Quick Thank You Cards with Layered Thoughts

Need a quick batch of cards? Consider the Layered Thoughts stamp set with 4 key greetings: Thank You, Thinking of You, Happy Birthday and Love (pairing nicely with you or just on its own!). Stamped my greeting on Basic White and die cut it out with the Textured Notes dies because I'm obsessed with them...but it works equally well on a rectangle or other shape in your stash. For the colour palette, I used a piece of Timeless Plaid DSP to choose: Cajun Craze and Soft Sea Foam. Topped it off with Iridescent Pearls coloured with the Cajun Craze Stampin' Blend - an alcohol based marker. All set with my Thank You cards!

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Heartfelt Hexagon Pattern Card

July's monthly card class goers enjoyed this layout which was both decorative and easy to put together. Punch out 6 coordinating patterned papers and layer them onto an embossed piece. I actually used 5 because the top right and bottom left are the same piece, cut in half, and one flipped over. To add a matte to your greeting on White, punch out one in coordinating cardstock, cut it in half and layer behind the stamped one. What a helpful way to use up your scraps. Enjoy!

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Collage Stamping featuring Textured Notes

Easy collage stamping technique on today's card with a scrap of patterned paper and a greeting. Sweet and simple! The 3 stamped images are from the Textured Notes stamp set added with Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie and Early Espresso inks. The paper is from this same suite, Woven Textures, flagged at the end. The greeting, fromt he stamp set With You in Mind, perfectly fits on the Modern Oval punch and is popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals. The Bough punch is a fave of mine so I tucked a punched leaf behind the oval. Those are Pecan Pie dots from Neutral Matte Dots. Give collage stamping a try...great way to use your stamps to layer up.

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Fault Line Card with Mediterranean Blooms

Check out this amazing card! It's called the Fault Line technique and learned it from my friend and Silver Sister Glenda Mollet. Very cool! It involves tearing patterned paper edges to two matching patterns. Tore up the edges slightly with my bone folder to add texture to it all. Turned out quite lovely, I must say!

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Add Dimension to your cards with multi-generational stamping and embossing

Today's card was featured in my Textured Notes Avid Stampers Class. The best part of this card was using one stamp with multi-generational stamping to give dimension to the card even before embossing it. What do I mean by multi-generational stamping? When you ink up your stamp and apply that to paper right away, that's 1st generation. If you stamp it off once, that's 2nd generation and so on. Gives the impression you've used more than one ink pad when it's just a change in colour tone. That layer in the middle uses this technique plus embossing after stamping. Love how it all turned out.

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