Autumn Blessing

When I had my Thoughts and Prayers set out last week I thought I'd like to try inking it with markers and getting some Fall color in that tree.

Then when I saw this card by Tina (aka GardenDiva), Queen for the Day this week, I knew I wanted to give it a try.

This was my second try.  The first tree was leaning like it'd been in a hurricane!

Other than using the same tree, this doesn't look at all like Tina's card.  I was also inspired by the lovely Fall colors from this card.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge says ANYTHING GOES this week.  It's sure to be a busy week over there!

CASology's  cue card says AUTUMN.

Addicted to Stamps is calling for CAS

The Thanksgiving Campaign at the Simplicity blog is for Thanksgiving cards. Since I'll be sending this as a Thanksgiving card, I'm going over there too.  I agree with Susan that it's sad that Thanksgiving gets lost between Halloween and Christmas.  But we can make every day a Thanksgiving day by just looking around us and counting our blessings.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers, Take Care

Ink:  SU Markers (Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Cajun Craze), Soft Sky

Paper:  Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inker), Stampin' Sponge

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

I inked the stamp with markers first inking the trunk and branches.  I inked all the leaves with the Pumpkin Pie then thumped all the other colors randomly.  I gave it a good huff and stamped it.  I dotted the "leaves" on the ground with markers and freehanded some falling leaves.  They look like tear drops falling from the tree and I almost trashed it.  It looks a little better to me today.  Hopefully it will make a special someone happy.

Oh, and I lightly sponged some Soft Sky around the tree.

Thanks for stopping by to visit.

Enjoy!

For Queen Cindy

Here we are already to the end of the Queen for the Day's reign at SCS.  This week our honoree is Cindy aka frenziedstamper.  Every time I look through her gallery, I see something that I missed. What a treat!  This is the card that I chose to CASE.

And this is what I did....

I pulled out one of the watercolor spotches backgrounds that was hiding in my UFO box.  

Addicted to CAS has a good challenge.  I need some get well cards in my stash.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers Thoughtful Messages (Hero Arts)

Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Paper:  Whisper White, Shimmery White (for watercolor), Basic Black

Other: Re-inkers, Aqua Painter

Jack is still breaking my heart with his crying when I leave him at preschool.  But today they said they got a picture of him smiling. There was a picture on the door of Jack and another little guy.  Jack had laid his hand on the other's shoulder and through his tears said, "Mommy with be back."  Made me want to cry.  

Next week will be easier.  

I hope.

So glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

Thoughts and Prayers Tag for Joyce

Edited to add directions for flowers.  See below.

I've been busy the past few days but got behind on the pictures.  There's just not enough hours in the day! 

I've never done much with tags.  I bought some a while back at a swap meet and loved using them. But I'd never made them much on my own.  But when I saw this card by the Featured Stamper this week, Joyce (aka ashjoy), I decided to give one a try.  This is what I came up with....

CAS on Sunday challeng is "Tag"it!  right now.  I hope this is CAS enough for them.

Paper Players has a color challenge this week.

I rarely get to play with them so I'm excited to get this in.  And it's the first time I've used these new In Colors.  Gotta say that I love them.

Edited to add:  The flowers were punched with the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch.  I wadded them up then unfolded them.  I used my thumbnail to separate the flower into 2 layers.  I press them into my Stampin' Pierce mat with a stylus to cup the flowers.  A little drop of glue holds the 2 layers together and a tiny pearl from the Basic Pearls goes in the center. 

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers, All Holidays (retired)

Ink:  SU Marker (Pear Pizzazz)

Paper:  Whisper White, Crisp Cantaloupe, Strawberry Slush, DSP (retired)

Other:  Corner Rounder Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes, Punch Pack, 1/4" Circle Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, Pear Pizzaz Ribbon (retired), Linen Thread, Big Shot, Large Scallop Edgelit, Delicate Designs EF, Basic Pearls

I really appreciate your visits and comments.  I try to return your visits but can't always access your blogs.  Sometimes you ask a question and I have no way to answer it.  I'm always happy to answer your questions if you can email me so I have a way to get back to you.

