For a Friend

Happy Friday, everyone! I have today off from work as a mandatory lay-off day, so I took the opportunity to participate in Sharon Johnson's Stamp Simply challenge she posts every Friday. This is her 99th challenge this week!! Sharon's challenge today is to make a card for a friend and to make sure the word "friend" appears somewhere on it.

I was playing around in my stamp room last night and decided I wanted to make a 3 x 3 box out of this beautiful Stampin' Up Rockabilly designer paper. (I could just kick myself for not ordering more of it before it was retired.) SCS has a great tutorial for making this easy 3 x 3 box, if you want to check it out. I had most of the box done last night, but had not decided how I wanted to decorate the top until I saw Sharon's challenge this morning.




I used SU's Oval All fabulous friend stamp and water colored the flowers with Twinkling H20s. This is my first time using the H20s, and I love them! I also stamped, colored, and cut out this cherry image from SU's Tart & Tangy set and adhered it to my ovall all panel with an Old Olive brad.





Stamps: Ovall All, Tart & Tangy
Cardstock: Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Rockabilly designer paper
Ink: Tuxedo Memento Black
Accessories: Twinkling H20s, ovall punch, oval Nestabilities, Scor Pal, Martha Stewart leaf punch, Old Olive brad, corner rounder, dimensionals, 1/4" circle punch, SU Real Red and Old Olive markers