I have chosen the Elephants stamp from the “wildly happy” stamp set to show you how you can take a basic card and step it up to suit the level of experience that your customers may have.
We will start with the Beginner Crafter in mind…
This basic card uses an A5 size, heavy white card base with a strip of soft sea-foam card for the sentiment and a scrap of smokey slate for the elephants. This is a good place to start for beginners as they won’t feel pressure to stamp perfectly the first time. They are stamping on to pieces of card that they will then adhere to the base card.
The only technique they will use is fussy cutting. The elephants are adhered to a square of DSP (Designer Series Paper). #simplestampin

Casual Crafter – Add Layers
For the casual crafter, I have taken the same card above and added a A5 base of soft sea foam card, so now the white becomes a mat. I have introduced both the use of a border punch and die cutting with a strip of old olive card and the leaves die-cut from the topical die set.

Avid Crafter – Add Dimension
Stepping it up again, this time I have introduced dimension by raising the elephants on dimensionals and by stamping two lots of the elephant images. The second image just has the heads of both elephants cut out and raised again over the first image (a simple paper tole technique – suggested by my fabulous downline, Janice McConnell).
Dimension is also added with the embossed white background and the pearl embellishments.