For The Books birthday card – CCC176

Hello! I hope you are well. I used the colours from this week’s Creative Colour Challenges for this For the Books birthday card…

THE CHALLENGE

So you can join in, these are the colours for this week’s challenge over at www.creativecolourchallenges.blogspot.com

Please CLICK HERE to find out more about this challenge and to join in the fun with this week’s 3 colours.

ABOUT MY CARD

To be honest, I could have used almost any colour combination for this card and this challenge was just the excuse I needed to create a card with this fun For The Books stamp set. And the card could have had lots of other sentiments but I’m a bit low on birthday cards. That’s another one to add to my dwindling stash.

First of all I stamped the horizontal pile of books with Basic Gray ink onto a scrap of Basic White card, coloured them with the Stampin’ Blends in the challenge colours then fussy cut them. I decided I needed more books so stamped the group of 4 vertical books and the 2 books at an angle next to them. I stamped the 4 books a second time so I had more that I could use. But I ended up only using 2 of them as it’s so easy to snip these books apart to get more options.

The background text comes from a new online exclusive stamp set called Elements of Text. I stamped it of the edge of my layer with Blueberry Bushel ink. Then I stamped the ink splatter from that same set in second and third generation ink (stamping the full strength off onto a piece of scrap paper before using it on my card.

I just knew that I needed to include the lovely little reading glasses stamp set, did you spot it on top of the pile of books?

I think I want a pair of red glasses now!

Remember, you can take part in this colour challenge too. Just click here to find out more. You don’t need to have a blog to enter, you can just upload a photo of your project using this week’s colours.

SHOP THE PRODUCTS

I’ve listed the products I used for today’s card below. You can click any of the product links to go to that item in my shop.

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION

When you shop with me you’ll receive a handmade card and gift as a token of my appreciation. If your order is under £150 please use the current Host Code. This means that I can add in a free product to your customer thank you pack for the month. Find out more on the Host Code page in the main menu.

Happy crafting,

Heather x

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