Gratitude is born in hearts…

Sharing a card with a new stamp from The Ink Road from the Bella Flora Borders set.

I’m doing well with my NBUS, as this stamp set only arrived in the mail this week and it’s already seen some ink, aMAYzing!  But it was perfect for a bit of black and yellow action so I could play along at Dream Valley in their current challenge.  Love this colour combo, so striking and so happy!

For my layout I’ve followed the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  The simple clean lines worked well with the stamp set and allowed me to go a bit nuts with my layers of matting to show off that awesome colour combo even more.

Over at the AlphabetChallenge they want you to go either grunge or glitz.  As this thank you card is going out to a rather feminine woman I’ve gone with the glitz.  I swear it’s impossible to get glitter to show in a pic but the flowers are very much twinkling in real life, covered in a sparkly lick of Nuvo Aqua Shimmer.  I also used it on the fab chippie from Make it Crafty, which I think was actually itself a thank you from the ever-generous Zoe in one of my orders.  To further glitz it up I added a line of gems between the two border lines of the stamp and embossed the stamp for a glossy effect.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Rhinestones ~ Yellow

Make it Crafty Chipboard ~ thankyou

Inks & Paints etc

Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen ~ Midas Touch

Tim Holtz Archival Ink ~ Black Soot

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Fossilized Amber, Mowed Lawn, Mustard Seed & Twisted Citron

Papers

Arches Watercolour Paper

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Licorice Twist

Echo Park Easter Wishes ~ Journaling Cards

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Daffodil Delight

Stamps

The Ink Road ~ INKR065 Bella Flora Borders

Challenges

Alphabet Challenge ~ G is for Grunge or Glitz

Dream Valley #205 ~ Use the Colours Yellow and Black

 

Thanks for stopping by!