Lighting the Way

I just love this set - My DH and kids would go camping every 4th of July weekend with bunch of other families when they were younger to northern california and I have such fond memories of carrying the Coleman lamps. This stampset even has the little circles in 3 different sizes to represent the light glow- so clever!

This was one of the cards we made for May Stampin' with Lynda - The basecard is Orchid Oasis. Take a piece of regular white cardstock and stamp the leave in old olive and yellow lights where you think you are going to need it then emboss using the Basics 3D embossing folder (online only item 161598  order 24/7 at https://lyndalee.stampinup.net/ ) 

Diecut the lamp using the Smoky Slate cardstock and mount using dimensionals to pop it up. You could have used Shaded Spruce or peacock for the lamp as well but I wanted the lightening bugs to show more and did not want as much contrast. 

Stamp the lightening bugs using Gorgeous grape onto scrap pieces of white cardstock and diecut out and mount using dimensionals- Makani suggested colors its bottom yellow which was a great suggestion.  Use  Wink of stella to highlight the wings although it does bleed a bit still very pretty. 

I put some  Fine Sparkle adhesive backed Gems  ( retired from Stampin Up to add some sparkle. ) I really like that it is sort of flat although sparkly and easier to mail than some other gems.

Add a strip of white with sentiment stamped in Orchid oasis and mount on a strip of same to add some accent of color and mount.