Enjoy!

Sympathy Sketch

Sadly, I needed a sympathy card.  And the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch! looked like a good place to start.

Here's the sketch   

I used the perfect colors from the Paper Players Challenge

Edited to add that I'm going to take this over to the CCEE Stampers challenge to do a Sympathy card.

And here's the card...

The door's getting ready to close at the sketch challenge so I'd better skedaddle and get over there.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers, Teeny, Tiny Wishes

Ink:  Basic Gray

Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Grey, Snippets of Pacific Point and Daffodil Delight

Other:  Beautiful Wings Embosslit

I'm so glad you stopped by.  See you soon.

Enjoy!

Eleanor's Thinking of You

Here's a card that I did for a Color Challenge quite a while back and never got posted.  It's been sitting here on my desk and I've been enjoying it.  I thought it was about time that I shared it with you.

The colors were Pink Pirouette, Raspberry Ripple and Crumb Cake.


I stamped the flourish with Crumb Cake at an angle, stamped the label in Crumb Cake and fussy cut it out, stamped the flower in Raspberry Ripple, painted it with a Pink Pirouette marker and fussy cut that out too.


The label is mounted on dimensionals and the sentiment is stamped in Whisper White.


So quick and easy. 


I grabbed the wrong punch.  I meant to round the corners but used the ticket corner punch instead.  I don't know that I'd seen a card with the main corners punched like this, but I couldn't put it back.  At least there's not a big smear across the front of the card.


I'm really liking this set.


All supplies are Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted.

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Everything Eleanor, Thoughts and Prayers
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White, SU Marker (Pink Pirouette)
Paper:  Whisper White
Other:  Basic Pearl


I'm glad you stopped by.  Your visits make me happy.


Enjoy!

CAS-ual Fridays Black Base

Here's a card for the  CAS-ual Fridays challenge last week. 

CFC62:  Create a Clean And Simple card using a black card base

I found the image in my UFO box and thought it would be a good fit.  LOL, I think I could have started from scratch and finished sooner.  I've used this beautiful silhouette tree for lots of sympathy cards but I didn't need any for my stash.  So I had to think out of the usual box.  That seems to be harder to do with each birthday!  I hear exercising the brain will help to hold of the Oldtimers Disease so I don't mind stretching.  Besides, I had some of my favorite stamping friends around to help me with ideas.

I used my Itty Bitty Punches and a scrap of Melon Mambo to add some color to the tree. Then I used my burnishing tool (pilfered from DH's stash of tools) on the little flowers.  After rubbing them on the piercing mat, I picked them into 2 layers so they wouldn't be so bulky. Tiny pearls dress up the centers.

I dug way back for the sentiment.  It's from a long retired Stampin' Up! set called Autumn Leaf Prints.  I still use those leaves every Fall and I love the two little sentiments with that set.

I scored a frame around the design area from the inside of the card with my Simply Scored.  Lines were scored at 1/4" from the edge and 1/8" inside of that.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers, Autumn Leaf Prints (retired)

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn

Paper:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Melon Mambo scrap

Other:  Simply Scored, Basic Pearls, Whisper White 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon

We finally got some much needed rain.  We had some heavy thunder and lightening with it.  The lights flickered several times, but we still have our power.  Thankful for that too.

I'm so glad you stopped by.  I hope you come back soon.

Enjoy!

Dynamic Duos Meets the Queen

Queen for the Day at SCS last week was Arizona Maine (Angela).  I've been drooling over Angela's creations since she came on the scene at SCS.   You might want to check out her gallery.  This is the card that I CASEd.  And here's what I came up with.

I used the bold and sassy colors from the Dynamic Duos challenge this week.

The circle background image was stamped with Whisper White Craft ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Then I used a combination of Watercolor Crayons and markers to color the images.

