Baroque Elegance From our July Guest Designer!

Hello Topflight fans, we are instituting a new 'thing' and each month we are inviting one of our fans to be a guest designer for the month! If you would like to be considered, be sure to tag your projects with #topflightstampsgd on Instagram. Our very first Guest Designer for July is Betsy Birge of Caring Heart Cards and we are excited to see what she has in store for us!

Betsy Birge

A little bit about Betsy:

I have a background in fine arts, showing my watercolors and pastels in local galleries. I have used the visual skills I learned from that over my 12-year papercrafting  journey. I particularly enjoy stamping and the versatility that I can achieve with it. I am very active on social media and appreciate the creative communities I am part of there. 

Hello everyone...Betsy Birge here as Guest Designer for the month of July!  

I'm very excited to be a part of Topflight Stamps!

For today's project I went for a very distressed look using the "Baroque Backgrounds" stamp from For the Love of Stamps. I chose one of the square designs and heat embossed clear ink over stamped black ink six times. I then used a stitched square die to cut them all out. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of glimmer paper using the same method and die cut that as well.

The background paper I used from Crafters Consortium already had a distressed look to it and I further distressed it by smearing on Nuvo Stone Drops and Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Polish with my finger.

I hope you enjoy this card and the look I was able to achieve with the Baroque Background Stamp.

Until next week - have fun creating!

Betsy Birge

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

For the Love of Stamps -
Baroque Backgrounds