Simon Says Stamp is sponsoring a month-long stamp kissing challenge over at the Lily Pad, and the prize is a gift certificate worth $25 smackers!
If you don't know what stamp kissing is, you'll enjoy fooling around with it....
Bah-dah-BUM!
Yes, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitresses.
Stamp kissing means you ink up one stamp (usually the larger of the two), and you press the other stamp into its inky goodness (this is the "kissing" part of it). Then you press stamp #2 onto your paper. So what you get is your stamp with another stamp on top of it.
For my card, I first inked a silhouette stamp of a clump of wildflowers in pink ink. Then I pressed it against my background stamp of newspaper text (inked with brown). My flower clump image was rather sparse in its use of continuous negative space, so my results were rather subtle (compared to what would have happened had I used the silhouette of a person's head, say). But this is one of the nice things about the technique. It's very easy and you can come up with lots of variety.
Unfortunately, the colors in my picture look dreadful because I had to shoot at night with a flourescent light above. (You can always tell when I'm shooting at night: lousy color and the dimpled texture of my fridge as a backdrop!)
Despite the muddy color, you can see the basic idea, I think - you can make out the text best in the big flower on the left. (By the way, remember that if you use a text stamp in this manner, the text will be reversed in the final product.) There are plenty of other examples from the rest of the Design Team on the challenge post.
S U P P L I E S:
Papers: Bazzill, Cougar 80# white; Hero Arts Stamps: S5601, CG172, CL173; Inks: Old Paper, Antique Linen, Frayed Burlap (Ranger Distress), Pink Grapefruit (VersaMagic Chalk), Rich Cocoa (Memento); Fibers: ribbon (unknown), lace (Kaiser Craft); Embellishments: heart gem (Mark Richards), pearls (Recollections); Tools: foam ink applicators
Head on over and enter this challenge before it closes on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:59 p.m. EST. Who doesn't wanna win a $25 GC from the best supply store on the Web?!
Thanks for visiting and have a blessed day!
I really like how this turned out, so soft and pretty!
Posted by: Sue McRae | February 27, 2012 at 05:46 PM
The link didn't come through on the comment. It would be : http://swanlady-impressions.blogspot.com/2012/02/liebster-blog.html
Posted by: janet aka swanlady21 | February 25, 2012 at 08:30 AM
So delicate.
And I have voted you a "Liebster Award" blog here
Posted by: janet aka swanlady21 | February 25, 2012 at 08:29 AM
Really good blog. keep it up!
Posted by: canape | February 25, 2012 at 01:51 AM
This is beautiful! The softness of the flower: pink with a touch of brown, love it!
Posted by: Yvette | February 24, 2012 at 03:24 PM
So pretty and soft!
Posted by: Cindy C. | February 24, 2012 at 12:56 PM
Deborah, i LOVE the colors on this card. And your choice of newspaper print on this flower stamp is just beautiful.
Posted by: Emily Frasier | February 24, 2012 at 12:02 PM
loving the delicate pattern you created by kissing the flowers with a bit of text; it's brilliant!
Posted by: nancyk | February 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM
I love the way the flowers look, Deborah - so beautiful in these colors! Enjoy your weekend! :)
Posted by: Barb | February 24, 2012 at 09:27 AM
Love how this came out, Deborah! The Wildflowers is one of my fave stamps - never thought to try kissing it. And what a great idea to use your fridge as your background - I kind of like that dimpling!
Posted by: Lin | February 24, 2012 at 08:58 AM