Sweet Stampin' - Monochrome

Saturday again! Of course that means that it's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this week our theme is Monochrome.

Monochrome can be any colour and white, but I chose the use black as it was the ink pad that was still out on the crafting table of doom! I thought this lovely Magnolia Blooms stamp set from Clearly Besotted would work beautifully with the theme. I used my MISTI to stamp the large bloom and also the leaves twice on white card in versafine, so that I could make sure I got a crisp evenly black image. I then used the matching dies to cut them out.

I had a play on a bit of card to find an arrangement that I liked, and snipped the leaves to fit. This gave me an idea of the size of topper I liked, on which I stamped the sentiment from the set and then trimmed it down. I glued on the leaves and added the bloom with foam tape. I added a black mat behind the topper. I'd chosen the sentiment because of the size and shape I could make with the words, but I felt it looked a little austere for a birthday day. I rummaged in my gem box to find some black pearls to add and came across this blingy strip. Bingo! To make the proportions of the card work, I used a 7x7 card blank, glued on the bling and then added the topper with foam tape either side of the bling.

I hope you're inspired to join us at Sweet Stampin' this week, we love seeing all your amazing makes. Have a great weekend (this post is scheduled, so I may surface before lunch, or maybe not!) x