Make Your Own Rubber Stamped Cheerful Mist Card

March 11, 2009 at 4:51 am (Card making Tutorials, Cards, Nature, Tips and Tricks)
Tags: card making, card making ideas, clear stamps, hand made greeting cards, rubber stamping, rubber stamping ideas, rubber stamps

I saw this rubber stamping and inking technique and absolutely loved it! It is easy to do and only takes a few minutes  to design your stamped eye catcher. Completed with a corner rounder, embellishments  and the Basic Card Making Layout, making this card is a delightful and refreshing take on rubber stamping.

You will only need one stamp – a tree such as one found in Winter Trees. This set of clear stamps hosts four different tree designs ranging in size and fullness giving you lots of choices for your desired effects. You will also need some pigment ink, clear embossing powder, a heat gun, and an array of regular inks used for rubber stamping. You will also need a dry makeup sponge or a brayer to apply color.

STEP ONE – The Tree

Stamp your Tree in a dark color such as brown. Be sure to position the tree slightly to one side of your paper. Clean your stamp and then stamp a second time – directly over the first impression – with embossing ink. Clear rubber stamps are ideas for this as you can see exactly where you are placing your embossing ink. Emboss your tree with clear embossing powder.

STEP TWO – The Sky

Choose a tool to apply ink – either a dry sponge or a brayer – and load it with your pigment stamping ink. Start at the top of the design using blue and draw the ink across the paper so that it begins to fade the closer you come to your horizon. If you are using a sponge simply sponge the top first and work you way downward so the color fades away.

STEP THREE – The Hills

Tear a piece of scrap paper unevenly to create your hills. (Scrap paper used in the photo’s is green)  Place over your design so the area just above your horizon shows. Begin with a dark color of ink such as a gray blue or gray green. Using your dry sponge (be sure to use a clean corner or a new sponge) press color onto the design starting from the edge of the torn paper and upward toward the sky. This will give the appearance of a mist in the background. Do not go all the way across the design. Do three layers of hills using consecutively lighter colors the closer you come to the foreground.

STEP FOUR – The Golden Path

Create the path using a honey yellow or light brown and ink – using the sponge – along the base of the card. Finish the path using a darker color of ink to fill in the bottom corner.

STEP FIVE – Finishing the card

Embellish your design as you desire. You may wish to stamp a saying in an open area of your newly created misty landscape or embellish with ribbons, tags or even buttons. Mat the design and mount onto your card using the Basic Card Making Template.

With 5 easy steps you have designed the eye catching design for one of your most fabulous rubber stamping project – a Cheerful Mist Card Making Craft!

Happy Stamping!!!

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