My sweet friend Tifany is having a release today and I am pretty sure I screamed when she pulled her new background stamp out of her bag at retreat, because I love nothing more than granulating watercolor + brick images. These bricks are in a herringbone pattern which makes them different from any brick stamps I own (she is really good at coming up with super unique images and sentiments) and they are big enough to paint! I am in love! I used a single color of watercolor - my beloved Hematite Burnt Scarlet, but you can see how much variation you get with the granulation. I love this color the most. I stamped the background first in Fadeout Ink.
The bricks just screamed school to me, so I paired it with her adorable little science teacher image from this set, and I cut a strip out of the background and stamped the sentiment from this set onto the card base. It's almost time to get those teacher gifts ready - and actually - you should give teachers gifts all the time - it's such an important job - so I thought this would inspire you to make a card for a teacher!
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My friend Jana was playing with this next background stamp set at retreat and we both were losing our minds over it. It has SUCH a delicate, detailed cable knit pattern on it - and she was embossing it and watercoloring - it was beautiful. I hope she posts today! I decided to stamp the pattern in white ink on blue cardstock, after thinking for a while about what is lighter on a cable knit sweater - the pattern or the lower part, and I figured it was the pattern. I stamped it twice in my MISTI to make it lighter, and then I used my infinity dies to cut both a neckline and a collar to go over it. I added some Copic marker to make a neck on a white insert, and glued a gift card to it. Then I put a strip of navy down the front of the gift card holder and added gold glitter paper buttons, also cut with infinity dies, and then glued the collar on after hand cutting a little V into it. The gift card holder is just an 8.5" x 3" piece of navy cardstock, scored at 4.25", and then I used skinny Scor-Tape on each side to hold it closed.
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I thought these two would really make a fun, easy appreciation gift for a teacher! Everyone loves gift cards - and I think we're all starting to realize that the world has enough coffee mugs.
Tifany is literally one of the nicest, smartest and funniest people I've ever known, and I love that I can support her by shopping! Here's a picture of her posing with a three day old salad in my hotel room. That's Jen from Reverse Confetti pretending to take a bite. Don't ask. It's complicated.
Stamp company owners are awesome people bringing us joy and making the things we love. They are also moms, friends, and real people just trying to do all the same things we're all trying to do. Feel great about every dollar you spend with these people - you are doing a good thing for truly good people.
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Ooooh love those bricks, and of course the watercoloring. I have my beloved PrimaTek palette, so all I have to do is get that stamp that I NEED.
ReplyDeleteOH my goodness, that cable knit sweater background looks AMAZING! What a clever idea to stamp it on white over a darker card stock. It looks so realistic that I want to put it right on now. You always come up with the best ideas and designs.
ReplyDeleteI love both these great background stamps. I'm favoring the bricks a little more because I can watercolor them.
ReplyDeleteOMGOSH! That sweater print is PERFECT!!!
ReplyDeleteThat cable knit stamp is amazing and your take on it is perfect.
ReplyDeleteAdorable! I love this! <3
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