She Who Believes in Herself

I knew I wanted to play along with the Everything Old is New Again challenge this week since it is to make a card featuring only a sentiment … which is one of my favorite types of designs.  Sentiment stamps are my favorite and I'm always on the look-out for good ones.

This Suzy Toronto Believe stamp from PSX is one of the oldest in my collection.  I often use it on the inside of cards, but it's been a long time since I made a card that featured it as the main design element.  It's something that always inspires me when I read it.

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I colored the flowers that are part of the stamp with glaze pens and added a flower cut from the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl DP.  The sketch is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch.  I tried several different papers for the horizontal elements in the sketch design, but couldn't find one that didn't seem too busy with the floral paper.  

I remembered the Everything But the Kitchen Sink challenge to use string in your design and added some ivory string.  After I photographed it, I realized I should have added some distress ink to the string to tone down the brightness, but didn't want to risk ruining the card to re-work it, so I'm leaving it as it is. 

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10 thoughts on “She Who Believes in Herself”

  1. I’ve done that so many times, trying to add an element when its too late only to ruin the card. This is a beauty, and its nice to see a sentiment like that on the outside.

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