Simple card using Owl Nerd’s stamp by Pink and Main

Welcome back! I always tell myself that I have enough…or should I say too many stamps and dies, and I won’t buy a new one until I have used the ones in my collection. But, as we all know, this doesn’t work at all! 😛

So, the other day, I went to my craft store to get a few pattern papers, and my eyes fell on the Owl nerds stamp by Pink & Main and I just couldn’t resist buying it. I mean…the critters are so cute…not my fault right. 😉

Unlike other stamps that I buy and not use for a while, this stamp made me want to get to crafting right away. I could feel the ideas flowing in when I was on my way back home and I got to work almost immediately after reaching.

The following is the process for the card I made:

For the cardstock, I used Canson XL paper as I wanted to watercolour the image. I cut this paper using Mama Elephant’s Peek a frame die (the largest die in the set), and stamped the owl image from Pink & Main on the cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black using my favourite and most trusted Tim Holtz Stamping Platform. I then coloured the image using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

After this, I started working on the background. I decided to mask the image so as to not colour the image while I was colouring the background. I stamped the same image on a masking sheet, fuzzy cut it and stuck it on the image. Then, I placed the Spiral stencil by Hero Arts on the card stock. I tilted the stencil a little so that the focus point was the Owl, after which, I used Fired Brick distress ink to colour the background. As you can see, in the finished product, the centre is darker and the edges are lighter. For this effect, I used a Round sponge Ink Blending Tool and dabbed more ink in the centre and reduced the pressure as I moved towards the edges.

Since the rest of the cardstock was white, I decided to distress the edges using the same colour. I followed the same procedure, but in this case, I coloured darker at the edges and lighter towards the centre.

We are almost done! All we are left with is stamping the sentiment and sticking the cardstock to the card base. I used a sentiment from the same stamp set and stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black ink after which I stuck the card stock to the card base. And Voila! The card is done! 😊

This is how the finished card looks like:

I have listed the products that I used below. Thank you for visiting my Blog.

Supplies used:

• Owl Nerds stamp set by Pink and Main
• Spiral stencil by Hero Arts
• Peek a frame die by Mama Elephant
• Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine
• Versafine Onyx Black ink
• Fired Brick Distress Ink by Ranger
• Canson XL Mix Media paper
• Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
• Round sponge Ink Blending Tool by Inkssentials
• Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

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