Tough Challenge today

I almost chickened out of today’s challenge. Jen wants us to use only a one layer card and only one sentiment stamp. Nothing else but embellishments. No cuttlebug either! This was super hard. I am not sure about this card. But at least I can say I tried, right? I figure that’s how I get out of my comfort zone and grow as a stamper.

When I first read the challenge I was thinking Faux Layers, but then there were already a lot of Faux layer cards in the gallery. Jeanne Streiff made a gorgeous sample with Direct to Paper over the entire card. I wanted to try something different and started out with a big old ribbon from the Prep School ribbon pack. I added three black brads from the vintage pack on each side to hold it in place.

The sentiment I used is the Thank you saying from the set In My Thoughts. I stamped the verse that would go on the inside of the card on top of two Office Supply store tags. Then I just inked up Thanks so much and added it it the bottom right of the card.

The ribbon on the left tag is also from the Prep School ribbon kit, the black ribbon is gorgeous May Arts ribbon from Starlitstudio. The Prima flower is also from Cindy’s store. The flower is topped by a ruby Red button that I threaded the thin ribbon from the Prep School Ribbon.

Now I better go and stamp a card that I really like and add it to the blog so this is not all the way on top! LOL