Our stamp, Thinking of You features a girl dressed in a Victorian bathing suit, sitting in the sand looking out into the ocean. I embossed just the girl in (my recent!) favorite copper colored powder, cut around her and placed it onto a copper colored square mat. (This stamp includes a text stamp, too, but I cut the rubber apart and will use the text stamp for another project.) The Seashell Collection Rubber Stamp is stamped in black ink onto a powder blue paper. Wavy shaped scissors were used on the top and bottom edge of the paper.
Inside the card mat, I stamped one of the seashells from the collection by just masking the rubber with blue painter's tape (I did not cut out the stamps on this set because I think they look great together). I stamped just the large seashell that's in the bottom right corner. I hope this project adds happy, beach thoughts to your day!
In this project, I combined some favorite journaling techniques to create a handmade card. For those of you that do not create junk journals, that's ok because the processes, like watercolor paint splashes, rolling edges of the paper are used below make a very pretty card with many layers. I also include below a couple of tips on keeping your tools sharp and options for using different focal points. We use a center layout where everything is built around the middle line of the card. Embellish using the top left and bottom right with a background pattern of script in black ink gives the green center a nice contrast which is often seen in journaling. (The red flowers are watercolor designs that were inkjet printed.) You can use stickers of flowers just the same. The Venus de Milo Rubber Stamp is now available. It measures about 1.25" wide x 3.25" tall. The oval frame is from our Create a Cameo Rubber Stamp Collection . You will notice, I used the top part of the Ve