Vintage "Thank You" card

I was poring over the July/August/September issue of Somerset Life magazine and lo and behold -  in an article by Connie Fong are projects made with a stamp that I own. How about that?

Using her idea, I made the card pictured below for a friend.  The stamp is from Catherine Moore's Character Constructions line called "Adventures in Tea."

 

The gal was stamped on cream cardstock and then again on the plaid paper.  I cut out the body and dress/hat and inked the edges with Distress Ink in Tea Dye. Using Prismacolor pencils, I shaded the body with peach, added blush to the cheeks and a dot of blue to the eyes. Pink pencil defines the dress folds, edges, the flower on the bodice and the bow on the hat. The garments were adhered to the body base and a white gel pen was used to color in the necklace.

I stamped a purse from a Julie Nutting stamp set in white ink on black paper, cut it out and embellished it with flowers cut from a paper scrap. The handle was trimmed. looped over the arm and the purse glued to the doll. The Thank You sentiment and outline label were stamped from a Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous set called "Simple Sayings" and trimmed.

A vintage dictionary page was cut to size and adhered to a black card. The doll was layered on the page and a strip of scrap paper adhered as a border down the left side. The sentiment was positioned at an angle and attached. I used a plain end page from the same dictionary, wrote a greeting and glued it to the inside of the card.

My friend, who is a vintage fan, was thrilled.

If  $14.99 is a bit much for you to spend on a Somerset Life magazine, you can take a look at Connie's projects (wall art) made with my stamp (lol) on her blog at Artful Play.

Til next time!

S.