Announcing our June Stamps of the Month

It's that time of the month again and I'm delighted to announce our new stamps for June.  We have the Briar Rose Butterfly:

and the Harebell Butterfly:

and it wouldn't be right if we didn't offer the two as a money saving multi-buy:

I thought I'd give you a quick breakdown of how I made this card as it is actually a fairly quick card to put together.

1. Choose two or three Distress Stains in colours that go together (eg Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Shaded Lilac) and put a few dabs of each onto a non stick craft mat or acrylic block.
2. Mist with water, then place a piece of card onto the resulting puddle to transfer the ink.
3. Dry the card with a heat tool and repeat if you want more colour.
4. Stamp some of the foliage from Briar Rose Butterfly around the edges  of your card in soft, coordinating colours (I used Archival Blue Violet and Viridian).
5. Stamp the harebell  and some of the grasses in black and colour with pencils or markers.  
6. Sponge a little dark ink around the edge of the card (in my case I used Deep Purple Archival ink) and stick onto a toning cardstock mat.
7. Stamp the briar rose butterfly onto a scrap of pink and cut out the butterfly.  Stick your stamped panel onto your card, attach the butterfly (just glue the body to let the wings stand proud) and finish with a stamped sentiment (check out our Amazing Birthday clear stamp set).

If you make a few backgrounds in advance, you can put this together in ten minutes.

The stamps are on offer at the moment and if you haven't already spotted it, you can now choose to buy our stamps as either unmounted sheets or as cling mounted and cut out for you ready to play with straight out of the pack.  Click here to read about the different options.

Happy stamping!