MCT- Teach Me Thursday

Hello! Today is Teach Me Thursday at MyCreativeTime. Today I'll share how I created these stamped feathers using the Believe In Your Dreams set, fun foam, and a stencil.

I love the new Believe In Your Dreams stamp and die set. It's so pretty! I wanted to use it in a different way, so I grabbed some fun foam to create my own solid feather stamps. I used the dies to cut the fun foam feathers, and then I taped them to clear blocks with regular tape runner. Then I inked it with Mint Julep Hero Arts Shadow Ink. I laid a stencil on top of the inked fun foam stamp, and smooshed the Soft Pool ink pad on it. I rolled the edges of the now inked and stenciled fun foam stamp in the Soft Pool ink as well. Then I stamped that on my cardstock, and VOILA! To finish my design, I splattered black ink on the panel, and stamped the greeting from the Believe In Your Dreams set. I cut the panel out with the Stitched Rectangular Frames And More dies. 

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♥ Nikki ♥

p.s. I have a tip to share for cleaning the tape off of your clear block. I used an alcohol swab to get all the sticky stuff off...PLUS the alcohol swab cleans your clear blocks like new! I get mine at Walgreens. A box of 200 alcohol swabs for like 3 bucks! Score! {by the bandages}

Thinking of you

Hello! It's day 2 of Clean And Simple 4 class at Online Card Classes. Today I fell in LOVE with the fabulous Shari Carroll's awesome technique...stamping with fun foam! I am seriously smitten with this technique. Incredibly easy. Incredibly fun! I used the Pointed Feather Dies from Simon Says Stamp. I cut it out of white fun foam to make my stamp. I inked it up with Mint Julep Hero Arts Shadow Ink and then rock-n-rolled on some Soft Pool ink. While I liked the first stamping, I super loved the second generation stamping...and that's what I used on my card. :) Subtle and lovely. 

I also cut some vellum feathers with the Pointed Feather Dies. I used the ink splotch stamps from the Family Is Everything set from MyCreativeTime to add gold embossing to my vellum feathers. For the sentiment, I used the Chocolate Greetings set from MyCreativeTime. 

♥ Nikki ♥