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Rebel | Masculine Stamps

Posted on February 18, 2019 by helen

Hello! Sharon Traynor is back with her second card to inspire you today. This time it’s a masculine card featuring our awesome new ‘Art Rebel’ stamps…

I have created a one layer masculine card for a man that’s a bit of a rebel. Ha! Who doesn’t love a rebel, eh?

stamps for men - card - rebel

This card has been made using another of the new stamp sets from the Visible Image February release, and this set of stamps is perfect for fun and funky masculine cards. There are loads of smaller stamps in the set, including some brilliant fish, but I decided to do some pencil colouring on kraft card using these wonderful face stamps. The face design is so unique, isn’t it?

One good thing about making CAS cards is that they are simple to re-create. Just as well really because I had to recreate this one as I’d made the first one (above) without photographing the step-by-step.

So come along with me while I do it all again…

First, stamp the image onto a kraft card blank in versamark black ink.

I used polychromos pencils because they show up beautifully on kraft card. Colour the hair in a lightish brown and the face in the flesh colours. (the sun was out when I took this picture)

Then using a white and grey, colour the goggles and the teeth (then the clouds came out so these photos are duller)

Add some more white and a little blue onto the goggles. Then add some white shading on the top and left sides of each rectangle

Add a little grey shading on the bottom and right side of each rectangle. This gives the illusion that the rectangles have been 3D’d.

Next stamp the images into the goggles. Stamp the right eye in black ink, and the left eye in versamark clear. Add white embossing powder to the left eye, then brush the excess powder away from the outside to reveal the edges of the goggle, and heat emboss the central part of that eye. When cooled add some blue pencil to create a wacky eyeball.

Here’s where I diverted from my original card. I added glossy accents to the goggles. In hindsight I really wish I hadn’t, as I much prefer the original card I made.

One thing I forgot to do though was add that white pencil shading around the edges of the head. This makes the head pop off the page. You can see here how the glossy accents really affected the right eye so that you can’t see the white pencil I added to it. Anyway, lesson learnt.

Finally heat emboss the ‘rebel’ sentiment in white embossing powder.

And here’s the end result

Stamps Used:

Other Supplies:

Versafine onyx black ink, Versamark clear ink, Wow opaque bright white embossing powder, Glossy Accents, Polychromos pencils, kraft card.

That’s it from me for now.

Thanks for stopping by today, I’ll be back soon!

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Our art rebel looks awesome on Kraft card Sharon, love the chalky look the white pencil creates, and you’ve coloured him brilliantly. Thank you ♡

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You Are Loved | Valentine Card

Posted on January 21, 2019February 5, 2019 by helen

Hello! We hope you had a great weekend! We were busy in the garden making the most of a rain free Sunday. Sharon Traynor is here to inspire you today with a romantic gift set featuring some clever designing with our really cool jumbled letters stamp and ‘You Are Loved’ sentiment…

This week I have a whole gift set made with the fantastic ‘One Kind Word‘ stamp set.

jumbled letters - stamp - typewriter - you are loved

Now I’m not one of those people that really ‘does’ Valentines day, but when I spotted a neat little positioning trick to make a heart shape out of this text stamp…

I just couldn’t stop myself from going crazy and making a whole coordinating gift set for Valentines day!

So, I made a matching card and envelope with some wrapping paper and a coordinating gift tag

handmade stamped wrapping paper

I really love how pretty this set looks.

And it is so easy to create these too, once you see how to make the heart shape, which actually is incredibly simple to do!

Just stamp the image once Then rotate and stamp again. (The black lines in the second photo below shows the side of the stamp that I rotated and how it matched up to the first stamped image). Easy peasy!

valentine card - jumbled letters - typerwriter - stamps

To make the card, I stamped the typewriter and the sentiment in black ink, then stamped the heart (using the method in the photos above) over the typewriter in a pink ink.

The smallest heart from the stamp set was stamped a few times around the border and a little doodling added before mounting onto coordinating pink and black paper, and then affixing to a card blank.

On the envelope flap I stamped the heart shape again and added the ‘You Are Loved’ sentiment.

The wrapping paper was made by sticking some sheets of printer paper together and stamping the heart shape in a repeating pattern all over the paper.

The sentiment was stamped into the middle of the hearts on one row, missing the next row and stamping it again in the hearts of the row underneath, continuing like that on each alternate row until the last row on the paper. Then a smaller heart was stamped into some of the gaps in a regular pattern across the paper.

The gift tag was made by heat embossing onto black paper and fussy cutting out into a heart shape. That was then attached to white card and fussy cut to make to give a white border, and the back of the tag would then be easy to write on. An eyelet was added and the tag attached to the present with black ribbon and a few pink flowers to match.