The Gifts of the Earth stamp set in the Holiday Mini catalog is such a pretty stamp set. I hesitated to buy it at first as I thought it would be too much work to color it. Man, am I glad I changed my mind! This is a beautiful page we did at my Scrapbook strips class in Oct. and am offering as a Make & Take this month at my workshops. It really does color up quickly, especially when I use the Aquapainter and the Earth Elements Watercolor Crayons (my fav!)

The color combination of More Mustard, Soft Suede and Sahara Sand doesn’t sound like it would be a very glamorous color combo, but it is very warm! After watercoloring the stamped image, layered the image over a couple pieces of Autumn Traditions designer paper that was color blocked on the Soft Suede card stock. Stunning! To accent, I used a knotted piece of the reverse side of the Soft Suede Polka Dot ribbon, It’s such a nice touch to add a little dimension to the card.

I’ve been doing a lot more scrapbook pages lately than I have in the past and have really been enjoying it. Now if I can only get my photos off this computer and on to the pages, I’ll be in business!

Hope you get to scrapbook soon, too! Ta!