It’s Super Bowl Sunday!!  So I thought I’d share a super girly card that I made for the Fab Friday 11 Sketch Challenge.  I used the Secret Garden and Vintage Verses stamp sets from Stampin’ Up.  Vintage Verses is one of the sets that you can earn for free with a $50 purchase during Sale-a-bration!  This is the sketch:

And here is my card:

Here are the products that you’ll need to create this card:

• Vintage Verses (Sale-a-bration Item 129633 wood, 129636 clear)
• Secret Garden (129141 wood, 129144 clear)
• Secret Garden Framelits Dies (129372)
• Labels Collection Framelits Dies (125598)
• Print Poetry Designer Series Paper Stack (129312)
• Delicate Details Lace Tape (130966)
• Blender Pens (102845)
• Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder (109133)
• VersaMark Pad (102283)
• Heat Tool (129053)
• Summer Starfruit Classic Stampin’ Pad (126991)
• Midnight Muse Classic Stampin’ Pad (126860)
• Gumball Green Classic Stampin’ Pad (126861)
• Summer Starfruit Card Stock (126839)
• Midnight Muse Card Stock (126843)
• Gumball Green Card Stock (126840)
• Very Vanilla Card Stock (101650)
• Stamping Sponges (101610)
• SNAIL Adhesive (104332)
• Stampin’ Dimensionals (104430)

I started with a Midnight Muse card base cut to 4-1/4″ x 11″ and scored at 5-1/2″.  Then I cut a panel of Gumball Green card stock to 4″ x 5-1/4″ and a panel of Summer Starfruit to 3-7/8″ x 5-1/8″.  I stamped the flower images from the Secret Garden stamp set on the Summer Starfruit panel in Summer Starfruit ink and I adhered the two panels together and then to the card front with SNAIL.  Then I cut a strip of Gumball Green to 2-1/8″ x 5-1/4″ and a strip of Print Poetry DSP to 2″ x 5-1/4″, adhered the two strips together then adhered the layers to the card front with SNAIL.  Next, I stamped the flower images in VersaMark ink on Very Vanilla card stock, sprinkled them with Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat embossed them.  Then I cut the flowers out using the matching Secret Garden Framelits dies and I colored them using my Blender Pens.  I simply touched my ink pad with the Blender Pen and started coloring the flower petals, adding more ink by touching the ink pad again.  I used a swirling motion to get the ink distributed the way that I wanted.  I also stamped and cut some of the leaves.  Then I used one of the Labels Collection Framelits dies to cut a panel of Gumball Green card stock and I used the next smaller Labels Framelit to cut a panel from Very Vanilla card stock.  I layered the flowers and leaves on the Very Vanilla panel, adhering them with SNAIL.  Once I had the flowers arranged and adhered, I adhered the decorated Very Vanilla panel to the Gumball Green panel, then adhered the layers to the card front with SNAIL.  To finish the card, I used the Delicate Details lace tape as a stencil on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock that I’d cut to 1-1/8″ x 4″ and I sponged Summer Starfruit ink onto the strip.  I pulled up the lace tape then stamped the sentiment from the Vintage Verses stamp set in Midnight Muse ink over the sponging.  I cut a strip of Midnight Muse card stock to 1-1/4″ x 4″ and adhered it to the sentiment using SNAIL.  Then I used my Paper Snips to cut the flag ends and I adhered the sentiment to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals under the ends and SNAIL in the middle.

The lace tape has a neat sort-of plastic surface to it so I was able to put the tape down, sponge over the top of it, pull it back up and wipe the ink off so that I could reuse it later.  Love it!  And if you haven’t tried the Blender pens to color, you should give it a try.  It’s really easy and allows you to do much more shading then just using a regular marker.

Hoping to be able to do a little stamping while watching the game this evening…nothing better than football and stamping!  Anyone else joining me?  And go Ravens (only because my husband is a big 49ers fan)!!

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Happy Stamping!

Amy

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