Make It Monday #136: Textured Stamping + Muse Challenge #39

The Make It Monday tutorial at Capture the Moment is from Ashley Cannon Newell this week and she challenged us to swipe ink off a stamp to create a textured stamping effect. You can check out the details here.

I am in need of another sympathy card, so paired Meadow Greens stamps with a Think Big Favorites sentiment.

I love the texture on the leaves and stamped them off a few times to add a little depth. The panel is popped up with foam adhesives on the card base.

This second card is for the Muse Challenge #39 where Marion Vagg provides the inspiration. You can check out her card here.

I vacillated between taking inspiration from the colors & stripes (Greek flag?) or the sweet bird. My bird dies are either tiny or too large for what I was thinking and then I spied my Musical Interlude die.

The die is inlaid onto the white panel and a trio of birds perched on the staff. The sentiment didn't fit placed vertically, so was stamped below the die cuts.

I've been really drawn to diagonal panels lately, so cut the white panel first and placed a small red strip under it and then adhered them to a kraft embossed panel. Everything is then adhered to a Smoky Shadow card base.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie