vive la stamping!

Having three children has forced me to to multi-task. I can cook dinner and talk on the phone at the same time. I take a shower while drilling an 8 year old on his multiplication tables. I can pursue my love of stamping while planning a club project and creating an end of the year teacher gift at the same time!

This is a card folder.

You open it up and there are pockets to hold the cards and matching stamped envelopes.

Here is the close up of the card. It uses the fleur de lis stencil from the elegant trio stencil set. Yes ladies, stencilling is not just for walls and decor items. The card base is kraft paper and the matte is soft suede. I did the fleur de lis stencil with a sponge dauber and soft suede ink. The flourish is from the new GORGEOUS Elements of Style stamp set in the summer mini. I used bermuda bay ink colour. I never thought bermuda bay and soft suede would work together but I saw it on the stampin' up demo site and had to try it myself. It might be hard to see but I used the colour spritzer tool with my soft suede marker to add some softness/interest.

Now of course the trick is to make 3 more for the rest of my kids teachers. It's actually very easy to make but I also have to get cracking on daddy's father's day gift. Boy, I"m going to be very happy the next few days with all this stampin' I have to do. :-)