Very Versailles is a stamp set that is in the Stampin’ Up!® 2019/2020 Annual Catalog.  Honestly, it is not a stamp set I would normally purchase because it is very vintage and we all know how badly I do vintage.  Buffy always inspires me to try to make them and they usually end up in the garbage can before I am finished.  Some of them actually made me laugh because they were two bad.  In any case, this stamp set kept catching my eye.  I love the branch and the sentiments are very nice with a very elegant font.

The Very Versailles stamp set makes it easy to create a CAS (clean and simple) vintage card.  The colors I used are Smoky Slate, Old Olive and Whisper White.  I first inked the words in Smoky Slate ink, stamped it off onto a piece of scrap paper and then onto my Whisper White cardstock.  I wanted it to be lighter since it was in the background.  Stamping off is a great technique to lighten up darker inks.  Then I inked the leaves in Old Olive ink and stamped it over the words.  I stamped the sentiment in Old Olive ink too and punched it out using the 1 1/4″ Circle Punch.  I adhered that to a circle I had punched out using the 1 3/8″ Circle Punch.  They layer together perfectly.

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