Hi friends! It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you today to share some fun mixed media Valentine inspiration featuring gorgeous AALL & Create stamps from Topflight Stamps. For this set of cards, I focused on using the fun Owl stamp set by Tracy Evans. I LOVE owls and knew that these stamps would make fun Valentine cards.
For my first card, I made an inky background and then stamped the Reverse Hearts repeatedly along the edges, along with an older stamp set by Tracy (#304: Heartfelt). I stamped the Scripted hearts and added some watercolor detail for contrast. Then I stamped the owl onto the panel and again onto another panel, which I fussy cut and mounted above the first stamping. This way the details along the edge of the owl weren't lost and I was able to add dimension and a pop of color. I stamped the word owl and then finished the sentiment by punching out some old school label tape. I used a credit card dipped in my black ink pad to make the cross hatched lines along the edges. (Honestly, I did this because I smeared the black ink I used to edge the panel and needed to camouflage it somehow. We all make mistakes with stamping sometimes and it's best to find a way to work past it, rather than get frustrated and throwing our work in the bin! ;0 ) In the end it looks intentional and I like how it frames the piece.
Next, I made a pink inky panel and stamped the Reverse hearts again with more of the Heartfelt background stamp. This time I stamped two owls and layered them. I added some white Posca marker details to one to make it more feminine. I added some stickers by Tim Holtz and then stamped that gorgeous leafy border from the Owl set, finishing with more white paint pen details.
For my last card I used my Distress Mica Spray through the Hung Up On Hearts stencil. The red was a little much for me! The spray feathered out too much and I didn't like how dark it was, so I set it aside and then later had the idea to do the "Stencil Bumping" technique by PaperArtsy, but I used embossing ink and embossed with white powder instead of using paints. I really liked how this turned out! I slightly offset the stencil over the inky pattern and smooshed my Versamark pad through the stencil. I brushed away the embossing powder where there were any harsh lines and the result was a beautiful white center with some of the red showing along the edge.
I remembered one of Tracy's very old lives from her FB group where she used the packaging from embellishments to make a little shaker. I had saved some for ages since seeing her do that. And I thought it would work great with this background since it was large and wouldn't cover up any of that cool stencil work. I wanted to repeat the layered stamping, so I used Staz-On ink and put an acrylic block inside the packaging to make it into a sturdy, stampable surface. I was able to stamp the owl and layer a separate fussy cut and I added another label tape sentiment. I used Beacon 3-1 glue to adhere the shaker, filled with heart sequins, to the card panel. I'll share a video on Instagram so you can see it in action. :) I hope these cards have made you smile today! xx, Autumn
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