Simply Elegant

Another simple card, this time with 2 tones.  I’ve shown you how using just 1 color you can make great cards.  Now I want to show you what you can do with two complimentary colors.  These are two of my favorite colors right now, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry.

I used the following for this card; Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, and Whisper White cardstock, Old Olive designer series paper, Old Olive ribbon, Rich Razzleberry classic ink and the Of the Earth stamp set (Level 1 hostess set).

I stamped the butterfly from the Of the Earth stamp set with Rich Razzleberry on Whisper White cardstock.  After punching the image out as a circle I went over the edge of the circle on the Rich Razzleberry ink to try and soften the edges.  I punched the Old Olive cardstock in a scalloped circle and adhered the butterfly.  I then used the paper piercer to create the piercing in the scallops.  Using Rich Razzleberry cardstock as the card base I adhered the Old Olive designer series paper, with a ribbon already attached and knotted- I don’t do bows very well.  The final step is adhering the scallop to the card.

On the inside I used Whisper White craft ink with my verse (this was a birthday card for my aunt).  This would also look good stamped in Rich Razzleberry classic ink, the effect of the ink on paper of the same color is really nice.