Stamps: Snow Buddies, Teeny Tiny Phrases, Four the Holidays, Many Merry MessagesPaper: Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke, Kraft, Whisper White
Ink: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Stazon™
Accessories: Curly Label Punch, Linen Thread, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, Dimensionals®, Playground Designer Buttons
Finally made time to play with one of Mercy's sketches! Yay!! I love her sketches but have recently been overloaded with so many other non-stamping things that I've barely had time to stamp ... Normally, I have a week or two of posts ahead of me! Hence the unexplained days off :) Anyways, I'm blathering about nothing but again, I loved this sketch. I also loved a card I'd seen by Heather Nichols and that inspired this one!! She'd used a definition stamp for the background on the Kraft card stock but I don't have one so I made my own! I've always wanted to get one from Stampin' Up but never did 'cause I wasn't sure how much I'd use it ... So, me and my handy-dandy Stamp-a-ma-jig went to work! It was quite a bit of extra work as the craft ink had to be dried using the heat tool every time I stamped so I could line up the next word without smearing white ink everywhere.
Repeatable technique? not with craft ink ...
Do I love the look? You bet!
As always, at this time of year, I always make two cards for every sketch or challenge or whatever as I use/need way too many Christmas cards. I happened to have two pieces of Burgundy already cut to card size, just one was for a tall card and one was for a wide card. Worked out well! Hope you like my cards!
Don't forget to check out the Holiday Extravaganza sale!
Repeatable technique? not with craft ink ...
Do I love the look? You bet!
As always, at this time of year, I always make two cards for every sketch or challenge or whatever as I use/need way too many Christmas cards. I happened to have two pieces of Burgundy already cut to card size, just one was for a tall card and one was for a wide card. Worked out well! Hope you like my cards!
Don't forget to check out the Holiday Extravaganza sale!
17 encouraging comments :):
Holy cow girl! You rocked that background! I can only imagine the time it took! I'd love to try it but I think I'd go over my 30 minute limit for card making...hehe!
Love the inked edges too!!!
Love your cards and especially the way you made your background and the border punched with the curly label punch. TFS
JoAnn
Your cards look awesome... love the backgroud too!
Tfs, Julie - kewlstamps-n-more
Lovin this Renee!!!
Just beautiful! I really like the background you created with the sentiment stamps, it looks like a really nice patterned paper :)
Cindy
OMG! The first one (at the top) is my favorite! WOW! WOW! Renée, you ARE AMAZING! TFS!
These are both stunning. Love the twine to the button and the way you made your own background!
Wonderful card Renee!
Totally gorgeous, both of 'em!
I love your ingenuity.
The colours and the backgrounds are so pretty and worth all the effort.
Viv xx
That's such a GREAT idea to make two cards for challenge.....because YEP, Christmas is now RIGHT around the corner.
Love both of these....as always, beautifully done.
these are stunning!! LOVE how you created the background for them...white on kraft is dreamy...I made some gift cards based on her cards too!! Gorgeous!
WOWEE, WOW, WOW renee! love how you created the text bg using that set...i do that alot with verve sets. it looks so clean and straight...gotta love that stamp-a-ma-jig! LOL! great colors, stamp combinations...LOVE IT ALL, sistah!
thanks for playing along with my sketch for this week...you've done an amazing job! :)
{{{hugs}}}
mercy
I love this card, especially the vertical one! WOW! Awesome job!!
Great use of Mercy's sketch on both cards :D Love the twine with the button.
I just love your cards!! I check every day and always go away with ideas. Each is so special--I know that SU must be thrilled to have you represent them!
Wow - totally worth the work! Absolutely gorgeous card! Thanks for sharing!
WOW, gorgeous Renee - love the background in the card and the twine is a perfect touch with the button. I LOVE it!!
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