Soft Summer Plum
Hi Everyone
The card I have for you today uses the lovely floral stamp set Soft Summer from the NEW Spring Mini Catalogue released on 1 August. This is a Two Step Stampin' set with the outline and the centre of the image as two stamps. This gives you lots of options to use each stamp separately or together. I will show you some of the other options in the future.
I have stamped the outline in Stazon Timber Brown on watercolour paper. I have used Stampin' Write markers on the centre image in Pale Plum, Creamy Caramel and Sage Shadow, leaving the centre of the flowers un-inked and adding Perfect Plum to the edges of the flowers with a sponge dauber. I spritzed the stamp lightly with water and using the Stamp-a-ma-jig for alignment, stamped over the top of the outline. This gives a lovely soft watercolour effect with the ink going slightly outside the outline in some areas. To finish, I used the So Saffron marker to colour the centre of the flower. I did this to prevent the colours on the flowers bleeding into the centre and muddying the colour.
The sentiment is also from the same set, punched out with the large oval punch and then matted with the NEW scallop oval punch. The background is the retired (unfortunately) Paisley stamp, which I still love. I hope you like it.
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Card Details |
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Stamps |
Soft Summer, Paisley (Retired), French Script (Retired) |
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Cardstock & Papers |
Pink Pirouette (Base Card), Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Sage Shadow, Watercolour paper |
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Ink |
Stazon Timber Brown, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, |
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Accessories |
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Tools |
Large Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch (New), Stamp-a-ma-jig, Stampin’ Write markers (Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Creamy Caramel, Sage Shadow, So Saffron), Paper Piercer, Matt Pack |
If you would like your own Spring Mini Catalogue to browse, please contact me and I would be happy to post one to you. Orders for product from the Spring Mini can be accepted from 1 August 2009.
I hope you get to enjoy some creative time today.
Judy.