Monday, October 25, 2010

Time of the singing birds

At the Shabby Tea Room this week, we are to CASE one of the designer's cards.  I fell in love with this card by guest designer Cheryl Baker:


I love her use of music, the bird, the lace, and her color scheme of pink, black and white.  Here is my CASE of her card:


I love this quote from Song of Solomon, to me it represents hope, the theme of Cheryl's card.  I stamped my music background, then overstamped the bird, trimmed the panel out and framed it in black.  The sentiment is computer generated.  My swirl background was chosen to mimic the swirls in her card.  My lace flowers are from my fabric scrap basket.

Amazingly enough, I just saw the Wplus9 blog, and this card fits the challenge there: in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness, the colors are light pink, white, and grey or black, and my theme of hope fits this challenge well, I think. 

Supplies: ivory parchment and black cardstock, designer paper from K&Company Bailey mat pad, Versafine onyx black ink, Hero Arts CG222 Music Background, CG110 Flourish Background, Inkadinkado  97548 Birds Galore, lace scraps

21 comments:

Jean Franks Beck said...

This is beautiful, Lin! You did a marvelous job of CASEing, but keeping it your own, too. Beautiful sentiment, too. :)

Debbie said...

Oh, simply gorgeous, Lin!!! What a wonderful job you did with your CASE this week for the Tea Room -- thanks for joing us :)

Tiffany Ervin said...

Oh Lin, you're making me tingle with excitement here! What beautiful shabby cards by both of you! Love the pink and black together and those white flowers are so unique!

Nat said...

gorgeous! pink and black is so elegant, love the music and bird combo too!

Sarah J Moerman said...

Beautiful!

GrammySue's Creations said...

Hi Lin, This card is gorgeous. The bird and the sheet music are perfect and I love the Quote from Soloman that you used; everything goes very well. Great job. (To answer your question reqarding my Christmas tree card, I cut out a label from my cricut cartridge "Lacy Labels" to use for my center panel.)

Suzanne C said...

Beautiful! All things that remind me of you. Music, Birds, and pink! :) Gorgeous design.

Barb said...

Pretty card, Lin! The combination of the bird, music and lace flowers is just lovely! Good luck in the challenges!

Pajalu said...

Lin what an amazing card. You do such beautiful work, I enjoy visiting when I can. Good luck with the challenges xoxoxoxo

Dawn T said...

Just magnificent Lin. Such pretty colours. love the way you skewed the centre panel... give it such focus. Your work is so inspiring Lin.

Hellemor said...

Oh, Lin. This is simply beautiful and unique. Love those fabric flowers.

Nicole said...

Pretty card! Love the pink and black combo! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

Rosemary said...

a beautiful, beautiful card, lin! thanks for the sweet comments!

Janet a.k.a. swanlady21 said...

What a great take Lin!Love those layers and texture of those flowers

Debbie said...

Beautifully done, Lin!

Pattie said...

Beautiful! Fabulous job casing our guest designer. Thanks for joining us in the Tea Room!

Jacqueline said...

I LOVE the inspiration card too Lin and your take on it is gorgeous!

cheryl said...

Hi lin,hun just wanted to say bless you for casing my card,gosh so flattered that you liked it enough to do that,and must say you really have done a fantastic job with this hun I too am going to use if for breast cancer aware,just adore the sentiment you have used too love hugs cheryl xxxx

Virginia L. said...

Love the lace and color combo! Very inspiring work, Lin!

Alice said...

beautiful lace details. very pretty card, Lin!

Elise said...

Lin, your card is positively GORGEOUS! I'm ALL-a-SWOON for these colors, once again! Thank you SO much for sharing your FINE, fine talent with W9! I hope you can forgive me for taking SO long to get by here to give you proper love for this fine use of COLOR and your lovely talent! Yipeee! Your work was WORTH the wait! :o)