Part of the flower spray, from Thoughts and Prayers, was inked with markers and stamped so the circle design would look like a continuation.

I ended up with a smudge on one side of the design piece so I cut it off and just happened to have this Old Olive card with some of the front cut off.  They were a good match so I adhered the design piece so that a bit of the back of the card shows. I think it needs something else and I'm not sure what.  Maybe some scoring on the green card front.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Serene Silhouettes, Thoughts and Prayers, Kindness Matters (sentiment)

Ink:  Whisper White, Old Olive, SU Markers (Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive)

Paper:  Old Olive, Whisper White

Other:  White EP, Old Olive Ribbon (retired)

It didn't turn out as I imagined, but I'll go with it.  It's quite different from my usual layouts and it's fun to break away and try something different.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Apple Blossom Time

You probably don't remember the song "Apple Blossom Time".  I only remember it because my parents were fans of the Andrews Sisters and we always listened to Lawrence Welk. I'm not really that old!  Honest, I'm not.

The CAS-ual Fridays challenge last week was to do a clean and simple project based on a song.  So these little posies are apple blossoms today.

The Less is More challenge this week is to use this picture for inspiration.

Isn't that a pretty picture?

I don't feel like I did it justice.

I didn't think I would like all that gray, but it surprised me.  It's actually quite pretty with the pink.

All supplies are Stampin' Up!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers

Ink:  SU Markers (Wild Wasabi, Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Basic Gray)

Paper:  Going Gray (retired), Whisper White, Basic Gray

Other:  White Gel Pen Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots EF

Oh, what a beautiful day we've had!  It wasn't as hot as it's been and the pollen isn't as heavy.  And I had a visit from my favorite neighbor.  The boys even let us visit for more than a few minutes. What a treat!

I'm so glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

How Many Stamps?

Last week's One Layer Wednesday card was to make a one layer card using as many different stamps as you can.  You must use at least three; more is better!

The flowers are two step stamping so I used 2 for each flower and 2 for each stem.  Is that over counting?  Then I used the large stamp from the Just Believe, the butterflies from Clearly for You and the Sentiment.  That's seven stamps.

I stamped the tall flowers first using Blushing Bride for the base color and Peach Parfait for the overstamping. The stems are Pear Pizzazz (both the base and overstamp). I masked the pink flowers and inked the large stamp from Just Believe with markers, using Old Olive and Daffodil Delight.  The butterflies were stamped in Calypso Coral and I drew in traced the antennae and body with my Basic Black marker.  I added some dots of More Mustard to the center of the big flowers and Peach Parfait to the smaller ones.

I used the Stamp-a-majig a lot for this card!  I've used it so much, I'm even beginning to feel comfortable with it.

I rounded the bottom right corner.  Then I covered it up with my watermark.  Not smart!

All supplies are Stampin' Up!


Card Recipe
Stamps:  Greenhouse Garden, Just Believe, Clearly for You, Thoughts and Prayers
Ink:  Blushing Bride, Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz, Calypso Coral, Basic Black, SU Markers (Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard, Basic Black)
Other:  Stamp-a-majg, Corner Rounder Punch

Can you tell I'm thinking of Spring?  And we may get a little snow tonight.  Finally!  I hope, I hope!

I just noticed that in the picture, the sentiment looks crooked.  IRL it looks straight.  Ah, the miracles of photography.  Usually it's the other way around!

I'm so glad you stopped by to visit.  Your visits make me happy.

Enjoy!

Thinking Fall

I love this Thoughts and Prayers set and I don't believe I'd ever used it as a Fall card.  I'm sure someone's lovely card gave me the idea.

Last Friday's SCS Queen for the Day was Dawn and she had just challenged us to use paper blocks for the Free 4 All challenge at SCS.  When I toured Dawns delightful gallery, I noticed that she uses a lot of decorative paper on her cards.  Looking at her creations, I can't understand why using decorative paper scares me so.

But I am DP challenged and I have a stockpile of unused DP to prove it!

