Miss You

This is not just another Design Team post!  It’s my first using Visible Image’s brand-new Grunge Florals Collection.  This is another awesome release comprising six stamps sets and three stencils – I hope you’ve seen the gorgeous samples made by Mark and the DT - and you can see and shop the whole range here. 

To begin, I used the Rotation stencil as a stamp to colour the background for the large rose stamp.  I sprayed Distress Spray Stains in Picked Raspberry and Dusty Concord onto the stencil…

…and then pressed it onto the card.  To absorb any overspray, I placed some tissue over the stencil whilst I pressed it onto the card.

After drying the printing thoroughly, I stamped and clear heat embossed the rose from Rose Moments.  I used my MISTI for this so that I could repeat stamp as necessary as this is a big stamp.

I used a nesting set of octagonal dies to cut out the rose plus black and silver foil layers and glued them together.  (If you don’t have shaped nesting dies, simply cut into a square and attach on the diagonal). The sentiment from Grunge Greetings was stamped and clear heat-embossed, trimmed and attached with foam tape.

For the background, I stencilled Distress Inks in the same two shades as the sprays through the Puzzle stencil.

The other stamps from Rose Moments were stamped in black randomly over the stencilled panel.

To assemble the card, the background panel was matted on silver foil card and onto a black square card blank.  The feature panel was adhered on top using foam tape.