Be Yourself

Welcome.

Meet today's card.

I just picked up this great image from I Brake for Stamps from the set called The Old and New and wanted to get a chance to play with it. It's such a wonderful, iconic image and I wanted it to shine on my card.

I began by die-cutting some heavy white cardstock using the Wonky Frame die.  I masked the edges to contain the image to the framed area, then placed it into my Misti and stamped.  I added the sentiment....it just seemed to go perfectly with the image.

Next, I looked through all my 'hoarded' backgrounds and found this one.  

I had created it by inking up a piece of heavy white cardstock with some DOX inks, then stenciled over it with some black ink.  It is very dramatic looking and I thought it would work great with this image.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here is the stencil I used from A Colorful Life Designs called Lace Doily

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Use Your Stuff- ANYTHING GOES

Craft Stamper Magazine- TAKE IT/MAKE IT

Supplies

Stamps- Sentiment (Daisy Bucket, no longer in business); Old and New (I Brake for Stamps)

Inks- Versafine Clair Noir, DOX (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Lace Doily stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); inking tool;

Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Wonky Frame Die (Avery Elle); pop dots; painter's tape