I am back on the Unity Blog for my weekly dose of Unity Inspiration. Today, I am sharing a floral card and tags set featuring the Inked Florals {bkg 1/21} and Empowered Words stamp sets along with Make A Tag {die set}. The Love & Wisdom Background stamp also makes a guest appearance in today’s project. I had fun getting inky and messy and also gave my new sewing machine a try for the first time.
Shabby Chic Floral Card | The Technique
The main technique here is to stamp with Unchartered Mariner Distress Ink on watercolor paper and use a wet brush to pull that color into the flower/leaf with a wet brush. Then I smooshed the Rustic Wilderness Distress ink on my glass mat and used a wet paintbrush to lift color off the mat and drop it in the wet areas on the floral panel. The wet-on-wet blending and bleeding of colors create a happy mess that looks so pretty, but the outlines look washed out by now. SoI then place the panel back in my MISTI stamping tool and stamp over it again to get a crisp outline.
Shabby Chic Floral Tags
I used the same technique to create 2 panels. On the first one, I added random stamping with the Love & Wisdom Background stamp. Then, I stitched around the edges and adhered it to an A2 card base. I used the stitched tag dies to cut up the 2nd panel into a larger and a smaller tag. Next, I die cut the scalloped tags out of white cardstock to mat the tags. I dyed some ribbons using Unchartered Mariner Distress Spray stain to accessorize the tags. And finally, I stamped sentiments from the Empowered Words stamp set on watercolor paper and carefully ripped them out. After a little distressing around the edges, I popped them on the card and tags. I also added a few pieces of washi tape and clear drops as final touches of embellishment.
Thank You
This brings us to the end of today’s post. I hope it inspires you to try something different with your stamps. Thank you so much for joining me.
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