Today's Technique!

Today's TLC was a quick and easy crimped envelope card...my friend and upline Kathy showed me one of these a while back, and after seeing it in person I was excited to try one for today's challenge. Another of our friends, Vicki, had given us each a giant box of envelopes (the ones that are large enough to hold a card made from a full sheet of cardstock folded in half)...so I have enough envelopes to make a boatload of these in a rainbow of colors!

I used one of my new OCL stamp sets, Drake the Dragon, from i {heart} papers...I just love these stamps! I love the way they're stored nearly as much as I love the stamps themselves! Some come as clear acrylic, others as unmounted rubber, but they're all great! Most of them are illustrated by Marianne who taught our Copic class last weekend! She showed us her original sketchbook...so full of amazing art and absolutely fabulous Copic coloring!

I stamped this cute little dragon in Palette Noir ink, then colored him in with prismas and baby oil to match this bright Itsy Bitsy Spider paper. I used my clear Spica glitter pen to add a little glitz to his wings, ridgeback, horns, tail, and the dots of the eggs. I kept the layout very simple because of the busy-ness of this designer print. The flower is cut from the designer paper and topped w/ a button from my stash. A few knots of dotted ribbon embellish the top of the envelope that slides off to reveal the card inside.

The card inside is a 5.25 inch square. I stamped the eggs at the bottom and colored them the same as the front just to add a little fun detail to the bottom of the inside, and then added a strip of the companion striped paper across the top. I think it came out kinda cute! I hope you like it!