FTL99......My Heart is with You

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

I am again playing with retired things, waiting on my order to come, Monday. Even then I only have two new stamp sets coming. With needing to buy all the new paper and ink pads I had to limit the stamps, I have a budget, unfortunately.....{insert rolling eyes here}.

I used the sketch from the Clean & Simple Stamping Blog This is FTL 99.

I changed my card to a standard 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 size because after making my main image panel and strips to the side, it just seem to fit this size better. The base of my card is chocolate chip and I followed that up with some riding hood red, glad this color was in the new returning colors, it was one of my faves before. I used my Swiss Dot EF on the riding hood red layer. The DS paper is from the retired Bella Rose paper pack. The flower is from the retired "Bloomin' Beautiful" stamp set. Even tho it is retired, it is new to me, I had always admired this flower from the set and when a friend was selling some of her retired setsd, it I snatched it up.

I stamped the flower with black stazon onto watercolor paper and used riding hood red and old olive to color it with my aqua painter. I added some shadowing with my tombow gray marker. The sentiment is from the "Small Sayings" stamp set, I stamped with riding hood red and matted with chocolate chip. The image panel and the sentiment strip are both mounted with some dimensionals. I decided I wanted to add the peal brad after it was all mounted, so I sniped off the prongs on the back of the brad and used my glue gun to put it on.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki