Batik Stamping

It is my turn this week to have a challenge in my stamp group and I had just recently seen a card on Pinterest that I thought was so pretty, that I would like for us to give it a try.  Layers of heat embossing with either stamps and stencils or as I did used all stamps. Layering different colors of ink as you go.

You can find the tutorial for this technique HERE .

I was pretty happy with the results on both my cards except I think I would cut out the crumpling of my paper, since I used heavier papers all it did was put big creases in it and not sure if I care about that or not.

First I did a Birthday card, using a new dragonfly stamp as my main focus with flowers and leaves stamped for my background. The dragonfly was very easy to line up to stamp the different layers.

Heidi Grace - Winnefred St. Stamp set (flower)

Papertrey Ink - Mighty Oak stamp set (leaves)

Distress inks - Bundled Sage and Peeled Paint

Distress Oxide - Crushed Olive

Tim Holtz - Mixed Media card stock (for background) and Wildflowers Stems #2 die

Hero Arts - Color Layering dragonfly (3 layers of ink) and All occasion messages for little leaf

Gemini - Happy Birthday die

Wink of stella - clear sparkle pen

I put a little sparkle on his wings but I don't know if you can see it even on the side view.

Next I wanted to try a Christmas card since I am on a roll with getting a lot of them done this month.

Inkadinkado - 95901.L (snowflake stamp)

Hampton Arts - Snowflake cluster stamp

Hero Arts - Birthday messages stamp for the little dark snowflakes

Distress inks - Speckled Egg, tumbled glass and faded jeans

Memory Box - Winsome snowflake die

Cuttlebug - Snowflakes dies

Simon Says stamp - Tiny words Christmas stamp

It's a fun technique if you just want to get inky and use your stamps!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie