Background Stamps.....

I've been joining in with another class called Stretch Your Stamps from 
Online Card Classes - if you have never signed up for one of these, I can't recommend them highly enough, you get such a load of inspiration, look at old techniques in a totally different way and learn some new ones too. You get lifetime access, I have bought quite a few now and when I am hitting a 'dry patch with no inspiration I go back and watch a couple of videos and it gets me going again. 

 The first couple of days were all about using background stamps, here's what I came up with, although one of the downsides of doing the class is that you want all the products that they use, and I am making do with what I already own and I seem to have rather a big gap in my background stamps. Ker ching - that's the sound of my purse opening.....

I'm not at all sure about this first one - I love the honeycomb background stamp but it really is quite small, about 3" x 3" and I only made the one little piece - white embossed onto watercolour paper and coloured with Letraset Aquamarkers

I mounted it onto a black card and felt it needed something, so I white embossed the stamp again randomly onto the black, and used tiny strips of card from my next card to 'frame it'. I cut the sentiments with my Silhouette

I do, however, love this next one, same technique and this card really works for me.....

I had done a third piece using the same chevron stamp, but different colours (stamp by Heidi Swapp) and just couldn't make up my mind what to do with it, so I die cut the panel into flowers and double stamped a flourish stamp. The sentiment is another Silhouette word, coloured with ProMarkers to match the card and clear embossed (I repeated the process twice to give it a good coating)

So that's my first couple of days 'homework'. What do you think? Off to play with some sentiments and alphabet stamps now......

See you tomorrow when I'm in a festive mood for Craftwork Cards x