One Stamped Page, 8 Cards!

I put the following 8 cards together over the weekend - my Mom's birthday is coming up and her request was for a set of cards. I'm hoping she likes the theme I picked... I tried to use minimal embellishments to make them very mail-friendly. Hope you like them Mom - I know you're peeking (I would!) ;o) The ferns shimmer nicely in real life.

I used that technique where you stamp an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock and then cut it into specific sections to use on 8 - 10 cards. You can find the pattern here at the Trish Bee Design Studio if you click on "10 Minute Collage" and then click on "template".

To make my background paper I used a Hero Arts set of ferns. I painted the rubber with H2Os in two shades of green and stamped them around randomly. When this had dried, I used Distress reinkers in Antique Linen and Old Paper and the Reinker Splash technique from the current TechniqueJunkies newsletter to add an aged look to it.

After I finished the background piece I looked for three different green cardstocks that would blend with the colors in the bkgd - they pull the group together and match pretty well irl.

All the cards below measure 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

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Inks used are Stampin' Up!'s True Thyme, Brilliance Galaxy Gold, the two Distress mentioned above and Shabby Shutters, black Versafine, Staz-On Timber Brown, and Palette Burnt Umber.

This one has gold brads and cording, and an ink-swiped embossed panel. I used the Cuttlebug Script folder and True Thyme. The phrase stamp is by Hero Arts in True Thyme, edged by sponging Antique Linen.



Cording is gold. Faith tag is from a large 6-tag My Sentiments Exactly! stamp. It was stamped in Old Paper and then edged and the word highlighted with SU!'s Chocolate Chip. I used two circle punches to make a matching reinforcement. The fern panel and background panel are edged with a Prismacolor gold marker. The script (Penny Black) is stamped in Antique Linen and Chocolate Chip.



I stamped a few extra ferns on white cs using the H2Os - this one I edged by stippling with Antique Linen, and the black pad. The sentiment is by Anna Griffin, stamped in black, and the patterned panel is edged with a sponge and the black ink. The embossed cs is the CB Tiny Mosaic folder.



The marbled bkgd stamp on this one is by Judi-kins. The quote stamp is by Postmodern Design. The background was edged with a Tim Holtz distressing tool. The three panels are edged with the gold marker.



This card actually has dark brown cs even tho it looks black here. I stamped over the bkgd cs in gold using a Judi-kins crackle stamp and edged it with brown ink. I used another spare fern panel, stippled and edged it with Timber Brown and stamped it with the sentiment (Anna Griffin). I cut slots with a large ribbon punch and threaded sheer green ribbon thru it, then layered it to a brown panel, and a green deckle-edged panel.

I used various inks (including VersaMagic Cloud White) to stamp the ferns on two other colors of cs and cut all into 1 1/2" squares, except for the center panel that I stamped the sentiment (Rubber Riot) on in brown ink and edged with the gold marker.

I used Shabby Shutters to stamp the large fern, then stamped the thank-you block (Savvy) over it in the Versafine and edged it in True Thyme, which I also used to stamp the two small ferns in the corner.



The cardfront and layer on this is antique metallic gold. I used the Stylized Flowers CB folder on this one. The sentiment is Anna Griffin, stamped in True Thyme on a panel that had a fern lightly stamped on it previously. Both white panels were sponged with Antique Linen.