Testing my new TAC stamps...

Due to Jana's extreme kindness and help I am now the happy owner of a few TAC (The Angel Company) stamps that arrived at my door two days ago. I was so excited with the event and couldn't wait to use them.

It was late at night and I was tired, so the card is very very simple and silly. But - YAY! - I tested some of my newest stuff and it's fantastic.

The stamps I used for the making the cardtop are "Speckle" for the background and "Swirly Gigs" for... the swirly stuff. :).

I took a piece of pastel blue textured cardstock, stamped the swirlies in blue ink then covered them with scraps of post-it notes and stamped the 'dotty' background, also in blue.

I printed the hearts backing paper - a free background I downloaded from this site - and glued it to a dark green square card (140x140 mm) then added the orange strip [it is orange orange, lighter than in shows in my scan] and the dark blue peel off (taken from a free gift that comes with Docrafts "Creativity" Magazine).

I colored the stamped designs with watercolour pencils, rounded the corners with scissors (a very 'approximately' business, but I have no punches... yet) and inked the margins. I oops!-inked one spot too much so I did a few more oopses to make it more 'original' - LOL.

One last touch - a small "THANKS" stamped with black on green and layered on a shiny dark blue strip attached with a small round pastel blue brad.

And now I was free to go to sleep knowing my duties for the evening were accomplished. :-D

Thank you for looking and have a fantastic Wednesday!