The 4 Bells: Middle of the Night Card

I am on a simple kick with my paper crafting lately. I am loving the clean lines and minimalistic approach. I am also on a muted color kick. So, Thursday night at 3 am I decided to redo my cards for the teachers for staff appreciation. And they turned out wonderful - I loved them.

Uh Oh - watch out - those things that seem like a great idea on little or no sleep - sometimes look completely different later.

So now that I have slept - what do I think?

I still really love them! I can see me using this base and this idea for a lot more cards. I love it when things work out better then planned.

I started with a piece of Lovely Lilac 8 1/2 x 11 paper cut in half the long way. I scored it at 2 3/4 inches from each short end. Then I stamped with my So Swirly wheel on the outside of each short flap. I stamped the Anne Frank quote on natural paper then mounted it with foam tape on Sage Shadow paper. I inked all the edges (to make them look finished) and mounted the square on to 1 flap. Here is how it turned out (although I don't think the color turned out very well in the picture).

The inside of the card is also very simple. The flowers are stamped on the natural paper with StazOn ink and the top and bottom edges are torn and inked with the Lovely Lilac ink. I then water-colored the flower with Lovely Lilac and Sage Shadow ink.