Hello everyone, I have a couple of cards to share using the stamps
featured on last month's TV shows on Hochanda. Both cards follow the
same basic recipe, but with a few tweaks here and there, I have created
two very different cards, one for a male and one for a female
recipient.
If you have a spare afternoon, create a few
gelli print backgrounds, or rummage through some of the backgrounds
that you have already made to see if you have something suitable for
this project. I simply used a brayer to apply two colours of Distress
Ink to the gelli plate, then stamped a dotty tool over the top to get
the background effect before pulling the prints. You could press bubble
wrap onto the gelli plate for a similar effect.
For my first card, I stamped and embossed a couple of cog images from the
Punky Flowers stamp plate along the bottom of the background, using gold embossing powder. I stamped an image from
Steampunk Funky Fish and added a sentiment from
Punky Expressions,
using Archival Ink. I coloured the images using Koh-I-Noor watercolour
pencils. Finally, I edged the background with blue Distress Ink.
For my second card, I created the background in exactly the same way, and then stamped an image from
Punky Flowers
using Archival Ink. I masked the flowers and stamped the image again a
few times using Versafine Clair in a toning orange colour. I added a
sentiment from
Punky Expressions,
and coloured the images with pencils as before. Before I attached my
background to the card, I edged it with pink Distress Ink.
Punky
Expressions is a very versatile stamp set, with words for lots of
different occasions. These cards will be great for lots of different
purposes, and can be sent to cheer someone up, just because, or for a
particular reason. I hope that you will be inspired by my projects and
try the ideas out for yourselves.
Thanks for stopping by, xx
