Stretch Your Stamps 2, Day 6

Wow, I've learned so much in this class!  Although I'm not surprised, as I've also learned a lot in each of the other onlinecardclasses.com classes I've taken!

When I watched the video by Laura, I really liked the idea of stamping a little off center, and while I loved her tags, I wanted to do a card, so I combined these two ideas in a way.

I die cut a piece of white card stock, and I stamped the floral design off center with black Momento ink.  My original plan was to color the flowers with Copic markers like Laura had done on her tag, but decided instead to just blend some ink around the edges (after putting the die cut back in the die) with Salty Ocean Distress Ink.  I then mounted it offset to another die cut, this time in black card stock.

A small sentiment stamped in black Momento ink on white, then mounted on black card stock, was popped up for a little dimension.

I added the whole thing to a white card base, also popped up.  I really liked how this one turned out, which is completely different then my original plan! 

Update:  A few days after posting this, I added a little color by dotting Atyou Spica  Sky Blue in the little circles in th middle of each flower, then used my brand new, just arrived Zig Wink of Stella brush to highlight all of the petals  Love it!

Stretch Your Stamps 2--Day 2 revisited

When doing the rainbow water-coloring of my background stamp I made a second one on regular card stock.  I liked how it turned out, and decided to make a card with that one. 

The front of the card

I used the die cut technique that was presented in the video by Jennifer McGuire.  I'm really happy with how this card turned out.  Now I just have to find someone really special to get the card!

The inside of the card

And here's what the inside looks like.
















And then I had to make a card with the leftover heart from the background, and the negative of the yellow heart, so I inlaid the background heart in the cutout, and popped a sentiment on top!

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Day 3

Day 3 concentrated on using alphabet stamps.  They gave us several ideas on how to use them.







When I watched Debby's video, I liked the idea of using the alphabet stamps on the card embellishments, so die cut some leaves and stamped them in multicolored ink with the words Happy Thanksgiving.  I then stamped the sentiment in brown ink on tan card stock, and matted it on two sides with red.  I then popped it up on the card front (which really doesn't show well in this photo).








I made the card while camping, and while I took a lot of my supplies with me, I couldn't take everything (at least, that's what my husband told me) so I didn't have a lot of choices as far as card stock was concerned.  And I can't seem to find my enamel dots, so you'll have to imagine some red, yellow and orange dots scattered on the card front.