I love Mona Pendleton‘s use of Spellbinder dies. Her work is beautiful. While working on this card, it reminded me of her work. Probably because Mona uses a lot of ivory cardstock and soft patterned paper. She also wrote the Tissue Flower tutorial for Splitcoast, which I used with the new Lacey Circles to create the flower on this card.
I started by cutting and embossing the biggest of the Crown Oval Nestabilities out of Very Vanilla cardstock. I left the die on and sponged over it with Vintage Photo Distress ink.
A smaller oval was cut out of Vanilla cardstock with Classic Oval Nestabilities. It was sponged with Antique Linen Distress ink. The sentiment is from Flourishes new set Fine Herbs. It was stamped in Walnut Stain Distress ink. An herb from the same set was stamped in Bundled Sage Distress ink. The oval was attached to the crowned oval with dimensionals. Champagne Kaisercraft pearls were added into each center of the crown pieces (all but two on the bottom right where the flower was placed).
I used the two smallest Lacey Circles dies to cut several layers of tissue paper. The tissue circles were first connected with an Antique Brad (Stampin’ Up!), then the edges were sponged with Vintage Photo.
A 1 3/4″ x 4″ strip of Kraft cardstock was sponged with Vintage photo. A 4″ long strip of Vanilla cardstock was cut and embossed with Eyelet Borderabilities. That strip was taped underneath the top of the sponged Kraft strip. Beige Melissa Frances Lace was taped on the lower edge of the strip.
The layered strip was adhered to a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Fly a Kite October Afternoon Paper, which was stitched to a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of sponged Kraft cardstock. The layers were adhered the card base, a 4 3/4″ x 11 1/2″ piece of Very Vanilla cardstock folded in half.
A Eyelet Pendant Die cut out of Vanilla cardstock and sponged with Vintage Photo ink was attached to the upper left hand side and topped with a Chino Kaisercraft Pearl. Champagne Kaisercraft pearls on the upper right and lower left finish off the card.
The inside of the card is pretty simple. A 4 1/4″ wide strip of Kraft cardstock was cut and embossed with Eyelet Borderabilities and sponged with Vintage Photo Distress ink. It was adhered underneath a 1 3/4″ x 4″ strip of Fly A Kite paper. The strips were adhered to a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Vanilla cardstock. It was stitched to a 1/4″ bigger piece of Kraft cardstock that had been sponged before.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles
Beate
Stay at Home Mom of Three, Splitcoast Team Member and Copic and Spellbinders die Lover.14 Responses to “Channeling Mona”
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So elegant, Beate! This is GORGEOUS!
Hi, Beate!!
I’ve been lurking for awhile and thought I’d pop in :0)
LOVE what you’re doing with Spellbinders’ Decorative Elements Nestabilities – you’re giving me some great inspiration!
It was so wonderful to meet you face-to-face @ CHA-S.
Thanks for all you do!!
MargieH @ Spellbinders Blog Author Team xo
This is so pretty! I love the muted soft colors and the flower is gorgeous!
So classy, stunning card!
Zauberhaft liebe Beate, genial schön *schwärm*
Ich mag Deine harmonischen Farben, Deine Aufteilung, Deiner Verwendung der Spellis und Deine wunderbaren Details.
Ein schönes WE
wünscht Dir
Anke
Wow that’s classy looking with the pop of herbs and that gorgeous flower Beate!
I am just in awe how you create such beauties day after day!
Wow, wow, wow! This is truly gorgeous! Love that new Nestie shape and your color combo is awesome!
This is just gorgeous, Beate!! I love everything about it from the delicate images to the fabulous papers!! I love that new Nestie shape and your gorgeous flower as well!!
Oh my gosh Beate! Thank you so much for the BIG shout out 🙂 Your card is gorgeous – that flower is beautiful & I love all the lil’ special detail you’ve added!
Beate, I adore you creative work, you are amazing…this card is pure proof! ELEGANTE’!
Margie~
gorgeous card, Beate! love the fab color combo and the classy design!
Beautiful, love the shading and your flower is so neat!
This is really beautiful, Beate.
thanks!
barb