Oh Happy Day

Here's a fun card I made using two STACKER words (Happy & Today).  I wanted to play on the small sentiment "Oh Happy Day", so I stamped TODAY twice and discarded the T.  I stacked the "O" at the top of Happy and placed DAY at the bottom.  I used the script word "anniversary" as part of the background.  I made a mistake and stamped one of them upside down, so I just made several of them upside down.  Did you notice it before I pointed it out?  Embrace your imperfections and go with the flow.

Add a little color to your life TODAY

How much fun are these stamps!!!  The card below was my first attempt on regular cardstock.  I used the distress markers to color the sentiment stamp and colored the letters of TODAY with distress markers.  I wasn't crazy with it, so I tried blending the colors with water.  That's when I decided that I should have used watercolor paper.  I also knew that I should pull from my Creative Chemistry 101 class and create a custom stamp pad.

THCC 101 Day 4 Tag 3  Re-Inkers: Custom Stamp Pad Technique.  By using the custom stamp pad I was able to emboss with clear embossing powder to keep the ink from blending the words away.  I colored the large letters with distress ink and misted with water so that ink would blend on the watercolor paper.

Texana Designs Stamps:

TODAY

Sentiment:  "add a little color to your life"

Watercolor paper

Distress Markers

Patterned Paper from Doodlebug - Halloween Parade

Texana Design Team

11/2013