To get myself back into the stamping mood, I took Charmaine’s sketch from last weekend

and combined it with yesterday’s Limited Supply Challenge.

I started this card by pulling out new Designer Paper.  I decided to try out the Nouveau Chic pack. You know me and muted colors. This years In-Colors are definitely going to be a challenge to me. They are so bright and fruity.

After deciding on the paper, I thought the bird from Wings of Friendship would go good with the paper and would be great for the challenges.

I stamped the bird three times on Whisper White cardstock in Basic Gray. Two images were punched out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch, one image was cut out with my paper snips. I punched out a plain 1 1/4″ Whisper White circle and stamped the swirl from Wings of Friendship in Apricot over it. For the bird circles, I added a bit of apricot swirls on the side of the bird. All three circles were layered on 1 3/8″ Basic Gray circle punchouts.

Next I stamped the bird twice in Sage Shadow, once in Apricot Appeal and cut their wings off. Those were mounted to my birds in the circles to tie in the colors of the designer paper more.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Basic Gray cardstock folded in half. Next is a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Apricot Appeal cardstock. A dotted border was added with a White Gel Pen.

The center rectangle is a 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Basic Gray Cardstock covered with three pieces of the Nouveau Chic Designer paper pack. When I first saw Charmaine’s sketch I had planned to use ribbon where the two bigger designer paper pieces met, but since the LSC challenge only allowed brads as embellishment, I used a 7/8″ x 3 3/8″ piece of Sage Shadow colored designer paper instead.

The birds were taped to the left hand side of the inner rectangle. I added the cut out bird with the apricot wing to the bottom. It just seems to look best there. To finish the card off, I stamped the sentiment of Wings of Friendship in Basic Gray on Whisper White, stamped Apricot swirl over it and punched it out with the large oval punch. It was taped to the right hand side of the sage strip, topped with a Filigree brad that holds a Fire Rhinestone brad in it’s center.

I kept the inside pretty simple, like always.

I just like to add the same paper and cardstock to it to tie it into the front and make the card look finished.

I hope you all have a wonderful Saturday. It’s dark and gloomy here. I guess that will keep me in the house and  hopefully stamping.

Hugs and smiles

Here is my sample for MJ’s awesome sketch this week.

I knew I wanted to use the beautiful flower stamp from Soft Summer. To do so, I had to make my card a bit bigger then regular. I would mail this one with a business size envelope.

The card base is a 8″ Basic Gray square folded in half. Both Designer strips are from the Walk in the Park Designer Paper pack. The upper one measures 2 1/2″ x 7 3/4″, the lower one 2″ x 7 3/4″. I overlapped them slightly.

 The layers for the main image measure 3″ x 5 1/2″ for the gray layer. The bottom was punched with the Eyelet Border punch. The Kiwi cardstock measures 2  3/4″ x 5 1/4″ and the Shimmery White Layer is another 1/4″ smaller.

The flower was stamped with Basic Gray ink on the left hand side of the Shimmery White cardstock. I stamped the flowers again, colored them with Aqua Painter and classic inks (Cameo Coral, Kiwi Kiss and Baja Breeze), cut them out and layered them over my main image. The sentiment is from from the Soft Summer stamp set as well.

I added a white Jumbo Grommet through one of the big flowers from the Pretties kit and added a Baja Breeze Ribbon knot in it’s center.

I am sorry I don’t list all the details, but it’s been almost two weeks since I made this card.

The inside of the card is kept pretty simple.

The 2 3/4″ x 7 3/4″ piece of Cameo Coral cardstock muted with White Craft Ink.

The designer paper is from the Walk in the Park Designer Parks.

Have a wonderful  day. Hugs and smiles