I knew I wanted to play along with the Everything Old is New Again challenge this week since it is to make a card featuring only a sentiment ... which is one of my favorite types of designs. Sentiment stamps are my favorite and I'm always on the look-out for good ones.
This Suzy Toronto Believe stamp from PSX is one of the oldest in my collection. I often use it on the inside of cards, but it's been a long time since I made a card that featured it as the main design element. It's something that always inspires me when I read it.
I colored the flowers that are part of the stamp with glaze pens and added a flower cut from the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl DP. The sketch is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch. I tried several different papers for the horizontal elements in the sketch design, but couldn't find one that didn't seem too busy with the floral paper.
I remembered the Everything But the Kitchen Sink challenge to use string in your design and added some ivory string. After I photographed it, I realized I should have added some distress ink to the string to tone down the brightness, but didn't want to risk ruining the card to re-work it, so I'm leaving it as it is.
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So fabu! Love that stamp...it is perfect just by itself! And the Material Girl is perfect with the embellies you chose!
Posted by: Allison | March 30, 2010 at 09:38 PM
Beautiful card! Love that sentiment - great dp. Thanks for joining us.
Posted by: SueB | March 31, 2010 at 03:49 AM
Very cute! I love that paper! Thanks for playing along!
Posted by: Courtney | March 31, 2010 at 09:43 AM
So pretty, I'm just in love with the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl paper.
Posted by: Lynnette | March 31, 2010 at 02:47 PM
I've done that so many times, trying to add an element when its too late only to ruin the card. This is a beauty, and its nice to see a sentiment like that on the outside.
Posted by: Karen B. | March 31, 2010 at 10:50 PM
What a fabulous sentiment! Great job with the sketch and string.
Posted by: Laural-Lee | April 01, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Lovely sentiment Stef and lovely PP...Beautiful card...would you mind see mine..I am joining also this challenge from EBTKS...hugs, Monika
Posted by: Monika Reeck | April 02, 2010 at 09:24 AM
This looks great- I love that pp- you did a great job with this challenge!
Posted by: jen shears | April 03, 2010 at 10:20 PM
Cute! I love that paper! Thanks for playing with us in the EBTKS challenge! :)
Posted by: Winter | April 07, 2010 at 10:17 AM
I love this.. What an amazing saying.. I have a daughter that is going through a tough time and this would be perfect.. Great job with this..
Posted by: Dawn Burnworth | May 24, 2010 at 10:56 AM