Clean & Simple

As I've done more blogging and seen the gorgeous creations, I've found myself working harder and harder to make gorgeous cards myself.  Unfortunately, most of those cards are not mailable - except with extra postage, in a padded envelope.  When I was a demo I was very careful that my cards were classy - but quick and fairly flat.  I used a lot of eyelets, brads and some ribbon, but seldom thick ribbon or buttons because they were harder to mail.  I mentioned yesterday that I'd come across a box of precut card kits.  I'm so looking forward to using them!  So a lot of the cards you see during the weeks ahead are going to be simple.  I'll add little extras here and there, but what I really want is to fill up a stash of beautiful, easy to mail cards... to get back to my blog title of "Simply Stamping".  

In light of that, I joined the Clean & Simple challenge over on SplitCoast yesterday to make a clean and simple card with the colors blue and green.  Granted this is *really* clean and simple, but it's the kind of card I would be drawn to if I picked up notecards at Target, so why does it feel like cheating when I stamped it???

Here's today's tip... for colored cards that come together quickly, keep your line art images fairly basic.  This stamp is one of my all time favorites.  The color choices aren't difficult and it took me less than 2 minutes to color! :)

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