Merci

Here’s my card for this week’s Muse challenge. I took my inspiration from the text block image and striped patterns on Vicki’s card.

Instead of making my own stripes (I was way too lazy for that when I sat down to make my card!), I used a piece of blue on blue striped paper to cover most of the cardfront. It’s topped with a text block thank you image from Papertrey Ink’s Sentiment Signs stamp set. I stamped the text on a white stitched rectangle panel (wish I’d centered it better . . .), then matted it on a pair of red and blue cardstock panels.

I set off one of the words in the text block by stamping it on a contrasting navy fishtail flag strip and heat embossing it in white. I adhered the embossed strip over the stamped panel, letting the ends of the strip extend just a bit beyond the edges of the stamped panel. A trio of bold red enamel dots around the stamped panel added a final pop of bold color.

Materials Used:
Sentiment Signs stamp set (Papertrey Ink); Memento Luxe Nautical Blue and Wedding Dress inks (Tsukineko); Real Red and Night of Navy cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); Dots and Stripes-Homefront 6x6 paper pad (Echo Park); Die-namics Fishtail Flag Stax die (My Favorite Things); stitched rectangle die (Lil’ Inker Designs); white embossing powder, red enamel dots (Michaels); foam tape