My husband is the most vintage thing around here - followed by me! I love how people decorate or create in the vintage style but when I try to do it, it just doesn't work. My Pal Ann Schach is the guest designer this month at Always Playing With Paper and this week's challenge is to create a vintage card. Ann is an absolute master of vintage creations. I told her I would try to step outside of my clean and simple box just for her. I think I have created a new style - CAS vintage. I tried tearing edges - too messy - used the deckle scissors. I tried sponging edges - too messy - cut them off. I speckled the background of my stamped image and it almost gave me a heart attack - had to do it over cleanly. But I do love the Lap of Luxury DSP and the vintage brad! This will go to friend of mine who just retired - she is like the card - just barely vintage..................
When I was 10, I begged my father to paint my room purple. He agreed and I picked an ancestor of Orchid Opulence for sure. After about a week of trying to sleep surrounded by such opulence I begged for a new color. Again he agreed (what a guy!) and we picked a soft buttery yellow - perfect! I am just not a purple kind of gal so when I saw this week's PPA challenge to use purple I thought "Well that's definitely a challenge for me!" But Concord Crush saved the day - finally a purple I can live with! Playful Pieces and Afterthoughts helped me create this birthday card following the sketch at Stamping411 this week. And there might be just a bit of buttery yellow in there - perfect!
I returned home from vacation to boxes and envelopes containing my new SU! catalog order. It was a bit overwhelming! Where to begin? But when I saw the wonderful layout from Clean and Simple (FTL100) I thought it was a perfect place to start. I decided to just let the new products speak for themselves. The new colors and designer papers are just beautiful! This is Sunny Garden used with Pear Pizzazz and Poppy Parade - definitely Funky, Fresh and Fun!
From Beale Street and Graceland in Memphis to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, music was everywhere I went this past week. My daughter and I spent a wonderful week in Tennessee. Not only was the music terrific but so were the people in Tennessee! Everything you hear about warm southern hospitality is true. We knew it was going to be a good week when we heard Tim McGraw welcoming us to Nashville over the PA system as we got off the plane at the airport :) I arrived home in time to play at PPA this week and let the music inspire me as I followed Margaret Moody's sketch. I used Newsprint DSP, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and stamps from Aviary and Picture This. So Tennessee, it was a wonderful vacation.........(channel Elvis here).......thank you, thank you very much........