And the Friday Mashup challenge this week is to do an Autumnal card or a card with brads. Or to mash it up and do both.  I didn't use lots of brads like Lisa requested (and used on her beautiful card).  But I did get a couple on there.

And, the Color Challenge at SCS this week was to use More Mustard, Soft Suede and Tangerine Tango.  The brown panel (the one that looks navy) is Chocolate Chip.  It's not an exact match to Soft Suede, but it's pretty close.  These are such beautiful colors for Fall.  Unfortunately these colors didn't photograph very well.  The close up turned out so much better.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers

Ink:  Chocolate Chip, SU Markers (Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Tangerine Tango)

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Scraps of DSP

Other:  Brads



Thanks so much for joining me today.  I haven't had much computer time the past couple of days, but I have really enjoyed your comments and visiting your blogs when I had a minute.

Enjoy!

Inspired by Janelle

This week's One Layer Wednesday challenge is to do a card inspired by Janelle.  We can use one of Janelle's cards as inspiration or some of her words.  If you want to be inspired, check out her blog.

This is for Janelle...

The design is inspired by this card.  The sentiment is inspired by Janelle herself.  I hate that she is having to go through this hard time, but I'm so grateful that she shares her faith and optimism.  Every time I read her blog, I come away feeling better.  Wouldn't it be nice if all of us could touch others that way.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers, Herb Expressions

Ink:  Basic Black, SU Markers (Old Olive, Real Red)

Paper:  Whisper White

Other:  Stamp-a-ma-jig

Thank you for visiting here today and for the wonderful comments you have left.

Enjoy!

For Queen Liz

It's almost time for Queen Liz to give up her crown.  Somehow I'm always at the end of the reign getting these cards posted.  Liz has been on my mind all week though.

Anyway, Liz, aka lazylizard, was named Queen for the Day last Friday.  I enjoyed looking through her lovely gallery and had trouble deciding just which project to CASE.  I finally decided on this one.  I love these necklaces made out of repurposed game pieces.  I have one made with a Scrabble square and really enjoy it.  I didn't make a necklace, but Liz's necklace was an inspiration for this card.

I don't have a lily of the valley stamp.  But this reminded me of the colors Liz used.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Herb Expressions, Thoughts and Prayers

Ink:  Old Olive, SU Markers (Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, More Mustard)

Paper:  Naturals White

As always, thanks for stopping by.  I really appreciate all your lovely comments.

Enjoy!

For Queen Marie

Last Friday's Queen for the Day at SCS was momof5sons aka Marie.  Marie is such a sweetheart and encourages me so much!  I am so glad she was chosen as the Queen and I sincerely hope she enjoyed her reign.

I used the black and white color scheme from this beautiful card and also this card as my inspiration.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts and Prayers, All Holidays

Ink:  Basic Black, SU Marker (Basic Black)

Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black

Other:  Big Shot, Framed Tulips EF, Basic Pearls (colored with permanent marker)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Thoughts and Prayers All Around

The Queen for the Day, at SCS, last Friday was Mary aka jandjcc.  I want to CASE many of the cards from her amazing gallery!  Here is the card that I chose to CASE this time.  And here's my version....

I really loved the way she swirled the flower spray.  I went with a brighter palate, mainly because these were the colors in the Color Throwdown last week.  I'm too late, as usual, but I'm glad I tried these colors.

The branch and flowers were inked with SU Markers, Certainly Celery and Pumpkin Pie.  After I stamped once on the card, I stamped again without reinking on an envelope.  Then I went back with my Melon Mambo marker and colored the centers of the flowers and finished them off with a dot from the White Gel Pen in the very center.

I'll send this over to Paper Players for their Kind Thanks Challenge.

And the TLC challenge, at SCS, is to Decorate the Envie.

