Continuing the fun from the crop weekend, I actually won something! Normally I don’t win a thing, but this time I won the big bingo prize (which was money to spend on Stampin’ Up! – what a great prize!) and then I won a door prize consisting of the Stampin’ Up! Banner Blast stamp set (a previous sale-a-bration set) and the banner punch. I haven’t really played with banners before (and one of my friends thinks that banners are a bit odd) but here was a great opportunity. It seemed appropriate to make a card with my winnings.

To start with I tried to stamp the flags in a straight line but after about three tries I realised it would be easier to punch them out and then stick them on the card. There was either a banner stamped not quite straight or a smudge. It worked much better using a ruler and the punched out banners (although it’s still not perfect but you probably have to be a card maker to really notice). I used many of the stamps from the set and stamped them in perfect plum and rose red; the rose red one is popped up with stampin’ dimensionals. The sentiment comes from the A Dozen Thoughts set. I really love the typeface. It is also stamped in rose red. The very vanilla piece is glued to a rose red base and the envelope liner is also in rose red from the regals Backgrounds DSP. The Backgrounds DSP collections are incredibly useful, since you always have the perfect match.