Inspired By Nature Cracked Glass Technique

Inspired by Nature will be a set I keep forever, I was sad to see it go. 

I used it for so many projects.

I stamped the Daisy's using StazOn Black ink. To get the Shadowed look I inked the stamp and stamped the image, then I lifted the top end of the stamp and shifted it slightly to the right. I used So Saffron and Pumpkin Pie Ink with the brayer on the Vanilla card stock.

Here is a close up of the Butterflies, I brayered them the same but chose to make them slightly darker so that they would stand out better. I wanted my class to learn the cracked glass technique and I thought it looked really pretty with the butterflies. My mixture is Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel, Dazzling Diamonds and Iridescent Ice. You want to heat atleast 2-3 layers so that it will be nice and thick to crack. Once it is dry you just start bending it and then it will crack! You can do this as much or as little as you like.

To make this layout;

STamps - Inspired by Nature (retired) and Tiny Tags

C/S - Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie and So Saffron

Ink - StazOn Black, Pumpkin PIe and So Saffron

Dies - Beautiful Butterflies

Punches - Scallop Border, Scallop Trim Border and 1/2" Circle

Other - Brayer, Iridescent Ice, Dazzling Diamonds, Black 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon and Bitty Buttons

Beautiful Butterflies Die
114507 $26.95
Pg. 193

Tiny Tags
W 118091 $27.95
C118592 $20.95
Pg.124

Brayer
102395 $15.50
Pg.179

Another Inspired By Nature Page

I was so happy with these pages, I love the color combination. 

I was also sad to see the Season of Friendship set go, I loved this tree!
I used the baby wipe technique to create my own ink pad so that I could have different greens on the tree. I will explain how to do this below.

Here is a close up of the daisy's.

 I can see myself using this technique again for my fall scrapbook pages, it will make the most beautiful leaves!

Baby Wipe Technique;

1. Make sure your baby wipe is on something that can be wiped up or thrown out because the ink will bleed right through the wipe (I use card board with plastic on it, like an empty DSP Package) You can fold the wipe to what ever size is needed for your stamp.

2. Randomly squeeze drops of each color in a large enough space so that your entire stamp can be covered.

3. Stamp your image! To do something more detailed such as the daisy's I used a really light color such as Sahara Sand to stamped the Daisies on to the wipe so that I could make sure I squeezed the drops in just the right spot so that it looked like a daisy.

Tip: Every so often I like to clean the stamp on a clean spot of the wipe because I find that the more you do the more it starts to look like one solid color.

I took just the tree portion from the scrapbook page and turned it into a card as well!

VersaMark Technique

I made this card for my stamping group shoebox swap. I used the VersaMark technique where you stamp your image on Glossy card stock, let it dry, brayer over stamped image and use a tissue to wipe over stamped image to make the image stand out.

To make this card:

C/S - Old Olive, Whisper White and Glossy

Ink - VersaMark, Old Olive and Concord Crush

Stamp Set - Just Believe
Punches - Work Window and Modern Label

Other - Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

Have a great day!