The Best Things - Fusion #17

I ordered a couple of Unity Stamps during the first week of OWH Birthday Bash and they arrived in today's mail. I decided I'd ink this one up to create a card for the  current Fusion Card Challenge. This time I opted to use the image as my inspiration. Stamping an image on text is actually something I've done before and I love the effect.

The text is a page from an old book I picked up at the used book store at our library. Choosing a book with thicker paper is ideal when you're going to use it for crafting. I look for pages that have solid paragraphs so I don't end up with awkward, trapped white space. The flower is stamped and colored with pencils, without too much concern for adding too much shading since the coloring itself isn't the focus. The sentiment is not part of the Unity set. It's a very old acrylic stamp. It's one of my favorite, most used stamps ever but I sadly have no idea who made it. The center of the flowers are tiny, silver seed beads. 

Happy Crafting!

SUPPLIES USED: 

STAMPS: Flower - The Best Things Just Happen (Unity Stamps), Sentiment (Unknown)

INKS: Onyx Black (Versafine)

PAPER: Boy Scout Pad (K&Co), Recollections & Bazzill Solids  (Michael's), Book Page

COLORING MEDIUM: Colored Pencils (Prang)

OTHER: Crepe Ribbon (PaperWishes), Silver Seed beads (Darice)

BASICS: Click HERE to check out my crafting tool bag.