I put this card together in no kidding ten minutes, but I still think it looks pretty good? Everything on the card is retired other than the Very Vanilla cardstock and the adhesive. Bareback has been retired for years and years, and Blue Bayou was I think in the second year we had In Colors? Vintage stamping stuff here I tell ya. At first I was going to make this a birthday card, but that horse has always looked kinda contemplative to me, so I went with "thinking of you" instead.
I used this week's Fall-To Layout:
Great sketch, and also why I was able to put my card together so fast. Plus I'd kinda planned it out in my head when I was running yesterday morning (I'm not the only one who plans out cards and scrapbook layouts in her head while doing other things, am I?).
Next up, and the reason I chose the horse image, is the Global Design Project theme this week:
Guess what else I discovered when I checked out the GDP blog yesterday morning? My lemon card was a winner for their last challenge! Squee!
Anyway, I was trying to think of country and farm life images while I was running yesterday, and somehow using Lemon Zest again did not occur to me, but that horse image from Bareback popped into my head so that's what I did. But I feel like I didn't put enough effort into that card since it was done in under 10 minutes (we were almost late to kid's swim lessons yesterday) so as a bonus, here's a scrapbook layout that I recently finished and finally got photographed yesterday!
I've been working a lot on pictures from the last time we lived in North Carolina, about 10 years ago or more, and this is one of the layouts from that time period. I think it was October of 2007? Indigo Farms is pretty much on the border between North and South Carolina and these pictures are so old they were taken on a non-digital camera with FILM. Haha!
My color palette is straight from the Orchard Harvest DSP, which I loved and bought like six packs of when it hit the clearance rack and I'm hoarding it. Anyway, the colors are almost all retired now, and include More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso (I know it looks black), and Very Vanilla.
That's it for me today, y'all. Gotta go to the gym and start cleaning up the house to get ready for some friends to get here on Wednesday! Cheers!
Supplies, Bareback card:
Stamps: Bareback, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Wild Wasabi, Thick Very Vanilla, Blue Bayou DSP
Accessories: retired Candy Dots
Supplies, Indigo Farms layout:
Stamps: Taffy Alphabet, Perfectly Preserved
Ink: Island Indigo, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso marker
Paper: More Mustard, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Thick Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories: Cannery Framelits
Wow, I've been so busy at work lately and haven't been able to comment on your blog. I HAVE been looking at your posts every day, though.
ReplyDeleteI DO like this card. The colors are great. I had to laugh that while I was reading all the old things you used to watch, I had "Mr. Ed" in my head. I LOVED that show, Wilber. So cute.
And your scrapbook pages are super, too. I'll have to take a closer look. Have you ever looked into that Wizard of Oz thing in North Carolina? Wonder where it's located. Speaking of things to see, Saturday before the Croatia team played for the World Cup, the news did a story on a little village in McKinney, Texas. A man actually MADE a little Croatian village -- has the country's seal stamped into the bricks that are part of the roads through the village. I remember hearing about this a very long time ago, so I am going to have to remember to make a trip to see it. The video they showed was amazing. I love things like this -- and your visit to Indigo Farms. Great memories.
Nice card and LO, thanks for sharing and inspiring.
ReplyDeleteLove this lookback to "vintage" stamping goodies. I loved Blue Bayou, nice to see it here again!
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