Vertical Greetings

Vertical Greetings is a stamp set from last year’s annual catalogue which I was thrilled to see carry over into this year’s. It’s unusual in that the greetings are, well, vertical which can be extremely useful. I also love the images of the neat adorable topiary. And they are good for Christmas cards. Last night I had one or two (well eight) people over to start on holiday cards but since the new catalogue isn’t live until September, I didn’t want to taunt them with images that they couldn’t order. So out came Vertical Greetings and the Holly textured embossing folder.

The group was divided as to how to ink up the stamp; some used the straight edge of the ink pad to carefully ink up the desired part of the image and then used the second ink pad for the rest. Others used markers. It’s just a personal choice. But the real red and old olive look awesome together on this image and if there’s a slight issue where the colours change, the old olive 1/8 inch sheer ribbon bow covers it perfectly! We made the old olive pop a little more by adding a mat in the same colour. This then went on top of the real red piece that was dry embossed with the Holly TIEF and then placed on a real red card base. The finishing touches were a few sparkly rhinestones.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.