Love You! Three Pears Stamp

I learned this simple technique from Rubbernecker.com.

I used the following supplies:

• Distress Ink Pads in Mustard Seed, Shabby Shutters and Tea Dye
• Distress Ink Pens in Shabby Shutters, Forest Moss, Antique Linen
• Versa Mark Pad and gold embossing powder
• Ivory cardstock for card (scrap for mask)
• Staz-On black for stamp
• Yellow polka Dot organza ribbon

Close Up!

This is a picture of the three pears stamped onto my ivory card base before the ribbon.  You can see a smudge on the lower right which I was able to take out with a damp towel (lucky!).

Technique:

1. Stamp your card front with your design.
2. Make a mask by stamping onto a piece of cardstock the same size as you card front. You want it this size to protect your card surface from ink. Read on before you cut!
3. Cut only the far right pear out of the mask with an xacto blade or scissors. Save your cut piece.
4. Place the mask on your card surface. Everything should be covered but the far right pear.
5. Using a blending tool and Shabby Shutters, blend the green along the right side of the pear, making sure to get a darker green along the edge.
6. Now take a blending tool with Mustard Seed and blend this color (starting at the right) all over your pear.
7. Take a blending tool and using the Tea Dye, blend it onto the bottom of your pear.
8. Take your cut piece of your mask and retape it onto the mask.
9. Now cut the center pear out. Save the cut piece.
10. Follow steps 4 through 7 for the center pear.
11. Do the same for the left pear.
12. Cool, huh?

 Cute little dollar stamp, embossed in gold - just the right touch! Also, the stamp had nice detail so it wasn't a struggle trying to figure out what to color.

Hope you try this out too!

Lis