Silhouette tags

B-Line Designs is a stamp company I recently discovered through Beautiful Impressions stamping store. The many vintage style stamps in their catalogs fit with my mindset at the moment.  The catalogs can be viewed here.

I used several of their silhouette stamps to make these oval gift tags/hanging ornaments or decorations which were added to gift packages sent off recently.  Neat, aren't they? In another colorway they would look fabulous on a holiday tree.

Cheers!

S.

Note Cards for Dog Lovers

Hello friends,
Longtime friends - a delightful couple - are dog people.  In the nearly 40 years I have known them, I can't think of many years when they did not have a canine family member.

Right now, they are without  . . . I recently came across a dog rubber stamp that reminded me of their Tess.  So home it came and was used to make a set of  doggie note cards.

Here they are . . . a set of six. I am hoping they make both the senders and recipients smile.

The dog stamp is from B-Line Designs and the papers are from a Little Yellow Bicycle paper pad called "Dog." I kid you not.

Here's how it was done . . . the dog was stamped in black ink onto cream card stock, cut in a oval shape and the edges inked. The patterned papers were cut to fit the purchased card blanks and the corners rounded on the horizontal cards. The scarf on each dog was colored with Prismacolor pencils and the dog ovals were layered onto patterned paper and adhered to the cards. A small strip of contrasting paper was adhered to the vertical card.

Paired with matching envelopes, the cards are set to go!

Cheers!

Vintage Style Note Cards

Hello friends,
Recently I was invited to a golf outing  . . . for those of you not into golf etiquette, it is customary to bring a gift for the person extending the invite (or invite her back to your own club) since she is covering the invitee's costs.  When I was asked to play, my hostess quite forcefully said "And I don't want a gift!"

Oh that can not be!  I can not appear "empty-handed!"  This lovely lady has been quite intrigued by and supportive of my creative pursuits . . . and was instrumental in my being included as a presenter in the Adventures in Lifelong Learning program at Three Rivers CC.  Since she enjoys writing and mailing notes and letters, what better gift than an assortment of note cards?

So I ruffled through my supplies (yes, it took some time), and made a set of six cards -
two of each design.

The branch with berries (Stampin' Up "Simply Sketched") was stamped in green ink with red dots and the edges of the paper torn.  The portrait of the 1920's lady (B-Line Designs) was stamped in black and cut into an oval shape. The pear image (Stampers Anonymous Classics) was stamped in sepia ink and squared with a paper cutter.  All edges were inked with Distress Ink in Tea Dye color to provide visual depth and interest.

Script paper was cut to size and layered onto a cream colored card base. The images were mounted to the patterned paper and voila!  Note cards.

Paired with matching cream envelopes and accompanied by the vintage thank you card described in yesterday's post, they were a home run with the lovely lady.

Just for the record . . . I experimented using sepia ink on the portrait card, but it does not work at all with the background paper. So it lives in the file labeled "Experiments - close but not quite"  until I deconstruct it and stick it on a different background.  Sigh - I can't just throw it in the trash . . .

Cheers!