Friday, December 31, 2010

Stamp Of The Month BLOG HOP

Welcome back! I'm glad you "hopped" on in or are hopping on through our Close To My Heart Blog Hop.

If you have arrived from Wendy's blog, then you are on the right path. If this is your first stop, then grab a drink and/or a snack and relax as you view lots of creative ideas from several CTMH consultants. Just click on the link at the end of each post to take you to the next one.

January's stamp of the month set is very elegant. The images have a calming affect in a sense.

The set is called: Find Your Style and it comes with 9 different images. One phrase, 4 individual words: Beautiful, Love, Friend, Soar and 4 images: shoe, bird, butterfly and a dress form.


I selected the Veranda Papers to use with this stamp set. I love the soft colors of the Juniper and Creme Brulee with these images.

I embellished with a few of the Opaque Pearls and Creme Brulee Ribbon. On the ribbon, I just pulled the strings out on one end to gather it up in the middle.

I used Juniper and Cocoa inks for stamping and distressing.

The bird is inked up with Juniper and the edges are softly rolled with the cocoa ink. I pop dotted him up off of a cocoa stamped bird. I was going for a shadow affect but I think I should have gone with the shadow on the lower part rather than above. Oh well...

The card layout is from Wishes and I used the Gallery format.

Thanks for hopping on by....your next stop will be Cindy's Blog.

10 comments:

Tammy Lea Pinchard said...

Very pretty. Love these papers!

Haley D. said...

Lovely!

Melinda Everitt said...

When I see this card I think shabby chic. Love it!

Cindy said...

Very Pretty...love the gathered ribbon...HAVE to give that a try! :o)

Nalazoo said...

So many papers to choose from...this stamp set looks lovely with Veranda - nice job!

Susan Brooks - The Closet Stamper said...

Like the veranda paper choice. Nice card.

Krista Ritskes said...

Very pretty! I love that ruffled ribbon.

Laurie said...

Love the soft feel with the veranda papers!

Tamytha said...

Love the Veranda pack...one of my faves of all time. Just so elegant and beautiful. Looks great with this stamp set. Love the ribbon too.

Kathleen said...

This DOES look super in Veranda! It was too hard for me not to use Wings!