Simple Stamping Twofer...

Happy Thursday,

The last sample, for this week but Im sure a few more will pop up in the coming weeks form my Autumn range of stamps.  I thought I would show the same card idea done 2 ways for today its a really simple stamping project that hopefully has a great impact!

For the first card I masked off a square on the front of a card piece using low tack tape ( the tape I use for securing my dies)  Next I shaded from bottom left to top right using Adirondack pigment inks using a mini smoothie.  The colours ombre as I used varying shades, terracotta, Sunset Orange, Peach Bellini and Lemonade.  I then stamped the tumbling leaves, in watering can archival, across the top before removing the tape.

Next I stamped the oak leaf solid stamp in terracotta tumbling down the page.  I then outline this using the matching outline stamp in jet black archival ( the dark colour needed the strong black)

Finally I added the sentiment across the bottom from the Autumn Wreathe elements clear set over a panel I made using the same technique with masking and shading.  The great thing about using Pigment Inks tis that the are slower drying and so blend well.  A couple of layers of the dark cocoa and finished.

For the second card I did all of the above stages but missed out the background stamp which makes a simpler, but no less effective, card

Enjoy...