So Loving My Block Party

As Hannibal used to say on the A-Team back in the 80s- I love it when a plan comes together! I just knew that this set would be my perfect workshop set and tonight proved it. Check out this card -- cute, quick and simple. A perfect party card. And it uses one of my favorite Stampin' Up! products -- stampin' pastels. I used the poppin' pastels technique on both the main image and the background. On the main image I combined pastels in old olive, more mustard and ruby red to create a rainbow effect. On the background I used just the old olive to create a tone on tone look that is just slightly more prominent than versamark alone. And did you notice that I even used the same stamp for the background? I just stamped it several times, stamping off at different intervals so that it would look "tiled" I like the photo corners but I think they might be too big. No problem -- the photo corner punch gives me corners in two different sizes, so next time I'll just use the smaller corners.

I like this card so much I might keep working on it and make it into a swap for convention. I will probably use a different background, just to save a little time, and I might add something to the corners, but I think this is a good start. How about you?