Best Wishes

Hello bloggers!  Welcome to another crafty week!  I am hoping to have a nice surprise for you sometime this week. (tee hee, yes, that is me snickering with joy!)  Today's card is definitely one that fits into the clean and simple style.  I love designing striplets and I always just have to see them in their simplest style when I get the die prototypes so this is almost always the first card I make!  If you need a really quick card for a last minute thing, this is certainly the way to go too.  It works for any occasion by just changing the sentiment or the colour or both!  I stamped my sentiment (Bold Sentiment stamp set by Creative Expressions) using a Black Archival ink pad towards the lower right corner.  I always start with a piece of card that is slightly larger than the finished size .  This is because I can then straighten it if my stamping is a bit wonky (which it almost always is!) by just cutting the card a bit to make it look straight.  I used the Tethered Hearts striplet without the outer cutting edge to cut a decorative design into the card on the left of my stamped sentiment.   I placed mounting foam on the back of the card and mounted it to a piece of ruby red card, allowing a small edge to show all the way around.  I placed an 8mm white pearl in the centre of the striplet (yes it did slip a bit and I didn't notice when I took the pics!)   I paper pierced another piece of white card to frame it and added a final white mat to complete the card.  So simple! So quick too!  The finished dimensions are 7" x 8" in size.  All for now, Sue x