Inspiring Craft

You will no doubt see from the following cards that I seem to have become obsessed by one stamp. I think that you'll have to agree that this is a lovely stamp and by ringing the changes with the background papers and colours used to ink the stamp, you can end up with some very different cards. I've used it with the Brushables and the Art and Graphic pens to create the different effects.

To make this card you will need:

1 Base card. I used a C6 card.

Iris stamp from the Flower Power sheet of stamps:

Art and Graphic pens in colours, 56, 3 and 1.

H2O waterbrush

3d foam pads

A sheet of toning paper

White 9mm grosgrain ribbon.

Stazon in stone grey

White card for the sentiment and the image.

What you will need to do:

1. Stick the paper to the bottom third of the card and with the white grosgrain ribbon, cover the join.


2. Stamp the image on to a piece of white card and use the pens and the waterbrush to colour it in. I stamped my image onto an oval piece of card but, an oblong one will be fine.


3. Use the 3d foam pads to stick the image to the base card.


4. Stamp a message on to a piece of card and trim to fir the base card. Adhere to the card.


5. Use the thin end of the blue pen to make a dot and dash edge to the base card and your card is finished.

Here's the stamp:

Click onto the image to be taken to the web site where you can buy this great value stamp.