Embrace Life

Just a real quick card today. This card was really easy to make . The layout is very simple and basic. I used the stamp set "EMBRACE LIFE" for this card. The bamboo images were stamped on a surface using a Faux Silk technique. To achieve that look, you stamp your image onto a piece of tissue paper in black. I then chose to color in the leaves with an Old Olive marker. I then took the piece of tissue paper and crumbled in into a ball to make it all crinkly looking. I then took a glue stick and covered a neutral piece of cardstock with it. The crinkled piece of tissue paper was placed over the sticky cardstock. I stretched the tissue paper out over the cardstock but did not smooth it out completely. You really want to see that crinkly textured effect. It gives the card more character. That step was really the hardest part in the making of this card. As you can see there really was not a lot of stamping in making this card. the supplies that I used for this card were:

STAMP SET: Embrace Life
CARDSTOCK: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Very Vanilla
INK: Black Staz-On
ACCESSORIES: Tissue Paper, Glue stick, Old Olive Marker, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Gray Taffeta Ribbon

I find that when you are doing a more involved technique, if you keep the card design simple the technique will stand out more. I really like this stamp set. At this time of the year, my LOVE AT FIRST STAMP group are going to use this stamp set a lot more. That is because we are making items to raise money for the Relay For Life event that will be held in Easton next month. Our stamping group was involved last year in walking and making items to sell in order to raise money for this great cause. We chose this stamp set because of the message it gives. We are going to create scrapbook pages to sell at the event using this set. I will post pictures of this event next month and let you know how well we did raising money. Have a great day and remember to embrace life.