Almost a One Layer Card

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's project is the featured card on my first blog post at the I Brake For Stamps Blog. IBFS is the sister company of the Blank Page Muse stamps. I am so grateful that the DT is allowed to cross over between the two. 

I am using a silhouette stamp from the IBFS on this card, Seibold Succulent Solid Set. Silhouette stamps were not my preference since I love to color. But I saw the different techniques you can do with silhouette stamps that I went out of my comfort zone and gave this type of stamps a try. 

I used a heavy weight A2 sized note card. I temporarily adhered the stencil from BPM, Blocks Pattern Stencil, to the card front. I covered the rest of the card with Post-It notes to prevent putting ink on these areas. I blended inks that are in the same color family with gradating shades. I lightly blended one color of ink over the stencil. After which, I cleaned the stencil and placed the stencil back over the card front off setting it toward the bottom right. I repeated the process using a different shade of ink until the whole panel is covered with different shades of ink blended blocks.

I bravely stamped the silhoutte stamp on the bottom right of the card front since I want this to be a one layer card. I did not get a good impression on my first try. Good thing that I used a stamp positioner but on my re-stamp, despite using the stamp positioner, the image was distorted. I must have moved my stamp positioner.

I didn't want to pitch my ink blended note card so I stamped the succulent on a white cardstock using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I did not get a good impression the first time again. It took me four attempts, three rejects, to finally get a good impression, can you believe that?! 

The ink was taking too much time to dry despite using a heat gun so I went ahead and poured embossing powder over it, then heat set it. I fussy cut the image leaving a small border around it. I directly adhered this to the card front, covering my boo-boo. 

I used my oldie but goodie typewriter to create a sentiment strip. 

I hope you like today's project. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day. 

Maria Giselle B.

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