Have you ever looked at a stamp set set and thought "I definately wouldn't be getting that one!" and then you start seeing amazing samples made by your wonderfully crafty friends? Well there have been a few sets lately that I kept resisting the urge to purchase thinking " Will I really use it, do I really NEED that?" Ummm, and then it happens I can not resist any longer and an order is placed,lol. In fact the last order that I recieved had 3 stamps sets in it that I was "never going to order":) And today's card uses 2 of them!
I had thought that the Tea Shoppe Set was nice but maybe not that practical, but after seeing so many amazing and versitle projects I caved! And then there is the Sweet Floral Background Stamp, I tend to not buy very many background stamps because there are so many fabulous Designer Series Paper patterns and I am addicted to using my Textured Impressions Folders, however sometimes you just can't beat a nice big image. And in this case I found these two sets really work well together. I started with a Pool Party card base then layered on a large piece of Crumb Cake that had been stamped on using VersaMark and the Sweet Floral Background stamp and I detressed the edges using the Cutter Kit. Hopefully no one is getting sick of the Attic Boutique DSP as I certainly am not and have lots more projects to come using it:)
I ordered the *Tea Shoppe set in Clear mount so I could cut the image with the 3 tea cups apart. That way I can mount them individually or together when I stamped the images. (shhh a little secret-I am a bit of a lazy stamper and masking takes too much time.lol!) Here I stamped the one tea cup and cut it out using my paper snips. I stamped the floral image using Calypso Coral Ink on Whiper White then punch it out with the 1 3/8 Circle Punch and spritzed it using the Color Spritzer Tool and a Crumb Cake Marker. The sentiment was stamped using Soft Suede and then cut into a little flag, I also added a punched DSP flower and a cute little Pearl Jewel. Baker's Twine seems to be super trendy right now in paper crafting so I was super excited to see lots more colour in the Occasion Mini Catalogue; here I used Calypso Coral Baker's Twine. To add another pop of colour I used my favourite go to punch-the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch and Calypso Coral Card stock.
Supplies used:
Stamps: Sweet Floral Background, Tea Shoppe
Ink: Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Soft Suede, VersaMark
Paper: Attic Boutique Designer Series paper, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Pool Party
Accessories: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Calypso Coral Baker's Twine, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (flower), Pearl Jewels, Cutter Kit
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