Topic: Stamping
One thing that is fun about cruising so many blogs daily is the reminders of techniques that I haven't used for a long time and some that I have never got around to trying. Such is the case with today's cards.
First, I used a stamp that I have had for years but never used - the 6x shadow block stamp. Just inked this with extremely pastel pink and stamped on white cardstock. It made the perfect backdrop for the second technique that I had never done. It is called 'thumping'. You do this by inking a stamp with a dye ink and then tapping on the stamp with a darker tone of the same color using the side of a watercolor marker. The ink dries out as you do this so you breathe on it and then stamp.
AWESOME!
You don't get the full effect here but there are two tones of green in the leaves and stems and there are two tones of muted purples in the blossoms. I used a Nestabilities die to cut them out and chose the same soft green for the main background. The scalloped edge is a new punch I picked up on special. It cuts the scallop and indents dotted marks. I placed them on a piece of foam and used a piercing tool to prick through the indentations.
Then they diverge... I used printed papers for the left edge of both, but one is a faux dictionary print and one is a script. Both use color blocking. I chose a shimmery purple card base for one and a wine card base for the other.
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