Wonderful Day

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter on the blog today.  If you're anything like me, you likely have some patterned paper sitting around that you just never use.  I find that I'll buy paper collections for certain pieces and then have a bunch of sheets left over that just sit there.  I decided that I wanted to start to use it up and chose a piece to use for this project.  With the paper chosen, I went through my BPM stamps and saw the wonderful Special Days Clear Stamps Set by Pam Bray.  I just knew that the floral image and butterflies would go well with the patterned paper.  The paper has an almost country-like look to it and so I also thought that burlap paper would look nice with it as well.  I had a scrap burlap oval leftover from my last project and I could put it to use here.  Here's the design that came up with:

Here's what I used to make it:

• Special Day Clear Stamp Set
  
• Patterned paper from stash
• Burlap paper (oval scrap)
• White cardstock
• A2 card base
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Scorched Timber
• Simon Hurley Grrrr Brown Ink
• Delicata Golden Glitz Metallic Pigment Ink
• Gold gems

Here's how I made it:

• Cut patterned paper down to an A2 size and adhered it to the card base with double sided tape.

• Ink blended some Scorched Timber onto the burlap oval and then ran the ink pad around the edges of the oval.
• Adhered oval to the card base with double sided foam tape for added dimension.
• Used a nesting oval die smaller than the burlap oval and used it to cut out a white oval.

• Stamped the floral onto the white oval with Grrrr ink; stamped sentiment with Scorched Timber; and stamped butterflies with gold pigment ink.
• Smooshed some Scorched Timber ink onto a craft mat, spritzed it with water, and then used a brush to add some splatter to the oval.
• Once dry, adhered the white oval to the burlap oval with craft glue.
• Adhered three gold gems to the card.

This is such an easy card to make and a great way to use up patterned paper.  It's also very gender neutral - perfect for a guy or a gal!

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today!  See you again soon.

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