All you need is a stamp and some canvas

Hi Everyone.  Happy Tuesday.

I apologize for being absent yesterday but Lou's daughter flew in from out of country and we have spent much of the past few days with her and that has entailed some very late nights  and not much sleep!  It was so great to catch up though!

Before I show you my card tonight, I wanted to say thank you to Lesley for choosing this card as the showcase card for her first Merry Monday challenge.  I was so thrilled and so honored.  Thank you, Lesley!!!  Don't forget to pop along to her website and play along with the Merry Monday challenge.  If you do, you will be in good shape for Christmas cards this year!

I have a slightly different card for you tonight.  Yep… stamping on canvas.  I love the look of canvas on cards because you get such fabulous texture.  However, the stamped image isn't generally that great.  This technique uses an embossed flower and the embossed resist technique.  So, much the same as you do it on paper, but on canvas instead.  It gives a great image – here's a closeup

You can see the fabulous texture and how well the colors blend on the canvas.  Let's take a look at the whole card

You can see that I blended the green at the bottom of the canvas and then blue at the top to represent the sky.  The white embossed flower really pops off the colored background and the canvas really is a great change to paper.

I thought that the sentiment needed to be a little whimsical and the typeface in So Happy For You SAB set from 2011 is perfect.  (Once again keeping with my resolution to use stamps I don't use often enough!)  It also gave me the opportunity to use one of the non-SU wooden stamps that have been sitting around forever in my stamping cupboard!

The Night of Navy and Very Vanilla card stock were perfect for this color scheme.  All that was needed was an SU botton and a little bit of SU twine.  I did use an embossing plate to give a little texture to the Very Vanilla layer.  It needed just a touch of texture, otherwise it would have competed too much with the canvas.

So, what do you think?  Ready to give this a go?  It was really easy and a lot of fun.

On a personal note:

Getting back into work has been tough.  Isn't it always tough to go back after a few days away?  The beginning of the year is also when major changes occur at work and they have started to happen.  Some of them are really good changes though, which is great.  I am so pleased that I decided to go back at the end of last week because that meant a very short week 🙂

The house should be back on track today, too.  The framer was due back on site to start to frame up the rest of the house.  Considering the weather has been unseasonably warm – up to 50 degrees again today, it means that the builders should be able to get more done than is usual at this time of year.  It also means that we need to get cracking on starting to sort things out and packing boxes.  Oh, as well as making a list of the things that need to get fix before the house goes on the market!  So, it's going to be a very busy few weeks coming up.  BUT… certainly exciting 🙂

As always, thank you so much for spending a little time in my area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits really do mean a great deal to me.

Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee