sweet kind wonderful YOU

Today I have a card for 2 challenges, the CR84FN24 challenge and Sasya's Sketches#58.


I love the soft, dreamy colors in the inspiration piece below!




And as soon as I saw this sketch from Sasya, I knew I wanted to make a card with it, it's SO pretty!




And now onto my card. I'm practicing my vintage shabby card making skills again ;)




I used A LOT of different products and papers to create this card. The patterned paper comes from 3 different lines, Webster's Pages, Pink Paislee Old School, and Basic Grey Nook & Pantry. I love mixing papers from different manufacturers, it's almost like a game seeing what goes with what :)

The die cuts pictured in the close up above are from Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden. I've seen them used on different blogs and just had to get me some.




Below is a close up of the pretty Webster's Pages paper. I love how much detail they put into their papers, it makes it so easy to create beautiful cards! I did a lot of stitching on this card, and shabby inking to give it a vintage look.




The large rose is from the Etsy shop Frog Feathers, and the small rose in the center is from Prima. I used 2 colors of shabby vintage seam binding, a light blue and an aqua. The leaves were cut using Papertrey Ink's Turning a New Leaf die, and the word "You" is a stamp from Big & Bold Sentiments.




I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out. I'm enjoying making this style of card, but I am finding one downside to it. I'm a slow card maker to begin with, and making a card like the one above seems to take FOREVER! I can make 3 CAS cards in the time it takes me to make one vintage shabby card. But oh well, I love both styles and will continue to create as the wind blows...

Thanks so much for stopping by today!