Sunday Febuary Spotlight technique: ombre background

This year I started something new on the

Michael Strong Stamp Group.

Every month I put a technique in the spotlight

and hope the group will try this technique too.

This month my eye caught the wonderful ombre 

background technique by Jennifer Mcquire.

She very often comes up with wonderful

easy techniques. Here is the video tutorial:

If you want to see it on Jennifers on blog,

go HERE for all the details and materials she used.

For the top card I used the background stamp, that comes

with the Lily stampset by Michael Strong.

As I do not have the words as shown in the video

I used a digital sentiment by Create with TLC.

If you do not have a large background stamp,

you can also use smaller stamps and stamp the

image all over the background panel, like I did here

with the smaller Michael Strong rubber heart stamp.

For the sentiment I used a rubber sticker and

a sentiment by Create with TLC.

Hope this technique inspires you too.

Thank you Jennifer for your idea.

Have a creative day!

Kindness

Have you seen the blog of

She has started a kindness challenge:

doing acts of kindness,

making cards of kindness.

Just hop over to her blog and see what it is all about HERE.

I think this is wonderful 

and when I noticed the free image 

on the 

Create with TLC blog,

I just had to make a card.

This sentiment is a freebie for alimited time,

so hurry if you want it!

So when I started making a word document 

to print the panel for my card I noticed

there were  more sentiments I had

saved which had something to do with

kindness, so I made 4 pannels and

here are the 4 cards that I made.

Card 1:

I was inspired by the stamping technique of Jennifer

and I used some of my Club Scrap stamps

to have a kind of same impression.

I added some little flower gemstones

andthe smiley is a tiny stamp I have

in my stash.

 Card 2:

For the background i used a Tim Holtz stencil.

The flowers are Stampin'Up! that are

punched out after stamping and

have a little gemstone in the heart.

Card 3:

For this card is started with the

rays stencil of Tim Holtz and

the big flower is from StampinÚp!

colored with distress ink.

Card 4:

Of course I had tomake one coffee card

with Michael Strong's coffee cups.

The background is stampedwith Club Scrap's

coffee ring and the beans are from a

Stampin'Up! coffee set.

If you would like me to send you one of these cards,

feel free to contact me and I send  your choice of

card to you with pleasure!

Thanks for looking!

Have a creative day!