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 | | Martina (aka Martinaskaartjes) is this week's Featured Stamper and she has a wonderful Gallery filled with joyful and happy cards celebrating so many occasions. I love that she has personalized so many of those cards as well. My MFT Dahlia stamp is one of my favorites, so this was naturally the card I chose to CASE:
Yellow birthday by Martinaskaartjes at Splitcoaststampers
I kept her stripes by stamping an old HA stamp. Quick tip: some of HA's older cling stamps as well as some other companies use a plastic like substance for the backing. These do not want to "cling" well to a block or my storage sheets. I read this a long time ago and it works for me: Smear a bit of bees wax (I use Burt's Bees lip balm) on the back and then press it down. It works for me; I hope it helps you too.
I felt I needed something in the bg since I didn't have a big fun sentiment stamp like Martina's so I stamped the butterfly garden bg stamp -- and, really, I wanted to justify buying yet another bg stamp. My favorite gray stamp pad has died (teardrop) and I haven't replaced it yet so I used the DOX gray I had. It was flat so I decided to clear emboss it. It doesn't show up well here, but it definitely looks better embossed. FYI, I don't think you can emboss DOX -- at least I can't. I was using a Misti, so after I got the gray image I wanted, I hit the DOX with a heat gun and then reinked the image several times with Versamark for the embossing.
I thought of changing my flower to blue but yellow is such a happy, celebratory color I stayed with Martina's colors. I added a small piece of white cs under the flower just to give it some separation from the busier bg. Added sentiment and done.
Congratulations Martina. You have a wonderful Gallery and many cards to inspire. I hope you enjoy your week as Featured Stamper, And, I wish everyone a happy day filled with happy colors. TFL. |
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Date: Sunday, April 25, 2021 GMT
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Additional Info
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Keywords: FS742
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Stamps: MFT (Beautiful Bloom); Hero Arts (Butterfly Garden BG Cling; Stripes Pattern Cling); Simon Says (Circle Sayings)
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Paper: Neenah #80; Bazzill (White)
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Paper Size: A2
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Ink: Lawn Fawn Jet Black; Distress Oxide (Hickory Smoke); Versamark; Versafine Onyx Black; Copics
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Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder
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