pub'ed card set

Hey, there! How's your summer going? Mine's keeping me pretty busy. :) Trying to get outside and enjoy this weather as much as possible before it ends! Either it's going to start snowing in a couple of months, or we're going to be living back in AZ in a couple of months... either way, the weather's NOT going to be conducive to getting out much! LOL So hopefully that explains part of why I've been so absent. Still not feeling all that well either, so nothing brand new to show yet. I have been playing around with my new Hero Arts CLiNGS stamps a little bit, so I hope to have something new to see soon using those. :)

Until then, here's just a simple card set that was done for SNR back in Nov./Dec. When making card sets, I like coordination and unity. :) Using the same colors and patterns, and just a select few stamps makes the set more cohesive. Here's the stationery box that the cards all go in. I got the template from my local stamp store, and they got it from Stamp Your Art Out (seen here in the 'The Envelopes Please' section). I LOVE this template! SO easy to use:



The ribbon is used as a belly band, and just slides down to reveal the opening flap. I Xyroned (so not a word, I know, LOL) a piece of red card stock and a piece of polka dot paper together, BEFORE tracing and cutting with the template. Lining the stationery box with patterned paper just gives it a more interesting, finished look:



You can see that I also used the same patterned paper on the cards. Again, to tie everything in together. :) I just used a simple layout and alternated the orientation to get different looks. I used only one flower stamp (that same flower from my favorite Hero Arts flower set of all time!) and colored it with Copics to match. Each one was adhered to each card with pop dots for dimension:



When making card sets, I like to include a variety of sentiments. You can see here I included one for friendship, one for birthday, one for thanks, and one just to say "hello". I gave this set to my mom... she loved it. :)

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great Tuesday and see you soon!

SUPPLIES: stamps are Hero Arts (flower, "hello", "thanks", and "friend" sentiments) and Inkadinkado (happy birthday sentiment), paper is Making Memories (OLD!), Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Hero Arts black gemstones (on stationery box only), and Offray ribbon