Sending you lots of hugs

I'm getting in pretty late to the Simplicity One Layer Wednesday challenge this week. I found this one hard, not because I couldn't think of anything to repeat, but because I was so spoilt for choice! I have dozens and dozens of wee stamps I can use repetitively, so it was hard to just go with one for this card.

In the end I used one of the little leafy things in one of my new Hero Arts sets - Truly Appreciated.



I used my simple masking trick to create the two strips above and below the sentiment and coloured them with Prismacolor pencils. I stamped the sentiment before colouring the leaves as I didn't want to spend ages colouring something that would end up in the scrap heap due to a crooked sentiment.

I was trolling through some of the blogs I subscribe to when I chanced upon CAStastic challenges. The challenge this week is to use the sentiment as the main focus of the card. It was fate!

Size of card: 4" square

Supplies:
Card/paper - Quill white cardstock, scrap paper (for masking)
Stamps - Hero Arts "Truly Appreciated" (CL380)
Ink - Versafine "Black Onyx"
Extras - Prismacolor pencils in "Limepeel", "Apple Green" and "Pink"
Tools - Fiskars paper trimmer, Marbig poster tack (repositionable)

Challenges: OLW#7 and CWC006

Thanks for looking!

Edited to add: This card got into the top 5 for this week's CAS-tastic challenge!