Greyscale Book Rating - Stampin' Up! For The Books

 My 2025 isn't off to a consistent start blogging-wise but I do have a card to share on this first Sunday of the new year!  Maybe now that I have a full week ahead of me with no holidays I can get back to some kind of schedule!  Though with the impending snowstorm coming tonight I might be spending some of my dedicated stamping time out shoveling snow.  Anyway I saw the Color Throwdown challenge and loved the idea of doing a black, white and gray card.

  My new For the Books bundle hasn't seen any ink yet so I thought I wanted to try it out with these colors.  I dug through my papers and pulled out this gray striped pattern from the Country Lace DSP.  I used the Online Exclusive Hearts of Love dies to cut a large white heart to add all the elements to.

  The sentiment is stamped in Memento black and then the stars are colored in with Blends markers.  The book stacks are also stamped in Memento and colored in a variety of gray and black and then fussy cut them. 

 I cut 2 more hearts with the Hearts of Love dies and then arranged the books around the hearts and sentiment using dimensionals to adhere them.

 I was thinking this might be a good guy Valentine so I only used 2 gray adhesive dots to embellish the Smoky Slate heart.

  This was such a fun challenge and I especially love the image used by the challenge to show the colors.  black labs are my favorite.  Here are my labby labs; Aggie & Herk. Aren't they cute??

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Current items used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.  Items marked with * will be available starting January 7, 2025 with the release of the Jan.-Apr. 2025 Stampin' Up! Mini Catalog,  Sale-a-Bration or the Online Exclusives January release . If you'd like the opportunity to order these items early you can join my Stampin' Up! team and get preorder benefits!

Stamps: For The Books*

Ink: Memento Black

Blends: Smoky Slate light & dark, Basic Black light & dark

Paper: Country Lace DSP, Basic White, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray

Accessories: Hearts of Love dies (Online Exclusive), dimensionals, adhesive dots (retired)