Thanking You

Here’s my card for this week’s Waltzingmouse Stamps sketch challenge. I went with a slightly vintage style for my design, which is out of my comfort zone. I came up with something soft and feminine, but in a somewhat non-traditional feminine color scheme.

The cardfront is covered with a pretty distressed-looking floral paper. I machine two coordinating dotted strips to the floral panel, creating a striped look. The papers are actually from a winter themed paper collection, but they worked nicely here for a completely different feel.

I used the Cameo Maker set to create a moss green on cream cameo as a focal image. The stamped cameo is layered on a green oval, then on the aqua panel that runs across the cardfront. I found some matching aqua seam binding in my ribbon scrap pile that was super crinkled from being stuffed deep into the container to keep it from Chloe the cutie puppy’s curious nose and mouth and used that to create a pretty bow to place at the top of the cameo. A trio of green buttons, threaded with cream linen thread, sits at the bottom of the cameo. I stamped the “thanking you” sentiment from the Cameo to Go set in green ink next to the cluster of elements to fill out the open space on the aqua panel. The end result is somewhat vintage-looking, but still pretty clean and simple.

Materials Used:
Cameo Maker and Cameo to Go stamp sets (Waltzingmouse Stamps); Spring Moss ink, Spring Moss and Aqua Mist cardstock, Spring Moss buttons (Papertrey Ink); Very Vanilla cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); Winterland 6x6 paper pad (Fancy Pants); oval dies (Spellbinders); aqua seam binding (Martha Stewart); linen thread (The Cat’s Pajamas); Bow Easy; sewing machine