Artistic Etchings

Today’s card is one a lot of you may have seen at workshops. It uses a lot of my favourite colours…Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake! Definitely makes you a little hungry! The stamp set used for the card is Artistic Etchings. This set is very different from my normal style and was a struggle at first to use but now I love it! I am thrilled with how the card turned out and hope that I will have more time in the future to play with this set!

Here is how I made the card!

1. Start with a 5 ½ x 8 ½ piece of crumb cake scored at 4 ¼ (half of the 8 ½ side) This is the card base


2. Cut a piece of early espresso to 5 ¼ x 4


3. Cut a piece of whisper white to 5 x 3 ¾


4. Stamp the crown, key and pointy flower image (for lack of a better description) from Artistic Etchings randomly on the piece of whisper white.


5. Using your crumb cake ink, sponge parts of the whisper white until you are happy with the look.


6. Add early espresso ink to the edges of the whisper white paper by dragging the edges of you paper across the ink pad.


7. Assemble these three pieces.


8. Next cut a 2 ½ by 2 piece of whisper white. Using your big shot and the texturz plate from the backgrounds 1 set emboss the whisper white.


9. Ink your brayer with crumb cake ink. Very lightly roll across the whisper white that you embossed to highlight the images. (You might want to practice this on scrap paper and get the feel of how hard you want to press)


10. Again drag the edges of the whisper white across your early espresso ink pad.


11. Next stamp the word AMOUR from Artistic Etchings on a piece of cherry cobbler cardstock using Early Espresso ink and punch out using the Round Tab Extra Large punch and adhere to embossed piece of whisper white.


12. Cut a 1 ¼ x 5 piece of whisper white and stamp the medallion from Artistic Etchings three times using Crumb Cake Ink.


13. Again ink the edges of the whisper white piece with early espresso ink.


14. Cut a ¾ x 5 piece of cherry cobbler and ¾ x 5 piece of early espresso. Punch the long edge of both pieces using the scallop trim border.


15. Adhere your punch pieces to the medallion whisper white piece layering both along the one edge.


16. Glue your embossed piece to the card (the 2 ½ dimension is vertical) and then the medallion stamped piece on top.


17. Finally stamp the Eiffel Tower image in cherry cobbler ink on a scrap piece of whisper white cardstock and cut out using the paper snips. Adhere using a scrap piece of rubber or Stampin’ Dimensionals to make the image stand out.
    

Hope you enjoyed today’s card. Check back often for more ideas! I will also be posting a couple of new classes including a technique workshop in the next couple of weeks! Remember if you aren’t happy with your stamped image there are two sides to every paper!

Lisa