Dusting off some under-used stamps

A while ago A Blog Named Hero challenged us to dust off our less used stamps and give them some inky love.  I had so much fun playing with my older Hero Arts sunflower and harlequin stamps, I was pretty pleased with the resulting card too! I posted about it HERE.

Well this challenge got me thinking about sets of stamps that have been unfairly neglected. So I made a card using an older Papertrey Ink set with inspiration from Lin (and PTI).

The flower stamps are from Beautiful Blooms II and the sentiment is from Signature Greetings. I used the coordinating Beautiful Blooms die to create the flower embellie. I combined the older stamps with Hero Hues Chalk inks in Poppy, Punch and Splash...I love the clean primary color palette.

This is birthday card #1 of 10 that I'm making for my sister. She's leading a summer Bible Study and ordered birthday cards for the women in the group. I'm still debating whether it needs bling, what do you think?

Here's another card that I did for the recent 90 Minute Scramble using the same masking technique.

blessings,

nancy