Background Stamps

Hello.  I am doing the Online Card Class--Stretch your stamps  with Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner.  The first day showed how to take a background stamp and the many different ways to use it.  I decided to try the Impression Obsession Cover-A-Card "Ticking" stamp pictured below.  I stamped it with Distress Ink "Faded Jeans" and then turned the paper and stamped it with Distress Ink "Stormy Sky".  I really like the pattern it created.  This was mounted on a Bazzill navy paper.  The butterfly is from a Hero Arts - Sizzix set and the Sentiment is from Penny Black.  Copic markers were used to color the butterfly using two shades of yellow  -Y13 and Y 18 and one of blue (B32).  Faded Jeans was used to distress the sentiment.This is an A2 card and was rather simple to make.  Hope you enjoy.  (edit:  I used Memento on the butterfly and Ranger archival jet black on the sentiment.)

Bold Pop Designs

The inspiration for this card came from a "Clean and Simple" card class I took a few months ago.  No it is not a windmill.  The stamp and die set used is from Hero Arts/Sizzix "Bold Pop Designs".   This card was made for Fond Memories in Walnut Grove and can be seen there.  I stamped the flower on white paper and inked with a Memento yellow and cut it.  The  blue was stamped with one of the flowers and a VersaMark pad for a watermark effect.  A circle was cut with Spellbinders on the blue paper, the corners were punched.  The next step was to take yellow twine wrapping it  around and then mounting on white.  The flower was added with a pearl gem in the center.  A Spellbinder tag was cut and stamped with a Penny Black "gratitude" sentiment.  I really like this Penny Black set from their "T for Transparent" series.  The card is rather simple and lots of fun to make.  Hope you enjoy