Stempel Spass

Before I get to my new card I want to welcome my email subscribers! I have 5 email subscribers to my blog and I finally figured out how to get to that number.... I am new to blogging and there is still so much I don't know. So I apologize, that it took me so long to acknowledge you. I am happy you found my blog and liked it so much that you wanted to stay updated! It means a lot to me.  For all of you I have this picture: It is made out of Crayons, which are vertically arranged, so you are looking at the tip of  the crayons. I hope you like it. --X-- Here is a card trying  out Jennifer McGuire's gradient technique, that she explained so well in her video. You ink you stamp with one color first, then stamp. Then you take the next color and ink up your stamp without cleaning the stamp in between, so it has both colors mixed. then you clean the stamp and use ink number 2 alone, next you ink with ink number 3 and don't clean your stamp an...

I kind of skipped over day 2 of the Clean and Simple card making class and tried out Jennifer McGuire's gradient technique - it is quite cool. My first try came out great - this is from my second try, which I was only  partially happy with. So I cut off the part I did not like and made it into a card that fits the paper players sketch challenge .  I used the Papertrey set Modern Basics for the gradient stamping. The sentiment is Hero Arts Leaf Prints (Cl 395). I will have to practice more to really get the gradient stamping right, but it is a fabulous technique, undoubtedly worthwhile to work on it. Perhaps tomorrow I'll make something with my first attempt, not enough time tonight.