Inspired Tuesday Challenge (and a bow tutorial too!)

Stamps: For Everything

Paper: Kraft, Soft Suede, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Ink: Whisper White, Stazon™, Taken with Teal, Versa Marker
Accessories: Latte Designer Buttons, Linen Thread, Dimensionals®, White Satin, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Clear Embossing Powder, Scallop Edge Punch

Ilina Crouse is a wonderfully talented demonstrator and a blogger whom I've admired for quite a loooooooong time. She's started up a challenge she's calling "Inspired Tuesdays"! Now, you should know by now that I rarely pass up a challenge when I've got the time and I happened to have had it this week! Soooooooooo, since I had a new stamp set I've been itching to use, I set out to play with Ilina's inspiration and Mercy's sketch! Makeesha had sent a wonderful gift over Christmas, a beautiful card along with this oh-so-cute stamp set called "For Everything" available in the Australian/New Zealand Summer Mini Catalogue! Here's an image of the stamp set and a pic of the beautiful Christmas card I received from Keesh:

Thanks Keesh!

First of all, I'd received a question from Dotty a little while ago regarding a bow I'd tied on a card. I thought I'd take some pics while making this card so you can easily see how I made it! It's all on this graphic on the right (click to enlarge). It's basically a single-loop bow. So instead of making two loops, you would only make one! If anything is confusing or doesn't make sense, please let me know. I tend to talk in sound effects to my class and club attendees and those don't translate well into English ... LOL!

So, onto the card deets! I started out with stamping a strip of Bashful Blue card stock with Whisper White craft ink and heated it to dry (I'm impatient). Then, I stamped the sentiment on the top randomly and used a versa marker to fill in the letters. The bottom of the card was embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.

Thanks for visiting my blog! I hope you like the card and tutorial!!

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