Hey guys! I have a great guest post today! My sister is pretty darn amazing and inspirational for a lot (like really, a lot) of reasons. The reason you get to witness today is her love of paper crafting - especially stamping. I try to be as great at stamping as she is, but I fall far far short. So once a month she's going to do a guest post and show us some cards that she's made, techniques that she loves, products she can't live without and all sorts of other fun stuff. I'm super excited. So please welcome my awesome sister, Sue.
I am a total stamp junkie. Like many others, Stampin’up! Products were my gateway drug. Now I have an addiction to Paper Smooches, My Favorite Things, October Afternoon, and many other stamp companies that I have been exposed to. Once I started I just couldn’t stop. I have tried to rehabilitate myself but stamping has a hold of me. I know that I have a problem. :)
So how do I make the best of this situation? I make the hobby worth the money that I spend. I decided in my own mind that if I made 5 cards from each set I purchased, I could justify the cost. I do this by either making a set and giving it as a gift, or creating individual cards and sending them to friends and family.
Stampin’up recently came out with this lovely stamp called “Swallowtail”. I had to have it. “Swallowtail” is a very large stamp. It completely fills an A2 card. I thought that I would show this one stamp used three ways. Here it goes.
“Butterfly Kisses” was my most simple use of the stamp. I stamped it in Tuxedo Black Momento Ink on Whisper White Cardstock. I stamped and then white embossed the speech bubble by Paper Smooches and hand wrote the message with a white Signo gel pen. If other people are making a bunch of money making stamps with their own handwriting, why can’t I just use my own? I punched out a little heart with blushing bride cardstock and used some Glossy Accents to make it shiny. After rounding the corners I was done. Very simple and very quick.
On “Make A Wish” I Stamped the image three times with Versa Mark Watermark Ink and embossed all three with silver embossing powder. I wanted to add dimension so I came up with this layering idea. I hope it suggests motion. I used one butterfly image as the base. I trimmed out just the wings of the second image and layered that on top, only adhering along the abdomen of the butterfly. I cut out just the inner section of the wings on the third image, again only adhering at the inside. After I teased the wings forward, I cut out the abdomen of one of the earlier images and popped it up on pop dots. I really loved the result, but I felt like there was too much open space, so I added the rhinestones floating around the butterfly. I think the sentiment “Make A Wish” is just perfect for this image, don’t you?
For my final example I went the more traditional route and stamped it out in Archival Jet Black Ink and clear embossed. I used Copic markers to color it in. The camera didn’t pick up the subtleties as I would have liked, but you can kind of see the graduation of color. I didn’t want the truly blended look, but striations of color. One thing I will do differently is to only use Momento black ink and not emboss. With such a detailed image I found the alcohol ink from the markers became much too slick and I did not like working with that.
After coloring I outlined the butterfly with a very light blue to set it off the page, edged the paper with a black marker and wrote in the sentiment. I left my pencil line because I thought it looked “artsy”. Isn’t crafting fun?
Thanks Missy for letting me share! I would love any comments or questions people want to leave. I hope you enjoy!
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