Glad that you joined me today for this warm and cheery best friend card. You know, when we want to express to our best friends how much they mean to us? On this card I used paper from Pink Paislee"s Butterfly Garden Collection, the 6x6 paper pad. This collection is exquisite, soft and ethereal-like with wonderful soft and rich colors in varying botanical themes throughout the collection. I used the English Tea Party doilies both on the front and inside. I stamped one of the Birdhouses from Justrite's 31/4" Birdhouse set and the Sentiment is from Just Rite's Friendship Nested Sentiments and Verse set stamped up on a Spellbinders Tags Two. The leaves and vines cut in gold foil bazill cardstock is from Spellbinder's On the Vine Grand Borderability. See the inside of the card pictured on the last picture below where I used another sentiment from the JustRite Friendship collection. Again, I already had this stamp colored and then I selected the appropriate doily color to match the pattern paper I chose. With the tag already stamped ahead of time as well, this card came together very quickly. I'm beginning to use up some of the tags and embellishments that I already had cut and stamped up ahead of time as I always make more of what I am doing while I have the stamps and dies out... Its great to have various stuff on hand so that cards can be created quickly when necessary... Voila! There you have it, I did have lots of fun putting all my elements together to create this card. Go on over to my favourite online scrapping source to find these product and much, much more. Huge preorder specials on right now!
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| Wow!! The light is so much better outside in natural sunlight. Picture taken on our weathered porch railing with our front yard in the background. |
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| Here is a little closer view. See the details of the doily quite well here Also see the Copic colors I chose to color this stamp with and the tag that I ink distressed using Ranger Distress ink in Tea Dye |
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| Finishing the inside of the card with another stamp from the Friendship Nested Sentiments using Labels Eighteen to stamp on, I ink distressed with Ranger Distress inks in Tea Dye using the technique where you leave your dye on the diecut after its cut and embossed and distressed around the edges with the die on so that when you lift it, the edge remains white to bring contrast and dimension. |
