The Gift of Friendship

I cannot  tell you how much I love this beautifully lettered sentiment - so much so that I stamped it twice without having an idea of how I wanted to use it.  This is one of the stamps from There are Many Gifts set- part of the new releases for Christmas this year.  It turned out it was pretty easy to use because it's a good-sized stamp - and it can work landscape or portrait mode on an A2 card.

I went through my stash of  Christmas paper and I think this is from a very old stack of KC&Company - not sure as my scrap pile has grown larger than my pile still with the cover.  I also used a very old Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles die.  After die cutting them out, I sponged this edges in different shades of yellow and green Distress Inks.

For my first one, I added a Penny Black die cut of Winter Berry colored with the same Distress Inks and then Copic Markers for the berry for that pop of red.  I decided to splatter some gold Finetec paint on the die cut to bring out the bit of gold in the border paper I found.

Check out that lettering!  So pretty.

For my second card, I used the same die and paper (this paper was two sided) just rearranged.  A little less sponging on the sentiment and gold splattered on the layer with the sentiment also.  I love how traditional this second card looks.

So which do you like better and how many of these would you make for your friends?

There are Many Gifts mounted stamp set