Darkroom Door Layered Handwriting Mother's Day Card

 

 

 

Happy Mother's Day stampers!  It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you today to share a fun collage card just for mom.   I have been eager to play with the new Layered Handwriting Background Stamp by Darkroom Door again and decided to do a postal themed collage card for Mom, using it as the main background element.  I dipped my panel in watery Bundled Sage and Speckled Egg Distress Ink, then stamped the Layered Handwriting in Evergreen Bough and embossed with Distress Glaze.  I made a small envelope with my We R Memories Punch Board and distressed it with Gathered Twigs.  Then I stamped the Pen Nibs and bird from the Love Birds set in black onto inky paper and fussy cut them.  I stamped the Small Sketched Alphabet letters into one of the Lots of Labels stamp.  I attached a flat brad to hold the envelope flap down and adhered a pretty button over it. 

 

 

 

The flap opens to store a gift card.  I added a note card as well and used the Simple Sayings Vol. 2 for the verse.  The extra word strips were printed off of my computer, an old postal stamp and a cancellation stamp from the Global Postmarks set to tie it all together.  I hope this card has given you some ideas and you'll play around with the Layered Handwriting stamp to make some backgrounds of your own.  Have a wonderful Mother's Day!  xx, Autumn

 

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Gel Press Embossing

Happy Friday! Ericka here and I hope your week went well. Today, I'm playing with the Carabelle Studio Postcard and some gel press prints I had saved in my stash. I also am using embossing powders to add texture and shine to my cards.

 For my first card I used embossing ink to stamp the Postcard image.

I used the Sunflower WOW! Embossing Powder part of the Parc Floral set to heat emboss the image.

I then took the Carabelle Texture 3 Stencil and applied embossing ink with a blending tool to add WOW! Curacao embossing power for green texture.

I also added the Carabelle Butterfly Letter stamp to the card for some fun.

I created the other two cards in a similar way using gel prints I had previously made.

I used the same stencils as well but played with Distress Glaze for a fun texture and color.

I stamped the Darkroom Door Dream Big Sentiment Strip and cut it into pieces to use on all of my cards.

For more information on how I created my cards along with the supplies I used, check out my blog Strangely Creative. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!