Thursday, January 15, 2009

Three Chairs for You!

You know, when I opened this set I literally gasped...it is so unique and beautiful! This is another design by Lauren Pope. So versatile too, you can create classic design, design with whimsy....or masculine. I know I'll use it often.


Three Chairs



This set has such beautiful sentiments, I love this one by Thoreau: "A house needs these chairs, Ones for solitude Ones for friendship and Then those for society"...isn't that sweet!?

So I watercolored these three styles of chairs very spring-like and differently. I have it lots of scalloping and Flourishes ribbon ...do you see the cute watermark of the dog on the pillow in the lower right? He's so cute!

Ornate Chair



Look at this fabulous chair!!! You can do so much with it. I just received some beautiful glittery paper from Flourishes and thought...that pattern almost looks like a textile for upholstery...that would make a perfect chair! So, I stamped it twice, once on copper metallic and once on the glittered paper and then pieced the chair together. To give dimension to the chair I also added copic shadows within the seat and then on the wood.


For the sentiment I wanted to create a little flag but it looked too plain without some stamping so I added some of the leaves from Autumn Flourishes which match the pattern in the paper and stamped them in copper and gave them some depth with a copic marker as well.

See the other creations of the girls at the Flourishes Blog

Here are the other girls creating today!

Cindy Lawrence, Faith Hofrichter, Julie Koerber, Latisha Yoast, Laura Fredrickson, Kimberly Crawford, Cindy Haffner, Dee Jackson, Becca Feeken, Silke Ledlow, Jan Marie Caruso, Nancy Kirk, Sharon Doolittle

Please join the team for our release party tonight (Friday) from 7 - 9 pm Eastern in the Splitcoaststampers Flourishes forum. All of the sets will be unveiled and it's your chance to win prizes, and the winner of the Celebrating Home challenge will be revealed. Yippee!

17 comments:

Latisha said...

I love them both, but that second one is a stunner, its so classy and elegant looking!

Laura (scrapnextras) said...

WOW! Both of these are amazing...one whimsical one classic and gorgeous! Love both cards and both looks. You rocked this one!

Betty Wright said...

WOW!!!! Love both!!!! Great colors and coloring in the first, and love the elegant embossing with gold on the second. Great cards, Christine!!!!

Denise Marzec said...

I love the Urban Prairie patterns and colors you picked for the first one, and the second one with the shimmery paper...WOWZERS! Beautiful!

Norine said...

really love the colors on the first one so pretty and the second one is so rich and elegant
Hugs
Norine

NancyK said...

Oh Christine I completely forgot about that paper you used on the second chair! It is just perfect for this image!

Silke Ledlow said...

Fabulous cards - Christine!!! Love how you embossed the second card - awesome idea!!!

Anonymous said...

Absolutely gorgeous cards Christine! I love both, the colors are so bright and cheery on the first one and I love the classic beauty of the second one.

Kimberly Crawford said...

They are both beautiful! LOVE the pp in the second card-how gorgeous for that chair!!!

Julie Koerber said...

Oh Christine - colorful and classy!!! Just fabulous my friend!!

Jeannie said...

One is cute and cozy and the other is very elegant and fancy but they are both awesome as usual!!

Jeannie

Kelly Lunceford said...

Wow! Wow! wow! I am amazed with both of these cards! I love your coloring of the three chairs and the ornate design of the other! Great designs!

Anonymous said...

your cards are beautiful!!I love the colors in the first one.

Cindy Haffner said...

Your chairs are gorgeous.

Anonymous said...

Oh, I need this set! Christine, you've done such a beautiful job with it. Love both cards!

Anonymous said...

Oh my word, I love what you did with these!! Simply beautiful!!
--Becca

Rose Ann said...

Both are so beautiful, Christine!! I love the pretty colors on the first one, and the elegance of the second!! Wow!!