Prayers

I could not wait to get home from work yesterday to get in my stamp room so I could sit down and craft with new supplies!  I was extremely excited but while sitting in my craft room and designing, I felt a weight had been lifted off me.  For the first time in years, I felt creative freedom without the stress of only using current products sold by one specific company.  I almost didn't know what to do with myself, so I just "wet" my feet a little bit LOL  Here is one of the cards I made ❤

I chose some lovely pink cardstock as my card base.  I love using browns with pink, so I selected a light brown/ craft cardstock to stamp on to layer with the pink.  I die cut the brown cardstock using Rectangle Stitched framelits and then stamped flowers around edge in Versamark ink, applied Gold embossing powder and heat set. I then used Stampin' Blends to colour in the flowers. I really like that alcohol markers work on coloured cardstock as well!

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and this particular stamp set comes with a matching die cut for the word "prayers".  I die cut the word several times and layered to create some depth and dimension.  I learned this from a sweet friend of mine when she sent me a beautiful handmade card featuring this simple technique.

Until next time ~
Margaret

To Catch the Big One!

I'd like to share a fun masculine card using Stampin' Up! products.  I focused on keeping it very masculine with the colours and the design.

I used the Best Catch stamp set and Catch of the Day dies to stamp and cut the images and bullrushes.  I used Stampin' Blends to colour in the fish, hat and fisherman.  I only used two ink pads - Memento Black and Soft Suede.

Since I wanted all the images to be the main focus and tell the story, I added the sentiment on a small die cut circle and placed it up top and "out of the way".

I think this card represents most fisherman's dreams - "catching the Big One"!

Challenges that I am participating in with this card are:

Arty Divas 2W, 5E, C10 - #12 - Anything Goes (week 2)
Lemon Shortbread 2W, E3, no digital projects - #110 - Always Anything Goes (Week 2)
Tuesday Throwdown W -   #448 Something New



I hope to see you all soon with some fresh, fun new projects from me!

Until next time ~
Margaret