CASE-ing Betty: Inlaid Stamping

Last week, Betty posted a couple of cards that I fell in love with.  Here is one of them.  Like her, I had seen this stacked inlaid stamping technique done before, and had admired it, but it looked so difficult.  It is a bit fiddly at first, but like anything else, practice makes each attempt a bit easier.  Here's my card I'm sharing with you today:

I used PTI's The Sweet Life roses and Hero Arts ferns and stamped my arrangement on a piece of white cardstock.  Then I centered the love die from Wplus9's Seasonal Sentiments and also cut 4 other pieces from plain white cardstock.  Next I assembled the words from Winnie & Walter's The Big, the Bold, and You, and stamped them below my floral image.   The stamped panel had its bottom corners rounded and then affixed to a card base, and then I glued all of the die-cuts together and added that to the card front in its place.  Really simple, just takes a bit of care.

Now that I'm feeling more confident making this type of card, I need to get some "fatter" dies, like this one; most of my sentiment dies are pretty skinny and I think they'd get lost in the busy-ness of a stamped image like this one.  

Give this a try - it's lots of fun!