Monday Montage #216 Water Stamping

Hello stampin' friends! Welcome back for the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  Today's card features a fun stamping technique called Water Stamping.  Have you ever tried water stamping before?  It's super simple and the results are awesome!  

For the card I created- here are the steps I followed.

1. Using a Blending Brush- brush Coastal Cabana Ink all over a piece of Basic White Card Stock that measures 4" x 5-1/4".  Tip:  Choose a darker color for the image to show better and be generous with the ink.
2. Place the colored Basic White layer onto the Stamparatus and center the Snow Crystal Stamp  (SNEAK PEEK!!!  COMING SOON!) in the center of the layer.  
3. Close the Stamparatus to adhere the stamp to the plate.
4. Using a Stampin' Spritzer filled with water- lightly spritz the Snow Crystal Stamp.  Tip: Don't over saturate the stamp too much or it will end up blotchy and unrecognizable when stamped.
5. Stamp the water spritzed stamp onto the colored Basic White layer and let it air dry.
6. Distress edges of the colored layer and adhere to a Basic White Card Base.
7. Embellish as desired.

Things to note:  This technique is super easy and works great with all different stamps.  The image stamped with water will be slightly different than an image stamped with ink.  That's ok as it makes for a unique card!  Darker colors of ink work better than lighter colors.

Here's a close up of the water stamped snowflake from my card.  As you can see- the water stamped images aren't as clear as an image stamped with ink however they are still pretty!

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Supplies:

Stamps: Snow Crystal (coming soon!) Trees For Sale (coming soon!)

Card Stock: Basic White, Polished Pink, Vellum Layering Designs

Ink: Polished Pink, Coastal Cabana

Tools/other supplies: Blending Brushes, 3/16" Iridescent Trim, For Everything Fancy Sequins, Stamparatus, Stampin' Spritzer

Monday Montage: Elephant Parade

Hello stampin' friends! Welcome back for the Monday Montage Blog Hop!  Today's card features the adorable Elephant Parade and coordinating Elephant Dies.  When I first saw this stamp set- I fell in love!  The images are adorable!  Elephants and a mouse (plus some sweet sentiments as well)!

I wanted to create a card that was pretty clean and simple.  I began by die cutting some clouds (Brilliant Rainbow Dies) out of Balmy Blue Card Stock.  Next- I adhered the negative image in the center of the Basic White card base.  I then stamped the elephant and mouse image- colored them in using Light/Dark Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends (for the elephant) and Light/ Dark Stampin' Blends (for the mouse) and cut them out using the Elephant Dies.  

The Forever Friends sentiment was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then cut into a banner.  A small Linen Thread bow was tied and placed beneath the sentiment banner.  To embellish- I added 3 small Brushed Brass Butterflies.  

Super easy but oh so cute!

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