Rays of Hope Card ~ Red Rubber Designs DT

     Hello! I hope you're enjoying the weekend! I'm back to share this quick and easy card made with Distress Inks and water stamping.

     On a piece of white cardstock, I used my blending tool to apply Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry, and Wilted Violet Distress Inks in a half circular motion.

     Then I sprayed my Rays of Hope Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp from Red Rubber Designs with water and pressed down. This stamp is perfect for this technique! When it dried, I outlined it with some hand-stitching.

     The sentiment was stamped in black with the Say Hello Unmounted Stamp. Then I backed it with another piece of cardstock colored with the same Distress Inks.

Thanks for looking!

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Featured Red Rubber Designs Stamps:

Rays of Hope

Say Hello

Challenges:

Crafty Creations Challenges ~ #347 Anything Goes

Market Street ~ Ashbury Heights Altered Tea Box Tutorial ~ FotoBella DT

    Instead of throwing out my Celestial Tea box, I decided to alter it with the new, beautiful, I want it all bundle by My Mind's Eye, Market Street ~Ashbury Heights, from FotoBella.  The best part is that it smells great too, like cinnamon spice!

     Supplies:

Market Street ~ Ashbury Heights 12 x 12 Paper Pack

Market Street ~ Ashbury Heights Decorative Tape

Market Street ~ Ashbury Heights Decorative Brads

Market Street ~ Ashbury Heights Foiled Mixed Bag

 

Other Supplies and Tools:

Martha Stewart Scallop Punch

Glue

Ribbon

Gold Ink

Directions:

1. Measure your box and then, cut, and score fold lines accordingly. I used almost a whole sheet of the Garden's paper, and glued it all around the box, including the bottom. 

2. Apply the gold decorative tape all around the box, about an inch and a quarter from the top.

3. Using the Martha Stewart punch, punch a strip about an inch wide from the striped paper, score your fold lines, and ink the edges with gold ink. Now you can thread your ribbon through the punched holes and start gluing it a little above the gold tape, starting in the back, but leaving the front to glue later. 

4. Using another sheet of the Garden's paper, I cut out the same white flower, as the one on the front of the box, curled the petals up, and glued right over it, to give it some dimension.

5. Now you can glue the rest of your striped strip to the front of the box, and add a brad to the center of the flower. 

6. I added the doily, teacup, and gold flourish from the Mixed Foiled Bag on the top of the box. 

    This is my entry for Flying Unicorn's What's the purpose Challenge, to make something pretty from something you'd normally throw away. Thanks for looking!