Ranking right up there with tulips as my one of my favorite flowers is roses. I'm so sad this Stampin' Up! set is retiring this year -- Roses in Winter. This card started with a real red base, then a layer of pretty in pink which the Sincere Salutation sentiment is stamped on in classic basic black ink. The Floral background was stamped with regal rose on pretty in pink and the lower right corner torn and inked with red. These two layers were faux stitched using a real red Stampin' Write Marker. That's the nice thing about faux stitching -- you always have just the right color of "thread"!
For the focal image, I inked the largest rose piece in this 3-step stamp (bottom layer) with pretty in pink that was lightly rock & rolled in regal rose ink. The middle layer/stamp of the rose was inked with regal rose then rock & rolled with red ink and stamped. The last/top layer of the rose was stamped with red ink.
The small flowers were stamped in red, the leaves in stamped off mellow moss and Itty Bitty Background dots stamped in black, all on shimmer white cardstock to give these flowers a pretty shimmer. To add a little more shimmer, I used 2-Way Glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds glitter on the center parts of the rose. This piece was cut with the circle Coluzzle template.
I matted the rose piece with a Marvy Giga Scalloped Circle Punch of real red and then thought it needed more black to make the image pop but didn't have the correct size of cutting circle template to give it just a sliver of black mat that I wanted. So I used the 2.3mm Stampin' Write Journaling marker to draw a thick line around the rose circle -- a perfect mat! To finish off this piece, I used the paper piercing pad, template & tool to punch holes in the centers of the scallops and mounted this piece with dimensionals to the card. A piece of narrow white organdy ribbon finishes the card.
I'll be putting each of these faux stitching cards that were featured in the Take Ten article over in the "My Published Work" gallery on the right sidebar of my blog.
Very beautiful. Love the torn corner. I may CASE this using my ovals (don't have the scalloped circle yet). One question - do you find that the writing tip on the markers dries up while the brush end is fine?
Posted by: Sue | May 20, 2007 at 03:32 AM
Sharon, it's absolutely gorgeous!
Posted by: Beate | May 20, 2007 at 07:37 AM
What a beautiful card, Sharon! The faux stitching looks especially nice going over both layers like this - great effect! Fabulous stamping on that RIW image. I'm so sad too this set is retiring. I'm keeping it forever. And I'm so excited that I can CASE this card, now that I finally have my circle scallop punches! :o) Linda
Posted by: Linda Bullard | May 20, 2007 at 08:28 AM
Beautiful!! love that torn layer, Sharon!
Posted by: trudee | May 20, 2007 at 08:38 AM
Sharon, this is so beautiful!! This set has been on my wish list forever ~~ always kept getting pushed down. I guess it's now or never!!!
Posted by: Michelle (MilwaukeeMommy) | May 20, 2007 at 09:08 AM
Roses in Winter has been on my wish list for awhile too - I finally ordered it last week. Your card is beautiful!
Posted by: Peggy Maier | May 20, 2007 at 03:54 PM
Sharon, this is just bee-u-ti-ful!! The colors are just fantastic together. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Barbara (Oldstmpr) | May 20, 2007 at 05:53 PM
Sharon,
This is beautiful and elegant! Love the paper tearing. Your blog is great!
Hugs,
Gina K.
Posted by: Gina K | May 20, 2007 at 10:41 PM
This is a gorgeous card and I'm sad it's leaving too!!
Posted by: Vicki | May 21, 2007 at 08:05 AM
This is BEAUTIFUL, Sharon. I may need to case this one!
Posted by: Angel W | May 22, 2007 at 06:47 AM