A Brown Banana

No this is not about rotten bananas, this is some more of the Banana Leaf paper in brown I picked up at the Novi show. This one is called Rugged and I just love the texture of this paper.

I used the same image from The Artful Stamper as on my previous card but the coloring gives it a very different feeling. I think I could use this one as a sympathy card, just stamp it in that space on the 'frame'. I really have to play with this stamp some more. The sample that was up at the show had the image inside the frame done separately and the frame popped up. It was really effective.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Blue Banana

Well of course this isn't a card of bananas but the DP is Banana Leaf Capri from Creative Imaginations. I found this at the stamp show in Novi a week ago. Isn't it gorgeous?

The stamp is from The Artful Stamper, also found at the same show. This company has some really terrific stamps and I'll be visiting their web site for more.

I colored with Copics and mounted it onto some dark navy card stock. I think this makes a nice masculine card.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Vellum at the Lake

I tend to think of vellum as a "pretty" thing. Something to make a card prettier, more feminine. This card changed my mind. I wanted to make a more masculine card and decided to haul out my scenic stamps. The lake shore is form the Artful Stamper and the birds are Northwood Rubber Stamps. The DP is of course Lasting Impressions (can you believe I still have a ton of this paper).

I stamped the image with Stazon then flipped it over and colored from the back with Copics. The only thing about coloring on vellum with Copics is there is no blending. It ends up with a bit of a water color look. Anyway, I like how it turned out. What do you think? Thanks for stopping by.