Stone Floral Creativity Challenge ~ Team Stamp Play

Hi, friends!  It's design team member Walter here on the blog with you.  This week I'm sharing my second card for June that I made using the same four stamps for the month: Texture Wet Cement Stamp, Etched Stone Flower Rubber Art Stamp, Fern Art Rubber Stamp, and Sentiment Words Stamp Create Something.  For this second card, I was inspired by memories of the chalkboards from grammar school.  On really cold days, the teacher would often let us stay inside during recess and one of my favorite things to do was draw on the chalkboard.  We'd draw everything from flowers to stick figures, but one of my favorite scenes to draw was a sunset between two mountains.  I couldn't recreate that using these four stamps, but I create a chalkboard inspired design.

I used the following in addition to the four stamps mentioned above:

• White A2 card base
• 4" x 5.25" Black card panel
• White Pigment Ink
• Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke, Victorian Velvet, and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Inks
• Two shades of Pink Acrylic markers

Here's how I made it:

I began by stamping the Texture Wet Cement Rubber Stamp onto the black card panel with Hickory Smoke Oxide ink.  I wanted to achieve a background that looked like rubbing the side of a piece of chalk randomly across a chalkboard.  After the first stamp, I rotated the card panel 90 degrees and stamped it again with the Hickory Smoke ink.  I turned it another 90 degrees, stamped, turned it another 90 degrees and stamped again.  I then repeated these steps with the Lost Shadow Distress ink.  This created a cool looking chalkboard-like background.

I decided that the sentiment would be placed at the top center of the card panel as it's one like that I really like and wanted centered in this design.  I stamped it onto the card panel with white pigment ink and used a heat tool on low to help set the ink.

With the sentiment in place, I stamped the fern twice so that there would be one on the left side of the panel and one on the right side of the panel.  I first stamped it with the Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink.  I then stamped with the same ink a second time to get enough green oxide onto the panel.  I cleaned the stamp and then stamped it a third time using white pigment ink.  The white and green inks came together to create a really nice image that is mostly green with just a little bit of white to lighten it.  I repeated this on the right side of the panel.

Next up was the stamp my flower.  I used the same stamping technique that I used or the ferns to stamp the flower.  Two passes of the stamp with Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide ink followed by a pass with white pigment ink.  It created such a pretty flower image!

I wanted to add some additional detail to the flower and knew that acrylic markers would be perfect to enhance the chalk-like look.  I used a lighter pink to color in the leaves closest to the center and add detail to the outer leaves, and then a darker shade to color the center.

I used double sided tape to adhere the card panel to the card base and . . . voila . . . the completed card!  I love the touch of whimsy that the chalkboard motif adds to the design.  It's a very light and cheery design.

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

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