Hi friends! How are you this week so far? It's been a nice day here, kinda mellow, getting a lot done! How was your weekend? We escaped to the water on Friday and enjoyed some much needed outdoor time in the 68 degree weather!! It was AMAZING!! Time seems to be flying by the past couple of weeks and I'm so excited with anticipation of Autumn!! The light is changing and it's a bit darker in the morning and it just feels a little different. I love it! Today I sat down and made a project, took the photos, and am sharing it all the same day. I really like it when that happens. Sometimes a stamp set or product comes across my desk and I have to use it right NOW! Lolz. That's what happened with these stamps, dies and stencils I used today from Taylored Expressions. I am becoming an avid stenciler and these lemons are so fabulous! And my message to you: You're the ZEST!!
My finished card is an A2 woodgrain card base. I layered only one layer (with the stenciling), a bit of gingham, and a bit of vellum. The lemons are the star of the show for sure. I used cream cardstock for everything, instead of bright white cardstock. Lends more of an old fashioned feel to my card.
The lemons and leaves are two stencils. I used large and small blender brushes to ink the yellows and greens. I really love shading + stenciling!! The set comes with tiny stamps to add as leaf accents and lemon accents as you can see in the close up. Easy to get these pretty results. I splattered on some white paint too. The finished stencil piece was 6x6 but I cut it down to layer onto an A2 card.
I used the separate lemons, flowers and leaves dies to add accent pieces to my sentiment frame. I die cut them from cream cardstock and used the same colors of inks and my blender brushes to color them to match.
I heat embossed the sentiment in gold onto cream cardstock and die cut it out with the matching die. I added a few yellow enamel dots to the centers of the flowers and a few yellow hearts too, for good measure. This card just makes me smile and it was fun and relaxing to create. I really seem to get in the zone now when I'm stenciling... (Just wait until my card for Thursday!!)
I popped up the sentiment with foam tape. I layered a cream rectangle over a vellum rectangle for the focus area.
I feel like now I want some lemon meringue pie!!!
It's very hard to get a good photo of the gold embossing!!
Okay my zesty friends! That's it for today! I hope you have a wonderful day, and week! I'll see you back here soon! XOXO
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So bright and cheery! Yellow is my favorite. I am loving all the stencils out there. My week has flown by and our project is finally done. I have a new awning over my back door. Garden is going crazy so I need to get out there!
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 08/10/2022 at 01:21 PM
This DOES FEEL Vintage with the cream card background & your gingham, Wanda! I have a Lemon Set on my desk at this moment & I THINK you've INSPIRED ME to use it today! LOL YES, to the Lemon Meringue too! Mmmmm! ;) Question: What kind of ink did you use??? I heard this morning on the news, Alaska had SNOW!!! I think it will be an EARLY FALL/WINTER! ;) Just my guess! HUGS DEAR FRIEND!!! And YES, to Christine too, "You're SOOO GOOD!" ;)<3
Posted by: Becky Green | 08/10/2022 at 06:07 AM
Wanda- this is perfect for the end of summer! I love about a month of summer and summer colors but then that’s enough! So glad you found cooler weather and the sea is critical! Such a pretty card!
Posted by: Jules L | 08/10/2022 at 05:15 AM
WOW...AGAIN! You are sooo good Wanda! I know I keep saying that, but really. Your shading and the placement of the leaves is really nice! I love how you used the cream paper instead of the white...it really softens it! LOVE the gold embossing! YOU ROCK!
Glad to hear you got away to the water...good for the soul and for creativity!
Posted by: Christine | 08/10/2022 at 04:50 AM