First Layering Stamp Card
Good day fellow crafters. Today I present to you my first layering stamp card. I have had so many of these stamps sets in my stash for years and have never used them before. I have to say it was an experience to learn how to use them properly. I hope you enjoy it.
I started by placing a piece of Artic Blue card stock into the Dotted Tile Debossing Cover Die from Altenew and running it through my Spellbinder Platinum 6 die-cutting machine. If you're unfamiliar with embossing folders and debossing cover dies, an embossing folder produces designs that are raised from the surrounding material, whereas a debossing cover die produces designs that are stamped down or recessed into the surrounding material. With this particular cover die, the background appeared quilted, which I thought helped make this card stand out. I then cut the background down to 4-1/4” x 5-1/2” and adhered it to a pre-cut A2 white card base leaving no mat.
All of the inks used for this project are from Altenew’s Crisp Dye Inks line. These are some of my favorite inks because they leave a crisp detailing in your stamped works.
Once the stamping process was completed I cut the images out with their corresponding dies and then surface-mounted them to the card base in a triangular pattern.
The Violets were created by using the Build-A-Flower Sweet Violet layered stamp set. The pattern is made up of various stamps, and you must follow them in order to get the finished result. This also applies to the leaves that are also layered.
I designed the card's "hello" sentiment with the Altenew All About You Word dies set, first in Gray then I used the corresponding mat in the same Arctic Blue as the background card stock. To give it some dimension I raised it by using pop dots.
To finish off the card and give it a little sparkle I used three clear flat-back crystals from Kat Scrappiness that I also set in a triangular pattern.
