Have you ever been to Viva Las Vegastamps? What a fun store. On my last trip to Vegas to see my granddaughters, one of my sons took me downtown to shop for a few of their unique sometimes quirky sometimes beautiful always fabulous stamps! I came away with some WONDERFUL images. Here is one of them.
This large palm tree image makes creating so quick and easy. For these scenes I first inked the trees with Memento’s Tuxedo Black Ink and VersaMark together. More embossing powder sticks to the image when VersaMark is added before stamping. I have two VersaMark pads, a clean one and an inky one. After putting the black ink on the stamp, I pressed it onto the inky VersaMark pad and then stamped the image out onto card stock. I then embossed with a black embossing powder, masked the moon or sky area with a punched circle and brayered away. A few highlights were added to the trees and “water” with a white gel pen on the night scene.
If you have never brayered before and would like to give this technique a try, visit Michelle Zindorf’s blog, “Freedom in Creating”. She is most definitely the QUEEN of brayering and has many tutorials and endless inspiration there.
Happy Crafting!
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Stamps: Viva Las Vegastamps “Palm Forest”; SU! “Thoughts & Prayers”
Papers for Sunset Card: SU! Summer Sun and Basic Black
Papers for Moonlight Card: SU! Whisper White and Basic Black
Inks for Sunset Card: SU! Yoyo Yellow, More Mustard, Pumpking Pie, Really Rust, Basic Black and VersaMark
Inks for Moonlight Card: SU! Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, Night of Navy, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black and VersaMark
Accessories for Sunset Card: SU! Black Embossing Powder, GG Ribbon, Grommet and 1-3/4″ Circle Punch
Accessories for Moonlight Card: SU Black Embossing Powder, Hemp and 1-3/4″ Circle Punch; White Gel Pen