How to Add Dimension to Stamped Images {Tutorial}

Remember these flowers from my earlier post on the Sophia Layouts Workshop?

Here's a quick tutorial on how I added a little dimension to make the flowers pop.  You'll need a stamp that you can cut apart and layer back together. I used Heartfelt Treasures. You'll also need your micro-tip scissors, or another tool that has a rounded tip, and either the Versamat or the foam sheet that comes with each of our stamp sets.

 

Stamp your image twice. For the first image, cut the entire image out.

For the second image, cut just a piece of the image out so that you can layer it.

 

Now, take your Micro-Tip Scissors, or another tool that has a rounded tip to it.

You'll want to leave your scissors in their case.

Using the back side of the Versamat (or the foam sheet that comes with our stamp sets), you'll just rub your scissors in a circular motion in the middle of the flower.

You'll start to see a slight indentation and the petals will curl upwards.

To finish your flower, add a small piece of 3D Foam Tape between the two layers and finish off with a button for the center.

I used the same technique on the leaves, just rubbing in a line along the open areas of the leaves.

I added 3D Foam Tape to the leaves to help them stand out on the page.

Then added 3D Foam Tape to the assembled flower.

Until next time...

You Rock, Valentine!

Yes, I know Valentine's is over, but I thought I'd start there with some artwork.

My youngest informed me at 7pm the night before their party that he needed 24 Valentine's for his class.  Granted they hadn't been in school all week due to snow, but surely they knew before then they were going to have a party.  He did say that personally, he thought they were too old for Valentine's parties. He's in 5th grade.  I told him it was up to him.  I told him I could come up with something and I'm sure there were enough suckers in the cabinet to add to each one.  He said not to worry about the suckers. (Whew!)

So what do you do when you're asked to make 24 last minute Valentine's that aren't cutesy, would suit either a boy or a girl, and your son would approve of?  You grab your Wishes and Originals books and start flipping.  I knew I had the You Rock papers and coordinating stamps out in my disaster area.  I figured we'd do a simple 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 or 3x3 card.  Well, it turned out the image I wanted to use wouldn't fit those size cards.  So I cut White Daisy cardstock to fit the image and used the puddle pad technique for the stamp pad. You can find instructions for the technique in an earlier post here.  I started to cut the images out...nope, will take too long.  Okay, so we'll mat them on Outdoor Denim Cardstock.   Now, what?  Um, let's see what this paper looks like and will Outdoor Denim ink show up well on it?  Well, sure it will, especially if you double stamp it (an easy thing to do with CTMH My Acrylix!).

In the end this is what I came up with....

A far cry from a little card, but thankfully Donovan approved.  It's a 4x6 "postcard" or card front.  Knowing it was probably going to be thrown away, I opted not to turn it into a card.  All that was left was for Donovan to sign the back of the cards.  He got a few compliments on his valentine's as well.

Supplies:

Paper: You Rock Level 2 Paper Packet

Stamps: You Rock and Star Power

Inks: Outdoor Denim

Re-Inkers: Indian Corn Blue, Goldrush, Smokey Plum, Garden Green

Until next time...