I'm going to have to stop.  Mr. Brown just delivered my new IDEA BOOK & CATALOG and I keep having to stop and look.  I think I'll stop this and just concentrate on that!  I wish I could show it to you today :>(, but I can tell you that most of my favorites from the mini catalogs made it into the big one!  Yeah!!  And there's five new In Colors too and well as the wonderful In Colors from last year.  Hopefully I can get my head out of the book long enough to make another card to share with you tomorrow!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Oh, and I was a top pick at jac-inks last week.  That gave me a big smile!

Enjoy!

Thoughts Framed

Sunday's Featured Stamper on SCS was whoistracy.  Splitcoast was having some issues Sunday and I couldn't even bring up many of the cards in her gallery.  This one was one that I saw and I woke up Monday morning thinking about it.  I love the cutout frame and the way she did the ribbon.

If you've taken a look at her card, you can see how far off I am from her beauty.

I wanted to do something a bit different than the leaves, maybe butterflies, but then I got sidetracked by the Technique Challenge, also on SCS, to use a silhouette stamp.

Then I couldn't find a ribbon that worked.  Tracy's ribbon was so light and airy.  All I have in black is heavy and not at all right.  So I used the Modern Label punch and folded it over the frame instead of ribbon.

So there is really not a lot of similarity between this card and Tracy's.  But I did use the frame idea!

Maybe I'll try it again using butterflies.

At least I have another Sympathy card for my stash.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers, Teeny, Tiny Wishes

Ink:  StazOn Black

Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black

Accessories:  Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Modern Label Punch, Metallic brad (It's SU but from an old set)

Enjoy,

Bonnie

Get Well Flowers

Hello Stampin' Friends.  I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Sorry that I've been away so long.  Our Thanksgiving was delayed for an extra day until we could get my Dad here.  We had a very special day together.  Our girls hadn't seen him in 2 years and he got reacquainted with the older grandchildren and met our darling Emmie for the first time.

Today I made a card is for the OLW30 challenge over at Jennifer Styles' blog.  I used this card for inspiration.

I've been bumped from my stamping room and brought my card table to the study.  It took about 12 trips to get everything I needed to make my card.  Then I had to put everything back.  LOL, maybe I can lose some weight!

This is what I came up with.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers

Ink:  Basic Black

Paper:  Daffodil Delight

Accessories:  Big Shot, Petals-a-Plenty EF, Boho Blossoms Punch, Black Gingham Ribbon 

Hopefully, I can continue to make a few cards and get them posted daily.  If I can't, please forgive and don't give up on me.  I'll be back at it as soon as I can.

Enjoy,

Bonnie

Another Thoughts and Prayers

Yesterday I shared a Sympathy Card using the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set.  When I did that card, I was making it for the FTL114 challenge on the Clean & Simple Stamping blog as well as the CAS91 challenge on SCS.

The layout was for a curvy design like on last night's card.  However, I realized, after I had finished it, that it was supposed to be a ONE LAYER card!  Oops!  Back to the drawing board.

This time, to be different, I flipped the design and ran it vertically instead of horizontally.

 I didn't get a clear stamp!  But since I was using the Stamp-a-ma-jig, I restamped.  Guess what?  Either the card or the SAMJ moved!  But, I kind of liked the ghosting.  So I did it 3 times.  Do you know that SAMJ moved every time!  Unfortunately every time it moved it left some ink where I didn't want it!

So, I got out the color spritzer tool and spritzed a little of both colors of ink.  It did a good job of covering up the smudges.  You can't even see them unless you look really, really close.  Then because everything is slightly blurred anyway, it looks like it was done on purpose.  I doubt I could do this again if I wanted to try!

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers
Ink:  Rich Razzleberry & Old Olive SU Markers
Paper:  Whisper White
Accessories:  Stamp-a-ma-jig, Color Spritzer Tool

Follow the link above to the Clean & Simple Stamping blog and check out all the submissions.  There is lots of inspiration there!

Enjoy your blessings,
Bonnie

Thoughts and Prayers Vine

The CAS challenge on SCS this week is to do a Sympathy card.  

And I checked out the Featured Stamper challenge yesterday on SCS and really enjoyed CherylQuilts gallery.  This card in her gallery inspired my Sympathy card.

