Moxie Fab Challenge - Anne Taintor style card

Hi all,

I am back this time with a card I made for the Moxie Fab World blog challenge. The challenge was to make a card in the "Anne Taintor" style. Anne Taintor is known for her humorous take on vintage images. Here is the link to the challenge: http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2010/01/lets-get-sassy-taintor-tude-challenge.html

I knew right away where I would find my image to use. I bought a calendar back in 2005 called "Hemlines" which has all kinds of old '50s style patterns for dresses. I found the image I wanted to use and scanned it. I want to save the original so I use the scanned copy to create with. After printing out the image I cut it into a rectangle. I made a card from purple cardstock to match colors in the image. I then cut a DCWV scallop black paper so that the scallop edge was on the long edge of the card. I then added a thin white satin ribbon which is just taped on the back of the black piece. I adhered the black piece to the purple card. I then took my image and inked the edges with purple ink. I attached it to the black piece on the card. I printed the sentiment taken from a list of favorite Anne Taintor sayings on her website. I thought this saying matched the ladies in the picture perfectly. I cut out each sentence and matted them on black cardstock. I attached them as shown. To finish I added some bling stones under the saying and also to the main lady's dress. I also used Stardust clear gel pen to bling up her earrings. And that was it! What a fun challenge. Now that I have my vintage calendar out I believe I shall make some more of these "Anne Taintor-tude" cards.

Thanks for stopping by,

Janet

Some more challenges!

Can you believe it? Two posts in one day! Woo Hoo! I did another double duty card combining two challenges. One challenge was sponsored by Allison over at the "Stampin' When I Can"blog( http://stampinwhenican.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-old-is-new-again-challenge.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StampinWhenICan+%28Stampin%27+When+I+Can%29). The challenge is to use a stamp that had been collecting dust in your stash. I pulled out an oldie by "Me and my Big Ideas" by Inkadinkado. The other challenge is sponsored by Card Patterns Sketch #47( http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/2010/01/sketch-47.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FaYJY+%28CardPatterns%29).

To make the card I first used some orange DCWV cardstock cut to the standard A2 card size with the fold on the top. I then used my Big Shot with the Cuttlebug "Spots & Dots" embossing folder to emboss the front of the card. Next I cut a journal tag from a page in the Cosmo Cricket Paper Pad called "Get Happy". I stamped the boy with presents image(Me & My Big Ideas by Inkadinkado) directly onto the journal tag using black Versafine ink. I then colored parts of the image with Marvy Uchida markers. I then cut a black mat for the journal tag and attached it with adhesive. Then I cut two more journal tags and stamped the bottom image from the stamp set called "Two You" by Stampendous' Perfectly Clear Stamps. The "oh" in the top square was hand drawn and colored with markers and clear Stardust gel pen. I also colored these with the Marvy brush markers. These were attached to the larger image as shown. I then attached these images to the card plus cut a border from the paper pad to add to the right edge of the card. I also added some clear stardust gelly roll ink to parts of the images, but it is hard to see in my scan. For the inside of the card, I followed the theme from the front of the card. I cut the border and the "oh" from the paper pad. I then stamped another stamp from the same set on another journal paper and colored with markers. I finished by adding some stamped images to the envelope. Thanks for stopping by.

Janet

I'm back with a card for some challenges!

Yes, It has been a LONG time since my last post. Life just keeps getting in the way. This blog is really a card diary of sorts for me. It keeps track of cards for me so I have a record of what I've done. It also helps me see where I've come from and where I'm going with my card making. This card is a double duty card. I finished it last night, but was so tired I didn't get it onto my blog. I missed the deadline for one of the challenges, but such is life. The challenge I missed was sponsored by MFT and it was a no coloring challenge(http://www.mftstamps.com/blog/?p=1125&utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=231189&utm_campaign=Express_). The other challenge is sponsored by Gingersnap Creations blog and the challenge was to make a project using "Time" as the theme (http://gingersnapcreations.blogspot.com/2010/01/gc37-chestnut-theme-challenge-time.html).

To make this card I made the 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 card from a piece of patterned pattern from the "Well Worn" paper pad (Marcella by K & Company purchased at Target). Next, I die cut my focal images from Labels 1 and Labels 3 from Spellbinders Nestabilities. I also cut a strip from the stripe paper to lay down 1/4 of the way over from the right side of the front. I attached it directly to the card with adhesive. Next, I layered my two larger die cuts on top of each other as shown(using dimensional adhesive to pop them both up). I then took the 3 smaller die cuts and stamped a watch(MFT - Congrats all Around set) on each one with Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and also inking the edges of the dies with the same ink. These 3 die cuts were then attached directly to the card with adhesive. To make the greeting I used my Big Shot and the Extended Cuts "Small Stuff alphabet" by Stu Kilgour. I used my glue pen to attach the letters to the die cut. On the inside of the card I used the same patterned papers and die cut letters to make "celebrate". I also used the "happy birthday" die cut from QuicKuts ShortKutz birthday set. I also stamped the watch on my envelope. This card is going to my nephew for his birthday. Thanks for stopping by.

Janet