Botanicals- Autumn Leaves

I recently obtained the Botanicals clear stamp set by Autumn Leaves. There are some beautiful designs inside this set. This colour combination was inspired by my box of ribbon from Jody. The teal and burgundy ribbons were both trying to escape the box next to each other. I would walk by them every day and think, "gee, those 2 colours look nice together". Finally I decided to do something about that. I used some textured cardstock from DCWV Far East stack, which conveniently also had these colours. The sentiment is from a Bo Bunny's rub-on.

Also, I updated my profile picture with a nicer photograph. It's hard finding a picture of yourself that you can actually like. This is the photo I am sending to put in the May Stampin' Success for my November "Art Wow!" win.

A little different...

I got these new Flourishes stamps by Rhonna Farrer/Autumn Leaves. They are really cool! These are clear stamps, which make it very easy to place all the flourishes together. I was very glad that the store ordered them in, and held them for me. Apparently, only 2 came in, the rest were back-ordered. Anyway, I was itching to use them yesterday, but I had already made evening plans. So today, I pulled together this somewhat strange card. The red paper is the Dasher Tree Skirt paper. I made a transparency overlay to go over top. The Seasons Greetings was printed in the very popular font Porcelain on my laser printer. I stamped the Flourishes ( I got V. 2, by the way) in white stazon. It didn't feel complete enough, so I went about adding ribbon. I dyed the white and the organdy ribbons with a mix of Caribbean, Teal, and Glorious Green inks. This light blue might seem like a surprising choice, but I had seen it work several times over this week, since Red and Caribbean were this week's colour challenge. The blue ribbon also brings out the little flecks of blue in the Basic Grey paper.