Inspired by Virginia

On my way around my favorite blogs yesterday I came across THIS post by Virginia. I found her paper-pieced jars to be so charming that I used them as inspiration to finally ink up a Unity stamp set that I've had for a while but haven't used as yet.

I did some paper-piecing using the Butterfly Garden paper pack from Pink Paislee that I just unearthed from the rubble that had been my studio. Since I didn't want to tax my still in recovery mojo I kept this oh-so-simple. I wanted to make a card for my in-laws, just something to remind them how much God loves them.

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I also used the Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden 6x6 paper pack and Stampendous Cling Stamp "Wings of Eagles".

blessings,
nancy

Inspired by Lin!

The lovely Lin Brandyberry has been one of my creative muses for many years now. Her style is so feminine, soft and lovely. Her use of color is extraordinary. I quite literally gasp when I see her cards. So when I saw THIS amazing bit of cardmaking genius, using an older Stampendous stamp that I own, I had to try to make it my own.

Here are my vintage Stampendous Christmas stamps:

"His Name Tree" from 2001 and "Jesus is the Reason for the Season" from 1987 (inside sentiment).

Where Lin's design is soft and pink and tied with a perfect bow, I went with saturated color, bright gems and lots of Perfect Pearls mist. After white embossing the image on white cs, I applied Fired Brick Distress ink directly to the paper and used a cloth remove the excess ink from the embossed image. After a thorough spritzing with the mist and time to dry the panel was adhered to a white card base before adding the gems.

The color of this card is also inspired by THIS video by Pastor Greg Laurie titled "Red is the Color of Christmas". Let me know what you think.

Christmas Blessings,

nancy