We Love Stamping Challenge May Mid Month . . .

We are at the middle of the month at We Love Stamping Challenge and the May theme of Vintage or Anything Goes.  Please do check out the blog for the rules, wonderful prizes and details.  Here is my card . . .

 

 

 

I also wish to enter these challenges . . .

Allsorts Challenge #781 Anything Goes for their 15th Birthday Celebration (1/3)

Creative Fingers Challenge Always Anything Goes (1/3)

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #648 Anything Goes (3/5)   

This time I decided to use vintage in age and style stamps, lol!  I had been stamping for a couple of years with wood mounted stamps before I purchased this set.  I think I have had these unmounted Non Sequitur ssta&mpsmps for about twenty years, they are the first set of unmounted stamps I purchased.   I love that I can still use them and because they were made with vulcanised rubber they still stamp just as well as they did when I first purchased them.  

I  used A5 cream card as my base and randomly stamped the images all over using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink.  I stamped the vintage lady onto a snippet of watercolour card using the same ink.  I watercoloured all the stamped images and left to dry.  I trimmed my A5 stamped panel and then used my Tim Holtz Distressing Tool on all four sides.  I did the same to my stamped watercolour card lady.

I used my Clarity Crafts stencil brushes with Vintage Photo Distress ink to lightly colour any areas of cream or white card.  I added more ink to the distressed edges then sprayed with water to soften.   I coloured another snippet of plain cream card with Vintage Photo Distress ink, a shade or two darker to create a mat layer under the stamped lady.  

I die cut flowers in red using a John Next Door die and layered them up. I twice die cut the Creative Expressions sentiment from white card and a snippet of red card and adhered them together and onto the base layer.  I added my Tonic Studios Nuvo Drops finishing touches.  Back soon x