Sometimes it is good to “just stamp” and that led to this Just Stamping Beautiful Friendship Card. I started off with a different stamp set but it just wasn’t working right for me so I switched to the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set. Without knowing exactly what I wanted to make, I decided to just stamp some flowers on the piece of Whisper White I had ready. Sometimes you just have to go with where stamping takes you!
This is a beautiful stamp set with the hydrangea-like flowers and the more traditional-shaped roses or whatever flower you think it is. It comes with a few different leaves to stamp and I think that’s how I ended up filling up the whole paper.
I already had a Mint Macaron Cardstock card base ready which I layered with Petal Pink Cardstock. I decided to stamp the hydrangea flower with Petal Pink. I think it’s a little surprising how more “orangish” this Petal Pink looks with the ink when the paper looks “pink”. I originally thought I would only stamp those flowers, but I couldn’t resist the other flowers, stamped in Rococo Rose. Next, I added some leaves stamped in Mint Macaron Ink around the flowers. Then I noticed another kind of leaf stamp so I stamped that in Soft Sea Foam to kind of go with the hydrangea flowers. It looked good so I just keep filling in all the empty spaces!
Perhaps I should have left well enough alone, but I stamped the center of the flower in black. I thought it should look okay but I wasn’t happy with the result. But it’s not SO bad so I left it and didn’t try to start over! I simply stamped the greeting from the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set right on the card front. Luckily I didn’t mess it up or I would have kicked myself for not using the Stamparatus!! And finally, I decided to add some glimmer with the Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. In the photo, if you notice some speckles on the flowers, that is the glitter! Kind of hard to photograph but looks so pretty!
Check out another card I made with other stamps and colors with the Beautiful Friendship stamp set HERE.
It’s great to use all our fancy products and tools but sometimes it is nice to “just stamp”. Get back to our roots when we first started stamping!
Stamp something today and don’t forget the Bonus Days going on at Stampin’ Up! with every $50 purchase!