Thursday, July 30, 2020

July 2020 - July SOTM For My Beautiful Friend


The July Stamp of the Month, For My Beautiful Friend, has been enticing me to take it out and play with it for the past month.  I finally made the opportunity happen during one of the sessions for our new Idea Book launch event.  I LOVE playing with mixed media so created the following card:


To make this card, I cut a panel out of watercolor paper and stamped the image from the For My Beautiful Friend stamp set using Intense Black ink.  After ensuring it was dry, I taped the image to a cutting board, laid down some clean, clear water over the flower bouquet using a brush, then randomly dropped some Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide inks and heat set it.  Then I repeated the process to the bottom half of the girl using Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry inks.  Finally, I added a few spatters from the brush over top of the whole panel with each of the colors I used.




After ensuring the image was dry, I used Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers to color in the images before taping it down to a Black cardstock panel and then a Lagoon standard-sized card base.



Next I stamped the sentiment onto Black cardstock with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Ranger White Super Fine Embossing Powder. The sentiment was then attached to the card using 3-D Foam Tape.



Finally, I added some Bitty Sparkles to the centers of the flowers to complete the card.



Each month you can purchase a new D-size stamp set, available for one month only, for just $5 - that's over 70% off retail!  When you place an order of $50 or more in Close To My Heart products, you qualify for this special Stamp of the Month pricing.  Otherwise, you can purchase this set outright for $18.95.

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