LeAnn is our hostess in the Color Challenge this week. What a lovely palette: The colors are Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Crumb Cake. The dessert option is to use a die.
I started off by stamping the bamboo stalks, using a modified thumping technique. I inked up the stamps in Soft Succulent, then tapped randomly on the stalks with Evening Evergreen. I love red rubber stamps; they provide such depth that you just can't get with a photopolymer stamp. And by combining the two ink colors, I think I achieved even more depth and color variation. I used my MISTI for the bamboo stalks, but switched to my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig for the rest of the images. It makes placement so quick and easy! I used the direct-to-paper technique to ink up some Shimmery White cardstock with Soft Succulent, and then die cut the three little hearts.
My card base is Crumb cake, stamped with the long-retired background stamp, Weathered. I sponged the edges of the base card, too. I mounted the bamboo image on a layer of Shimmer Vellum, then mounted it onto the base card.
Thank you, LeAnn, for a perfect palette for the sympathy card I need. It's for my SU demo, so it had to be this stamp set! She lost her beloved Samoyed this past week.