September is here and Fall is just around the corner! I’m looking forward to the leaves changing colour, but I do love the warmer Summer weather and will be a little sad when that’s gone. So when I saw this month’s #SimpleStamping challenge I thought I’d do some end of summer #SimpleStamping. This month’s challenge from Stampin’ Up! is to create a birthday card with just stamps, ink and paper. No extras this month.
The first stamp set that I thought of for this card was the Friends are like Seashells stamp set. I love this stamp set! The phrases and fonts are so versatile. And the images are so pretty. Plus you can potentially do some 2-step stamping with this set. With that decided I needed my colour combination. This is one I’ve used before. But I just love these colours with this stamp set; Pool Party and Crumb Cake. I actually like putting blues and browns together. It’s one of my favourite colour combinations.
On the outside I did some tone on tone stamping. I created a background with one of the images on the Pool Party card base with Pool Party ink. And so I made my other pieces of cardstock smaller than I usually do. Then I stamped the specs of sand image on the Crumb Cake card mat with Crumb Cake ink. I made a kind of seashell collage with both ink colours on the card front. And to top it all off I stamped a Crumb Cake starfish on the inside of the card.
To kick this card up a knotch, I would add either some Wink of Stella or a few Opal Rounds. Or maybe a bit of both, lol! I hope you enjoyed my end of summer #SimpleStamping. You can check out one of my more recent #SimpleStamping cards here. And if you want to get yourself some stamps, ink and paper to get your craft on, you can stock up in my online shop.