Throwback Thursday - Peaceful Deer

Today's card is another of the technique type of card that I always love to make. Using Peaceful Deer stamp set, I have matted and layered this card once or twice! I started with a Deep Gray card base called Basic Gray then added a soft, silvery grey in the Smoky Slate. On top of that, I added the gorgeous piece of Double Sided Paper or Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! The papers are called Peaceful Place. They are all shades of grey, black and white and on one of the sides are silver foiled patterns and designs. They are simply stunning. Well worth buying. Please click HERE for the link to see these stunning papers.

Then I started with the deer. I stamped several of them using the Memento Ink pad and coloured them in using the Ivory Stampin' Blends. I also added a strip of the gorgeous sparkly silver mesh ribbon. 

The disc for the message is made up of 2 silver foiled circles and 2 smoky slate circles. It was fun trying to get them all in different sizes but I managed it!

 

Technique Tuesday - Bamboo Beauty

 Thank you for stopping by our blog post today. Continuing with the Bamboo Beauty stamp set, today's technique, such as it is, is layers. Japanese culture I understand is calm, ordered and structured and I have attempted to show all of these today. The strong gray, otherwise known as Basic Gray, is              co-oordinated with Basic White card for the pure simplicity of monochrome which I love to see.  Bamboo Beauty has been a real pleasure to play with already this week. 

The design on my card is so simple but my family say it looks classy! Whether it does or not is up to you but my only thing to say is that no matter how simple a stamp set looks, look beyond what you first see and play with all of the stamps. I really have enjoyed all of the stamps in this set and at only £20 it's a brilliant investment. Have fun with all of your stamp sets, they really are worth playing with all of the time.  More information on the stamp set HERE  it will open up in a new page.