutorial!
Absolutely gorgeous! Talk about a “create”-ive masterpiece! XOXO
Beautiful card!! I usually do much plainer cards, but I really love seeing yours. Thanks.
:o) Marian J.
love your color challenge card Anne-using all neutrals can be a bit challenging but you came through with high honors-I love this oval sizzix frame you have shown on a few cards-beautiful
So Classy!!! Really love it… (I knew I would when I saw the peek!)
What an exquisite creation! Love the entire card. My favorite part is the ‘dazzling’ dress form.
This card is jaw dropping gorgeous!! I will be featuring this card on My Crafty Picks #41 with a link back to your blog on 11-6-11. Make sure to stop by to check out all the picks and to pick up your blog badge to display on your blog for being featured!!
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Tiffany Bauer
http://www.mycraftyworld.blogspot.com
Love the shabby vintage look of this card-and the colors are perfect for it. I love the vintage/Victorian style and you have it mastered. The perfect card, Ann!!! Kathy in AZ
Is this cool or what? I love all the details and man, are there plenty of details in this card! Love it! When I saw the color selection, I thought, how interesting and wondered what you would come up. So, now I gotta check out what the others did. My favorite element is the Create banner, so creative!!! Great job as always! Thanks Ann for sharing all the details, I would have missed some of them!
Chris R. from Iowa
Wonderful card!! All the details make it so special.
Beautiful card, Ann! Love the embossing and all the great details! Great job with the challenge!
I love the monochromatic card & the tutorial on the roses! Thanks for sharing your amazing talents with us!!!
Joan!!!
Great job with the neutral colors Ann and the vintage!
Hi Ann! I now have an idea for River Rock ( it seems to be the only color I don’t use ) I always love your shabby/vintage style and this card does not disappoint.
Tgat u shyst stunning. I’m inspired.
Great card, love all the details and DSP, very vintage.
WOW! That white background sure makes the components POP! Great!
Mike
Absolutely gorgeous… I love how deep the embossing looks on the background.
Hugs, M
You’ve really “created” somthing special with those colors! Love that embossing folder on that card.
Diane G.
Very classy! This is just beautiful!
Jaw-dropping gorgeous! I love the vintage look with just a touch of the glitch. My favorite part is your use of the dress form and how it is treated. Thanks for sharing your talents. Dar
Ann, all I can say is WOW! I had to look at the card a few times to see all the details and I am sure glad that you take individual pictures of them. I love how you did the crochet trim with the linen bows and trinkets.
Whoa! This one pretty much stopped me in my tracks, Ann! All of those amazing details just add to the shabby-chicness of this beauty. I especially love that sparkle on the dress form. I’m ready to head for the border with my punches to give that trim technique a try, also. How do you come up with these ideas? Eeek! So creative and fabulous, Ann!
This reminds me of Grandma’s closet. So nostalgic.
You are a master of detail Ann!
Ann there is something about this card that struck me as Holy the moment I opened it up. It struck me as Celtic. I absolutely LOVE it! Every bit of it. I looked at the close up and could not believe that was the image I was seeing on the overall. It is a very tricky card…Very vintage, stately…then very old traditional. Holy.
beautiful! vintage and fun. I like the dp with the pops of color. Lots of fun details, very cool!
I really like the vintage look. It’s beautiful.
I really like the vintage look. Great job on the card…as always.
We were on the same channel – different show! Yours is much more interesting! Love the dazzle and all of the details! The frame sets it of beautifully!
The color combo is great for vintage look card, and you are the best of making it!
I am always amazed by the details you put into your cards, that really is true beauty!
Lauren Y.
Beautiful card, as always. I love the vintage look and neutral colors!
Lisa
lisasc@tds.net
Beautiful…I love the embossing folder one of my fave’s….never can decide whether to use it as emboss or deboss…also love the dsp
Yep, I knew it would be fantastic…and it is! Fabulous card, thanks for sharing.
Love all of the layering and texture! Lovely use of that color combination!
Absolutely gorgeous! This is an embossing folder that I do not use to its full potential, but that is definitely going to have to change. This card is stunning in all its attention to detail!
Beautiful!!! Very stunning!!! Thank you for sharing it!!
Amazing, Ann!!! I knew I’d love this ~ I don’t own Established Elegance…and you’ve got me thinking, TFS your beautiful creations! have a great day 🙂
Ann what a Gorgeous card. I just love how you ‘painted’ the dress form, and all the little details…(bows, pearls, pins, ….wowzer). I also had NO idea that the label punch would fit into that image… so cool! You ALWAYS teach me something new…8-)
I really like the neutral colors and the DT samples are amazing! Hugs
Your border across the card is amazing! I love how you layered different dies/punches to get that look. I’m not sure I’ve made an all brownish neutrals card before, but I think I’ll have to try it!
Delicious!! The background looks like clay it’s so rich.
I knew I would love this card as soon as I saw the peek! It is beautiful and such detail. Love all the various layers. I love the color combo too.
love all the details and layering! What a fabulous card! I really like the combination of the border punches – a very unique look.
Gorgeous, Ann! I love the little surprise glitter! And your rose tutorial was very helpful too!
Beautiful card. Like the vintage look but then I like anything and everything vintage / vitorian.
Like the color combination. Really Awesome card.
ColleenB.
Beautifully done, Ann! You have taken what looked like a very difficult (at least for me) color challenge and created another masterpiece. When I first saw the color challenge, I thought “Yuck” but on second thought it might just work for one of the stamp sets I am planning on for this month.