This week it’s Rebekah’s turn to host The Shabby Tea Room‘s challenge and she has chosen this photo as inspiration…
The challenge is to produce a card or a project using a silhouette as the focal point. For my first project, I created a card using a 3 x4″ tag I cut from a sheet containing 12 gorgeous tags and a well-used stamp to produce the silhouette. I die cut the card panel with ‘Grand Large Labels’ , leaving the fold intact at the top. To add definition I outlined the impressed mark made during the die cutting with a Copic multiliner…
To customize the flowers, I used a Copic marker to add some color to mimic the printed flowers. It needed a little something to balance the off-set layout. Three self adhesive jet gems did the trick.
A die cut doily in black to anchor the tag and some layered bows made of hand dyed seam binding add dimension…
Just like adding a piece of jewelry to an outfit, I added a trinket pin made from a florist’s stick pin (with a typical tear drop pearl at the top) and a few beads added for interest.
Next I created two tags using a digital printout from a favorite Etsy shop called ‘Digital Paper’. This particular download is called Vintage Silhouettes and contains lots of images to choose from…
I punched out the silhouette image with a 1-1/4″ square punch and layered it onto two fancy die cuts that were embellished with liquid pearls. Some printed crepe paper made the rosette and it was all layered onto a card stock tag, covered with a striped paper…
The next tag used another sweet image from the same sheet, again layered onto die cuts and a card stock tag, with a smaller black layer and a swallow tailed length of striped ribbon. Both tags have a tiny tag added to the ribbon at the top, stamped with a well-used sweet sentiment from Paper Sweeties.
The backs were quickly made with fancy squares and some leftover die cut brackets. I use the ‘To:’ and ‘From:’ out of a seasonal stamp set that does double duty year round!
Have some fun and join us with your silhouette creation! I can’t wait to see all your creativity!!
*Hugs*
Rebecca
Silhouette Card
| Card stock | whisper white | Stampin’Up |
| basic black | “ | |
| Printed paper | first love, secret admirer collection | KaiserCraft |
| Clear stamp | simply jane | Papertrey Ink |
| life lines | Flourishes | |
| Dye ink | basic black | Stampin’Up |
| Watermark ink | versamark | Tsukiniko |
| Embossing powder | black | Zing |
| Die | parisienne lace doily | Papertrey Ink |
| Ribbon | hand dyed | Hug Snug |
| Leaves | velvet heirloom, sage | Prima |
| Tinket pin | custom made with corsage pin | floral supply |
| Flowers | gold cherry blossoms | Wild Orchid Crafts |
| Markers | alcohol ink | Copic |
First Tag
| Card stock | basic black | Stampin’Up |
| very vanilla | “ | |
| Pattern paper | love games stripe | Glitz |
| Digital image | vintage silhouettes | digital paper/Etsy |
| Clear stamp | you make me smile | Paper Sweeties |
| 2011 holiday tags | Papertrey Ink | |
| Dye ink | basic black | Stampin’Up |
| Dies | floral doily accents | Spellbinders |
| labels 22 | ” | |
| Crepe paper | printed net | Glitz |
| Pearl embellishments | platinum pearls | Liquid Pearls |
| onyx | ” | |
| Ribbon | true black 1/2″satin | Papertrey Ink |
Second Tag
| Card stock | basic black | Stampin’Up |
| very vanilla | ” | |
| Pattern paper | love games stripe | Glitz |
| Digital image | vintage silhouettes | Digital Paper/Etsy |
| Clear stamps | you make me smile | Paper Sweeties |
| 2011 holiday tags | Papertrey Ink | |
| Dye ink | basic black | Stampin’Up |
| Dies | fleur de lis squares | Spellbinders |
| marvelous squares | “ | |
| scalloped labels one | “ | |
| Ribbons | black/cream striped | Stampin’Up |
| basic black 1/2″ satin | “ |
Just gorgeous! I love the punch of color with the silhouette! Fabulous embellishments and generally fabulous!!! Great Rebecca
What lovely tags! The black and cream ones are chic and elegant, but the showstopper is the one loaded with rich color and embellies! LOVE that aqua base layer, and touching up the flowers with Copics is a stroke of genius! I never thought of doing that – thanks! The bow is deliciously soft and squishy, and the pin finishes the card to perfect. Thanks so much for sharing!
Wow! These are ALL so lovely! I love all the details
you added to the card- the pin, the coloring of
the flowers, the shaped card base! Just so
very beautiful! And the tags!!! Stunning ALL!
I love the medallion from the printed paper!
And the sweet silhouettes! Wonderful and elegant!
Hugs!
Jill
What beautiful creations these are … the card is just so pretty and those tags are really elegant … great colour choice!
Gorgeous card! I love the colors you used and that black doily and outline are a great idea! Thank you for sharing, I never would have thought of these ideas!!
Oh, wow, Rebecca! These are all so beautiful. Love the saturated colors on the first card, and your hand-colored flowers!
GORGEOUS card ..stunning ..such great bookmarks too…very sweet images!
Hi Rebecca! What beautiful projects and gorgeous color, it is just stunning! What a treasure that bookmark is, someone would be very happy to receive it!!!
Hugs,
Starr
Oh WOW!!!! I love the colors! I haven’t thought of a bright background to a silhouette before and it’s fab! The die cut card base with that black line is perfect! The rest is too! Big HUGS
Wow! Absolutely gorgeous card and tags! The card has such gorgeous color and flowers…LOVE IT!!!
Rebecca you are soooo talented. Your projects blew me away for this challenge.. Awesome!