Two of my newest stamps are from LaBlanche. I love to color these detailed stamps and use distress inks to enhance the backgrounds. The first one was a birthday present:
I colored this adorable little girl with Prismacolor pencils. Used several colors of distress inks for the background. Added a pretty flourish stamp to the background randomly. Some Stickles glitter for the centers of the flowers and around the edges of the piece, too. Punched two butterflies from the pink polka dot paper and touched them with the glitter, also.
The second card was done in pretty much the same way as the first:
The sentiment is from a new 2012 Hero Arts clear set. And, I used some dew drops of which I have entirely too many, for embellishment. Gotta' remember to use them occasionally.
By the way, 9 times out of 10 I use Versafine onyx black ink to stamp my images. I love this ink! It is great for detailed stamps. And, did you know that you can use watercolor with this ink?? You don't have to heat set it at all.
I enjoyed making both of these cards so much - hope you like them.
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Another card using one of my new LaBlanche stamps, which I made for my daughter's birthday. She loves pink :)
For this card, I used Prismacolor pencils to color the entire image and background. A Spellbinders Nestablilities Labels four die for the shape and the pp is Basic Grey sweet threads. Some Stickles glitter here and there. I decided to round off the corners of the pp, but not the corners of the card itself. A happy birthday greeting is on the inside of this card.
I am entering this in the Simon Says challenge also.
Have a great day!
edited: oops, too late to enter the challenge - it closed at midnight! :*(
This should be a card for spring; but just acquired another LaBlanche stamp and had to try it out.
The image was colored with distress inks, as well as the background. For some reason, the tulips look pink-ish here, but I used fired brick distress ink, so they really look more red in real life! I added a flourish (Stampington & Co.) here and there and the word stamp is from Impression Obsession.
Haven't had time to participate in any challenges this week; time gets away from me! I do love seeing what all of you talented gals out there create for the various challenge blogs, so keep up the inspiration!!
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Here is another card that I made with this beautiful bird collage from LaBlanche:
Again, I just colored it all with Ranger Distress inks and layered it to a white embossed magical background (Hero Arts) and adhered it to the front of a card. The stamps are so detailed that I don't feel the need to do much, or any, embellishing. BTW, the specks on the eggs are my own addition :)
A much different look could be achieved just using colored pencils or Copics or any number of coloring methods.
Have a great week!
Yes, I have fallen in love - with LaBlanche silicone stamps!!!!!!!! After seeing Jill Foster's videos this past week, I just knew I wanted some of these beautiful stamps. Lo and behold, my LSS is carrying them and I was able to purchase three of them today. Now, believe me, I wanted every stamp she had in stock. But, I am not independently wealthy. So, until "my ship comes in", I will have to buy them little by little.
Here is a card I made when I came home:
A lot of different distress inks went into the coloring of this image on plain white cardstock. I added just a hint of sparkle on her buttons and flower on her hat and then went around the edge, too, with Stickles platinum glitter glue. The seam binding was white and I colored it with broken china distress inks. The piece was then layered to a Bazill tan card base.
Can't wait to play with this one some more and the other two, also!
Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful weekend!
