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A project from our live show CREATE AND CRAFT LIVE - Join Helen Kirkham - broadcast 14th April · 04/14/2022
A beautiful vintage-style card featuring a hand-coloured heliotrope flower stamped with watercolour inks, layered with torn-edge die-cut elements, and finished with twine and embellishments. The soft, aged aesthetic is created by using grey ink over coloured layers and adding mixed media elements like corrugated card.
Place watercolour card onto your stamping surface and prepare dye inks in pink and purple shades.
Spritz the heliotrope stamp lightly with water to allow the colours to blend and move on the card.
Stamp the coloured heliotrope onto the watercolour card, pressing gently without excessive pressure.
Dab away some of the excess moisture with tissue to control the colour bleed.
Re-ink the stamp with grey ink and stamp again over the same image to add vintage pencil-drawn detail.
Send the stamped card through your die-cutting machine twice to cut out the heliotrope using the matching die.
Layer the die-cut flower onto darker card with the torn-edge die to create dimension and contrast.
Add foam pads behind the flower layers to lift them away from the backing card.
Wrap twine around the card and secure at the back with glue.
Glue a wooden scrabble tile or embellishment to the front using foam pads for extra dimension.
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