Sometimes an easy card is just the speed I need when I have a card to send out. There's all kinds of ways that you can put an easy card together.
One of the ways is to use patterned paper as your backdrop. As you can see from this card, the only stamping that I did was the quick greeting at the bottom right corner of the card.
I used Whisper White cardstock as my base and then layered a piece of patterned paper from the Welcome Neighbor pack of paper from the Sale-a-bration catalog.
The greeting comes from the Three Little Words set, which also is a freebie during Sale-a-bration, and was stamped with Basic Black ink.
To dress up my card a bit, I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die that is only available through the end of April in the Occasions Mini Catalog. I like to use this die for my cardstock scraps. I run a bunch of them through my Big Shot with this die and then put them into a plastic baggie to keep on hand for when I need a quick embellishment to use on a card, scrapbook page or gift project. I like to pop some of them up with Stampin' Dimensionals (aka: pop-dots) and then put others directly onto the card so that there's some dimension and it looks like some are closer and some are farther away. I used Regal Rose cardstock and a little scrap of Marigold Morning (which I'm still so sad that it retired).
A length of So Saffron grosgrain ribbon ted with a double knot finished off my card.
One of the biggest reasons I hear for people not using their paper crafting supplies, or even *GASP* not getting into paper crafting in the first place, is that they don't have the time for it. Or that they don't have a ton of stuff to use to make a great card. A card like this one took very minimal supplies and it also took very minimal time to put together and it's FUN!
This card literally only took me about 5 minutes to put together! It just goes to show that you don't always have to have a big chunk of time set aside to make a beautiful card.
Happy Crafting!
-Erika (Stampin' Mama)