Black and White

 Ahhh, winter in Ontario. Don’t like the weather - just wait a few hours and it will change! We have gone from bitter cold weather to it being above freezing today which means any snow or ice left around has been thawing; tonight it will start to rain and tomorrow it will change to snow and it may snow for over 24 hours. Bah Humbug! I hope it misses us but not likely.

 Whenever I buy a new stamp, I like to stamp it right away to make sure its okay. Sometimes I just stamp on old paper but sometimes I grab a piece of new cardstock. That’s what I did with this large background stamp…I think its 6” square. Then I set it aside. Once in awhile I would pull it out of my background stash and think, “What am I going to do with this?” and put it back! Finally, after weeks of moving it around, I decided to turn it into a card.   This is what I came up with.

                              
Unfortunately I always seem to need sympathy cards. So I took this background stamp and cut it down to 4 x 5.25 so it would fit on a standard A2 card but leave a border. I decided to stay with the black and white theme so the card itself is black. Before gluing it to the card base I cut a piece of black cardstock about 1/2” wide and stamped and embossed the sentiment in white. It was glued just under the middle of the background. Then it was glued to the card base and for once I quit at that point!  I decided it didn’t need anything else. It would qualify for clean and simple for sure.

That’s all for a mild day for the first of February, 2022.

 Cheers

Violet

PS: To save a card to your Pinterest account, simply hover over the image until the ‘Pin It” symbol appears and then click…it sometimes takes a few seconds. This will take you to your own Pinterest account to save the card.