Just yesterday I said you learn something new every day here. I'm saying it again today. Carla's challenge today is to make our own stamps. She suggested die cutting some crafting foam to use for a stamp. I decided to make a background stamp using this Mistletoe background Spellbinders die. Because it's a whole panel die and I only cut out part of it, it's a little wonky, but once I stamped it into the BG of my card it doesn't look weird.
I started by masking off the edges of my paper and sponging milled lavender, shaded lilac and broken chine in two opposite corners and slightly on the edges. Then I stamped and restamped in shaded lilac and repeated with a different part of the stamp in broken china. I wrote out my sentiment with my Tombow marker and added a little bit of reflection on the letters in white gel pen.
Notice my stamp is green? I actually used a foam Christmas tree from one of those kid's foam crafts boxes. LOL!
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 GMT Views: 1595
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132010
Thu, Jan 12, 2017 @ 11:14 PM
Beautiful!! I must remember that idea of sponging first, I never think to do it till after. Your background stamp turned out beautifully ( way to go on recycling, too, LOL), but I also especially love the gel pen addition to the sentiment.
Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83925
Sun, Jan 15, 2017 @ 4:09 AM
Super cool!!! Hugz
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