Day 4: "Winter Wings" and "Labeled with Love"

First up we have today's Free with Three set from Gina "Labeled with Love", which coordinates with the new Labels 14 dies. You get two label images and greetings to fit inside! I thought this curvy shape was too cool so I thought I'd make a background out of it to match the tag by stamping it in rows in Vivid Coffee Bean across Pure Luxury Ocean Mist. Next I decided I would try free cutting around the labels on one end of the mat to make this undulating border. I liked! Next I grabbed a large oval punch and punched out the centers of all the labels I could reach LOL! Love this reveal in the center of each of the Chocolate Brown mat below! Last I added some satin ribbon, a label on white with more of the Ocean Mist in the middle, all layered onto a White base. I was so excited how this turned out: Vintage Mod??!!

Finally we have Asela's "Winter Wings". I chose the blue jay image, I am really fond of their colors and markings. After coloring with Copics, using pale shades of blue to accentuate the white areas, I colored some adhesive pearls with a Cardinal Copic to embellish the punched ferns and bring them image beyond the borders of the Labels 1 die cut mat.

I sponged it with some Vintage Photo ink and punched a lattice on the side to add interest and reveal a little of the Cranberry Tart layer below. After stampeding the greeting in black, I embossed both the cranberry strip and the Pure Luxury White mat with Leafy Branch and adhered these onto Good as Gold. Last I added some black stitched ribbon and more colored pearls. I chose Christmas color and red berries , but these birds and sentiments could easily work for cards outside of the winter months...

For more samples with tonight's new stamp sets, please visit these participating designer's blog links:

• GinaK *Illustrator of Labeled with Love*


• Asela *Illustrator of Winter Wings*


• Jessica


• Theresa
  
• Tami
  
• Melanie (you are here, thanks for visiting!)
  
• Nina


• Cathy


• Lee


• Lynn


• Tera *our CenterStage Spotlight Designer*

The entire team would like to cordially invite each of you to our release party tomorrow night (Thursday September 30.) We'll have contest questions, challenges, chatter, and lots of samples with the new stamp sets to share during the party. Please make plans to join us from 7-10 central on StampTV!

I will be back before the party to announce a winner from this post, did you enter??