Saturday, June 18, 2011

Cottage Garden

Here's a card I made for my sons' Godmother on Mother's Day. I really enjoy the simplicity of creating tonal (tone on tone) cards particularly because I don't have to think about colour combinations.

The Cottage Garden set is a 2-step stamping set - an outline stamp and a solid stamp, but if you prefer, you can also use each stamp separately. The outline stamp offers versatility as you can manually colour the stamped image in ink, watercolour pencils, crayons or pastels using either a blender pen, aqua painter or markers.


project recipe
stamps: Cottage Garden (WM 119163, CM 120003 ), Teeny Tiny Sentiments (WM 119185, CM 120024)
ink: Baja Breeze (111833), Not Quite Navy (103008)

card stock: Baja Breeze (116207), Not Quite Navy (108606), Whisper White (106549)
fab tools: Scallop Trim Border Punch (118402, Stamp-A-Majig (101049)
fab factor: Basic Pearls (119247),  5/8" Whisper White Grosgrain Ribbon (119958), Dazzling Diamonds (102023), Sponge Daubers (102892), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)

cardessence tips
  • to get a perfect alignment in 2-step stamping, use the Stamp-A-Majig however, with practice, you should be able to stamp your images just by eyeballing - a slightly misaligned image is appealing as well;
  • to achieve a tonal colour effect on the solid flower stamp, ink up the stamp in Baja Breeze, then daub the outer edges of the petals in Not Quite Navy - always apply lighter colours before the darker colours in any type of tonal colour stamping;
  • cut out the large flowers, curl the petals and adhere with dimensionals to make the card "pop".
Enjoy!

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