Category: Elements of Style

Goodbye Established Elegance

Big Shot, Big Shot Top Note Die, Cards, Elements of Style, Established Elegance, Retiring Lists, Stamp Sets
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There are actually 3 of my favorite sets retiring in this card – Established Elegance, Elements of Style and Netting!  Seriously, are they allowed to do this to me?  Oh well – I’m sure I’ll find some new favorites, but I’m really, really going to miss these sets!

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Established Elegance, Elements of Style, Netting, Perfect Words
Card stock – Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Beau Chateau DSP
Ink – Crumb Cake, SOft Suede, Early Espresso
Stampin Write Markers – Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette
Etc – Toe Note Die, pearls, Itty Bitty flower punch, pearls, Quilted Early Espresso ribbon

Do you have a “Go To” set retiring or something you’re really going to miss?  Tell me I’m not alone!  Hugs, Fran

Thoughts of You

Big Shot, Big Shot Blossom Party, Cards, Elements of Style, Embossing Folder, Stamp Sets, Sympathy
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Sometimes you need a special card so I used Elements of Style.  I was inspired by Keisha’s style at A Bit East Coast. 

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Elements of Style, Loving Thoughts, En Francais
card stock – Whisper White, Vellum card stock
Ink – Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Etc – Delicate Design folder, Blossom Party die , rhinestones, Early Espresso ribbon

Ugh – my computer’s being weird.  Maybe it needs a sympathy card too!  Hugs, Fran

Another Cast Off

Big Shot, Big Shot Top Note Die, Cards, Elements of Style, Established Elegance, Stamp Sets
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I still had a few pieces left over from Established Elegance so I put what I had left to use and created this –

You can kind of see inside – I had a scrap of the Beau Chateau DSP  left so I put it on the inside since I only had one Top Die stamped.  And that uses up my scraps!  The supplies are the same with the exception of the base – it’s Pink Pirouette.  Easiest card in the world since all the stamping was already finished!  Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Sympathy

Big Shot, Big Shot Top Note Die, Cards, Elements of Style, Embossing Folder, Stamp Sets, Sympathy, Thoughts and Prayers
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No one likes to make a sympathy card at the last moment – but that’s what I had to do.  I always tell myself that I’ll make up several and then it won’t be so heart wrenching.  Good advice – never followed!  So I cased a card that I had done earlier and just changed a few elements.  This is for my friend who lost her father this week. 

Supplies
Stamp sets – Elements of Style, Thoughts and Prayers
card stock – Soft Suede, Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, First Edition DSP
Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Crumb Cake
Stampin Write Markers – Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Crumb Cake
Etc – Top Note die, Petals a Plenty embossing folder, Oval punch, Marina Mist ribbon, Dazzling Details

I am happy that my last time with her father was a wonderful time – he insisted on taking me for ice cream!  Sweet memory.  Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Established Elegance

Beau Chateau, Big Shot, Cards, Elements of Style, Established Elegance
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Established Elegance is a beautiful, vintage styled set.  It has been on my wish list since the new catalog came out – and I just got it!  I needed a card for someone very special and this is what I made –


Since I can never seem to stick to just one set (sheesh!) this card also uses Netting background, Elements of Style and Perfect Words.  I “spritzed” it with Pretty in Pink – can you see it?

    

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Established Elegance, Elements of Style, Netting, Perfect Words
Card stock – Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Beau Chateau DSP
Ink – Crumb Cake, SOft Suede, Early Espresso
Stampin Write Markers – Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette
Etc – Toe Note Die, pearls, Itty Bitty flower punch, pearls, Quilted Early Espresso ribbon (yummy!)

Have a happy day!  Enjoy – Hugs, Fran

One More Bleaching

Cards, Elements of Style, Techniques
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This is the mock up for the Marina Mist bleaching card I showed you here.  While I was waiting for the stamps to get here for my presentation, I did this card with Crumb Cake and some retired DSP.  Crumb Cake is a very subtle color for bleaching – and I think it’s a very pretty look.  



Everything is done the same way – emboss with black embossing powder and bleach the open areas.  Even the sentiment is done the same way!  



But it gives a different look
.   

Supplies
Stamp set – Elements of Style
card stock- Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Ink – Versamark, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Etc – bleach, black embossing powder, Victorian lace ribbon, Antique brad, pearls

Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Frame It

Beau Chateau, Convention 2011, Elements of Style, Frame It, Have a Seat
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These two cards feature the Frame It stamp set (w -122850/ c -122852).  On the first one I brayered the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder with Vanilla Craft ink to create the shading on the Soft Suede card stock.  Stamp and cut out the frame – stamp the chair and punch out with the Decorative Label punch – and you have a cute focal point for your card.  The DSP is First Edition brayered with Soft Suede (gotta love that paper!)





Supplies
Stamp Sets – Frame It, Have a Seat
card stock – Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette
Ink – Vanilla Craft, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Stampin Write Marker – Crumb Cake
Etc – Decorative Label Punch, Large Oval punch, Scallop border punch, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder

Then I used the same frame with Elements of Style.


Stamp the large floral image on Very Vanilla and color the flowers with Pink Pirouette.  Stamp the frame on Pink Pirouette and cut out.  I used the floral image from clearly for you to stamp in Pink Pirouette on Very Vanilla and stamped Best Wishes (Sincere Salutations) over it with Early Espresso.  Cut it out and layer it inside the frame. See the Victorian lace ribbon?  Told you I had lots of it!

Supplies
Stamp Sets – Frame It, Sincere Salutations, Clearly for You
card stock – Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Ink – Pink Pirouette, Early Espresso
Stampin Write Marker – Pink Pirouette
Etc – Victorian Lace ribbon

Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Bleaching Elements

Beau Chateau, Cards, Convention 2011, Elements of Style, Techniques
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On this card I used bleach to color the image.  One of my favorite things about SU card stock is the amazing look you get with bleach.  To do this I heat embossed the image with Black embossing powder and painted on the bleach with a tiny paint brush. 





After the bleach dried, I sprizted the front with the Spritzer tool and added the Victorian Lace ribbon.  (Really, I thought I’d ordered both crocheted ribbons but ended up with two of the same! You will see lots of this ribbon, I’m afraid!) 

I stamped off the smaller image in the set and punched it out with the Designer Label punch and then added the sentiment and pearls. 



Supplies
Stamp set – Elements of Style
card stock – Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Beau CHateau DSP, Very Vanilla
Ink – Versamark, Marina Mist, Early Espresso
Etc – black embossing powder, Designer Label punch, Spritzer tool, Victorian Lace ribbon, bleach, antique brad

Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran

Elements of Style Lace Card

Beau Chateau, Big Shot, Cards, Convention 2011, Elements of Style
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This is one of those cards that looks harder than what it is – my favorite kind!  It uses Elements of Style and First Edition DSP.  (The picture was taken at a weird angle – sorry!)



I stamped the flower image in Stazon of the First Edition DSP and colored it with Stampin Write Markers.  Then I sponged the edges and matted it on Early Espresso.  The Victorian lace was gathered (long stitch on my sewing machine) and attached to the side.



The card base (Marina Mist) was embossed with the Square Lattice embossing folder.  To do the sentiment I used a piece of DSP that was the same pattern as the card front, stamped it and matched it up. 



Supplies
Stamp Set – Elements of Style
card stock – Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, First Edition DSP
Ink – Jet Black Stazon, Crumb Cake
Stampin Write Markers – Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Marina Mist, Always Artichoke
Etc – Antique brad, Victorian Lace, Square Lattice embossing folder, Oval punch

Enjoy!  Hugs, Fran