Throwback Thursday - Rooted In Nature

Celebrating Throwback Thursday is my chance to play with some of my old favourites and showcase them in new ways. Pretty stamps aren’t made to just be collected they are meant to get inky! It’s also a fun way to revisit older product while playing with new goodies! 

Playing along with a few challenges to help get the mojo flowing.

Shout out to The Global Design Project for the sketch inspiration #GDP514. Love the arches they are perfect for the Everyday Arches.

Over at Sunday Stamps challenges for the colour palette inspiration #SSC369 - I chose Secret Sea, Misty Moonlight, Cloud Cover, Pecan Pie and Crumb cake.

Inkspirational has the Word prompt of Trees. So perfect excuse to play with my retired Rooted In Nature stamps and dies.

And finally Tic Tac Toe challenge #tttc279 where I almost got a full card covered with the rectangle shape of my A2 card, Die cuts for my trees and the stripes in the mini corrugated embossing of my Secret Sea layer. Plus a second line with 3 or more colours and metallic gold in my twine.  4th line with stamped image and using an embossing folder.

All these elements came together to create a lovely Birthday card for a nature lover! I’ve used a sentiment from my retired Sending You Thoughts stamp set for my birthday greeting. 

I wanted to use Rhinestones as my embellishments so used the alcohol ink trick to make some Secret Sea rhinestones by colouring them with my Secret Sea Blends marker. I love a good frugal find tip and this one is a great way to have coordinating embellishments at your fingertips without having to buy a bazillion different embellishment packs. Rhinestones and Pearls are definitely my go to for embellishments these days. 

What’s your favourite frugal crafting tip? 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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