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Happy Wednesday! Today I'm sharing a card using my new Printmaking Plants set for the Simon Says Stamp Good Luck Charm release.
Just like the previous two sets in this series (Printmaking Flowers and Printmaking Houses), there's an outline image of the design, and then four stamps that 'color in' the image. I'm definitely going to be using the multi-step stamps to build up my image later, but today I just felt like coloring
I love the look of colored pencil on kraft and thought these plants would be perfect for that.
First off, the image was stamped on my kraft panel with black ink. I just used some Memento Tuxedo Black, but you can really use any black ink for this step. Leave the stamp in place on your stamping platform.
Next the image was colored, nothing too crazy here, just some basically coloring with minimal shading.
I then placed the panel back in my stamping platform and stamped again, this time using Versafine Onyx Black. I like to restamp because when you color with pencils, the pencil will leave a residue on the black lines which makes them look a little muddier. Stamping again with Versafine really sharpens things up.
You could stop there, but I like to take it one step further and emboss the images using Ranger Frosted Crystal Antiquities embossing powder. This is my favorite embossing powder to use for this technique because I prefer a matte rather than shiny look against kraft/colored pencil.
The sentiment, also from the Printmaking Plants, set was then stamped with Versafine.
See you back here tomorrow for some more Good Luck Charm inspiration!
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