With Easter coming up you can create quick and easy painted cards, tags and invitations using VersaMagic Dew Drop ink pads as a watercolor. Stamped images are turned into pastel works of art using this amazing ink pad in soft colors. Try your hand at turning these ink pads into paints in a few easy steps.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 20 minutes
Treat a special friend with a hand stamped Valentine’s day box this year, filled with their favorite treat. Gift giving is the greatest part of Valentine’s day!
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 20 minutes
In this video, I’m sharing my version of a Farmhouse Valentine Card complete with a shiplap background stamped with Versarfine Clair Midnight Mist ink. I’m adding Versafine Clair Charming Pink and Glamorous ink stamped hearts and to complete the look heat embossed sentiments using Gold MBoss Embossing Powder on Vellum.
Skill: Intermediate
Time: 15 minutes
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Kissing Technique is an easy way to combine your stamps and create unique designs for your stamping projects. Just select one solid design and combine it with another pattern and create different layouts.
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Select the stamps that you want to use and the colors of the ink. Use a light color for the solid image and dark color for the textured or detailed image. Place the stamps over different acrylic blocks and ink well with the corresponding ink. Here I selected a heart stamp and inked it with Memento in Lulu Lavender. Then I choose a stripe stamp and inked it with Memento in Grape Jelly.
Place one stamp over the other, touching the inked sides. You will notice how the stripe image is transferred into the solid heart image. When you are using a waterbased ink like Memento this transfer will happen very smoothly.
If you decide to use a dark color for the solid image, don’t apply ink to the detailed image, just kiss them and you will see how it take off the color from the solid stamp. Stamp the image over your card stock layer and finalize your card stamping a coordinating sentiment.
Choose Delicata Sapphire Blue for a deep, shiny color result on gift tags that can be attached to any winter gift. The Mboss white embossing powder, in contrast with the deep blue stamped snowflake, enhances the sentiment.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 30 minutes
Cut 3 x 8 inch long card stock pieces, fold in half long size and cut along with the scissors.
Use a sponge dauber to cover the surface with Delicata Sapphire Blue, adding more color to the bottom of the tags.
Stamp with VersaFine CLAIR Paradise and a snowflake stamps the tags.
Stamp with VersaMark the sentiment stamp, cover with Mboss white embossing powder and heat set.
Color with the Delicata Sapphire Blue and clean the color from the embossed sentiment with a soft cloth and some Ink Potion No.9.
Place two stripes of Tear It! Tape on the tags.
Sprinkle with glitter, remove the excess and glue the ribbons and the sentiments.
Keeping with my Berry, Blue and Silver theme I decided I wanted to make wrapping paper and matching gift tags this year as well. The limited color palette is very aesthetically pleasing when grouped together under the tree. Since I was using all the same colors I thought it would be fun to vary the patterns so I went from very easy (Joy wrapping paper) to a more complicated layered pattern (Noel paper) which I will share with you today.
Skill: Beginner
Time: 15 minutes to 45 minutes depending on the design
Tear off enough of the kraft paper to cover the gift you will be wrapping.
To create the layered look use a fork (I am using a baby fork for the example) to make a cross hatch pattern with Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink.
Heat set the Delicata ink to speed drying. As you can see it creates a stunning background which could be used as is.
Stamp Noel using VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink over the entire sheet of kraft paper. Vary the direction of the image to add interest.
Layer 3 consists of several snowflakes stamped using Blue Belle VersaFine Clair ink.
Several more stamped snowflakes are added using Rhubarb Stalk Memento ink.
And finally Morning Mist a lovely shade of grey to finish it off. You will have created a beautiful multi layered wrapping paper worthy of any gift you have for giving.
Follow the same steps to create the matching gift tag.
Use a sponge dauber to apply Blue Belle ink to the edge of the tag. Add a bit of ribbon to finish it off. And here is my gift all wrapped up ready for giving. Below you will find additional examples to inspire.
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