Day #3 of sneaks~ Vintage Wallpaper

Well Good Friday to you first off!  Secondly, today is the last day of sneak peeks from Flourishes & today I'm showing a new background stamp called Vintage Wallpaper.  If it looks familiar its because it has some of the same elements that the Thinking of You stamp set has.  It could be a companion set or a stand alone stamp, like I did in this card.  When I was looking for ways to showcase this stamp, I stumbled upon this weeks sketch from 2sketches4you, its kind of "scrappy" which worked awesome.  

When working with clear stamps, especially a large background stamp like this, I don't like to use a water based ink pad, I prefer to use something like Palette or Memento, for this I used a Brilliance Dew Drop inker, which is a pigment ink, but you get nice even coverage.  I prefer to use pigment ink when stamping with any background stamp, the ink dries slower so I don't need to race to stamp my image.

The butterfly and green scalloped border are Basic Grey Porcelain stickers.  The sentiment is from the Sweet Violets set, I showed on Wednesday.  The sentiment was stamped in black ink onto a double ended tag (spellbinders) which was cut and embossed using my Cuttlebug.  The kraft border was created using a Martha Stewart punch.  To tie everything together (no pun intended) I tied a bow on the upper left side of the card.  For your chance to win this background stamp, click your way over to the Flourishes Newsletter & leave a comment on the Day #3 post for your entry to win.

"You inspire me"

materials used:

Vintage Wallpaper background stamp from Flourishes

kraft, dark chocolate & pure luxury ivory card stock

Basic Grey stickers

MS punch, Spellbinders double ended tag, gems, satin ribbon

Brilliance Dew Drop ink

Go and visit the rest of the Design Team to see what they have cooking today~

Christine Okken

Cindy Lawrence

Faith Hofrichter

Julie Koerber

Laura Fredrickson

Leslie Miller

Stacy Morgan

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Don't forget, tonight is the release party from 8-10pm CST, over on SCS in the Flourishes forum.  There will be more sneak peeks, games and prizes, so if you are not busy, I will see you there.