Once upon a time, in a castle far, far away, there lived a Princess.
Her name was Lauren.
Her day to day life was more like that of a Cinderella.
She spent her day’s caring for the children, who fought and fussed. Then onto scrubbing the floors, and worse yet, chasing away rodent’s, that recently infested the Castle.
Whenever she got the chance, she would quietly escape to her stamp room, in the dungeon of the Castle. She would hope, that the children would not find her there, as she tried her best to complete this week’s blogger’s challenge. She needed to quickly re-create the layout of the Sympathy card on page 44 of the SU! Catalog.
Well what do you think?
This not only read’s like a story book (hahaha) but looks like the page of one, don’t you think?
When I saw this paper from the Aerial Collection of paper I got from Kim. I fell in LOVE with it, and knew I wanted to use it, but could not bare to cover it up with any layers.
Since it looked like a place for a Castle to hide, And I am not a “scenery” maker, I stamped my castle right onto the patterned paper, and it made it look just like a scene from a story book!
I used Spring Moss cardstock, along with guava textured card-stock, and Chocolate chip, for this card-which measure’s 4 1/2 X 5 1/2.
I colored the Castle with my Copic markers.
I wanted to re-create the flower’s that are on the paper, so I used my brown Copic marker to color the center’s of my Essentials flowers. I used cinnamonstickles for the flower center’s. I then cut apart the leaves of the green flowers, for leaves. I needed some smaller flower’s so I used my new SU! flower punch, and did the same on those.
The chocolate ribbon has a golden shimmer to it. I got it at Michaels. That corner needed “something”, so I felt that added a nice balance, without over-doing it
Sentiment is also from the Once Upon a Time set.
I loved making this card. It was so fun. I am having too much fun with that set. Im especially happy with the outcome of this card. The castle is perfect. Not too big, not too small, and easy to color. Just enough details. Love it. Hope you like it too.
Well, stay tuned, cause when I come back, I have some SUPER cool stuff to share.
See you then.
44 Responses for "You know the story-"
Great card! Love the paper and Love the story too! LOL! I feel like Cinderella too much of the time too! Ha!!
OMG…Lauren, this is BEAUTIFUL!! Love, love, love it!!
Lauren, this card is AWESOME!!!!!!!
Wonderful story (I love fairytales) and an every more wonderful card. Absolutely LOVE your poppies!
Very cute. Love it! You crack me up!
Your story in as engaging as your card. Wonderful work!
Gorgeous card Lauren! You are amazing!
This is wonderful, Lauren!! What a wonderful place to escape to……bet it doesn’t have any mice!!
Darling…love the flower accents..just an adorable card! Glad you find the time to hide (ahem..I mean create!)
what a beautiful card and great ‘story’ to go with it!! love how you stamped directly on the DSP!!
You forgot the part that goes,
“And she lived happily ever after (with her copics, Stickles, inks, Cuttlebug, ribbons, cardstock……)” 🙂
Your card is really, really cute! This whole stamp set has really been a winner. It’s all one set, isn’t it? I love how you stamped right on the designer cardstock/paper.
Thank you for sharing!
Hugs,
Renee
Love your story! So cool stamping it on the patterned paper, works so well! Beautiful!
That’s just beautiful Lauren! Love how you stamped the image right on the paper – looks like it was printed there.
Wow! It’s a wonderful card Lauren! I can see why you loved making it!!! Looks fun!
Ooooooooh I LOVE this card! I didn’t know that it was DP at first and my jaw dropped! Then when I found out I was awed by your creativity!
And your story is so cute!
Wonderful wonderful card.
Joan
ha ha ha Lauren you crack me up…I love your Princess story! Yeah I am definately more of a Cinderella too 🙂
Adorable card, Lauren. Love the flowers, and the story, too LOL
Just darling, love the depth you made stamping the flowers and then putting real flowers in the foreground, just love it!
This is so stunning. I so look forward to your creations. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
Very clever! Love the texture and depth of your paper and card. Great story, too!
It’s just gorgeous! I love that paper…and what you did with the flowers is perfect!
Absolutely gorgeous card Lauren! I love that you stamped right onto the patterned paper. It looks like you spent hours on it.
This is really beautiful. These stamps would be good for Renaissance Fair pictures for scrapbooking as well as the Disney parks.
WOW Lauren — gorgeous – even down to the detail of those flowers. Using markers and then stickles —What a great idea! You are so darn talented!!!
Dorothy
After all that ‘fun’ with the mice how can you be cool enough to create such a wonderful card. Really pretty.
SO darned beautiful! I don’t think I have ever seen anything prettier!
Not a scenery maker my foot. You are a great scenery maker, but an even better storyteller. 🙂 You just crack me up with them. Oh yeah, how’s Lily today?
Simply divine and so pretty. Love all the flowers and the ribbon as well.
So beautiful — it moves me to tears.
Now I can tell others that Lauren made me cry (smile)
Oh My Gosh, do I LOVE this card!! The colors, flowers and paper are just too awesome!♥
And your storytale had me LOL all by myself in front of the computer… 😀 You crack me up! For a poor Cinderella, I think you’ve got pretty lucky in finding Prince Charming!… 😉
luv the story and the card! earlier in the day, I was also drooling over my Crafts and Things in which you have some fab cards!!!
This is too cute! Love the castle, love the flowers, and especially the story! Great job!!!
This is one super-lovely card! I LOVE the scenery for the castle; you tied it in very nicely.
Gorgeous Lauren! The flowers are a beautiful addition.
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Love the castle, love the flowers, and especially the story! Great job
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