I was intending to play with washi tape for today’s card, but yesterday afternoon I was showing Julia the new stamp sets that I got earlier this month. And I realised that I haven’t yet played with Love You Lots. It’s one of the hostess sets which means that it’s only available using Stampin’ Rewards but it also means it’s very good value. The 8 piece set was just $9. This set also lends itself perfectly to the current challenge at CAS on Sunday, which is black, white plus one colour.

I started by watercolouring the image until I realised that I was just layering on more red to get to what is full strength real red so what was the point? Especially when I layered a little impatiently without waiting for the previous layer to dry and the edges started to blur. So I stamped the image using the archival basic black onto ordinary whisper white card stock, coloured it in with a real red stampin’ write marker and cut a black square at 2 1/8 inches to give a small frame to my 2 inch square of whisper white. I then positioned the image and used my stamp-a-ma-jig to get the sentiment where I wanted it. Only after that was done successfully did I add the image to the card, popped up with dimensionals. I’d like to say that my stamp was still inked up and so I used it for the envelope, but actually I’d already cleaned it. I’m sure the extra cleaning – and thus conditioning – is good for the new stamp! I’ve a good mind to go and play with the rest of the adorable images in this set now.

Whatever you’re doing, I hope you’re having a fun weekend. I’m going to spend the afternoon crafting.

See you tomorrow,

Liz