A clean and fairly minimalist card from me today.  I’ve been sick and feeling so miserable that I haven’t been able to create – so today I mustered up a bit of energy to make this card.

I tried to design a card that would take minimal amount of ‘product’ as a bit of a challenge that was set for me by one of my blog readers.  I figure that most cardmakers would have some sort of circle punch, a couple small images they could stamp and some ribbon (okay, most of us have massive amounts of ribbon!).  The flower in the centre is an eyelet and I’ve set that then inserted a rhinestone brad through it.

Hope you like my card and please feel free to post any comments

All products used in this card are by Stampin’ Up! and available for purchase through me.

Rubber Stamps:
Tiny Tags

Inkpads/Marker:
Baja Breeze inkpad

Cardstock & Paper:
Whisper White
Pink Pirouette Textured card
Baja Breeze Textured card

Tools:
1″ Circle Punch

Accessories:
Hooray Designer Hardware
Large Clear Rhinestone Brad
Pink Pirouette Striped Ribbon

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals

Two-Step stamping is one of those cool techniques where a few stamps can help you create a bigger picture or more depth to your images.  The Two-Stamping I’ve used in this card is to create a scene of this sweet little bird sitting on a branch.  I’ve used 4 different stamps all from the same stamp set to create the main image in this card: the bird stamp, branch, flower and sentiment.  What I like about this card is that the sentiment is part of the image and I didn’t have to find another place for the words or make them stand out on their own.

A little tip for multi-coloured stamping: I didn’t have a marker that I could use for the leaves on the stamped branch so I just inked up the leaves end of the branch with a Kiwi Kiss inkpad then used a tissue on the end of my finger to wipe off the green ink off the branch – you could use a cotton bud (QTip) for this – then I simply coloured the branch with a Chocolate Chip marker before stamping the image onto the cardstock.  The bright orange flower is a separate stamp in the set and I stamped that on white then cut it out and after inserting a rhinestone brad through it, I mounted it onto the card with a Stampin’ Dimensional (foam dot) to make it pop.

Well hope you like my card.  And if you’ve ever wanted to buy the the Cheep Talk stamp set that I’ve used in this card then now is the time as it’s 20% off during July 2010.  Just email me for more details.

Rubber Stamps:
Cheep Talk ($38.36 for the set of 11 stamps – from 1st July 2010 to 31st July 2010 – Australia only)

Inkpads/Marker:
Pacific Point
Tangerine Tango
Kiwi Kiss
Chocolate Chip Marker

Cardstock & Paper:
Chocolate Chip
Whisper White
Kiwi Kiss
Good Morning Sunshine (pears and flowers paper)
Washington Apple (background paper)

Accessories:
Latte Buttons
Rhinestone Brad

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Glue Dots (for adhere the buttons)

Want more Two Step Stamping Stamp Sets at a Discount? Here’s Stampin’ Up! Australia’s Special Promotion for the month of July 2010

Loads of Love was $39.95 NOW $31.96 (page 39)

Big Bold Birthday was $53.95 NOW $43.16 (page 42)

A Rose Is a Rose was $66.95 NOW $53.56 (page 78)

Playful Petals was $52.95 NOW $42.36 (page 86)

Cheep Talk was $47.95 NOW $38.36 (page 98)

Wonderful Favourites was $39.95 NOW $31.96

Tiny Tags woodmounted was $38.95 NOW $31.16 (page 14 of Winter Mini)

Tiny Tags clear mounted was $28.95 NOW $23.16 (page 14 of Winter Mini)

Cottage Garden woodmounted was $32.95 NOW $26.36 (page 31 of Winter Mini)

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