Sara's Stamping Spot 2.0: July Creation Station Blog Hop--Texture

Sunday, July 4, 2021

July Creation Station Blog Hop--Texture

Welcome to the July Creation Station Blog Hop! So glad you're here!

This month our theme is Texture. There are so many ways to add texture to your stamping and paper crafting projects--so expect to see many takes on texture today. Enjoy the hop and all of the ideas we're sharing by clicking on the "Next" link at the end of each designer's post.

I absolutely love to create texture on my cards--especially with my backgrounds. For you today, I did something I've never tried before--a bit of a scary process because I wasn't sure it would work. My first attempt was with a spritz of Soft Sea Foam, which was too light to create a nice contrast. Switched to Old Olive and loved the contrast and the mottled colors as the ink dried.

This is the first one with Soft Sea Foam.

The first step was to die cut several leaf branches out of Basic White card stock using a die from the Forever Flourishing dies (#152714). These were arranged over a piece of watercolor paper (#149612) and adhered with a repositionable dot tape adhesive. A Stampin' Spritzer (#126185) was filled with water and 5 drops of Old Olive ink refill. This solution was spritzed over the leaf branches on the water color paper. When the watercolor paper was almost dried, the leaf branches were removed and then the piece was left to dry completely. Residual dot adhesive and Basic White card stock were rubbed off once the watercolor paper was dry (used my fingers--easy).

Next, the typed words image from the Quiet Meadow stamp set (#155082) was stamped in VersaMark ink three times down the front of the card. The images were heat embossed with a half and half mixture of White (Basics set, #155554) and Gold (Metallics set, #155555) Stampin' Emboss Powders. I mixed the two powders to get a less shiny affect on the words for the background. The background was finished with a splatter of Mossy Meadow ink over the watercolor paper.

The foreground consists of the following layered elements: Gold Brushed Metallic card stock frame created with two nested Stitched Rectangles dies (#151820)--[happy to see this Brushed Metallic card stock returning in the upcoming new mini catalog on August 3]; large tree trunk and branches die cut out of Soft Suede card stock using the Beautiful Trees dies (#155840) and embossed with the Bark 3D embossing folder (#155431); a Mossy Meadow leaf canopy die cut with a die from the Beautiful Trees dies; and a greeting from the Beauty of Friendship stamp set (#154983) stamped in VersaMark on Mossy Meadow card stock, heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder, and die cut with a Stitched Rectangle die.