Believe in your self Card
Believe in your self card. In this world we want to buy everything we like and see, but sometimes experimenting and recreating are part of the fun. Today I am sharing with you a card that I made using beautiful single pieces that I combined by “necessity” because I don’t have a plaid stamp…LOL!
I am crazy with the fabulous plaid designer papers that I saw during this season but I decided to create my own pattern just using two colors of VersaFine Clair Ink and without embossing to make it more rustic.
I took a stamp set from Peek-a-boo Designs that includes a lot of different stripes and selected just two or three to be used on my card. I positioned the stripes in my stamparatus and stamped stripe by stripe using for the wide strip VersaFine Clair Morning Mist and for the thin VersaFine Clair Nocturne.
When I was satisfied with the vertical pattern I decided to add a horizontal different design to make the plaid more interesting. To stamp these lines I only used VersaFine Clair Nocturne. Since the top of the stamparatus has grids, was very easy follow the pattern just moving the paper and not the stamps. I left this stamped piecea side for a few minutes.
In a separate piece of whisper white card stock I stamped with VersaMark Ink one festive poinsettia included on the stamp set Poinsettia Tangle from Dare2B Artzy and covered it with Silver Embossing Powder that I melted with the heat tool. I fussy cut poinsettia with my scissors.
With the left over card stock I used three colors of Fireworks to create a soft green tone that at the same time show me a little shimmer. I used Fireworks Cottage Ivy, New Sprout and Bamboo Leaves. After the piece of card stock was totally dried and cut some leaves using a die cuts from Prima.
To finalize my card, I resized the background and arranged all the pieces over Real Red card stock and as final touch I die cut the word believe in Real Red card stock and black foam. I pasted both die cuts using On-Point Glue and sprayed with Sheer Shimmer Frost. With a Memento marker, I colored the center of the poinsettia.
Sometimes, by exploring and practicing, you can discover amazing things that you can do using only your inks and this card is a perfect example.
SUPPLY LIST:
Imagine Products:
- VersaFine Clair: Morning Mist and Nocturne
- Fireworks: Cottage Ivy, New Sprout and Bamboo Leaves
- VersaMark
- Embossing Powder: Silver
- Memento Marker: Love Letter
- Sheer Shimmer: Frost
- Craft Mat
- On-Point Glue
Other:
- Cardstock: Whisper White and Real Red
- It’s Plaid Time Stamp set by Peek a Boo Designs
- Poinsettia Tangle by Dare2B Artzy
- Believe Cutaway by Winnie & Walter
- Foam Black
