Simple Stamping - Mambo Wild Rose

You don’t need a craft room overflowing with supplies to create beautiful cards. All it takes is stamps, ink, and paper. It’s as simple as that! I created this gorgeous card using the To a Wild Rose stamp set, Melon Mambo and Soft Suede ink, and whisper white card stock – plus a little bit of painter’s tape. ​

​To create the white edge on your card, use painter’s tape to cover the outside edges of the card. Then stamp your images.

The To a Wild Rose stamp set has three stamps for the rose and coordinating leaves. The stamps are made to create variations in color. For this card, I only used two of the stamps. The third stamp is an outline stamp. I love the way this rose looks without the outline though! (Ok, I love it with the outline too. It’s simply a gorgeous stamp set!)
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The stamps are also Dist-Ink-Tive stamps. The images have a photographic appearance. Because of this, you can use the same color ink (like I did) to stamp both of the layers, and it will still give you variations in colors. 
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​Back to our card. If you remember, I had taped the edges and stamped the roses. 

​When you peel away the tape, you are left with a clean white edge, perfectly framing your stamped images. 
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To finish this card, I added a strip of whisper white cardstock that I had stamped the greeting on. It’s as quick and easy as that!
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While it’s simple to create beautiful cards with limited supplies, I have trouble stopping there! So, I created two more cards using the same background. 
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​​For the second card, I used a punch to cut out the greeting and attached it with satin ribbon and some Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added a few rhinestone jewels to give it a little sparkle. 



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​The final card isn’t any more difficult to make, it just uses even more supplies which allowed me to give it even more texture. I used the coordinating Wild Rose dies to cut out the leaves and little branches from Soft Suede and velum cardstock. I also used the Layering Circle dies to cut out the greeting and mount it on Melon Mambo and vellum cardstock. I added a strip of white and Melon Mambo cardstock to the card and used the Subtle embossing folder on the Melon Mambo to give it the look of rough fabric.

All three cards are elegant and easy to create!