The first image is called Artful Mosaic, and I love it because you can stamp it then colour it, stamp it onto an inked background, or as I have, stamp & heat emboss and it always looks great.
Guess you can see why its called a classic!
Anyway, stamped in black onto White pearl card, then heat embossed with clear powder.
Decided I would 'frame ' the image with an embossed line on the front. To do this I opened out the card, and on the inside I drew lightly in pencil around the corners of the image. Then I drew a box all around where the image would be, about a 1/4" out from the original size.
Lined this up on my Hougie board, and embossed the four sides,being very careful at the corners.
I didn't put it exactly central, as I wanted room at the bottom for the sentiment.
DST on the back of the image, and mounted it into the 'frame'.
The Birthday sentiment is a clear stamp from one of Debbie Moores stamp sets.
The second card I made was pretty much identical, except this time used a stamp called Moon Collage.
I also used a black base card this time. All the techniques were the same though.
Supplies:
Stamps: Moon Collage,Artful Mosaic, now released as SA Classics. Moon Collage is on the newest sheets released this year at CHA.
Black inkpad
Clear embossing powder.
White pearl card.
Black card
Embossing board & stylus
Sentiment- Debbie Moore Twilight Stamp 1
Heat Gun
7 comments:
Both so elegant and beautiful
Rosie x
Ggs gorgeous stuff Shaz. Delighted that you're strong enough to
Pick and choose the weeks that inspire you..I must say my mailbox is rarely that! Interesting that Than has been public about the new SA stamps...a couple of years ago he got into some terrible trouble over allowing the public to assume he was a designer...some bird images, I think.
Great images. I like the simplicity, very striking.
Such lovely cards! I love the white card with the black/white focal. Great stamps you used on both. I love SA stamps, but don't have the older ones. I do feel bad that they don't know who designed the images, kind of sad for the designer. Love that Michelle Ward has claimed hers. I am loving a lot of the new releases and will pick some of the older ones up.
Great cards Shaz. Lice the mosaic stamp looks like one I should have in my collection. I am trying to do this weeks challenge as I had some very happy mail last week. The problem with the DLP is that there is sooo much of it I'm in danger of it taking over everything else FB is just too much .... Prefer to blog
Janet
Fabulous cards Shaz, love the coolly elegant clean and simple style and the embossing frames the images well.
What a nice blog you have here Shaz! Just came across your post using the SA stamps - lovely cards! Thanks for the shout out :)
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