Stamps Ahead

Here are two cards that I have made recently for classes I lead at local community centre: The inspiration for this card came from a card in love Cardmaking magazine Issue 20, made by Sarah Anderson.  The card uses Distress Oxide inks and stamped images - A Little Kindness Un-Cut set and Nostalgic Textures Un-Cut set both from Kaszazz. Thank you for your inspiration, Sarah and I have sent you an email thanking you.  Inside of card. This card was heat embossed with white embossing powder onto Kraft cardstock and then coloured with Distress Oxide Inks applied with a waterbrush.  Flower stamp from Altenew. I love how they both turned out. Do you? Thank you for looking, Margaret

This card was inspired by a card by Lydia on altenewblog   which she called Corner-Stepped Back Sentiment Strip.  Again, I found this card by blog surfing looking for ideas.   Do you ever make a card and go "wow" I love it.  Well, I did with this card.   I have used an Altenew stamp set and die called Christmas Rose that came with a card magazine some time ago. It is 2 step stamping. I also used an old favourite 2004 Stampin' Up! set for the thank you - it was one of the first sets I ever purchased from them called Wonderful Words - and I just can't seem to part with it.   I also, added some Perfect Pearls in Brass for that extra pop.  Thank you Lydia for the inspiration.  Inside of the card. The following card was the first one I made - again it uses an Altenew set called Build-a-rose.  My ladies in the group have various levels of stamping experience and this one uses a 3 step process and in the end I decided that 2 step was the mos...