With love... Beetle and flowers 5in square card - 365 day challenge
Hi Craft addicts! Well today's latest handmade card is a different one for me and I really love this set of stamps from Creative Expressions. I used the Jewelled Beetle stamp and stamped it directly on to the front of a 5" white card, the corners of which I had rounded using my Prism (Hunkydory) punch. I used Gina K Obsidian Black ink to do this and also a stamping platform as I needed to stamp it a couple of times to get a clean image. I then scored the right hand side 5 times at 1/2cm intervals. As I couldn't used water colour paints or alcohol markers on the card, I used two shades of green and purple Stabilo coloured pencils to colour it in. I then used a distress ink to stamp the floral spray in the top left hand corner and used a paint brush to blend it slightly. The With Love sentiment is from a Tattered Lace set and I used the Obsidian Black ink to stamp it out and then coloured it with the same green pencils. The actual stamp is a bit bigger tha...