Hi there! Are you all ready for Thanksgiving? I've still got QUITE a bit of cooking/baking to do today, but I'm looking forward to it! Every year for Thanksgiving I make a cheesecake (along with an apple pie). Well, actually I make a cheesecake for any Holiday that I can get away with it! LOL! I LOOOOOOVE New York style cheesecake, and have "forced" that love on my family as well! Teehehee!
Before I go and start my baking, I wanted to share this card with you...
I fell head over heels the moment I saw this Floral Tatoo set (by Tim Holtz's Stamper's Anonymous line)! I also knew that I wanted to do some tone-on-tone embossing as soon as I got my hands on it!
Here's a close-up so you can see some of the details a little bit better. The cream c.s. layer inside of the card is embossed with horizontal lines. The flowers are embossed with Ivory embossing powder onto Buttercream c.s.. To get a slightly pink shade, I sponged on some Pretty in Pink ink to the center of each flower. For the tone-on-tone embossing, I stamped one of the leafy flourishes stamps onto the black cardstock using Black Onyx Versafine ink and embossed using Clear detail embossing powder. To finish it off, I added pink buttons, Ivory Crochet trim, Cream satin ribbon, and an embossed bird (also from the Floral Tatoo set) mounted on a black tag made from one of the Fancy Tags Shapeabilities.
I get a lot of questions on how I make my half circle curves on my cards. Well, it's not very sophisticated...LOL!! I just grab a plate or bowl from my kitchen that matches the size of curve I want and then trace around it! SO not high tech...but it works! LOL!
Yesterday while stamping this card, I was talking on the phone to my friend Tosh. Of course I was telling her what I was doing...and what stamps I was using. Well, she had JUST made a card using another set from the Stamper's Anonymous line (she used Urban Tapestry) and we thought it would be fun to post them together! So make sure to click on over to her blog, Stamp Talk With Tosh, to check out her beautiful card!!
Well, I'm off to start all of my cooking/baking! I want to wish all of my American friends a VERY Happy Thanksgiving!!!
And for all of you outside of the U.S.A., I hope your day is a blessed one! Hugs, Laurie