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 hello stampers!

Today I had a little spare time and gravitated toward my craft space - lucky me! I was inspired by the AAA cards challenge this week #197

I like the idea of a 1 inch strip - everything has to fit into that tiny little area and it certainly brings out your creative side. I recently received some stamps (finally!) so I searched for an interesting one that would fit within the 1 inch.

I started with a card panel that I had previously smooshed with watered distress oxide inks - blues mainly. I wanted to make it look like a lagoon for the beautiful flamingo so I blended more colours for the sandy swamp area at the base. Using my Misti, I stamped the flamingo several times with spun sugar and abandoned coral getting nice drifts of the colours, to look like feathers. Lastly I stamped just the beak with black. I cut the strip at 1 inch.  Another smooshed card base was used for the sentiment and hearts - this one was in pinks. I die cut the hearts, stamped the sentiment and then glued them onto the strip, trimming the sides.

Using a coloured card base doesn't feel CAS, funnily enough but I just had to go with blushing bride, as it matched the distress oxide colours I had for the flamingo. I found the card base was too stark with all the watercolours so I laid a panel of vellum over the card base, gluing it under the strip only. I think it lends an ethereal feel to the scene.

Thanks for stopping by and stay safe!

ingredients: 

inks: distress oxide spun sugar, abandoned coral, scattered straw, vintage photo, tumbled glass, salty ocean, memento tuxedo black

stamps: stampabilities trendsetter, altenew under the cherry blossom tree

die: recollections