Last week I showed a simple birthday card with a stack of presents stamp and said that I could see other possibilities. Here’s one of those:

This card was inspired by the fact that I’d managed to get inky fingers over the bottom of the white cardstock. I had borrowed this set from my upline to make the Pink Cats card (I saw the dentist for a check on my implant earlier this week and she said that she loved it – I’m so pleased) and really liked the stack of presents. So I stamped a number of them in various colours and also grabbed my Stampin’ Write markers and coloured the presents in mixed colours. This card started with the image coloured in pear pizzazz, rich razzleberry and tempting turquoise and stamped on whisper white card stock. I’m not sure when the inky fingerprints were introduced!

I roughly trimmed down the whisper white and grabbed cardstock in the three colours. It occurred to me to try an oval window over the presents after having a scrap with an oval cutout accidentally sitting on top of the pile of cardstock stamped with these presents. I felt that the tempting turquoise was just too loud so settled on pear pizzazz on top of the rich razzleberry base. I used edge pieces from the stampin’ dimensionals to “pop up” the pear pizzazz piece but before adhering that, I used my fake white embossing powder (my real Stampin’ Up! white embossing powder is due to be delivered on Tuesday) for the sentiment. I ran the envelope liner framelits and the rich razzleberry backgrounds dsp through the big shot and attached the liner to the envelope using my snail adhesive. I just put the snail around  the top and side edges above the crease which seems to work well. It’s best to pre-score the liner.

Details:

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ rich razzleberry card stock

Mat: 4: by 5.25″ pear pizzazz

Stamp set: Cool cat (retired), Four You

Ink: Versamark

Other: pear pizzazz, rich razzleberry and tempting turquoise stampin’ write markers.