Happy Thoughts & Inkspots: The Heart Remembers

Happy Wednesday and Happy May! I sure hope it feels like May weather where you are, because here, not so much. We actually had a frost advisory last night! However, I am keeping myself distracted by spending some lovely time in my craft studio working on the new May Release from Whimsy Stamps. Here is my first card!

I love this new Best Buddies Clear Stamp Set and for some reason, I was brought back to my old readers from school and the way they were illustrated. For that reason, I went with a no-line coloration using my Polychromos pencils and blending them with gamsol. I wanted a simple and vintage look for this card. I created a panel using last month’s release: the Pretty Pastels 6x6 paper pack and made my image the focal point by cutting it our and framing it using the Pierced and Stitched CIrcle Dies.

I heat embossing the sentiment onto vellum using Wow Blue Topaz and then cut it out using the Quick Strips Die Set. It was a little hard to see the sentiment, so I cut another tag with some white cardstock and added to the back of the vellum and that made the sentiment pop. The final addition was to add some Summer Breeze Enamel Dots. I use these on a lot of my simple cards because they add just a little something to the card to make it more interesting but they in no way detract from the focus of the card.