An Adorable Ballerina with Waffle Flower’s New Stamps

Today’s card has all the makings of a sweet little ballerina-inspired design, and I had fun playing with some of Waffle Flower’s products to bring it all together! If my previous ballerina card caught your eye, I hope this little twirling beauty will steal your heart, too!

Wavy Lines in Pink Tones

I started by cutting out Waffle Flower’s Postage Collage Die from white cardstock, which gave me a panel of 6 postage stamps. Using the Postage Collage Wavy Lines Stencils, I quickly ink blended with three shades of pink Stampin’ Up ink: Pretty in Pink, Polished Pink and Melon Mambo.

Using the MISTI

Next, I placed the stenciled panel onto Waffle Flower’s fabulous Grip Mat and then into a MISTI stamp positioner tool. This would allow me to stamp the Ballerina Silhouette images in perfect placement. The Grip Mat holds the paper in place, while the MISTI allows me to stamp multiple times to ensure good ink coverage.

Placing my chosen stamps face down onto the stenciled panel where I wanted them, I closed the MISTI lid and gently pressed down. This picked up the stamps so that they were then attached to the lid. After inking the stamps with a black ink pad, I closed the lid, pressed and then lifted. Now the images were stamped on the stenciled panel. I repeated the inking process two more times, making sure that the images were solidly stamped.

I find that solid image stamps always need to be stamped at least twice to get good coverage, and the MISTI makes it so easy to ensure perfect repeat stamping every time!

Now that the stamping was done, I removed the panel from the MISTI. I then cut the postage stamps apart, so that I had 6 individual stamps.

Black Frames and a Fluffy Bow

Using Postage Collage Frames Dies, I cut each one from black cardstock and then glued each frame over the coordinating sized postage stamp. Setting these aside for later, I was now ready to create the background.

I chose a white panel as my background and added some subtle texture to it with Waffle Flower’s Meandering Texture Die. I wrapped this panel with a piece of white wrinkled seam binding from an Etsy shop that I found, called My Scrap Cabin. I tied a nice fluffy bow, placing it at the left edge of the card front. This panel was then adhered to a white folded card base.

I’ve never been good at tying bows, but I just had to try my hand at it with this wrinkled seam binding. I’ve seen some cards on Pinterest that added it and just fell in love with the look. What I found is that because the seam binding is so wrinkled, making a full bow is quite easy and I’m so glad that I achieved the look that I was hoping for! Yay, me! Now I want wrinkled seam binding in all the colors 🙂

Putting it all Together

Once my background was ready, I chose three of the framed postage stamps and popped them up using foam tape. They’re arranged in a triangular pattern on the card background.

Finally, I stamped and hand-cut a greeting from Ballerina Sentiments which says, “You’re tu-tu cute”. After placing it onto the card, I added some pink Unicorn Candy Dots which I received as a free gift with one of my Waffle Flower orders. It’s always fun to get a surprise with an order! Thank you, Waffle Flower!!

In Summary

I really like how the black and white color combination keeps everything looking clean and elegant, while the pink stenciling and fluffy bow soften the overall design. It’s a nice reminder that you don’t always need lots of color or embellishments to create something special.

Between the graceful silhouettes, elegant black frames, and that pretty seam binding bow, I think this card turned out to be just the right combination of simple and sweet. With splashes of pink, this card is truly a girly-girl card and I love that! I hope you do too.

Until next time,

~Krista

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Waffle Flower Crafts – Craft Dies – Postage Collage Shop at: SC | AM | WFC	Waffle Flower-Grip Mat Shop at: SC | WFC	Waffle Flower Crafts-Postage Collage Wavy Lines Stencil Shop at: SC | WFC	Waffle Flower Crafts-Ballerina Sentiments Shop at: SC | WFC
Waffle Flower Crafts-Ballerina Sentiments Combo Shop at: SC | WFC	Waffle Flower Postage Collage Ballerina Silhouettes Stamp Set Shop at: SC | WFC	Waffle Flower Crafts- Meandering Texture Die Shop at: SC | WFC	Waffle Flower Crafts-Postage Collage Frames Die Shop at: SC | WFC
Waffle Flower Crafts-Unicorn Candy Dots Shop at: WFC	My Sweet Petunia-MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SP | SC | AM | WFC	Platinum 6 Machine Shop at: SP | SC | AM