Elements of Style Vintage

I tried my hand at vintage. It was a challenge but I really do like the end results.  I used very vanilla which I rarely do. I crumpled the flowers and sponged around the edges of everything in soft suede. I even sponged the ribbon to make it looked aged. The flowers, bird, and tag are on dimensionals. I punched the Thanks again and mounted it over the original stamped Thanks also with a dimensional.

Sets: Elements of Style, Perfect Punches

Cardstock: very vanilla, blushing bride, old olive, crumb cake

Ink: crumb cake, soft suede

Accessories: scallop edge punch, scallop oval punch, big shot, little leaves die, 5 petal punch, boho blossoms punch, sponge, dimensionals, metallic brads, vanilla ribbon

Nature Walk Butterfly Card

As usual, this is the fourth attempt at this card. My advice to new stampers is find something you like and copy it exactly. The more you try to change the longer it takes. I almost tossed the entire card! 2 hours later...

Sets: Nature Walk, Curvy Verses
Cardstock: tempting turquoise, very vanilla
Ink: black stazon, tempting turquoise, not quite navy, crumb cake
Accessories: sponge, vanilla narrow grosgrain ribbon, big shot, framed tulips and dotted embossing folders, crystal effects, markers in tempting turquoise and old olive, blender pen

I sponged around every edge in crumb cake to give it an aged look. I used a blender pen on the ink pad to color the butterfly. Then I covered the butterfly with crystal effects. I decided to leave the paper sideways after I dropped it and it landed like that. It gave the card a very interesting look. I used marker on rubber to do the flowers. After several attempts this card really did turn out beautiful. And not a drop of pink on it!