Trust God Greeting Card

I created this card with new In-Color card stock and Designer Series Paper. The Sentiment is a carry-over from the previous catalog; it is from the Trust God stamp set. The sunshine is from the new stamp set, Ray of Sunshine.

I used Lost Lagoon card stock for the background. I stamped the flourish from Everything Eleanore with the VersaMark watermark ink pad. It's a great way to create a tone-on-tone effect.

Here's my revised version of this card. I decided that I wanted to see what it would look like with the yellow card stock instead of the pink. I'm not sure that it is better or worse...I think it is just different.

This is a Paper Players Sketch, Sketch Challenge #206

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Have a Happy Day!
Trude

Serene Silhouette Sponged Bookmarks

I decided to play with a stamp set that I haven't had the opportunity to try, because I don't own it yet. My friend Susie came over and brought her Serene Silhouettes stamp set. I wanted to do some sponging to see what would happen, so I pulled out some bookmark size pieces of paper. I like the results of our Scrapping and Stamping time last Tuesday.

Since I had my sponges and ink pads all out I did some more
playing with them, but I will wait for another day to do those
posts.

• Ink: Various shades of Classic Stampin' ink pads to create gradients of color.  Jet Black Stazon ink.
• Stamps:  Serene Silhouettes, Trust God
• Punches: 1" circle punch, Angled Tag Topper, 1/8" circle punch
• Ribbon: Thick Baker's twine- Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe
• Paper I used: Glossy white (Stampin' Up! doesn't have it in the catalog anymore, but it is great for this type of project.) 
• Other: Sticky notes, Stampin' Sponges

I've been enjoying some sibling time. My sister has been visiting. We went up to see Mt. St. Helens on Saturday. The mountain was clear while we were driving up, but after we stopped to eat lunch and were ready to take a close look and some photos of the volcano, it tried to hide behind a layer of clouds.

Finally when we were heading out the top started to poke out and my nephew grabbed the bottom photo.