I inked the branch with SU Markers and used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to turn this branch into a vine.  I stamped 3 times.

Just simple layering with rounded corners and some basic pearls on a few of the flowers finished it off.

Card Recipe
Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers
Ink:  Old Olive & Rich Razzleberry SU Markers
Paper:  Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry
Accessories:  Stamp-a-ma-jig, Corner Rounder, Basic Pearls

I stamped the sentiment on the inside with just the tips of the branch, stamped off once, framing it.  Sorry I didn't get a picture of the inside.

Thanks for joining me tonight.  I hope you found some inspiration and will be back soon.

Enjoy,
Bonnie

Concord Thoughts

On SCS, Sunday's challenge is the Featured Stamper Challenge.  I usually don't participate because I am usually playing catch up, getting ready for the start of a new week and spending time with family.  Last Sunday, I had some time and I checked to see who the featured stamper was and saw that it was LynniePoo.  I had printed a copy of a card she had done a couple of weeks earlier that I wanted to CASE.  You can see her card here.

To participate in this challenge you have to change at least 2 things.  I used a different stamp set, different colors and put the sentiment below the design instead of above.  But the layout with the scoring was what drew me to her card to begin with.

I had a bit of trouble with the scoring.  I ruined a couple of tries because I couldn't keep my eye on the mark!  But finally I got the lines straight.  Then I stamped the design too high.  But I love this stamp with Concord Crush & Old Olive so I couldn't trash it.  Then I spied a piece of scrap that had been border punched, who knows when, and thrown in the scrap bag!  It helped to balance the design a little.  Even though it isn't perfectly centered, I like this one much better than the other one I did because I thought I was going to have to trash the first one!

For this one I used the Bells & Boughs set from the Holiday mini.  I inked the holly with Garden Green, stamped and used the blender pen with ink pads to paint the leaves.  A SU marker took care of the berries.

This design is centered better and is a good card, but doesn't give me the Aah! that the first card does.

What do you think?

Card Recipe  (Card 1)
Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers, Watercolor Trio
Ink:  Concord Crush & Old Olive SU Markers
Paper:  Whisper White, Concord Crush
Accessories:  Scallop Oval & Large Oval Punches, ScorePal

Card Recipe  (Card 2)
Stamps:  Bells & Boughs
Ink:  Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler SU Marker
Paper:  Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories:  Blender pen,  ScorePal

I'm going to enter one of these at 2pawsdesigns {Made by Me} Wednesday.
 Hop on over and take a look.

Thanks for visiting me today.  I hope you will come back soon.

Enjoy your blessings,
Bonnie

Concord Thoughts

Hello creative friends.  It has been a wonderful rainy day.  It's been so hot and dry lately that the rain is a welcome sight!

I did this card for the CAS86 challenge on SCS to do a card inspired by this card done by cookiebaker.  What a great layout!

I inked up the stamp with SU Markers and then did a little thumping.   First I inked the flowers with Concord Crush and stamped on my scrap mat. Then I thumped with the Concord marker on some of the flowers.  I used Pear Pizzazz thumped with Old Olive on the leaves.  I huffed and puffed and stamped on a 2 3/4" x 3 1/2" piece of Whisper White. The sentiment is stamped in Concord Crush.

I rounded alternate corners and matted with a piece of Concord Crush cut 1/8" larger, cut a 1 1/2" strip of white and matted that with a piece of Concord Crush also cut 1/8" larger.  I wrapped a piece of ribbon around the strip and adhered both pieces to a card that had been embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.

It was quick and easy and I won't tell you how many things I tried to get to this point.  LOL, my trash can is full!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers

Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, & Concord Crush SU Markers

Paper:  Whisper White, Concord Crush

Accessories:  Corner Rounder Punch, Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Concord Crush Stitched Ribbon

Hope you got to stamp today and didn't have to trash anything!

Enjoy your blessings.

Bonnie