Be Faithful In Small Things

Had a little time last night so I decided to go work on one card I have wanted to do.  Our Daily Bread Designs’ challenge this week was to use one of their stamps to create your own background paper.  My friend, April, and I were talking earlier this week about how we did not have so many wonderful papers when we started stamping and we actually created most of our backgrounds.  In fact, you almost felt guilty if you used decorative paper instead of creating your own.  I decided it would be fun to stamp all of my own for this card.

I started with a white, square card base.  I stamped and heat embossed the lovely butterfly branch image from Our Daily Bread Designs’ set called Faith.  I used white embossing on red cardstock, then sponged the edges with a dark red ink, rounded the corners, and layered it on the card.  I took a smaller white square and stamped and embossed the same image with red sparkly embossing powder.  I cut the square into three strips, rounded the corners, sponged on a little red ink, and spaced them across the card.  I cut the middle strip in half so I could spread it farther apart to make it appear longer.

For the image, I used the lovely flower filled watering can from their Happy Birthday set.  I stamped and embossed it in white on red cardstock, cut it out with a round Spellbinder die and popped it up with foam tape onto a white circle.  This is layered onto red cardstock cut out with a new doily die I just purchased.  Of course, I sponged the edges with dark red ink.  I ran some sheer, red, polka dot ribbon horizontally across the card and placed the image centered over this.

The verse is also from the Faith set and is stamped in red on white, cut out with a decorative, scalloped, oval die and the edges inked.  This is added with foam tape.  I added a double bow, using the same ribbon, and added a couple of paper roses.
This card is entered in the following challenges:

By the way, I have some real exciting news to share.  Come back here on Friday to see what it is.

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