Simple Stamping with Stampin’ Up Eastern Beauty

I have been playing with the soon to retire Stampin’ Up products, Eastern Beauty stamp set and used the In Colour 2017-2019, also retiring. 

The card base used ‘Fresh Fig’ along with some matching DSP.

I have done some #simplestamping using all of the ink colours and am very happy with the result.

I hope you like it.

One Layer Card

I’ve not done any colouring for a little while and today a challenge came through from ‘Less is More!’ that sparked my interest. I hope you like it.

http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.com/

This minimal type of card takes a lot more effort than the end results would let you believe. It was coloured with alcohol markers.

Finding a suitable stamp meant I needed to play around with the image. I have used a freebie from a magazine that I’ve had for a few years now. It was a corner stamp and a bit too large, so out came the washi tape. I covered the area I did not want to use before inking. Speaking from experience, don’t forget to remove the washi tape before you stamp your image. I have used a stamp positioner, which helps you get just the result you want.

A Music Card

Sometimes it’s a bit hard to come up with cards that are suitable for the men in your life! This card was inspired by the Kaisercraft ‘Always & Forever’ paper pack. Having a musical paper that was coloured just seemed to work. I have used the Memory Box Musical Treble Clef die, along with stamps from a very old Inkadinkado set.

This is a 6 x 4 card, using a separate matching top layer. Working on the topper, I have cut a piece of Kaisercraft paper, firstly as 4 x 4 and then cutting it at an angle. Measuring 1 3/4” down one side of the music paper, and lining up with the opposite corner, cut the paper at an angle. Stick musical paper to your topper piece of card.

Using a Scoreboard, score immediately above the music paper line. Selecting your sentiments, stamp just above this score line. Score a second line above your sentiments.

Turn the paper over and the two existing score marks are now visible. Realign each score line and score again over the existing score lines. This reverses the score mark, making mountain score lines. 

I have used washi tape to make sure the paper in stays in place. Carefully continue to score across the remaining card towards the top, until the top section is all with mountain style score lines.

To finish the card, I have die cut two treble clefs and stuck them together, before sticking to the front of the card. The topper has then be attached with dimensionals for effect.