Today I am sharing the card I made for a team challenge. We were asked to make a simple card using either a stamp set you haven’t used or a colour you don’t use much. I chose to make a monochromatic card using the Beauty Abounds stamp set. I have used this stamp set once before, however the stamps I have used for this card are ones I haven’t previously used.

Making the card

I decided to make a monochromatic card and to keep the supplies used to a minimum in line with Stampin’ Up!’s challenge to make simple cards #SimpleStamping. I chose the Gorgeous Grape ink pad.

I cut a panel of Whisper White cardstock at 5⅜” by 3⅝” and inked up the larger of the 2 bokeh dot stamps with the Gorgeous Grape ink. I stamped the first image in the centre of the card, lifted the stamp, rotated it and stamped again without re-inking. I then rotated the stamp again and stamped without re-inking. In all I stamped 5 times without re-inking allowing the colour to get lighter and lighter eack time.

I inked up one of the butterflies in the Gorgeous Grape ink and stamped it 5 times overlapping the bokeh dots, inking it up each time so the butterflies were nice and dark.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set in Gorgeous Grape ink and added the second part of the sentiment to the inside with the smaller bokeh dot image.  I had planned to add the stamped layer directly to the Thick Whisper White card front but had to add a Gorgeous Grape panel (5½” by 3¾”) to hide the fact that I had stamped on the reverse of the Whisper White cardstock and the stamping was showing through.

I really like the way the card turned out. Hope you like it.

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

Supplies Used