Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Make it Monday: Backgrounds with Sentiment Stamps

I was so tickled with myself to get a card made for this week's Make It Monday challenge ON MONDAY... but then, it took me until now to actually get the photo uploaded and blog it, so I guess no gold star for me after all. LOL! But I do really love this challenge - did you see Betsy's card?? Oh my goodness, it's gorgeous! I decided to go with my Winterberry stamp set, which I got last month, but just got the dies for it when they came out this month. I layered the background with both images and sentiments from the set, stamping off lightly first to get a subtle image. I also stamped a few of the small sprigs, and the berry cluster from Harvest Berries, without stamping off first. I think the variation in the "boldness" of the stamping adds a lot of wonderful depth.


I popped up the die-cut tree, colored with Copics, and added a sweet Little Bitty Bird and a Tiny Tag 2. The patterned paper background is from Echo Park, and the Mega Mat Stack 1 is on Fine Linen, with the tree, bird and tag all cut from Vintage Cream, and a Vintage Cream card base.


Both the tree + bird, and the mat stack, are popped up on dimensional adhesive.


Thanks for looking! :)

13 comments:

Kara said...

great job with the new challenge!! love how it turned out!

Amy (aka Aimitup) said...

So very pretty! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Joyce said...

Such a pretty card. I'll give you a gold star anyway. Happy Thanksgiving.

Kay D said...

Love it, love it! Squealing with delight over the cutie pie birdy you put in the tree- just love it!

Deb said...

Great card! Very pretty!

carol (krillsister) said...

Lovely card. You did a great job with th4e challenge.

Leigh Penner said...

Super pretty, Debbie! Great job with the technique!

Mayol said...

Very beautiful card! Love the colors! :)

Mayol said...

Very beautiful card! Love the colors! :)

Jill Norwood said...

Beautiful card! The more I see this set of Heather's the more I feel the need to purchase it...love what you did!

Carolyne Aarsen said...

Love what you did the MIM concept. I'm inspired to try it myself.

Suzanne Russell said...

Very pretty, Debbie! I love the rich colors of the background and i am a fool for the tiny tags every time!

Suzie said...

Love your card! You make this technique work so well! Thanks for the inspiration. :)