Yay - the weekend is here! I'm absolutely loving & enjoying the wonderful weather we're finally seeing! But I've also been finding some crafty time. I bought some stamps and ink recently and decided to have a little fun with them. So decided to play around with one of my favorite hobbies...card making.
punching holes for stitching
basic back stitch
hello little cloud
practicing...
I began by deciding I wanted to make a sun, but instead of just drawing it I decided to stitch it in. I got some of my cross stitch/embroidery thread in sunshine yellow. ;) I then punched holes in the paper where I wanted the thread to go and did a basic back stitch to make a circle. Then I added some felt border stickers, cut up, to be the sun's rays. I then cut out this fun blue polka dot paper for clouds in random shapes. But then of course I needed to add something with a stamp - so I found this one I had that said "thinking of you". I thought it was perfect for a good generic card and to let someone know I was thinking of them when the sun was shining! I did a few practice stamps to make sure of how heavy I may want the words to look. I recommend doing that first with your stamps. Use some scrap paper and test it out to see how strong your ink will be and if you maybe want it lighter - stamp it once on extra paper and then stamp the second time on your card.
As you can see, for the second one I used my victorian pattern scissors and cut a pretty pink overlay of paper. I then added this embroidered looking "doily" ring and put a pretty flower sticker (from French sticker set I have) in the center. I then used my "thank you" stamp to complete this one.
Of course I needed to embellish the envelope for each. For the sunshine one I used more of the felt border stickers. And for the flower one I used some vintage looking French postcard stickers from the same set I used on the card. And both received a fun bronze stamping of "created with love" - because they were. ;)
I'm linking with Andrea of Scrapality for Scraptastic Saturday.
