Here’s the card that I sent to my sister and brother in law last month for their anniversary. I didn’t want to post it on the day since they were away on vacation and I wanted them to see it in real life before posting it on my blog – although I’m pretty sure that Ben doesn’t read this! This card is yet another side effect of the card that I made for Dr Demaira – you can see that card here. I’d borrowed a stamp set with a cat on it and this stack of presents were included.  I liked it so much that I stamped a number of stacks for later. Actually I ended up finding the set on ebay so I can do as many stacks as I like now. For my birthday back in August, my sister made me a card using DSP and red and pink together – here it is – in an attempt to show me that you don’t have to follow the rules. I couldn’t think of a way to combine crisp cantaloupe and pistachio pudding (two colours that she really finds underwhelming) so instead decided that I’d have to pop something up on their card. She has only recently stopped stating that she will never use stampin’ dimensionals (she needed them on my birthday card actually!) so I couldn’t resist.

Base: 8.5″ by 5.5″ Crushed Curry

Top layer: 4″ by 5.25″ Very Vanilla

Stamp sets: Cool Cat (retired), Teeny Tiny Wishes

Inks: Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo

As I mentioned, I had already stamped the stack of presents onto the very vanilla by colouring in the presents using Stampin’ write markers in crushed curry, pumpkin pie and melon mambo. I got the colour selection from the colour coach – I don’t think I’d have come up with this combination on my own, but I love it. I then took the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and randomly stamped in the three colours all over the very vanilla. The card looked a little flat at this point so I grabbed another stamped present (luckily in the same colours) and snipped it out, adhering it over the stack on the card with stampin’ dimensionals. Here’s a side view of the card balanced on my colour coach.

I like having the stack of presents also stamped on the card itself. I think it gives more depth. I glued the very vanilla to the base and used the backgrounds DSP in Crushed Curry to line the envelope.