This card (click to see larger) is pretty basic and uses one of the easiest and oldest stamping techniques I've learned: poppin' pastels. I went back to 'Stamping 101' and stamped the main image with VersaMark, then used my Stampin' Pastels and some cotton balls to bring the image to life (I prefer to use cotton balls over daubers or Q-tips because they are less likely to smear the image while applying the chalk). I love this stamp from Hero Arts - it's one of their new DesignBlock background stamps called 'Stencil'. I'm usually drawn to solid, bold images, and this is one I particularly like! And it's amazing how light the wood mount is! Anyway, after chalking, I gave it a quick spray with some fixative, quickly went around the edges of the flowers with my Sakura Quickie Glue Pen, and then dusted the whole thing with Art Institute glitter in Crystal Ultrafine Transparent. It has some amazing sparkle IRL!
This card gave me some serious fits during construction. I cut the background image down into this panel shape, originally going for another layout design, that ended up just not looking right. So to avoid having to start over and stamping and chalking an entire new image, I decided to see if I could make the panel work. After almost an hour of pushing elements around here-n-there, trying this-n-that, I finally cried defeat and decided to just go with this simple, less is more layout. ;)
Thanks for looking! Hope you have a great day. :)
SUPPLIES
Paper: Stampin' Up! Whisper White, Basic Black, Regal Rose
Stamps: all Hero Arts
Ink: VersaMark, VersaFine (black)
Misc: Stampin' (Up!) Pastels, cotton balls, Prismacolor Workable Fixative, Sakura Quickie Glue Pen, Art Institute Crystal Ultrafine Transparent glitter, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Hero Arts Gemstones
12 comments:
I love that background stamp! Another beautiful card here. :)
Wait... that top part. The colors on the flowers and the glitter. YOU DID THAT?? It looks like something you and by you, I mean me) would purchase premade!! Wow.
Gorgeous! Love the Old School technique! I need to break out my BG stamps and use some color - too often just stamp with one color instead of this technique!!
Thanks for the 'reminder'!
This look vaguely familiar? ;) Gorgeous, girl! And the photo...my oh my! ;) This is like poppin' pastels 2.0...complete wow!
This was definitely worth the wait! Poppin pastels, wow is that a blast from the past! I'm not even sure where my chalks are - I haven't touched them in YEARS. This is just gorgeous.
Magnificent!
Hi Lisa! Just had to leave a little note to say that I LOVE THIS!
And, thanks for sharing about the "Blogging without obligation" -- I just did one of those "sorry it's been so long..." posts, and was feeling all guilty. This made me feel lots better! :)
A fabulous card Lisa! Lovely colors and sparkles! It's just perfect!
gorgeous card, lisa !!!!!!!!!i love your poppin pastels and the colors, WOW!!!!oohh and love that sentiment. tfs:)
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Here I thought you had simply cut a pice of pattern paper and slapped it on the card :) This is beautiful and love the glitter!! TFS
Just beautiful! Beautiful color choices, and nothing is complete without glitter!! Kerilou
STUNNING!
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