Monday, August 16, 2010

Play Date Cafe Challenge #42 & Fall To Layout #103


I wasn't very productive today. I had every intention to be productive! Alarm was set for 9:00 AM and Jamie even came to wake me up at 9:30 but then I convinced him (wasn't hard) to nap with me till 10:00. He eventually got up at 11 or 11:30 and I woke my lazy butt up at 1:00 PM!!! Jamie asked what I wanted for breakfast and so I asked him what he wanted and he goes "Well it'd be lunch for me." Ouch. Anyways, I managed to muster up a card today. The photo is the inspiration from the Play Date Cafe Challenge and I paired it up with Clean & Simple's Fall To Layout sketch 103. I got to use some patterned paper for the No paper/product buying challenge and you get a sneak peak of a stamp set that will be available in September from the new winter mini catalogue! Don't be upset with the very Autumn looking card. I swear fall is here already because Jamie and I already saw yellow leaves on some trees on our dog walks. 
The leaves are from the new stamp set French Foliage and the sentiment is from a retired hostess set Flower Lines. I wanted the patterned paper to show through so I used some vellum and got to try out my new Scrapbook Adhesives vellum adhesive. Not too bad but it does tend to clump a bit at the start and end. You can see a little blip of it on the top left corner. The rest is still pretty invisible so I'm happy with it. Worth the $8. The ribbon is Chocolate Chip taffeta and I'm in absolute love with it! The sheen it has is so gorgeous in person. Hope you all had a great weekend! 

7 comments:

Lisa Somerville said...

Lovely, the leaves look wonderful on the vellum! Thanks for playing at the PDCC.

Unknown said...

Just beautiful, Sandy! The vellum adds a wonderful touch.. Thanks for playing with the Play Date Cafe!

Nance Leedy said...

I LOVE this! Stampin on vellum is such a creative twist to both challenges. Beautiful work!

Suzanne C said...

Fantastic idea to use the vellum overlay. Beautiful card! Thanks for joining us at the PDCC.

Elise said...

Yowza! This is excellent! Vellum!?! God bless you! We don't see enough of that WONDERFUL material these days!!! Yeahooooo! This is such a magnificent way to use the PDCC colors and really have FUN! I'm DELIGHTED that you've shared this fun-tastic bit of card craft! Yee haw!

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

WOW--those leaves on that vellum is FAB! Great idea--great job with the color challenge;) Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC:)

Vicky Hayes said...

The vellum is inspired and your card is beautiful. It's feeling very autumnal already here in the UK too.