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.
