May 23 2007
Violets and Olives
Hi there! 
I am really enjoying reading all of your “girly” favorite things for my Trudee Treats giveaway! I see that I am not alone in my love for philosophy products! If you haven’t left a comment, be sure to scroll down!! There’s some fun stuff there 
OK on with the card! This is my entry for this week’s color challenge on SCS: vintage violet, certainly celery, old olive. Interesting color combo!! I actually copied a design I made back in January. You can see that card HERE.
I stamped the well worn words bg in celery ink on PaperTrey’s white cardstock. (LOOOOOVE this stuff!!) Then, in opposing corners, I stamped the smaller flowers in stamped-off olive ink.
I inked the Hero Arts distressed background stamp in celery ink, then using the color spritzer, I spritzed olive ink on the inked rubber. I then gave this a couple mists of water, and stamped on white cardstock. I dried it with my heat tool, distressed the edges, and stamped 5 of the flourishes in olive ink. I matted it with olive and violet, tied the May Arts ribbon through a punched hole, and attached to the cardfront.
I felt like it needed a little more depth, so I sponged the edges with violet ink. Using the stampamajig, I stamped the sentiment at the bottom with violet ink. Next, I watercolored the flowers, (also on the same white cardstock–fabulous!!) cut them out, and attached on dimensionals. And, as my typical final touch, I added Stickles to the flower centers and the dots in the flourishes!
I hope you have a great day today!! Thanks for stopping by
| Stamps: distressed bg(hero arts), well worn words, delight in life, wonderful words |
| Paper: papertrey white, olive, violet |
| Ink: memories black, celery, olive, vintage violet |
| Accessories: stickles, dimensionals, color spritzer, water mister, aquapainter, may arts ribbon |
Good Morning Trudee! Beautiful card! I loved the other one with this layout too! Really need to try some of this Paper Trey cardstock! Thanks for sharing with us!
Just gorgeous! Wonderful card!
Trudee, this is a gorgeous card! Love the layout and the purple flower just sets is off. You are truly amazing. Thanks for all the inspiration!
This is beautiful Trudee, fabulous!
Absolutely gorgeous! A card that beautiful is worth repeating with a new flair!
This is gorgeous! I loved your Sympathy card back in January, too. Love the layout - everything is so beautiful. I will miss this year’s InColors…..
Absolutely gorgeous Trudee! I loved the layout then, and I still love it now! Love the little touch of stamping the flower in opposing corners and the sponging on the edges to give the card more depth. I feel like I have learned so much from you (now if I can ever remember to do this stuff on my own when I’m making a card, that remains to be seen)!
Linda
Absolutely STUNNING card. I love the flowers - they have such dimension. AWESOME!
Teresa
wow, that’s really beautiful! Looks like that’s a color challenge I should try! I really like all the dimension you have throughout the card. Lovely!
This is just gorgeous! Love the background and the swirls behind the big flower. And that flower looks like silky velvet - yummy coloring.
Oh, this is gorgeous! I have a question for you… I’ve never used a Stampamajig. Do you think they make a big difference? Or could you live without it? Or in other words….do I need one?
Stunning. I love cards like this one. the backgrounds combined with a kicker color combo and who can go wrong with a little glitter? Can’t wait to CASE, if you don’t mind.
thanks so much for lovely work.
barb
Absolutely beautiful!!! Gotta love sparkly things.
How gorgeous T!!! LOVE the colors, ribbon, coloring…your so awesome my friend!!
What a stunning card just filled with texture, dimension, colors and so many fantastic details. Your many layers of texture on the BG are incredible. Wow, love it all. TFS
Very elegant Trudee, nice vintage touch to the color challenge. Love how your flourishes could be mistaken for leaves!
I absolutely adore the elegance of this card. Simply beautiful, as is all your work!
As usual, love this card! The colors are really great together!
This is so pretty, Trudee! Nice work!
STUNNING!!!
This is gorgeous, Trudee! Love your background combo and these colors are really wonderful together. The sparkes added a lot of extra pretty to it!
This gem must be even more gorgeous IRL! Love the final touches added that just popped and beautified the card. TFS!
Wow Trudee this is gorgeous - what a wonderful take on that color combo! Love it!
SO pretty, T! Your work always shines (figuratively and literally)!!!! Love the sparkle and ribbon!
Gorgeous Gorgeous Gorgeous!!
Lovely! I adore the main flower, so vivid.
Trudee, this is just gorgeous! I”m liking that PT cardstock as well.
Very pretty card. I wish I had more patience to cut out those flowers. it really makes the card beautiful!
Love that “dirty” card!
WOWOWOWOW!!!!!! Gorgeous Trudee!
Fan-freaking-tastic! Trudee…this card rocks!
Beautiful card. Love your creativity!