Welcome to a lovely blog hop with Clearsnap and Ann Butler Designs! Last month at the CHA trade show, we released a new collection of foam and rubber stamps with Ann Butler Designs to compliment her line of ColorBox Crafter's Inks and her existing faux quilting stamp lines. Today, our teams are sharing Valentine craft ideas you can make tonight for your special someone for Valentine's Day.
Hop along to each blog in the hop and leave a comment on each post. Then, use the Rafflectoper widget at the end of this post to win an assortment of Ann Butler Designs' new rubber and foam stamps with Clearsnap!
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Today I will be sharing with you a very pink layout. The color scheme would be perfect to exhibit Valentine's Day photos or just an every day sweetheart like my littlest one above! I created the watercolor background using one of ColorBox Ann Butler's Designs background stamps and
ColorBox Spritzers Dye Ink Spray. This is not a traditional way of stamping, but the technique yields a very cool watercolor effect!
I began by sparsely spritzing a piece of watercolor paper with water. Next, I spritz my
ColorBox Ann Butler Background Basics stamp with ColorBox Spritzers in "Pinkolicious." The Dye Ink Spray goes a long way so only one spritz is needed.
I gently place the stamp onto the paper allowing the ink to play a dual role of flowing with the water to create watercolor splotches while making the stamp's impression. I repeat the process until I'm happy with the background. I hit the paper with a heat tool and that finishes the easy yet ink textural background!
I embellished with various circles..the largest being a piece of canvas paper that I'd stenciled with spray ink from a previous project.
What would you create with the new Background Basics stamps? Tell us in the comments!
And before you go, don't forget to enter to win a set of Background Basics stamps here:
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