So Happy Congratulations Card

So Happy Congratulations Card

I was flipping through an old copy of The Stamper’s Sampler and saw a card that had a rectangle stamped in a pale ink color which was then overstamped with the top part of a long-stemmed flower. I thought aha! I have a solid rectangle stamp like that!  I’ll try the same thing.  Well, it wasn’t a rectangle, it was a square (and a slightly wonky square at that).  I needed to send a congratulations card, so I decided to turn it into that!  A lot of my cards start out with that sort of inspiration, but don’t usually end up the way I originally envision! 🙂

This card is one of my rare clean & simple cards. The cardbase is Neenah Solar White 80 lb. cardstock. I centered and stamped one of the sentiments from the Lawn Fawn Grand Greetings set in VersaFine Onyx Black pigment ink and embossed it with WOW Clear Gloss embossing powder.  After I stamped the cardbase, I stamped the Rubber Stampede “Skewed Square” in the Hero Arts Shadow Inks Pale Tomato and Butter Bar and Ranger Archival Aquamarine.

Hand made congratulations card so happy detail

I lined the squares up on scrap paper the way I wanted them on the card, turning the center one upside down for variety.  I stamped the sentiment again over the squares and embossed each one separately with the clear WOW.  Once they were dry, I lined them up over the sentiment on the cardbase and adhered them with some Tombow tape runner.

Hand made congratulations card so happy close up

For the finishing touches I found a coordinating washi tape and just the right colors of enamel dots in my stash. Don’t you love when that happens?

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