History in the making

Approaching Perfection

I was challenged to use the Approaching Perfection stamp set from Stampin' Up! to make a card featuring the stamped images from the set. I came up with several! These are two cards that I made.

The "News Flash" stamp screamed 'newspaper' and I thought about some tissue paper that I had saved from a purchase that I made. I decided to make it work for this card. The print also reminded me of some Stampin' Up! designer series paper (DSP) that I purchased last summer with a similar print that has since been retired. If you don't have these items I think you could produce a similar look using the script stamp from the Very Versailles stamp set or the Scripty embossing folder. You could also age newspaper to produce a similar look.

To start, my card base is cardstock cut at 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" scored at 4 1/4" . I used Crumb Cake and Pretty Peacock colors for the cards.

Card 1

For the first card I crinkled the tissue paper, then adhered it to the front of the cardstock using snail adhesive. Adhesive sheets would also work well. The entire front of the cardstock was covered with adhesive, I used the same procedure to cover the inside flap of the card. I then brushed Crumb Cake ink onto the tissue paper to lightly brush the edges of the paper and the crinkled areas to give the card an aged look. Trim any excess tissue paper hanging over the edge.

Next step was to tie black ribbon around the card and tie a simple knot at the top left. I then cut out Crumb Cake cardstock using a die from Touched So Sweetly and stamped the "News Flash" greeting. I then Lightly brushed the edges of the greeting with Pretty Peacock ink and attached it to the card front using Dimensionals.

Card 2

For this card I used my newsprint DSP and ran it through the Painted Texture embossing folder to create a similar crinkled look to what was on card one. I brushed the edges and the raised areas of the paper with Crumb Cake ink in the same way as I did for the first card. For this card I had used a shorter scrap piece of DSP and wanted to make it work, so I used my die from the Smooth Sailing Dies to create a rope trim for the top and bottom of the card. I stamped the greeting onto Crumb Cake cardstock and punched it out using the postage stamp punch. I used the black ribbon once again to create some loops at the back of the greeting and attached the greeting to the card using Dimensionals.

I hope you will give these cards a try. They are very easy to make.

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Paper

Pretty Peacock Paper

Crumb Cake Paper

Stamp Sets

Approaching Perfection Stamp Set

Ink

Crumb Cake Ink

Pretty Peacock Ink

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