Topflight Stamps: AALL & Create Fungi Mixed Media Father's Day Card

Monday, April 6, 2020

AALL & Create Fungi Mixed Media Father's Day Card

Hi friends! It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you today to kick off our week of Father's Day cardmaking inspiration. I used the lovely new toadstool stamps by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create and have several ideas to share with you. First up is a Father's Day card with a fun mixed media background.

I dipped my stamped panel into ink puddles and then clear embossed. I went along the edges of the panel with Distress Crayons in brown and green to accent the embossed pivots. I did the same process on a second stamping of the toadstool heads and flicked off even more of the clear embossing powder to get more pivots. I gave the panel a splashing of PaperArtsy Fresco Chalk Acrylics and blotted the paint while wet, which achieved sort of a encaustic effect.

Finally I added a typed "fortune cookie" sentiment with a punny graphic I know my guy will dig.

My next card features a resist technique using the Darkroom Door resist crayon. I stamped my image and then colored the areas I wished to highlight with the crayon. I swiped Prism dye ink pads DTP onto my panel and the crayon resisted the ink, leaving the white space. I heat the crayon to melt the shiny surface, then added a bit of watercolor shading as shown.

I painted the spots on the fungi with more Fresco acrylics.

And another little card using the same technique. I especially love the white framing with the crayon. The sentiment is from Deer stamp #222. I can't stress enough how much I love to use these inks DTP, here I just did stripes and it worked a charm. Fun and easy!