Crafting with Kim

Welcome to the 3rd

2010 VC Rocks Blog Hop

You might have arrived from Melanie Schulenberg's blog

and your next stop is Brandy Campbell's blog

Friends Never Fade

Stamp Sets: Friends Never Fade, sentiment from Watercolor Trio

CS: Bashful Blue, Marina Mist 2 ¼ x 3 ½ , Whisper White 2 x 3

Ink: Marina Mist, VersaMark

Stampin' Write Markers: Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Certainly Celery

Tools: Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon, Adhesive, Dimensionals

Make card base from Bashful Blue. On the card front, randomly stamp the Ornate flower image with VersaMark.

Using the brush tip end of the marker color the flower stamp. Start with Certainly Celery on the stems and leaves. Then use Bashful Blue on the large flower and the smallest flower bud. Marina Mist goes on the interior petals of the large flower and on the larger flower bud. It is okay for your marker colors to blend or overlap a little on your stamp if you start with the lightest color first.

Layer the Whisper White on the Marina Mist with adhesive. The ribbon is next. Try this the next time your use ribbon. I prefer to cut a piece of ribbon the width of the unit plus two finger widths. I use adhesive to attach the ribbon ends to the backside of the layered unit. Then I go back and tie the knot. Leave the ribbon on the spool, adjust your knot and tales the way you want them and then cut at an angle. You save ribbon this way and the ends won’t fray if you cut at an angle.

Use adhesive or Dimensionals to attach the ribbon decorated layer to the card base.

Stamp your favorite sentiment at the bottom as you desire. I used the Birthday Wishes stamp from the new stamp set Watercolor Trio featured in the 2010 Summer Mini Catalog. Clear stamps make it very easy to see what you are doing and stamp exactly where you intend.

Hope you like the simplicity of this card design. I have had a lot of time to reflect on what my friends mean to me. I opened a book of quotes “Say it with Style” edited by Tayna Fox and these are the ones that jumped out at me. The stampers on VC Rocks have become real friends, not virtual friends. Some of us even got together for a real lunch at a GREAT pizza place in Allen, TX called 5th Street Pizza. I hope to see them after the real convention and eat more great pizza.

A friend is someone who accepts you just the way you are.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
–Ellen Hubbard

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me
– Henry Ford

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief. –Joseph Addison

Friends are the flowers that bloom in life’s garden.

Friendship lightens every burden and makes the sunshine brighter.

Your previous stop was Melanie Schulenberg's blog

and your next stop is Brandy Campbell's blog