Hi Friends
Here I am, surprise! I found some time to post another card I made for you to enjoy. As you know I make dozens of cards all the time and it has to be flat in order to mail at cheaper cost. So many of you appreciates the flat ones and frankly I find them harder to make due to lack of embellishments I can use for FLAT cards. If I ever repeat a card please forgive me. I have a system that once I have posted a card for you I remove it from the folder I had it in so I don't post it again but my system is not infallible. I do my best though!
Today was too hot for me and there were too many bees in the yard to be able to work freely without worries. If you have been bit by a bee before you remember how it is like and you make sure you don't upset any while around them. I should say when they are around me. LOL So I fed the fishes in the back and front ponds and I am in to post this for you. I hope you enjoy it.
How I made this card:
I had a rubber stamp I had purchased at the Mesa AZ stamp show in March this year and was on my table since that day. I finally used it. I thought it was cute and a good use for the ladies who are getting together to scrapbook once a week. This one was another simple one from that simple collection of flat cards. I chose my background matting pattern paper, then picked two colors of CS that would mix well with it. I used my Spellbinder oval die cutting the first layer that had the stamped image on and then the second layer was made by tracing the outside edge of that same oval die and cut around with scissors. The third layer was made with the next die up in the set. Another die cut was used to make the stamped Sentiment which I had in my stash. I of course sponge daubed around my cie cuts before removing them off the dies to add more interest to the image.
I also colored everything with my Prismacolor pencils with Gamsol (Odorless Mineral spirit) and a paper stump. My card base is in white, I then added my rusty colored mat then my pattern paper. The green oval mat, then on top the rusty oval CS and finished off with the stamped image. You can use some 3D foam tape once for a flat card but anymore than that postage will be increased. Then I added my Sentiment at the bottom and it was done!
Have a wonderful day, keep a smile on, it is contagious!