Today’s Featured Stamper is Betty (gbedwright) – I chose her Thank You card as my inspiration. I loved the clean design and how it uses coordinated DP scraps.
I love finding papers from different companies that work together. This card combines a piece of specialty embossed paper, Crate DP (floral) and MME Tres Jolie (stripes).
After attaching the squares to an ivory card base, I eye-balled the positioning of my floral stamp by Savvy. Unfortunately, I slipped my hand slightly when I stamped and ended up with a slight shadow on my image. It was one of those happy mistakes though, because I actually liked the result … I think it adds some visual interest to the large expanse of ivory. The Retro Thank You is from Stampendous (both are stamped in ColorBox Chalk Dark Brown).
I knotted the sparkly brown ribbon and attached it using glue dots (there is one under the knot and the lower tail because it kept wanting to stick up).
I also did a card for Sharon’s Leslie Sketch Challenge. This week Mailman Joe also brought me quite a bit of new rubber, including this great Never While stamp from Wordsworth that is stamped with Black Staz-on on a piece of Basic Grey Obscure DP. More obscure DP is on the background together with a piece of pink cardstock embossed with the new Cuttlebug Diamond Rough embossing folder. To bring out the pattern a bit more, I stippled on some Ranger Black Soot Distress Ink.
I hope you find some creative time today.
What a gorgeous card…..the colours are divine.
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I don’t think TandaStamps has an outlet in the US but they do ship worldwide. Unfortunately with the $/£ exchange at the moment that is not so good for you.
Sheila-x-
Love both of these — Block Hearts is full of interest and fun — just love it!!! The Leslie Sketch is gorgeous!!! Love that sentiment stamp and that you stamped it onto the DP and love your embossed diamond pattern with its inked areas!!! I also like that you set the main image panel off center — both great cards!!!! So glad you could play again, thanks so much!!!
Both of these are so different but equally fabulous!
Wow this is beautiful Steph…I love that stamp..:)x
Gorgeous cards…love them both!
Terrific Stef…always rocking out the creations!
ok, well, of course i love BOTH of these…but the “FRIEND” one…FAB to have the quote stamped on the BG cardstock (there’s just enough color variation on that stuff to be interesting w/o being an actual *pattern*…love that!) and then the other brights and textures with it…WOW! it’s super stef-a-licious!!! 🙂