Tuesday 31 May 2011

Couture

After making two "cuties" thought I'd make a "just because" card. Used two of my favourite stamps,
Tim Holtz "vogue" for the stamped background and B Line "couture" for the main image. The flowers are Stampin up and the tape measure stamped on the seam binding is Hero Arts . For some reason I have always stamped the Couture in Black and made black and white cards with it. Tonight I tried stamping it in red on a scrap piece of K&Co DP and really liked the look of it,however when I made up the card it looked a bit  dull so stamped her again in red on some whire card and stuck it over the top. The stamping on seam binding was not a 100% sucessful as its a bit faint but its worth another try at a later date. Been looking round at challenges and I'm putting this on Simon says stamp and show-  favourite stamp, Stampman-Torn/Ripped/Red and Sunday Stamper- Red. I'm also putting this on the new challenge at Craftroomchallenge

20 comments:

  1. Smashing card Joan and great idea to stamp the tape measure on seam binding, so effective. Annette x

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  2. Vintage Couture at it best, love the layout. Thanks for joining us at Craft-Room Challenge. Hugs, Kim

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  3. Hi Joan, thanks for joing Craft Room Challenge. Gorgeous card, love the red. Good luck Joan. Maria x

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  4. Fabulous card, I love your choice of colours.
    Thank you for joining the first Craft Room Challenge.
    xxx Hazel.

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  5. Love your colour choices here the softened reds in the background really support your elegant lady. Love this card thank you for joining us at Craft-Room Challenge for our first time out! Good Luck XOXO Zoe

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  6. Fab card, thanks for joining in with the Sunday sTamper x

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  7. Just lovely - great colours and a wonderful vintage image!
    Thank you so much for sharing your work and joining us at Simon Says Stamp & Show!
    Sarah

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  8. This is fabulous Joan and the red worked really well. Thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving me a fabulous comments.
    Have a great week.
    luv and hugs {brenda{ xoxox

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  9. Woops I should have also said thank you for joining in the Bingo card challenge at The Stamp Man.
    xoxox

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  10. Beautiful ! Love your gorgeous layout and clever stamping I too usually stamp these images in black but you have done a great job with red very impressive.

    Marie

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  11. Lovely vintage card
    Janet x

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  12. Beautiful, I love the layout and that image is just gorgeous. Thank you for joining our first challenge at Craft room challenge this week. Nikki DT

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  13. Love your beautiful vintage image and your colours Joan.

    Debbie x

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  14. Lovely vintage card - the colours work perfectly, stamping the lady in white definately lifts the whole piece! Thanks for joining in our first CR Challenge...Esther xx

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  15. So stylish card, love the vintage feeling in it.

    Thanks for sharing this with us at Craft-Room Challenge, welcome again, hugs,-))m

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  16. What a great card, I love the vintage look you've created and the ingredients you've used from our bingo card look fantastic together.
    Thanks for joining us at The Stampman.
    Hugs Lisaxs

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  17. Joan I love all your layerind details on this card and the soft colours- thanks for joining us at CRC for our first challenge Debix

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  18. Hi Joan, I stopped by to say I was still friends lol but then when I checked I see I have disappeared from your list, I just tried to follow again and it wont let me, I am presuming blogger is still suffering from gremlins so I will try and get reconnected again later, sorry I am not sure how that happened, but yes I still love to stop by and am always inspired by your lovely work, thankyou for your kind comments on my blog - take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend xxx

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  19. lol back again Joan, just realised why I disappeared I removed the old photo from my computer ( my hubby thought I looked scary and so uploaded another one but forgot to add it to my blogger profile so now I am the invisible woman,I will be back with a less scary profile picture xxx

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  20. Hi Joan
    This is right up my street. Beautiful.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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