keep making
April is wrapping up. If you hang around here a little then you may know that I was giving some attention to what the socials are calling National Card Making and Letter Writing Month. There are two obvious things about this that is at play here. The process of making. The process of giving.
Still feel like I need to up my card sending in the mail game. Glad to always have a challenge ahead of me.
Earlier in the month Tim Holtz with Stampers Anonymous released a new collection of stamps. I put a few of them to work here with these, well, what I am calling, card fronts. The main stamp set I focused is called Abstract Florals.
In my opinion it's such a fun and whimsical set. And I really found myself enjoying the 'get to know you' makes that I did craft. And eager to get to these stamp sets again. For I think they need a scrapbook page too. But I digress.
So here's how these came to be, for I did not video this making. There's a reason for that. For you see, the watercolor paper that these florals are stamped upon was a literal work in progress. Meaning, this page was still attached to my watercolor book as I was just adding color to the paper as I was working on other projects. I would blot the inks (Shabby Shutters + Peacock Feathers) onto the paper. And had no end use in mind for it whatsover.
That is until these new stamps landed on my front porch from ScrapbookCom. So. I trimmed up the paper into these slim sort of tags. Additional stamp images were added to the surface from sets like Mr Rabbit and Grunged (oh do I love that stamp set!) Oh...and one of the new ones too called Crochet Trims. Yeah. That one is growing on me as well!
Using Black Soot Archival I then stamped a bold floral image to the background paper. Oh...so pretty. Then, I stamped it again, and cut out the flower petal part and popped it to that same portion of the image. It was a fun little detail that created a bit of interest to the surface.
The Floral Abstracts also is supplied with some sentiments. Those too were stamped on the background paper with the Archival ink and then I tried to find different ways to add those to the 'card front'.
Nothing terribly complex. But certainly a fun and easy way to make some quick fronts for cards that someone would be so delighted to receive in the mail or in person. It was a great way to get to know these stamp sets for one thing. It was also a great way to celebrate the love of making and cards too.
Hope you try this out soon for yourself.
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