Bold Blooms Floral Stamped Cards

Hey again friends!  I'm back today sharing a few floral makes using gorgeous Creative Worship Stamps.  For my first card, I had a blast coloring the Sunflower Background Clear Stamp using a fun process of repeat stamping with my stamp platform and coloring in between stamping.  This gives a no line similar effect, but also allows you to stamp different layers in different colors on the same image, like I added a final layer of Vintage Photo stamping to the flower center only.  The base layers were colored with Fossilized Amber and Mustard Seed Distress Inks.

I fussy cut my flower and then stamped a gingham panel with the Texture Tiles 4 Clear Stamp Set, which I layered over a card based stamped with little flowers from the Hope Word Art Clear Stamp Set and a sentiment pair from the Choose Faith Clear Stamp Set.  I love these words!!!

My next card was a fun experiment!  I masked off portions of the Bold Bloom Stencil using stencil tape (or washi).  For the leaves, I sponged both Peacock Feathers and Mowed Lawn to get the blue green I was going for.  Then I clear embossed very quickly.  

I wiped the ink off the stencil tape and repositioned it to mask the leaves and then inked with Worn Lipstick, not in the same position, but in the corners of the panel, clear embossing each flower before it could dry.  It dries quickly! I dipped the leaf side into a light pool of Peacock Feathers DI and then splashed on some watered black gesso.  Next, I colored the Dahlia Background Clear Stamp using the same repeat stamping method described in the sunflower card above.  I used Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral.

I made a tag from repeatedly stamping "hope from my Faith Definitions Stamp Set.  I love the black and white for contrast here.  Then I fussy cut the butterfly from the Botanical Collages Clear Stamp Set, colored with the same blue green.  I finished with the "praying for you" from the God is Near Die Set.  FUN!  

Last but certainly not least, I'm sharing my Easter card design.  I had this idea to create a light background panel and clear emboss the script from the Easter Innies Clear Stamp Set, then add darker layers of color over that.  My hope was the light background colors would show through instead pure white.  Here is the before panel, which in all honestly I like better than the after, but only because I got a little heavy handed with the brown ink.  I added some Victorian Velvet through the Diamond Floral Layering Stencil Set and splasnes of watery white gesso to try and lighten it back down.

Nevertheless, I finished it with a watercolored image from the Blooming Tulips Stamp & Die Bundle and another snippet from the Easter Innies.  

I'm glad I persisted because I really love the finished card and those torn layers of cardstock at the bottom.  I trust that you and yours had a lovely Easter celebrating our Risen Savior!  He is risen indeed!  xx, Autumn

Distress Master Board Mixed Media Cards

Hi friends!  I'm thrilled to be sharing a few more cards with gorgeous Creative Worship Stamps today.  Last winter I made several master board sheets to use for future cardmaking.  You may remember my sharing one of the cards made with this sheet HERE, using my new Snowdrops stamp & die set.  

I was in the mood to play with some collage images from the incredible Vintage Floral Collection stamp set.  I had stamped a bunch of images from this set using a friend's stamps.  I didn't buy the set because I was afraid the linework would be too dark, but when I saw the images stamped out I was immediately in love!  They are larger images than I thought and are perfect for collage layers.  I pulled out the remaining 3/4 panel master board I had created using Distress Oxide Spray in Tumbled Glass and Vintage Photo, which I had stamped with the Texture Tiles 1 stamp set (music and splatters) and sponged through the Lots of Dots stencil using Speckled Egg Distress Ink.  The other pieces I had premade included a Vintage Photo stained panel stamped with the Vintage Snippets (ruler), so I could cut it up and use bits and pieces as needed.  The final panel was also made with Distress Oxide sprays in Tumbled Glass, Vintage Photo and Rusty Hinge.  I used the Stitched Circles dies to cut some layers from this sheet.

I lightly watercolored a few of the images from the Vintage Floral Collection stamp set using Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks and cut them out.  For this first one, I cut the Vintage Snippets ruler panel into a tag shape and added a grommet and twine bow, which I layered over a torn coffee filter stamped with the same set.  All of the sentiments on these cards are from the Typed Thoughts stamps. 

This next card has the tidbits of rulers sticking out beneath each end of the Stitched Circle layer, a strip of the DOX paper and another strip of Vintage Snippets stamped coffee filter.  I stamped another panel with a different image from Vintage Snippets onto a lighter Vintage Photo stained piece and tucked a loopy twine bow beneath the focal flower.

My final card has more coffee filter and an inky panel that I made by  spraying DOX sprays through the Messy Blocks Stencil onto one panel, then doing a stencil mono print with the residual ink onto another panel inked with Vintage Photo, thus the reverse pattern.  This is such a cool stencil and the large spacing make it perfect for stencil mono printing.  

Are you new to Mixed Media?  Want to learn more about how to use the fun products mentioned here?  Korin has created an amazing class for $19.95 called Mixed Media Master Sheets.  Find out more HERE!  I've been doing this stuff for years and years, but really enjoyed her perspective and know you will too!  Thanks for stopping by today and happy stamping, Autumn