Friends

I love the challenge this week at the Shabby Tea Room!  We are to "Get Creative", design a card or project using just stamping  and our own handmade embellishments.  No patterned papers allowed this week.  This is exactly the kind of thing I like to do!  So here is my submission:

Starting with white cardstock, I stamped various background patterns using either worn lipstick or spun sugar distress inks, cut them into various size blocks and arranged them on the pink card, edging each with antique linen distress ink.  I made a block using the houndstooth pattern stamped with spun sugar distress ink and framed that with kraft cardstock.  Then I stamped each of the 3 sizes of flowers from my newest cling flower set called 3 Dotted Flowers on a peachy pink solid and tone-on-tone checked cardstock, and embossed them in white, making 6 layers in all, and glued them together, first curling the petals a bit.  The flower was centered with a tiny button.  I added the leaves from  the same set, my "Friend" sentiment, and some pink pearl hearts.  And to finish I dyed my winter white seam binding using the same spun sugar distress ink and water.   So everything except the buttons and pearls was made by me.  Here is a detail of the flower:

This also works for the Papertake Weekly Challenge: "Anything Goes + Flowers".  And I'm entering this into Hero Arts monthly challenge: "Love and Friendship".

Supplies: pink, white and kraft cardstock, Lasting Impressions Checks in Guava and Kiwi, and an unknown solid pink cardstock, Hero Arts CG291 3 Dotted Flowers, CL434 Just Find Me (sentiment), and background stamps S4878 Old Letter Writing, S5341 Lace Background, CG222 Music Background, CG102 Antique Brocade, K5175 Houndstooth, Versamark ink and white embossing powder, spun sugar, worn lipstick, antique linen distress inks, Hero Hues Latte Chalk ink, Hug Snug seam binding, Hero Arts CH173 Heart Accent Pearls