Hello everyone, I hope that you have been able to catch the TV shows featuring the
Beautiful Backgrounds cling
mounted stamps on the Craft Channel recently. The samples created by my
Team Mates, and demos by Lesley were just amazing. I have a couple of
projects to show you myself that were featured on the shows, and I hope
that they will give you a little bit of inspiration in using these
fabulous stamps.
My first project features the
Floral Weave cling mounted stamp, and I have created an underwater scene, using stamps from the
Seashore and
Seadragon stamp sets.
I
created a watery background on a piece of watercolour paper, by
painting some Ecoline ink onto the background, and dropping sea salt
onto the paper while it was still wet. I left the background to dry
before removing the salt. This technique creates patterns that are reminiscent of bubbles in water, and it is such a fun technique, as the results are different every time. I stamped and embossed the background image
using a lovely teal embossing powder, it works really well as a seaweed
image on this card. I stamped and coloured the seahorse on a separate
piece of card, using Faber Castell Aquarelle pencils, before cutting it out and adhering it to the background. I
stamped the sentiment, and matted the background onto teal card. I added some little pearls to the flower centres to complete the card.
My second project is a canvas, combining a couple of the background stamps,
Baroque Orchids, and
Studded Lattice. I have added some flowers created using stamps from the
Elegant Iris stamp set, and some die cut leaves.
I started my project by painting the canvas with acrylic paint, blending the colours with a baby wipe, using a mix of purple, orange and yellow. I dried the layers each time, and just kept going until I was happy with the overall look. I then stamped the Studded Lattice image randomly over the canvas using white paint. I did not use an acrylic block for this, as I just wanted to stamp part of the image each time, and I wanted a more random finish.
I covered the Baroque Orchid stamp with Gold Soft Form Relief Paste, and left it to dry overnight. Once the paste was dry, and had become a film, I painted it with a thin layer of white paint. I gently removed some of the excess paint, revealing some of the gold underneath, which gives a kind of faded elegance to the piece. I allowed the paint to dry and then gently peeled the stamp away from the film. For durability, I added a piece of thin card behind the film before attaching it to the canvas.
I stamped the flower image from the
Elegant Iris stamp set three times onto a piece of spare card, and coloured the images with pens. I found that the flowers were a bit bright, and so I gave them a wash of thinned down white acrylic paint to soften them a bit. I added some die cut leaves, which I edged with Soft Form Relief Paste, and I also edged the canvas with some of the Relief Paste as well. Finally, I added a sentiment from the
Artistic Expressions stamp set.
Thanks for stopping by, xx
