Vintage Chair Tent Topper

When I was making these cards I did find myself amused by the name of this style of card. I expect to see a more rustic card with the tent name but I guess I understand the evolution of the name.

When I went looking for images to use I found this Lockhart chair. I love this image, I have white chairs like this in my front yard under the tree. It's been so hot this summer that we haven't had much chance to use them but I like the friendliness of having them out there.

This is one of the images stamped on vellum and colored on the back side. I cut it out with Nesties and when I went to put the card together I somehow made a smudge on the upper left corner. Flower to the rescue. Isn't it lucky that we can always find and embellishment to hide our goofs???

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Tent Topper # 2

This is another of the tent topper cards I made. For this one I used a Lockhart image that I had colored up on vellum. I cut it and the mats out with Nestabilities and again all the papers and embellishments are things I had in my stash.

I'm really digging this style of card, it's great for using up the scraps of paper and ribbons. Speaking of ribbons, why is it that with all that I have I almost never have the color I want. Yes I know I can always color a white ribbon with my Copics, but there's just something about a color matching ribbon. Okay on with this card. Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

Tent Topper Card

The other day on Stamp TV Gina K made a tent topper card. I've always been intrigued by these cards but was intimidated by the mechanics of making these cards. I've seen the instructions and didn't have enough confidence to make one. However after watching the video I realized that it's all about proportions and layout.

So I got busy and started looking through my stuff and made three of them.

I'm really proud of these cards since the only new thing used on these cards is the technique.

I first went through the images that were already colored and found three that would work. The image I used for this card is from a stamp I've had forever. It is stamped on vellum and then trimmed around the edges, I layered it onto a scrap of pale blue DP that has lighter blue dots that I had cut out with a Nestie. Then I cut out the green mat with a larger Nestie. The base is 4.25" by 4.25" that I layered with blue, then the stripe at 4 by 4, then the lighter blue at 3 7/8 by 3 7/8. I took a strip of tan DP and layered the sentiment stamped onto the blue DP on top. Well then I started to assemble the card and realized that my focal point is too small. Bummer. So I sat and thought about what to do, the next size Nestie is too wide for the card base so I turned a quarter turn so it would finish the card at 5.5" and thought, 'hmm, that's different, lets go with it'. Sometimes it pays to talk to yourself ( just don't do it in public).

I'm really pleased with how this turned out, hope you like it. I'll post the other two over the next few days. Thanks for stopping by.