Kindness Echoes

Last Thursday I attended a different type of Stamp A Stack. I had arranged with a couple of local demonstrators – the 2 I do weight watchers with – that we’d have our ‘own’ Stamp A Stack. We would each do three designs and we’d all make kits for the others attending. This would give us some different cards to offer as Stamp A Stacks and it was also great to get together, stamp, chat and drink coffee together!

This is one of Lisa’s cards we created.

Its a simple but elegant card using the very lovley Bella Bleu Designer Series Papers.

Recipe:

Stamps: Echoes of Kindness
Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla, Kraft, Bella Bleu Designer Series Papers
Ink: Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, Stampin Sponges.

This was a very quick and easy card to make yet it still turns out very elegant. You can see more of Lisa’s lovely work at her blog here.

After making this one on Thursday I got a call from the school to say my youngest daughter wasnt well so I had to leave pretty well right away.

So after getting my daughter from school and dosing her up with some meds for her fever, headache and sore throat I thought I’d take the opportunity to make a card similar to that of Lisa’s but just a little different.

I am so loving the blue/brown combination at the moment when I saw the new Parisian Breeze Specialty Designer Series Paper in the upcoming Spring Mini Catalogue I just knew I had to have that pack and have already fallen in love with it!

What makes this Designer Series Pack “specialty”? well its actually heavier than the regular Designer Series Papers as its ‘cover’ weight and its also textured! Yes textured and very yummy!

To make this card I’ve just used the colours that the pack is designed with. Also with the sentiment I’ve also overstamped one of the flowers from the Echoes of Kindness set which I stamped off first before stamping on the sentiment piece so its like a faint watermark. Not sure you can see that detail in the card here.

Recipe:

Stamps: Echoes of Kindness
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Baja Breeze, Parisian Breeze Specialty Designer Series Papers
Ink: Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Baja Breeze stripe grosgrain ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers

Why not contact me today and book in for a Stamp A Stack – you tell me the theme of the cards you’d like to do … christmas, birthday, get well, general, male or feminine. You get to do 9 cards for $20 – 3 each of 3 different designs.

Why not start on your christmas cards early this year and do a few each month and then youre all set for Christmas before it gets here!