Upcycled card

Let's do it backwards, shall we?  First the card, then the explanation.

The brown cardstock has a linen texture, so when I stamped it with a silhouette stamp, the texture completely changed the look!  I thought it was such a cool effect, I didn't want to do anything else to it, but it did need a little sentiment, so I stamped it on a strip of patterned vellum, and wrapped it around the brown like a piece of ribbon (which makes it easy to adhere without any glue showing).  The sentiment is embossed with copper ink, and for such a simple card, it looks very luxurious!

A part of the story of this card is the base.  Michael's periodically sells notecards in their dollar bins, and if they don't sell, they get marked down even further.  I got a pack of 8 with envelopes for only a quarter, and they look like this:

It is just too easy to cover that tiny image and use it as card base!The vellum and brown cardstock were scraps, too, so... less than a nickel?  Stamps are from a•muse studio.

Challenges:

• Phindy's Place - clean and simple
• Craft Us Crazy - Favorite stamp company (really, a•muse studio stamps are so versatile!)
• Dutch Dare - for a special lady
• Pixie Dust Studio - embossing
• Fab n Funky - no DP