Christmas Cardinal
I just love the Cardinal Christmas stamp set from Stampin' Up! My first thought when using the cardinal stamp was to paint it with blender pens. I used the branch silhouette for the background, stamped in garden green on garden green. A real red frame around the stamped image and silver cord set it off.
But I wanted to see if I could design a card without coloring it. So I used the in colors on this card, with riding hood red, basic black and kiwi kiss designer paper, stamping the image in black. I topped it off with three black brads and a small knotted piece of riding hood red taffeta ribbon. I was very pleased with the result.
To get the brads evenly spaced, I used the paper piercing pad and template (page 184 of the fall-winter 2008 Stampin' Up! catalog) as well as the paper piercing tool. It makes it so easy to line them up!
Comments