Stampin' Up! - Timeless Textures

Hello, I thought I would share with you today a little project I came up with for the participants of a business course I have been doing since the start of the year.

I was asked if I would be willing to do a simple project that could be completed by stamping novices and, one that would have some element of recycling in it.

We are quite a diverse group and count amongst our members a lovely lady who hires out vintage crockery for weddings, someone who makes bespoke seat covers for bicycles  and vintage aprons and a glass painter to name a few!

One of my all time favourite stamps is Gorgeous Grunge BUT I think that the Timeless Textures set from the Spring/Summer Catalogue is about to take its place and it was this new stamp set I decided to use.

We used a favourite colour combination of mine; Crumb Cake, Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla - it reminds me of ice cream for some reason!

We used two colours of ink to stamp the background - the intention was to create a sense of depth and texture and we did this by over stamping images in the different colours:

We also scuffed up the edges of the layers to add to the texture. During the course, we have been learning about the concepts of design and I was able to explain to the others how what we were doing 'tied in' with our business course.

For the recycled elements of the card I used some old book pages (after checking carefully for inappropriate words) and some garden string that was lying about in my utility room:

We layered up four punched butterflies and added some pearls for a bit of bling!

Here is the finished card and matching envelope:

I had intended to take some photos of everyone but unfortunately I had a technical problem with my camera - if I can get hold of some that Naomi took I will post them later so that you can see how everyone got on, everyone managed to create something they were really pleased with.

Naomi is a really creative and talented artist; she had never done card making before but she enjoyed herself so much that she is coming to my next workshop so that she can have a go at die cutting!  Do you think I should warn her that stamping is totally addictive?

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