I just love Susan's newest peg stamp set from Rubber Stamp Tapestry. My last post used the tiny heart button peg stamp to make the candy hearts on my cupcakes, tonight I thought I show you a card using the whole set -SH20021 Heart Buttons. Traditional I stamp my peg stamps on white with versacolor colors, but when my new stamp set arrived and it had these beautiful daisy bunches I wanted to stamp them in white so I decided to emboss almost all of the stamped images on black to make them really pop. Using my Spellbinder's Scalloped Oval Nestabilities, I diecut a large gold oval (Worldwin Goldenrod) and dry embossed the scalloped oval using the Cuttlebug A2 textile Embossing Folder. Then I diecut a slight smaller black oval (Worldwin - Deep Black), from my Rubber Stamp Tapestry Word Phrases I chose the word Hello and the word Friend. Using a versamark watermark pad I inked and stamped these in the center of the oval and then I stamped the mini floral cluster (the daisies) around the words and embossed them using seafoam white embossing powder (Ranger). Embossing on black is very tricky. I used an embossing buddy between each color of embossing powder and I also used a small paint brush to remove any excess embossing powder before I heat set the image. Since my designer paper's floral center were black I used my copic black 110 marker to color in the center of the daisies. Here is a photo of step 1:
Next I stamped the tiny leaves and embossed them with Mint Green Embossing Powder (Ranger). I purposely chose a brighter green -to use on the black cardstock.
Then I stamped the tiny decorative embellishment and embossed it in Adriondack Butterscotch Embossing Powder.
Next I stamped the tiny heart buttons using a Cherry on Top embossing Jelly Powder from Gelatins- and yes it smells like cherries!! I love the scent and the color red is gorgeous!!
After I stamped the tiny hearts I used my copic black marker to color in any of the button holes that were stamped over another color of embossing powder. This ensured that the heart buttons visually appeared to be on top of my stamped floral image. Since even being extremely careful I managed to get a few small speckles of embossing powder on my black cardstock, I also used my black copic marker and colored over the black cardstock on the outside of my scalloped image to hide the specs.
For the last peg stamp I decided to forgo embossing and use glaxay gold brillance ink to stamp the itsy flower as I wanted a more subtle image as my design was rather full.Next I cut a mat from black cardstock and embossed this with the textile A2 folder. Then I matted this with Doodlebug's black bouquet the ribbon is from Memory Makers
For those of you who haven't yet played with these peg stamps I hope the step by step photos show you just how easy they are to use!! I consider them to be a stamping basic since they are so versatile!! have fun creating...and as always thanks for stopping by!!
Today I thought I would add a new section to my blog called TREASURES OF THE DAY:
I am an extremely challenged bow maker and in 2007 I did several projects using One Heart One Mind Paper that required bows and written instructions for those bows. Today as I was surfing blogs I found this great video tutorial from Dawn's Stamping Thoughts that shows you in video format how to make these bows- Great JOB Dawn. Just click to see Dawn's YOU TUBE VIDEO!!