text: Adventures of a stamping writer: March 2010
  It just so happens that both the SmArt-Word Challenge and Stamping for the Weekend have a monochromatic card challenge going on right now. For me, it was the perfect opportunity to make a wedding card for my niece, who is getting married in May.
  If you're doing all white, texture is the way to go, so I used the Swiss dot folder on one layer, and used the love postage stamp embossing folder as well for another layer. I silver-embossed a wedding cake (StampCraft) and used a white organza ribbon with silver edging. There's a little bit of piercing, but it didn't really show up in the photo.
  I wanted the card to be fresh and white without being too frilly -- after all, there's a groom who will be getting the card as well.
  Posted by Sandy at 4:18 PM 2 comments:
  Labels: SFTW, Smart-word
  This week's Etsy Inspired Challenge takes us to a store called 3 Dots Jewelry, where the artisan sells jewelry that is made from wood. The wood tones and geometric shapes of this necklace inspired me to pull out a set of funky shapes from Purple Onion Design and every color of brown ink I own. The result is this CAS card for EIC79
  The ink colors are Versacolor Sand Beige, a copper, and Colorbox Chestnut Roan.
  This also qualifies for this month's SmArt Word challenge, which is to do a monochromatic card.
  Posted by Sandy at 8:34 PM 3 comments:
  This week's Etsy store is Fantasy Prints by Maigan Lynn, who does wonderful mermaid scenes. I love mermaids (don't ask me why, I'm definitely not a fish when it comes to playing in the water), and I have lots of mermaid images, so this was a fun Etsy Inspired Challenge for me.
  Maigan Lynn has all sorts of lovely, girly color combos for her mermaids. I went with the green and pink combo, which is actually entitled Luna de la Mar. My image is from Faerie Song Art Stamps, which has a couple of different mermaid plates for those of you who love mermaids as much as I do.
  Seems like it's been ages since I had a chance to do the Etsy Inspired Challenge. For EIC77, this week's shop is United Thread, which sells original prints. I was inspired by a piece called Bees and Dandelion.
  The flower from Autum Leaves is black embossed on Cosmo Cricket paper. The bee wings are covered with gold microbeads (source of sentiment unknown). I also added a row of microbeads under the strip of ribbon in the corner -- I bought these beads several months ago, and just started using them; what fun they are.