I am having serious stampers block lately. I just can’t get myself to stamp. Every morning I tell myself I will do it, and every day I blow it off. This last Thursday I finally got myself together. The “Ways to use it challenge” was using backgrounds. That’s easy enough. I use them all the time anyway.
I had a magazine ask me if I could make 10-15 samples of Burned Batik for an article. I have to be honest. I only made one card with that technique…and that was for the tutorial way back when. With my stampin’ Mojo gone, I told the lady there was no way I could come up with 15 samples for this technique. Not when I wouldn’t get compensated. Too much stress for nothing. But after thinking about the technique for so long while dreading to make all those samples, I decided to try my hand on just one more card with it.
I stamped the flower from Big pieces and several stamps of “Seeing spots” on white cardstock with Versamark and embossed them. Then I placed a sheet of copy paper over it and ironed over it to overheat the images. I then stamped the Big Blossom SAB stamp over it and watercolored over the entire cardstock with Marigold reinker. I then cut the flower out, layered it on chocolate chip cardstock and cut that out again.
The center of the flower is a Stamp from Seeing spots again. Stamped in Versamark, embossed in clear and punched out with our 1 1/4″ circle punch. I added a 3/4″ cool caribbean cardstock circle over that and topped it off with a Marigold embossed smaller circle from Seeing spots.
I liked how retro the card looked when it was done.
Beate
Stay at Home Mom of Three, Splitcoast Team Member and Copic and Spellbinders die Lover.
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