DCM - Alphabet Soup

Morning!

This week over on the Daring Cardmakers blog the focus is firmly on alphabets, numbers, and words.

I decided to make an alphabet background for my card project, I was toying with creating a sort of blackboard look, but realised I'd need to do some straight perfectly aligned stamping for that, so instead I went for a more jumbled look using a very old alphabet stamp set from October Afternoon. It's so old the label has faded on the packaging. But they are really nicely made stamps and I was glad to find they were in good condition despite their age. :)

Stamps: October Afternoon alphabet stamps (r), Avery Elle - Simple Sentiments
Dies: Lil' Inker Designs - Instant Camera, Lil' Inker Designs - Silly Stitched, PTI - Tag Sale #10
Ephemera: Crate Paper - Little You: Girl (r)

I used various neutral pastel inks from Altenew and MFT - the quilt grid sheet I use as a guide in my Misti for aligning stamps was very handy as it enabled me to align all my stamps before pressing down on the Misti lid to transfer them there ready for inking. I masked off the stamps I didn't want inked with post-it notes and removed a row of letters at a time. It made for a much quicker process and no messing up in the final step!

I didn't want to hide the stamped background too much, so kept the rest of the card clean and simple, using a little baby's bottle from Crate Paper's Little You collection combined with one of my favourite frame dies from Lil' Inker Designs and a small greeting. The neutral grey wood paper is from an old MME collection and was a perfect colour match for the Oyster Grey Nuvo Drops from Tonic.

Make sure you check out the lovely card projects from the rest of the team and join in if you can. :D

Happy crafting!

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Avery Elle - Simple Sentiments stamps Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC	Lil' Inker Designs - Instant Camera die Shop at: MISC | SHC	Lil' Inker Designs - Silly Stitched dies Shop at: MISC | SHC	PTI - Tag Sale #10 dies Shop at: MISC
Altenew - Buttercream dye ink Shop at: SSS	Altenew - Frosty Pink dye ink Shop at: EH | SSS	Altenew - Mountain Mist dye ink Shop at: EH | SSS	Altenew - Sea Glass dye ink Shop at: EH | SSS
Lawn Fawn - Black Licorice ink pad Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC	MFT - Grapesicle ink pad Shop at: SHC	Altenew - Cool Summer Night ink cube set Shop at: EH | SHC	Altenew - Red Cosmos ink cube set Shop at: EH | SHC
Altenew - Sea Shore ink cube set Shop at: EH | SHC	Altenew - Summer Afternoon ink cube set Shop at: EH | SHC	Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb smooth Solar White cardstock Shop at: EH | SSS	Crate Paper - Little You - Ephemera - Girl (r) Shop at: AZ | SBC
Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops - Oyster Grey Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	Sakura - Quickie Glue pen Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ | EH	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC
MISTI creative corners Shop at: EH | SBC	MISTI precision stamping tool Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC

Comments

[Sylv]

Adorable baby card, love the pastel coloured alphabet background.

Sylv xx