Oscar Hansen of Door County Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking, LLC has invited a group of people to create samples for her store, and for her to take with her to conventions to showcase her lines of rubberstamps, etc. Oscar has thousands of wonderful stamps in her store and most of them are designed and manufactured in-house.
Oscar sent out a box of stamps, papers and embellishments to each of us. (Well, she handed mine to me because I work for her.) I think she sent different "subject" stamps to each of us. I was tickled to see that my box contained items for Halloween!
Then, I ran into stampers block. When coming up with ideas for cards I need to make to send to someone, I don't have much trouble. But, just let someone want me to make a card(s) for them, and my mind goes blank!
So, I took myself off to the Splitcoast galleries and went to the Halloween gallery to browse for inspiration.
Looking at all the wonderful examples in that gallery got me on a roll.
This card is pretty straight forward and simple. First I did the alcohol ink on foil background. The colors I used were orange, lime green and eggplant. I wanted a more vivid purple, but eggplant was all I had.
I first splotched the ink to the foil using the felt pad. When I was done, the color wasn't as intense as I wanted it to be, so I added drops of each color direct to the foil, then used a straw to blow the ink around. This turned out really nice, but it doesn't show up so well in the photo.
I chose the cb folder, Swirls, to emboss the foil bg. I had a couple folders out that would've worked well and I laid the stamped and colored image down in the middle of them to see which folder would be best.
My eyes kept going back to the Swirls folder. I chose that one because I liked how the swirls match the clown's hair curls. The swirls also mimic the many "rounded" things in the image, such as the nose, pumpkin pail, swoopy collar, pompom buttons, etc.
The image is colored with Prisma pencils and blended with Turpenoid, an odorless turpentine substitue.
I layered it all together using black cs to make narrow "frames" around the layers.
You can check out the stamps that Oscar has to offer at: doorcountyrubberstamps.com
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010 GMT Views: 243
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Additional Info
Stamps: Door County Rubber Stamps Clown and Greeting
Paper: Door County Rubber Stamps Papers
Ink: StazOn Jet Black
Accessories: Heavy duty foil, cb and folder, alcohol ink, prisma pencils, turpenoid