Faux Wax Seal

Earlier this week, I saw this faux wax seal technique on Shelli Gardner's blog, and I knew I had to try it! You can find her excellent instructions here.  I also wanted to use the gorgeous new Serene Scenery DSP stack.  This stack has photorealistic images on one side of the paper and more typical DSP images on the other.  So versatile!  Once I saw this paper, I knew I wanted to use the starfish from Picture Perfect for the wax seal.  That image is bigger than I remembered which made the technique a little trickier.  When I first stamped, only part of the area was still soft enough so I got a partial image.  I ended up reheating and restamping a couple more times.  I love how it turned out!

Since the paper and faux wax seal are so pretty, I kept the rest of the card pretty simple.  The card base is Pool Party.  I stamped around the edge with a splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge and Versamark ink.  Then I poured on the copper embossing powder and heated it.  The DSP was cut in half, and I trimmed 3/4 off the top.  The sentiment from Picture Perfect is stamped in Soft Suede.  I used mini glue dots to adhere the faux wax seal to the card base.

Happy stamping!

Fun birthday card

Here's a fun, clean and simple birthday card!  I started with a  3 1/2 X 5 card.  I stamped the splatter from Gorgeous Grunge in Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, and Pacific Point.  The sentiment from Bombs Away Birthday is stamped in white craft ink onto a premade piece from the Thankful Tablescape kit.

Happy stamping!

 

Another birthday card

Stephanie loves horses, so that made it easy to decide what to put on her birthday card!  The cardbase is Crumb Cake.  I used 2 pieces of retired DSP from the Occasions catalog. The splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge is stamped in Early Espresso.  The horse from Horse Frontier is Early Espresso and Gumball Green.  The sentiment is from A Round Array, and it is stamped in Midnight Muse onto Summer Starfruit then punched with the 7/8 scallop circle punch.

Happy stamping! 

Tie-dye?

I just got a new shirt that has a tie-dye print on it.  I thought that would make a cool background for a card, so I decided to try it on Daniel's birthday card.

My shirt is gray and eggplant, but Daniel's favorite color is blue.  I decided to use Smoky Slate and Marina Mist.  To create the tie-dye pattern, I used crumpled wax paper because I thought that would hold its shape better than plastic wrap.  I like how it looks!

The skid mark from Gorgeous Grunge is stamped 3 times in Midnight Muse.  The image from Bombs Away Birthday is stamped in Whisper White on a tag from theThankful Tablescapes Simply Created kit.

I don't usually stamp on the inside, but I wanted to add the Happy Birthday bomb, and then I added the small splatters from Gorgeous Grunge in Smoky Slate.

Happy stamping!