PDCC82 - A Muse Recessed Window card

This card was made for this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge using the Recessed Window Tutorial featured in Julie Ebersole's blog.

Not only did I use the Play Date Cafe's colors but the retro, vintage look of the suitcases made me think of old patterns in wallpaper/linoleum that I tried to recreate!  Do you dig my homemade A Muse|Studio background paper?  Want to know how to make it?

I used the Monogram Frames square and stamped it repeatedly in a pattern onto my cardstock with Papaya ink.

Stamped another layer - Yes, I do realize that the stamping is off kilter - but my sheer enthusiasm for trying this technique trumps over perfection, right??!!  Also - this way you can see that you don't have to stamp perfectly to get a cool outcome in the end.

Used the circle stamp from Monogram frames stamped in French Roast.  Do you see the pattern starting to come together now?

The whole thing is finished off with the smallest flower from the Clever Girls set stamped in Ocean.

Here is a quick pic of the supplies used - I am realizing now that the Vintage Labels die snuck back away to the drawer before the pic was made.  I like to keep my supplies all neat and tidy when I am done stamping but when I am in the middle of creating there can sometimes be quite a mess - behold -

My supplies took up the entire length of our long kitchen table!  In the foreground you can see my Scor-Buddy, rulers, trimmer and Cuttlebug leading up to the true mess -

right at the end of the table where I like to sit.  Quick tip - I keep all my adhesives in a bread tin (lower left hand corner).  You always need adhesive and sometimes several different ones within one card so having them all in one location makes for quick retrieval/cleanup!

I am really tickled to have used my A Muse|Studio supplies in a new way.  The sentiment comes from Marvelous Marigolds and the satin ribbon is Bermuda.  All supplies are available in my online A Muse|Studio shop!