When I was ready to stamp, I just decided to pull out the For The Birds Stamp Set and ended up with this thinking of you card. Sometimes there is no rhyme or reason for what I stamp. I might go to the shelf for a certain stamp set and something else will catch my eye. That’s one of the things I love about stamping – there are so many options and choices and usually you can make any of them work.
These For The Birds stamps all have a saying underneath the image. Some I like and some I don’t care for that much, but you can avoid using the saying if you don’t want it. Either cover it up with a post-it before you ink up and then remove it, or wipe the ink off, or cut the greeting off after you stamp. On this tag, I just cut off the words underneath the mailbox and made my own greeting with a stamp from Teeny Tiny Wishes. I cut out the greeting with the Bitty Banners Big Shot Die Framelits.
The tag is stamped with Stazon Black Ink and colored in with Stampin’ Write Markers – sort of! With the Blendabiities gone, I ordered some new Blender Pens on my last order. I still have my original set and one other but they are all a little ragged and dry. It was a joy to color with these new pointy Blender Pens!! There are so many options for coloring, but what I did today on this tag was to scribble some marker ink on the stamp case cover, then picked up that ink with a Blender Pen. You can use the same one over and over and just scribble it on your Grid Paper (backordered right now!) or scrap paper until it is clear again. You can add more ink if you want your coloring darker, although you can’t “work” the coloring too much on just Whisper White paper. Better to use Watercolor Paper. But I was using Whisper White and I did get it messed up a little bit – but let’s just say it’s an old mail box!! In some places where I wanted it darker, I used the marker directly. Depending on the colors, using markers straight on your image is too dark and heavy often times. That’s why Blender Pens or the Aqua Painter are so useful to have available.
Since the tag was too plain, I added some sponging with the Sponge Daubers, just a little Wild Wasabi and Soft Sky. And a little shadow with the Smokey Slate Marker. I used the Tag Topper Scalloped Punch and adhered a bow with the Lost Lagoon 3/8″ Silky Taffeta Ribbon (which is on the Clearance Rack as I write this!).
The card base is a 4 1/4″ Whisper White square with a layer of Island Indigo card stock and a pattern from the All Abloom Designer Series Paper Stack.
Go look on your shelf of stamp sets and see which one jumps out at you and create something with it!
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