first tutorial - rubber stamping

After everyone begging me to show you all how to make my cards i have decided to do a tutorial. (OK so one person, and they asked not begged)



WHAT YOU NEED



the stamp is from the whispers range which is available from docrafts.co.uk
the black pen is a permanent thin marker pen
The ink i am using is not water proof (so couldnt use watercolours etc to colour in the image.)



The blue and yellow paper on the bottom is glitter paper, and the yellow patterned paper and blue textured paper i printed off free of charge from canons printable site
http://cp.c-ij.com/english/scrapbook/
The plain paper is good old printer paper.

Oh and you will also need a card blank any colour, size and shape will do really.

STEP ONE



Place double sided tape around the edges of the front of the card.




Stick blue printed paper onto the right hand side of the card blank.






Tear one side of the yellow printed paper





Then stick this onto the left hand side of the card blank





Cut around the edge of the card blank to remove the waste paper.






STEP TWO



Stamp your image onto a sheet of white paper and cut it out into a rectangle.





Stick this image onto the yellow glitter paper, then cut around that, mount that onto the plain white paper and cut around that. so you are building up the layers framing the stamped image.




Finally mount it onto the blue glitter paper and cut around this.





Stick this using double sided tape onto the center of the card blank.







You can now colour the leaves of the flower. I have applied chalks using a make up applicator. just dabbing the colour on carefully and blowing off the excess. You could use colouring pencils if you wish.



STEP THREE

The messy part. throughout step three it is worth checking regullarly that your fingers arnt coverd in ink. If you follow these instructions properly and in this exact order you shouldnt have any problems with smudged ink. trust me i know ive had to restart this card three times already.



Stamp the bottom half of the design onto the blue sparkly paper. careful not to touch ink







Now go over the stamped image with your black perminant marker.







and cut it out carefully.








Do exactly the same with yellow glittery paper. Only this time you will need to stamp the top half of the image. and cut out the centre of the flower.




Stick double sided pads on to the stamped image on the card blank. this is to give the card a 3D effect.

Then Finally



Stick the cut out pieces in place.










WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK.

I might make this a monthly thing if there is enough interest.
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Thanks.