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Thursday 5 October 2017

Looking at the Little Stamps (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a few projects to share with you today which were featured on Lesley's recent TV shows on Hochanda. I am focusing on the three DL sets that were on the show, using some of the little worker stamps, and showing how they can be used in a variety of ways.

For my first card, I created a very pale wrinkle free distress background, using a blue and lilac Distress Ink, before adding an oval mask over the top. I added a bit more Distress Ink, and some shading around the edge of the mask and the edge of the card with a deeper blue ink, to give the feeling of some shading and depth to the background. I also added a bit of grey pencil around the edge of the oval mask.

Using one of the silhouette images from the Autumn Hedgerow stamp set, I stamped over the background, using a variety of ink colours, using first and second generation stamping, to give a bit of depth to the background. I removed the mask, and stamped an image from the Pretty Poppies stamp set and added a sentiment from the same stamp set inside the oval. I coloured the image with Distress Inks and a waterbrush.


For my second project, I created a gelli plate background, by brayering some green Distress Ink onto my gelli plate, and then scrunched up a piece of cling film and dabbed some red Distress Ink onto the gelli plate with the cling film randomly. I took a print from the gelli plate and trimmed a piece of background to size. From the spare offcut, I stamped and embossed the two butterflies from the Butterfly Poppy Collage stamp set, using copper embossing powder, and added some extra colour, using Distress Ink.

I created another panel using green and orange Distress Ink, and then using a mixture of the small stamps from the Autumn Hegdrow stamp plate, I stamped and embossed the focal image using copper embossing powder. I added background stamping afterwards, using a mixture of Autumnal colours and first and second generation stamping, building up the design until I was happy with the result.

To create the card, I added some hessian ribbon and some olive green ribbon to tone in with the overall colours that I had used. I added my all time favourite sentiment, taken from the Nature's Peace stamp set.  I adore this sentiment, and love the opportunity to use it whenever I can.

For my final card, once I again, I created a gelli plate background, in much the same way as the previous card, using the same colours. From the offcut, I die cut a small rectancle, and stamped the small berry image from the Nature's Peace stamp set over the background, using second generation stamping, as I wanted a very pale effect. I stamped and embossed the verse from the stamp set, using dark brown ink and clear embossing powder.

For the main background, I stamped another small image, the leaves and nuts this time, again using brown ink. I coloured the images using pencils, for a vintage feel. I matted my layers using dark brown card, and created a very masculine card, great for lots of different occasions.

I hope that my projects have given you lots of ideas using these great little stamps, either by themselves, or mixing and matching with stamps from other stamp sets. Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

12 comments:

  1. Such pretty delicate colours on these x lovely work and the stamps are gorgeous too x

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  2. Thank you so much for this inspirational post. It has made me think about how I use those worker stamps....and reminded me about the gelli print.
    Thanks again

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  3. Just beautiful and a great inspiration to use them!

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  4. These are fabulous, I love the colour of the poppy. It's lovely to see how you can use these different techniques to create beautiful cards.

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  5. Three fabulous cards Judith and love the gorgeous poppies with the pretty Autumn Hedgerow stamp repeat stamped, and the group of flowers make a great focal image on the second, then the Autumn berries go beautifully with the sentiment as the main image and love all the wonderful colouring. I must think about using my gelli plate more for a background so thanks for the inspiration. x

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  6. Absolutely gorgeous cards Judith, each one is beautifully designed and coloured. These images are so beautiful, and you've offered fabulous inspiration, Kate x

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  7. Fabulous use of the gelli plate for your backgrounds and love how you used the little stamps! Hope that the gelli plates come back to the shop, I need one! :D

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  8. Three gorgeous cards Madga. Thank you for sharing and explaining how they were made.

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  9. Three gorgeous cards Madga. Thank you for sharing and explaining how they were made.

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  10. Such fabulous ideas being shown here, thank you.

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  11. Lovely cards Judith. I particularly like the last one with the leaves. A very autumnal feel to it.
    Carole :)

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  12. Lovely cards Judith. I particularly like the last one with the leaves. A very autumnal feel to it.
    Carole :)

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