The advert stamp I made work for me by using the travel stamp platform and inking individual lines of text and stamping. I love referring back to techniques from it. The gears from the Dapper (CMS267) set I stamped twice using the brushless watercolor technique from Tim Holtz’s Creative Chemistry online classes. I decided at 4am that I was going to sew nails to ruler ribbon on my singer heavy duty sewing machine! I’m still slightly dumbstruck that it worked! Sewing level up for me! I now need more idea-ology ruler ribbon and vignette hardware, because those nails are awesome!! Okay so this next bit is what got me into a little bit of hot water this morning thanks to my instagram post. The hat and coat were coloured with faded jeans and frayed burlap distress marker and ink. All grunged with little swipe from walnut stain distress crayon. I added gears from the assemblage range to the hat and slipped a hardware head in, it fit perfectly. I have noticed that die cutting them makes them much stronger versus fussy cutting them. The hat and coat were stamped from the Distinguished (CMS371) stamp set and the moth from the Entomology (CMS328) stamp set and die cut with the matching thinlits die set. The mini ink pads are perfect for edging cards as their size makes them easy to handle and you don’t fumble the ink pad across the front of your card. Blend in a little frayed burlap distress ink and edge with double espresso distress archival ink. Using black soot distress ink and a waterbrush flick watered down ink at the card to give some darker specs. Then tapped through the droplets a second time and dried again. The background is distress watercolor cardstock dragged through hickory smoke and frayed burlap distress spray and dried with a heat tool. Distinguished has been such a happy surprise and I have loved playing with the new wardrobe, but I had to go back and grab the background stamps from the Dapper set. Until Distinguished was released in January, Dapper was my favourite and most used set. I’ve been in a little bit of trouble this morning over a small issue of sewing through nails without safety glasses! Moving swiftly on… I am sharing a card I made using the Dapper (CMS267) and Distinguished (CMS371) stamp sets. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great weekend. My obsession with these hardware heads continues. The idea-ology hardware heads were covered in rusty hinge distress paint and wiped away. I love how the kraft stock palette works with my distress inks and the design tapes are so varied in their design that you can always find something that works. I love to layer my cards and the idea-ology classic kraft stock, sanded and layered over Tim Holtz design tape is standard for me. I used the newsprint stamp from the newsprint and type (CMS266) set in the background and layered the tangled twigs thinlits die cut over the top. Using the Tim Holtz travel stamp platform makes this simple. I love that the egg comes in 2 stamps, stamping the background first and then the speckled detail over the top. I had to back order the bird feather (CMS180) stamp set but I knew I had to have it and the hat and collar from the distinguished (CMS371) stamp set is a perfect match! One of best things about Stampers Anonymous is they never retire their stamps, so you can always go to their website and order them going back to the very beginning stamp set, CMS001. Yes you guessed it, another Hat! With Spring upon us here in Copenhagen and Easter fast approaching, I was inspired to do something with eggs.
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