July 27, 2010

Garden Mail


The City Crafter Challenge Blog has a gorgeous inspiration photo from A Creative Mint for the Garden Mail theme this week. (Check out A Creative Mint for more beautiful inspiration!)


The challenge was to incorporate colors from the photo and include something to do with mail. Since I'm out of town, my options were limited, but hopefully you'll like what I came up with!

The DEEtails:

I started out stamping various letters from the few sentiment stamps that I had. Luckily, I recently bought the Everything Nice set, which has some neat letters that I could use. I inked a letter at a time, using my Stampin' Write markers and stamped them on Whisper White, Crumb Cake, and Elegant Eggplant. (I think I would have liked a lighter purple, but this is all I had.) I used my Jewelry Tag Punch and adhered some Pearl Jewels. I also stamped some images from my Tiny Tags set and punched a little flower (from Itty Bitty Shapes Punches) and heart (from the Owl punch) for some accents. I adhered me tags onto Whisper White card stock using Stampin' Dimensionals. Then I stamped the sentiment from my Messages for Mom set with Crumb Cake ink. I love this sentiment! I added an Elegant Eggplant mat, then ruffled some Chantilly lace trim for a soft touch. I just happened to spot these mini clothes pins at the store the other day (they are slightly larger than the mini craft clothes pins) and bought them cause they looked fun. They turned out to be perfect for this card. It is a bit bulky, since it isn't really meant for paper crafts, but I think I like it!

What do you think?

10 comments:

  1. Those little tags are so cute! and wow, you craft even when you are out of town, how you do that? Do you bring your paper and glue along? Thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  2. Adorable tags, Nina! I love how you put this together. Unique! XOXO

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  3. cute, cute, cute, thanks for joining us at the CCCB

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  4. Adorable! I love the pearls and the lace!

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  5. This is lovely ... love those little tags and the way you have done the lace is brilliant! ... Thank you so much for joining us at CCCB

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  6. Your card is so Cute.. I just love all those little tags.. Thanks for playing along with us at CCCB!

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  7. Such a lovely card & I love those little tags too!!

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  8. LOVE the little clothespin! Also LOVE Elegant Eggplant with that ribbon and the tags!!!

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  9. Sweet card, I love the little tags they're so cute.

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  10. really cute! love those tags! thanks for playing along with CCCB!

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