Morning,
Greetings from the sunny warmth at the Purple Palace ... talking of purple, did you know it was my favourite colour? (lol!!!) Wanted to use this in a dramatic way with this project as I think it is (esp when combined with and equally sumptuous gold) such a celebratory colour - IMHO! I received some great news from a pal over the weekend and wanted to acknowledge the baby news in card form! And, NO, this does NOT mean that the Duchess of Cambridge e-mailed me directly!!!!
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| My card |
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| And the co-ordinating insert and envelope |
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| The two panels before matting |
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| A close up of the panels |
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| The materials used |
Materials used:
A6 white, 300gsm, card blank and matching sized envelope
Snippets of white card (14 x 10½cm, 13½ x 10cm, 8 x 5cm) and gold (DCWV, linen effect) card
Stamplorations feather image stamped on to the larger white card panel using Versamark ink
Pan Pastels in gold and silver applied to the 13½ x 10cm panel using a cotton wool ball (Hey, it's what I had to hand!) and sealed with hairspray
Distress Ink in dusty concorde applied to the 14 x 10½cm panel using a Tim Holtz blending tool
Stamplorations background image (Bottom right in the background set in the photo) stamped around the edge using versamark ink and then gold pan pastel applied and sealed with hairspray
Distress Ink in dusty concorde applied to the smallest white card panel using the blending tool.
Water flicked from fingers, allowed to develop and then the excess blotted off
Stamplorations feather and background images stamped using versamark ink before applying gold pan pastels and sealed with hairspray after buffing
Clearly Wordsworth sentiment stamped using Ranger Archival watering can ink
I'll be entering this for the following challenges:
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Cards in Envy - WHEN NATURE CALLS (card size specified as A2 U.S. - 4.24" x 5.5" which is A6 in the U.K.) ..... and this is to celebrate a baby (nature calling) AND features a feather (again with the nature) so I'm hoping it will fit the brief!
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Yesterday was a funny old day ... we decided that we were in need of a new patio table - you would NOT think it would be that difficult now, would you? We headed north up the 27 to just north of Clermont and in to one store where they did indeed have what we were looking for but we just wanted to check whether this was the best price. The likes of Walmart, KMart, Target, Lowes and Home Depot had nothing like what we were looking for so it was onwards and upwards. We found ourselves heading for Tavares an I just KNEW that Mount Dora was only a hop, skip and a jump away and also blessed with a fab crafting store known as The Stamping Station! Yee Haa. Off we went .... not only did we find Mount Dora but we also found a parking spot - a remarkable feat (the parking spot not the finding of Mount Dora - it's hard to miss) - several of the roads in historic downtown Mount Dora have the most enormous holes dug in them right now! Now this section of Mt Dora is not too big so, once we'd been around once we were starting to doubt our sanity so I nipped in to a store and found two extremely helpful ladies who whipped out the store guide they keep for tourists - guess what? NO SIGN of the Stamping Station so I guess it is no more - such a shame. Especially since it was only this past week I discovered that Newbury Artstamps is no more and I know that the Wantage store Stamp Addicts is closing at the end of May too - definitely not a dry blackthorn month for me!
Still, all rounded off with a yummy shrimp and scallop linguine here, so not all bad!
Would you like to visit Mount Dora in the virtual World?
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| They run steam train trips - but this was the only train at the station as I passed |
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| The Mount Dora Station |
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| See what I mean about those roadworks?? |
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| We THINK the Stamping Station MAY have been the pink building on the left |
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| Mount Dora's lovely isn't it? |
Hope you enjoyed that ..... and now, since it IS What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday, I suppose you would like a peek at the mayhem that is the work space at the purple palace?
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| My work space |
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| Supplies available to me! |
Happy Wednesday ....oh, and in case you're wondering - YES, we did find a new patio table too!
15 comments:
Just grabbed a piece of homemade ginger cake and a cuppa so I can enjoy your lovely long post in all it's glory Kathy. Loads of great pictures today. What a beautiful place you visited. Such a shame about the stamp store :o( Love your beautiful feather card. The touch of gold really adds a certain je ne sais quois. Fabby! Good news about your patio table AND great to see your work desk fully occupied too. Yeeha! Lx
Lovely messy workspace PP. Sounds like an interesting shopping trip yesterday ! I don't think we actually went to Mount Dora - mr t too fixated on getting to the steam trains methinks !!! that's what you call roadworks Ha Ha. Make sure you leave some of that sun shiney sun for Oct, don't use it all up this trip ;0D
You might like a quick trip to Stamping Grandma today - "Gordon's Alive" !!!
Happy Wednesday Matey
luv
wynneth
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Well I'm glad the trip proved fruitful for the table anyway!
Hugs, Sarn xxx
Purple and gold . . . very Royal Kathy, and very apt since it was also a royal baby too! Great pics of Mount Dora! How long are you away for? We are off for the whole of June - no internet, no landline, not much in the way of civilisation - it's rural Spain - but although I do miss my crafting and blogging it is also very peaceful . . . forces us to just relax and do nothing! Hazel xx
The purple and gold give a very regal feel to your card. I'm not sure if any of us on the Cards in Envy team considered making babies as part of "nature calling" but it certainly does fit the theme, LOL! :) Thanks for playing along at CIE!
Fabulous, messy workspace. I say messy is the best and most creative! Love your card with the purple and feathers. Thanks for sharing with us at Cards in Envy!
~Sandy
Sandy’s Crafty Creations Blog
Great card kathy. Love the pictures as well thank you for sharing them,
Lilian
Thanks for your comment on my bloggy mrs k, my pack of BAT has brights and pastels in it. I'm sure you're going to love the brights you bought. Eileen die cuts her shapes but I found that if I punched a few layers at a time they mostly cut out fine - those that didn't provided some interesting shapes ! Enjoy ;0)
Wynneth
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Love that card - purple and gold is absolutely stunning!
Thanks for sharing your photos of you visit to buy a table!! lol
Have a great week
Christine
Bishopsmate #42
Great card kathy.
Glad you managed to get anew table and sounds like you had a good trip out although shame about the craft store!
x catherine
Loving the purple and gold Kathy, great card too.Nice to see other people's work spaces.....mine gets sooo untidy so quickly lol. Yours looks very organized, love those big drawers ;) Viv xx
Great card and a fabulous purple-gold combination!
Wonderful photos of your visiting of Mount Dora.
Thank you for visiting my blog. :-)
Hugs, Sonja
Love your royal card Kathy! So pretty with the gold and purple. And great pics of Mount Dora ... lovely place indeed! Too bad about the craft shop. I think there are so many large on-line shops now, that the brick and mortars are having a tough time.
Looks like you have a ton of supplies to go through. Happy crafting! xx
Your card is pure loveliness, Kathy!
Those feathers stamps are gorgeous! I love the subtlety and the softness of your card. Thanks for joining us at Opus Gluei!
Hi Kathy,
thanks for the great tour.... gorgeous day for an outing too. Love the feather stamps, and in gold they look fabulous. This is such a great choice for us at Opus Gluei...thank you for joining us this week.
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