Magenta | Watercolor Wash Rainbow Background

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog - it's Jenny here, and today I've been playing with Magenta stamps. 

I'm using today the Magenta Butterfly, Mushroom, Snail stamp, which is a cute little scene.

To create my card, I first created watercolor wash background using my Tombow markers.  I saw this first by Ashlea Cornell and it is a super easy way to create gorgeous backgrounds.  You just scribble them onto watercolor cardstock and then blend with lots of water from top to bottom.    When it was dry,  I trimmed out the panel and splattered it with gold ink from a shimmer pen by Nuvo.

I stamped my Magenta stamp onto white cardstock in black ink   and then fussy cut out the grass  and the square border.   I adhered it directly onto the panel.

My sentiment is from the Studio Light Denim Saturdays Flower, which I stamped in black ink and trimmed out, popping it up on foam tape.

I popped the entire panel up on foam tape to a white card base, and then trimmed the edges.

A different way to use this stamp I think you'll agree!

Jenny

Circular Pattern Stamping with For the Love of Stamps

Hi everyone and Welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog!  It's Jenny here, and today I'm showing you how to use picture stamps to create circular patterns on your projects.

Both of my cards use Hunkdory Crafts For the Love of Stamps stamp sets.  I'm using I Love London and Woodland Animals.

For both cards, I trimmed a panel of cardstock down to 4"x4" and used a wreath builder stencil and a stamp positioning tool to stamp the images in a circular pattern, but you could also do this by eyeballing it using an acrylic block.  

For the first card, I used a dark orange cardstock, and stamped the owl four times in Versamark embossing ink, and heat embossed in Copper embossing powder.  I then stamped the two smallest owls and heat embossed in Pink Champagne.  The acorn was next, heat embossed in Rose Glintz.  I then backed the panel onto kraft cardstock 1/4" larger and adhered to a card base.   I added Nuvo glitter drops to embellish.  To finish, I stamped the sentiment from the set in Versamark onto black cardstock and heat embossed in white, trimmed it out and popped it up on foam tape in the centre.

For my next card, I used the I Love London set, and started with the double decker bus image.  I stamped it eight times in black ink on white cardstock, and let it overlap the preceding image. On its own this created an interesting pattern.  I then overlaid it with the Big Ben image, stamped in Red.

I stamped the sentiment in Blue in the centre (to match the british union flag colors) and adhered the panel to black cardstock cut 1/4" larger, and backed it onto a white card base.

Two very different looks using the same technique!  You can use many of the stamp sets by For the Love of Stamps in this way to create interesting patterns!  Have fun!