Over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, the design team wants us to use more than one stamp in the May 23, 2018 challenge.
To be honest, that isn't normally a challenge for me. I tend to use multiple stamps or none at all --- there are few examples in my repertoire where I have made a card with only a single stamp.
Anyway, I set out to create a card using a set in my "try" pile: the Concord & 9th "Many Mandalas" set, which has oodles of stamps to choose from. I chose four...
I started with one of the mandalas and two of the sentiment stamps:
To be honest, that isn't normally a challenge for me. I tend to use multiple stamps or none at all --- there are few examples in my repertoire where I have made a card with only a single stamp.
Anyway, I set out to create a card using a set in my "try" pile: the Concord & 9th "Many Mandalas" set, which has oodles of stamps to choose from. I chose four...
I started with one of the mandalas and two of the sentiment stamps:
I stamped the mandala in a greenish blue ink from a My Monthly Hero kit (no ink color name on the cube) and the sentiments in Hero Arts "Fiesta Teal". They do look different in real life --- my flash tends to affect colors more than I would like.
This stamp set comes with a template which allows you to layer stamps to create more complex mandalas. I tried it out, using the fourth stamps from the set in Hero Arts "Pine". Then I added some Heidi Swapp "bling" to finish up this clean-and-simple card:
This stamp set comes with a template which allows you to layer stamps to create more complex mandalas. I tried it out, using the fourth stamps from the set in Hero Arts "Pine". Then I added some Heidi Swapp "bling" to finish up this clean-and-simple card:
Products used in the making of this card were:
- Stamps: Concord & 9th “Many Mandalas Set” 10192)
- Inks: Hero Arts “Fiesta Teal, “Pine” and a grey blue from My Monthly Hero
- Papers: Square Blue card base
- Embellishments: Heidi Swapp “Bling” (HS564003)
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