Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Burgundy Ball Gown

I'm having a stamping catastrophe day! I tried the color challenge and had to toss it. Then I tried another project and after re-working it twice, I decided to cut my losses and call it a day.LOL! At least I still have a few projects left from the last Gina K release party, so I have something to share.

This is a card I made for the release. I used the glass from Melanie's new set, A Charmed Life. I noticed it looked a bit like the bottom of a dress and went looking through my stamps to see if I could find something to work as the top. The cupcake from Sweetest Blessings seemed to fit the bill.

I started by inking up my stamp with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I didn't want the lines from the wine to show, so I put tape over those parts of the stamp before inking.

Then I pulled the tape off, before stamping the image. You can see that those lines I didn't want stamped are left un-inked. Another way to do this would be to just ink your stamp up with a marker in the areas you want.

I stamped it on a piece of Emily's new digital paper pack, Rich and Shabby, and then cut it out.

For the top of the dress, I stamped the bottom of the cupcake from Sweetest Blessing and used Copic markers, RV21, RV23 and RV25 to color it.


And here is a close-up of the finished card. I stamped the shoe from A Charmed Life, with Going Gray ink and then filled it in with my Stardust Glitter pen. Then I cut it with my smallest circle Nestabilities die. I used another piece of digital paper from Rich and Shabby for my one of my laters and one from Peachy Keen.

Don't forget to check out stampTV for a new episode tomorrow (or tonight if you like to stay up late).

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

13 comments:

Cat Tidwell said...

It must be something in the air, because I've had one of those days too! LOL!

I just love this Theresa! Very creative and it looks like a velvet dress on the bottom! Beautiful!

Anita said...

Wow! What a neat way to use 2 different stamp sets.

Danielle said...

Very creative Theresa - I love it! Hope you have a better stamping day tomorrow!
Hugs, Danielle

Sharri said...

I can not image you having a Catastrophe stampe day!
I just love this card and how you combined the two sets to make the dress.

Elena said...

I am really sorry Theresa that you didn't have a good day... I thought that I am the only one who have troubles with making certain cards sometimes. It will be better tomorrow!
Your card is so creative! Love the versatality of this new stamp set!!!

Lee said...

I totally loved this...you have some SUPER creative thought processes going on Theresa!!! I never saw a dress in that wine glass!!! Now if only that smashing dress would fit me!!! LOL

Lee said...

I totally loved this...you have some SUPER creative thought processes going on Theresa!!! I never saw a dress in that wine glass!!! Now if only that smashing dress would fit me!!! LOL

Jocelyn said...

Very creative! It's GREAT!

Carolina said...

Talk about thinking outside the box! Love this Theresa and those colors are so yummy!

Rhonda Langley said...

How very creative of you! Love the glass slipper!! You are getting very handy with those copics!
I had a creating day like yours last week-trying to make a box-the last attempt I gave to my bunny to chew on then went upstairs to watch Monk and eat chocolate!

wendyp said...

omgosh! i love seeing ways to rework stamps to create something totally different! This is too cute and creative!!!

Deb Neerman said...

Different and soooooooo fun! Love it, Kiddo!

Wait. I have stamping catastrophes EVERY day ... isn't that normal?!? LOL, I so hear ya and feel your pain ... the DH canNOT believe how much trash comes outta my studio! 'Course I sneak in most of the stuff that goes IN, lolol.

~Huggies!

Anonymous said...

How clever is that??? Great idea for a fun card, Theresa!!!