Sunrise....Sunset.....

These two cards remind me of that song "Sunrise...Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof. I think that is where it is from....
My High school music teacher would not be proud of me right now! LOL!




Here are two card I made this afternoon during what I call my "lunch break." To others, that time would be known as my daughter's nap time :)


I have been "studying" sunsets for a while now to see how I wanted to ink my Uninked Spectrum Pad. I think I figured it out. What do you think? I "wiped" the colors on Glossy White card stock and then stamped my front image in Basic Black.

Lets start with the tree card....
I stamped the row of trees from Lovely as a Tree in Basic Black. I matted that image in Basic Black and Ballet Blue. The segment on the right hand side of the card is Really Rust matted in Basic Black and then I wrapped Black Twine around that four times and tied in a simple knot. The card base is More Mustard and I also stamped the oak leaf bunch from Lovely as a Tree in More Mustard.


Now for the flower card......
My card base is a 4 1/4 inch square in Really Rust. My main image was stamped in Basic Black over my "sunset" with a stemmed flower in a Level 2 Hostess Collection - Stem Silhouettes. ( I think this stamp set is absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!) That image was then matted in Ballet Blue and Basic Black. The greeting along the bottom was my version of a ribbon slider. (Ribbon sliders are getting very popular!) I wanted to use the Designer Label Punch for the Basic Black background but it wasn't quite long enough. So I was like....hmmmmm.....then I had a light bulb moment! I took a strip of Basic Black and used my Ticket Corner Punch on the edges. The stamped image is from the Level 1 Hostess Collection - Party Punches. I stamped it in More Mustard on Very Vanilla. I also stamped it a second time in Ballet Blue on Very Vanilla. I cut out the "b" in Ballet Blue ant raised it up on a Stampin' Dimensional. I punched out the More mustard image with the 1 1/4 inch Circle Punch and matted it on Ballet Blue with a circle punched from the 1 3/8 inch Circle Punch. I then took my Rectangle Handheld Punch and punched a slit on both ends of my Basic Black "slider" and slid a piece of 1/4 inch Grosgrain Ribbon in More Mustard.


That should about cover it.....oh my!