Swaps for On Stage-Friendly Wishes!

This simple little card is one of my swaps for On Stage.  I can’t believe I actually found time to make some!  For swaps, I wanted to use In Colors and the stamps sets we know will be carried over to next year.  I have also just gotten a Silhouette Cameo…yeah me!  With the Cameo, I can stamp all the images and then use the cutter to do all my fussy cutting.  In a very short space of time, I was able to cut out 50 stamped sentiments.  This made the work of production card making so easy.  Normally I would have just put this sentiment on a rectangle.  But being able to give it the “fussy cut” look  is a fabulous feature of having a Silhouette machine.  Since I was doing swaps, I felt honor bound to stamp all the images and cut them out.  But you could also stamp a page and then “scan and cut” multiple pages faster than I was able to scanning and cutting each stamped page.

To fancy up the sentiment some, I colored in areas using Stampin’ Write markers.  This gave the sentiment some pop.  And of course, I had to add the 2-tone Baker’s Twine. I am so hoping this makes it to next year’s catalog.  All in all a very simple design to make in bulk, but a swap card I am happy to put my name on!

Recipe

Papers: Mint Macaron, Basic Black, White Vellum, Whisper White
Stamps: Friendly Wishes
Inks: Basic Black
Tools: Stampin’ Write Markers in Mint Macaron and Watermelon Wonder
Embellishments: 2-Tone Baker’s Twine