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Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Friday, February 2, 2018

Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop: Love



Today I am participating in a Blog Hop by "Global Stamping Friends" and our theme is "LOVE". I have been playing with the Waterfront set and decided to make a simple and fun background for my card, by "painting" with the stamps on watercolor paper and then smoothing out the edges with my very wet Aqua Painter. Here it is:



You can't even tell that I've used stamps to do that. But it gives the background more depth, I think and is much easier for me to do than laying down a well planned watercolor wash background from scratch... It's very easy! YOU can do this too! I also added some splattering with my VERY wet Aqua Painter and Elegant Eggplant ink.

I used the one texture folder from the set "Petal Pair" because it almost looks as if the little leafs are hearts...

Here is a little secret about the "Love Ya" tag... Well, I "tried" my best to line up my letters to make them straight and even... it worked... until I got to the "E" and because my clear block was wet from cleaning the stamp prior...the letter actually slid some when I stamped, making it well... crooked! I didn't want to start over for let's say a 4th time... so I decided to carry the theme on over to the next word..LOL and I like it! I hope this card inspired you to play with the watercolor wash technique either with stamps or from scratch and shows you that not everything has to be perfectly straight! 

Have fun stamping and now of course hopping through the blogs to see all the great projects this month...

Please click the arrow below to hop to the next blog... If for some reason it doesn't work, the link can be found underneath in the list as well in case you get lost...right now you are on Claudia Perry's blog and then person in line is Kimberley Ann Morris

Blog Hop list:

Claudia Perry     ***You are HERE***
     Lisa Henderson 







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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Love Sparkles

Well I have to admit that I've totally overlooked the stamp set "Love Sparkles" in the occasions catalog. I am glad I got the card below in our demo swap because I like the whimsical font...


This card was created by fellow demo Toni T.

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Friday, November 20, 2015

November Stamp-a-Stack, part 2

As announced yesterday, I am back today to show you card 2 of this month's Stamp-a-Stack and all of it's options (in case someone didn't need anymore Christmas cards)...

Here they are:

















Here is how I did it:

-        To create the mask, the tree was stamped onto any color CS for approx. placement, then the leaf was die-cut over it
-        Mask was then places over white layer CS of same size and masking tape was folded around top left and bottom right to secure sandwich. Some masking tape was placed over the opening of the "stem" to cover it up
-        The leaf opening was then sponged in with 3 colors per card, always go from light to dark. Be careful when sponging over delicate parts of the opening, you may have to dab
-        Mask was removed and tree stamped in Early Espresso over it


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