In the frenzy of releasing all of the
Retreat items in one day, sometimes it's easy to miss a few must-have items. We've created several gorgeous sheets of special edition unmounted stamps, and I can't wait to finally show you the fun things I made with the
Wild Rose,
Rock Star,
Beaches and
Stamped Bouquet sheets.
WILD ROSE UM
CARD #1
Stamp the rose and stem with Carnation and Moss
inks onto a card panel. Cut around the edges of outer leaves and petals, and pop up with foam adhesive.
CARD #2
Stamp the oval collage onto white paper, highlight elements with colored pencils, and layer onto a card panel stamped with the same image. Add a few extra colored leaves from the UM sheet at the bottom of the oval.
CARD #3
Color the roses and stems with colored pencils and finish with a touch of glitter glue (my favorite!)
ROCK STAR UM
CARD #1
Combine many images from the sheet onto one card panel to create a collage. Color the components and create dimension with
foam adhesive.
CARD #2
Looking for masculine card ideas? This sheet of stamps is a great place to start!
CARD #3
Ever heard of an "earworm"? This is where someone sings the line of a song and you catch on and then just can't stop singing it in your head?
I like it, like it, yes, I do! (You're welcome.)
KRAFT-TEX FOLIO
Tricia used a really neat product in her Long Stitch Album workshop called "
Kraft-Tex." It mimics a very strong fabric that you can sew, stitch, wash, crumple, stamp, ink, distress, dye . . . but not tear. I had a great time stamping and sewing this mini folio with removable inside pages.
Stamp the Rock Star images with
India Black ink, color with your favorite markers and pencils, and sew together.
BEACHES UM
CARD #1
Stamp one surfboard onto a separate piece of cardstock, color, and trim. Layer onto the card with
foam adhesive.
CARD #2
Our
White Pigment ink works beautifully when stamping the solid images onto bright blue cardstock.
CARD #3
Stamp the adorable sunglasses onto Lt. Blue paper, trim, fill the lenses with metallic paper and layer onto a card.
STAMPED BOUQUET UM
CARD #1
Jacqueline made some beautiful cards in her "Stamped Bouquet" workshop. The class involved stamping in several layers with our new
Parchment ink,
Jet ink, and
chalk acrylic paint. The base of each card was a grey mid-tone, providing just the right contrast for the dark and light layers of artwork.
LAYOUT
Check out all of the different ways the stamps were used to create a background, anchoring strip and foreground image on this layout.
CARD #2
Stamp the images onto dry chalk acrylic and add a soft hue of color with chalks.
KRAFT-TEX FOLIO
Stamp onto white
Kraft-Tex with
India Ink, color with your favorite markers, splatter with watercolor and sew into a folio that can hold documents or notepads.
Now, it's your turn to decide which stamps you can't live without. Me? I had to have them
all!
Kay
