Shadow Stamping

Today's technique is called shadow stamping. I learned this on Dawn Griffith's blog.

 

For this technique you will need either to use Photopolymer stamps or a Stamp-a-ma-jig because you are double stamping the solid image. 

I started with a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I stamped the flower image once with Tip Top Taupe ink. then I cleaned the stamp and inked it with VersaMark ink. This is where my Stamp-a-ma-jig came into use. Using it I stamped with the VersaMark just to the lieft of the Tip Top Taupe image. Then I heat embossed with white embossing powder. To get the stamped image to stand out even more I used a sponge and Tip Top Taupe and sponged the white cardstock, using a tissue to remove the ink from the embossed image.

I layered that stamped piece onto Island Indigo cardstock and added some Tip Top Taupe lace trim. Then layered again on Tip Top Taupe, Whisper White and Island Indigo card base.
The image and expression come from the In The Meadow stamp set. It's such a pretty stamp set.

Sympathy Using In the Meadow

This is another card we will make in the class. We'll do this one second. Again it's a pretty easy card but will give them a different technique to try... watercolor wash background using a clear block colored with markers and then stamped on the paper. The rest of the card is simple stamping and layering of card stock.

In The Meadow Again

This card features another image and sentiment from In the Meadow stamp set. I used markers to color the image before stamping on card stock. It's paired with the Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper from Sale-A-Bration. And I used the retired Big Note die with my bigshot and then trimmed it to the size I wanted. I got this layout from Leisure Arts book, Card Sketches for Paper Crafters.

This is the inside of the card using some more stamps from In the Meadow.

In the Meadow

I finally got a chance to create with the new In the Meadow stamp set available in the Occasions catalog. It has such pretty sketched images. I used a clear block and three markers (Pacific Point, Perfect Plum and Wild Wasabi) and applied ink to the clear block to add color to the paper. Then I pressed the inked block onto the paper. Then I stamped the mountain image over that background. Simple and easy!

Here's another card using the tree sketch from In the Meadow. I just used two colors of markers here (Pacific Point and Wild Wasabi).