Three Minute Thursday Spiced Paisley

It's Thursday (already!) and time for my weekly speedy card. I was playing with the Spiced Paisley stamp set earlier this week and had the idea of using the stamps to make tone-on-tone patterns. That's what inspired today's little set of café au lait thank you cards:

I used the smallest paisley pattern on the first, masking off the top of the card with a post-it note and stamping the image repeatedly, letting it overlap. It gives this sort of lace effect which I rather like, but it needed something else so I sponged it with Crumb Cake ink and that did the trick! It was very quick to add a strip of card stock at the top of the patterns and snip a ribbon tail in the bit that overlapped. I decorated the strip with three of my gorgeous self-adhesive pearls and finished with this beautifully ornate sentiment stamp from Thank You Kindly.

Here's the same design but this time using the small flower stamp too from the set. I do like the sort of textured effect.

For this last one, I tried a pattern that didn't overlap. I think I prefer the top two - how about you?

Now I would enter this card in the Less is More challenge where the theme is Masking but, since I've already entered three cards this week, Mandi and Chrissie will be fed up with seeing me I'm sure! Why don't you go and enter a card there instead?!

Here's what you'll need to make today's card:

Stamps: Spiced Paisley, Thank You Kindly

Ink: Early Espresso, Basic Black, Crumb Cake

Card stock: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso

Other: Basic Pearls, papersnips, stamp-a-majig

I'd be delighted to order any of these items for you (except the post it note!) and can have them delivered to your address in the UK. I'm committed to providing excellent customer service and am always happy to offer help and advice. To place your order, just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593.

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I've been having some terrible 'senior moments' just lately. When I was staying at my lovely aunt's house a couple of weeks ago, I turned up for breakfast all dressed but with my nightie still round my waist.  She is such a sweetie though (my aunt, not the nightie!) and made me feel much better by sharing a story about going off to church once with a label stuck on her back from some new underwear; the label read: 'scanties'!

I'll be back tomorrow when I'll be showing you my favourite Spiced Paisley project so far. Hope you can join me.

Hugs,