Stone Floral Creativity Challenge ~ Team Stamp Play

Hi, friends!  It's design team member Walter here on the blog with you.  The design team was challenged to create a card for June using the same four stamps.  Those four stamps are: Texture Wet Cement Stamp, Etched Stone Flower Rubber Art Stamp, Fern Art Rubber Stamp, and Sentiment Words Stamp Create Something.  I decided to take that challenge a step further and use only these four stamps for each my cards this month!  I thought it would be fun to see how each stamp could be used in a different way to push my creativity.  Today I'm sharing the first card that I created for the challenge.  For this card, I wanted to focus on the beauty of the stone element and not only have the flowers look like they're stone.  I created leaves by stamping the ferns and then using a black detail pen to draw lines to create the leaf shape.

I used the following materials in addition to the stamps:

• Black A2 Card Base
• White 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" card panel
• White card stock for stamping
• Black Ink
• Gray Ink
• Altenew Black Ink Spray
• Alcohol markers

Here's how I made it:

I began by stamping the Texture Wet Cement Red Rubber Stamp twice with gray ink to create the cement backgrounds for the flowers and leaves.

I then stamped the flower once on each background with black ink and then stamped each fern twice on each background with black ink.  I used a black detail pen to draw lines around the ferns to turn them into leaves.

I used various shades of gray alcohol markers to color the images: a medium and a light warm gray for the stone flowers and a medium and light cool gray for the leaves.  I fussy cut out the stamped images after they were colored.

I stamped the sentiment onto the white card panel with black ink and then covered it with low tack white tape so that it would be in place before adding black splatter to the background.  With the tape in place, I unscrewed the spray top from the Altenew Black Spray Ink and tapped it over the panel to distribute black ink splatter.  I used a heat tool on low to help dry the ink.

I removed the low tack tape and used double sided tape to adhere the panel to the card base.  I then decided on the placement of my leaves and glued them down to the card.  I put double sided foam tape onto the back of the flowers and placed them down on the card.

I'm really happy with this design!  I truly enjoy creating with monochromatic palettes, so this first card was an easy design for me to create.  That said, I find it very dramatic even if simple.

Thanks for spending some time with me here on the blog.  I'll see you again next week for my second design using these four same stamps.  Until then . . . be well!

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