I love when you can use a stamp or other product for a variety of occasions. The Festive Foliage stamp set (#155634) is basically a Christmas stamp, I guess mainly because it has holly leaves but it also has a lovely range of leaves. So I have made 2 cards today, one for Christmas and the other a birthday card using this background stamp. On the birthday card I covered the holly leaves with flowers so there is nothing on there to indicate Christmas, so it’s now a stamp you can use all year round so don’t you love that!!
I stamped the first card with VersaMark (#102283) and heat embossed with Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder (#155555) then set with the Heat Tool (#129056). I used Tuxedo Black Memento ink (#132708) for the birthday card. I coloured the leaves with a variety of green Stampin’ Blends - Granny Apple Green (#154885), Soft Succulent (#155521), Soft Sea Foam (#154902), Old Olive (#154892), Mossy Meadow (#154890) and Just Jade (#153107). I used the Poppy Parade Stampin’ Blends (#154958) to add some colour to the dots on the Birthday card.
For the Christmas card, I gold embossed the sentiment from the Christmas To Remember stamp set (#156300). The labels from the Seasonal Labels Dies (#156299) were used the cut the sentiment as well as the Gold Foil (#132622) and the Just Jade card (#153084) under the sentiment. The gold label was cut in half and attached to the sentiment showing more of the label on each side than if it was 1 piece. The labels were then attached to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals (#104430). The beautiful Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots (#156506) adds some bling to the card.
For the Birthday card I stamped the flowers from Timeless Tropical stamp set (#151497) using Daffodil Delight ink (#147094), then cut these with the In The Tropics Dies (#151495). Happy Birthday from Artistically Inked stamp set (#154542) was stamped with VersaMark onto Daffodil Delight card (#121680) and heat embossed with White Stampin’ Emboss Powder (#155554). The die from the Seasonal Labels was used to cut the sentiment. 2 of the flowers and the sentiment were attached with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals (#144108). These were arranged to cover the holly leaves. The Cherry Cobbler gems from the Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels (#150457) were used for the bling on this card.
I hope this has given you an idea on how to get more use from some of your stamps.
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