Tuesday, February 14, 2012

CPS Day 11 - many thanks

I'm back with my card for day 11 of Card Positioning Systems 5th anniversary celebration. Here is the sketch (#170):

I needed to make a thank you card for a very generous gal in the Hero Arts Flickr group (thanks again, Greta!), and I knew that I wanted to use the Hero Arts Zigzag background, but like I said in day 10's post, I just can't get enough Paper Smooches lately. And there's a super cute "many thanks" stamp in my poor lonely "Word Salad" set (can't wait to get my first installment of the PS club next month!), so I decided to have some fun using the "many thanks" with the zigzag. I rarely use purple in my projects, so I thought I'd challenge myself to do something I little different. I stamped the zigzag background onto a purple card base using Colorbox fluid chalk ink in Wisteria. I stamped the entire "many thanks" stamp onto a strip of white cardstock using black ink. Then I did a WHOLE bunch of masking (of "many") and stamping (of just "thanks") to create a background with many thanks on it, using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Dusty Concord. And now for the paper yummies:

I stamped the cute little heart from the Word Salad set on either side of the "many thanks", then colored them yellow to match my button and baker's twine. I used the new trick that I "invented" for tying shorter ribbons, and added a couple of stacked buttons. I finished it off with some Glossy Accents on the little hearts. I think it turned out really cute. Here's a closer view:
I'm submitting this card to Paper Smooches March Guest Designer Search, and playing along at Cupcake Craft Challenges "Entwined" challenge. Thanks for looking!

Supplies: card base: Hampton Art; cardstock: Georgia Pacific; stamps: Hero Arts (background), Paper Smooches (sentiment, heart); ink: Tsukineko (black), Clearsnap (purple zigzag), Ranger (purple sentiments); dimensional glaze: Ranger; ribbon/buttons: craft supply; baker's twine: Divine Twine; corner rounder: We R Memory Keepers

4 comments:

  1. Cute design! Thanks for playing along with us at CPS!!

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  2. This is such a great card IRL--I love it! Thanks, Kim

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  3. What a lovely card! Love the colors and pretty details! Thanks for joining us at the cupcake craft challenge this week! Good luck! Hugs and sunshine!

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  4. Gorgeous card and lovely design,thank you for joining us at Cupcake craft this week and good luck.
    Louise xx

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