Stretch Your Stash
Christmas stamps aren’t just for Christmas! Obviously, you probably don't want to be sending cards with Santa on for someone’s birthday but some stamps are versatile and can be used all year round. The focal image for this week’s card is from Colorado Craft Company’s Christmas Presents by Anita Jeram set. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted called Laugh Out Loud Again. I used MFT hybrid ink for the dog and Versafine Clair heat set with clear embossing powder for the sentiment. The card was for my friend who has a dog called Tilly. Using Copic markers, I tried to colour the dog to look like her. To create a mask, I stamped the scene onto a sticky note and fussy cut around the bottom. After adding a length of stencil tape across the panel for the horizon, I used MFT Ray of Light stencil and a blending brush and some green ink to create the lawn stripes, removing the stencil and blending more green ink to complete the lawn. ...