I made this card for the One Layer Wednesday challenge #50...to make a one layer card with an old stamp and make it a thank you card. The challenge can be found HERE .
The basket of tulips is my old...very old stamp. The date on this stamp is 1995...it's one of the few I kept after giving up stamping some 10 years ago. I began anew a couple years ago, but STILL love this stamp...and was excited to be able to pull it out and ink it up again. I colored it with SU markers, stamped and framed with sentiment. I took pictures of how I framed it...just in case you were wondering(if you click on any of the pictures, it will give you a closer look:)!):
I used a nestie and marked the corners with light pencil(to be erased later:)!):
I then took my sentiment stamp that I centered from top to bottom ON A LINE of a gridded block, and lined the grid line the stamp was sitting on with each of the sets of corner lines. It looked like this:
Did that all the way around, added rhinestones, scored lines at the bottom and added ribbon...I know...a bit heavy with the embellishments...but I thought they really "fit"...and weren't too heavy??!!:)!
This is the first card I made...had it done, and then realized that the challenge was a Thank you card....so made another with a bit larger sentiment stamp.
Being this was my first one, I think it's a little "off", I learned so many little things as I went... but it's ok. Somewhere I read, recently said that the flaws are what make our cards handmade...so a little "off" is ok.
Things I used:
Stamps: Annette Allen Watkins, Papertrey Ink Giga Guide Lines(thank you), Hero Arts Everyday Sayings(thinking of you)
Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury
Ink: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, real red, old olive
Extras: MS scoreboard, gingham ribbon, nestie, red rhinestones
Thanks so much for looking...hope your day is filled with inspiration:)!!
This is the first card I made...had it done, and then realized that the challenge was a Thank you card....so made another with a bit larger sentiment stamp.
Being this was my first one, I think it's a little "off", I learned so many little things as I went... but it's ok. Somewhere I read, recently said that the flaws are what make our cards handmade...so a little "off" is ok.
Things I used:
Stamps: Annette Allen Watkins, Papertrey Ink Giga Guide Lines(thank you), Hero Arts Everyday Sayings(thinking of you)
Paper: Gina K Pure Luxury
Ink: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, real red, old olive
Extras: MS scoreboard, gingham ribbon, nestie, red rhinestones
Thanks so much for looking...hope your day is filled with inspiration:)!!
5 comments:
What a cheery basket of tulips. I love how you've colored it. What a fun idea to frame it with the sentiment. I'm going to have to try that sometime. Thanks for showing how you did it.
I love this basket of bright, happy flowers! Thanks for the tips on framing with the sentiment. It's amazing!
Love the basket of flowers. And I really appreciate the tutorial on how you did the sentiment around the flowers!
Hello there, love this beautiful card, the colours are bright and cheery and the design is great:0) xxx
Both cards are lovely and a great tutorial on how you framed the image, those nesties sure are worth the money spent on them :)
Jenny x
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