Happy Mail

 

Today I am posting my card for the The Encore Challenge!  This is a monthly challenge to be posted on the 25th with a group of friends from my April Retreat.  Some may post on their blog and I will note those with blogs at the end of this post.  And, some might post on other social media. Darlene came up with this challenge and these are her words:  Go and grab a stamp set, stencil or dies--your choice, that you have used once before and have always wanted to revisit it and use it again.  However, despite your best intentions, you have yet to use it!  Now's your chance! Go dig it out and have fun with it once again.  Create anything you like, a card, gift card holder, decorate a gift bag, make a refrigerator magnet...whatever lights up your creative juices! So--Encore Challenge! 

My plan is to pick a different company each month to highlight and maybe even a different product than the month before.  For January,  I picked a stamp set from Studio Katia called Flourishing Note.  There is a stamp set and 2 coordinating dies.

I stamped the envelope image on my panel and added the words happy mail in the middle.  I then die cut the image and colored the florals with my Copic Sketch Markers.  I die cut hello twice from white and layered then together.  I also die cut hello from black and then off-set the white a bit.  I used a Stampin' Up embossing folder called Tufted Dynamic for the background.  A few Taylored Expressions Bits & Pieces Black Pearls complete the card

I am not sure who will post each month on their blog, but this is a list of the other ladies who do have blogs.  Jeanette, Terry, Darlene.  Be sure to come back on February 25th to see another fun card for The Encore Challenge!


Image/Sentiment:  Studio Katia Flourishing Note Stamp Set and Dies

Cardstock/Patterned Paper: The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White Stampin' Up Basic Black

Ink:  Hero Arts Intense Black

Accessories:  Stampin' Up Tufted Dynamic Embossing Folder; Copic Sketch Markers; Taylored Expressions Bites & Pieces Black Pearls;