Breathtaking Bouquet Accent Strip

Background Stamping Series Post #5

This post is part of a series showing different ways to use a background stamp.

Background stamps are typically large, intended to cover the whole card front.

Today's post shows 2 cards that use the stamp 

on a smaller piece of paper as an accent strip.

These are both very simple cards

The eye-catching feature of both is 

the foil strip and the fact the 

background image is heat embossed.

Heat embossing adds an extra shine and elegance to a project.

With both cards the main focal point is
the sentiment displayed on punched layers.

 

If you look closely at the sentiment below you'll see lots of layers.

BOTH the black and white layers were made with a single punch

In other words the punched piece framed itself!

 

The trick is to cut the black piece into 4 pieces 

and pull them each out a little to make the frame.

 

I did a video if you want to see how this works.

This is several years old with a different punch, but the concept is the same. 

 

Both of these cards used the
Breathtaking Bouquet Background Stamp.

For the sentiment on the purple card
I used the Pretty Label Punch

and for the sentiment on the brown card
I used the Label Me Lovely Punch

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- come back tomorrow to get more ideas for using your background stamps.