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#stampinup   The first card I made for this week’s Nacho Average Challenge didn’t turn out quite like I envisioned. I made and remade it several times before pitching it and starting on a different design.  The Nacho sketch is simple–it should be simple to make a card. Sometimes the sketches with the fewest design elements are the hardest–at least for me.

Anyway, I decided to use a set I haven’t used in a long time, “Everything Eleanor.” I like the elegant feel of this set and I thought it would be great with the Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper. I stamped the label shape from the “Everything Eleanor” set in Sahara Sand on a piece of Very Vanilla card stock. I fussy cut the shape. Next, I stamped a sentiment from the “One Big Meaning” stamp set in Basic Black Archival Ink onto a Very Vanilla scrap. I used the Circles Framelits Collection to cut out the sentiment and the next larger framelit to cut out a Basic Black circle for a mat. I adhered these two together and then onto the fussy cut label.


Next, I added a Basic Black mat to a Sahara Sand card base and then a panel from one of the Timeless Elegance DSP papers. I wrapped a length of Basic Black Stitched Satin Ribbon around the DSP before adhering the label assembly to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals. And that’s it. Pretty simple, once I changed my design idea!

Basic Black 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon [138430] $9.00	Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper [138444] $11.00	Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [121045] $7.00	Sahara Sand 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [121043] $7.00
Sahara Sand Classic Stampin’ Pad [126976] $6.50	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931] $7.00	One Big Meaning Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139420] $19.00	Everything Eleanor Clear Stamp Set [124164] $27.00
Circles Collection Framelits Die [130911] $27.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Paper Snips Scissors [103579] $10.00