I love a good sentiment stamp set. They’re always there for you when you’re struggling to find the right way to finish off your card and they lend themselves beautifully to the clean and simple card style I love. When I saw this month’s Spellbinders/FSJ Stamp of the Month Kit, I had too many ideas about how I wanted to use it, and it took me a while to narrow it down to these two bright and cheerful designs.
The Sentiment Stacks stamp set includes 36 cling stamps (mostly sentiments with some small images and flourishes too) that can all be mixed and matched to stack up the perfect greeting for your card or scrapbook page. I gravitated toward some of the “sketchier” types of words and images in the set, and decided to create a colorful, splashy background for this card.
CREATING THE INKY BACKGROUND
- Trim a piece of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock to 4.125″ x 5.375″.
- Stamp the heart image from the Sentiment Stacks stamp set in Versamark Ink, creating a fan-like pattern on the right side of the panel. Add white embossing powder and melt with a heat tool.
- Blend Squeezed Lemonade and Abandoned Coral Distress Inks over the embossed panel with a blending brush, overlapping the colors in the center to form a nice gradient.
- Spritz the heart stamp with water and stamp in the same fan-like pattern behind the embossed images.
- Tap a wet paint brush or water brush over the panel to create lots of negative paint splatters. Allow to dry fully.
CREATING A COLORFUL SENTIMENT PANEL
- Stamp the “hello”, “love”, and row of hearts images from the Sentiment Stacks stamp set onto heavy-weight vellum using Versamark Ink.
- Add white embossing powder and melt with a heat tool.
- Color in the open parts of the sentiment with yellow and coral Copic markers on the back of the vellum.
- Trim the panel into a small rectangle with a paper trimmer or scissors, leaving a small border.
CARD ASSEMBLY
- Create a top-folding A2-sized card base out of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock.
- Adhere the colorful background panel on top of the card base using tape runner.
- Pop the vellum sentiment panel up on top of the card front using clear foam tape placed behind the opaque, white embossed areas.
CREATING A SENTIMENT STAMPED BACKGROUND
- Trim a piece of Paradise Cardstock to 4″ x 5.25″.
- Repeatedly stamp the “thanks” sentiment over the panel using Tide Pool Ink (you can use a MISTI here, but I find it quicker to do by hand if you have steady hands).
- Mat the panel with yellow cardstock and mount onto a top-folding A2-sized white card base using foam adhesive.
CREATING A STACKED SENTIMENT “SUNRISE”
- Stamp the “oh hey” and “thanks” sentiments from the Stacked Sentiment stamp set onto white cardstock using Tide Pool Ink.
- Die cut the stacked sentiment out using the second smallest solid circle die from the Essential Circles die set.
- Stamp the “I appreciate you” sentiment onto yellow cardstock in Versamark Ink, cover it in white embossing powder and melt with a heat tool.
- Trim the yellow cardstock into a parallelogram using a paper trimmer or scissors.
- Add some shading to the sentiments with the Tiki Teal Tombow Dual Brush Pen (#407). Flick upward from the bottom over the solid parts of the “thanks” image to create a little interest. Use the fine tip on the marker to add a tiny bit of a shadow next to the embossed letters in the “I appreciate you” sentiment.
- Adhere the yellow sentiment strip to the bottom of the circular sentiment panel with liquid glue (trim the circle off at the bottom if the strip doesn’t cover it fully).
- Pop the whole “sentiment sunrise” (these summer-y colors made me think of the sun!) up on top of the card front using foam adhesive.
I hope you enjoyed this look at the March 2020 Stamp of the Month kit and thanks so much for stopping by today. If you like these projects, be sure to grab any of the Spellbinders Club Kits before they’re gone!
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 Spellbinders/FSJ Stamp of the Month Kit Shop at: SPL |
 Essential Circles Dies Shop at: SB | SBP | SPL |
 Versamark Ink Shop at: SB |
 Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink Shop at: SB |
 Abandoned Coral Distress Ink Shop at: SB |
 Tide Pool Mid-Tone Ink Shop at: SB | HA |
 White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SB | HA |
 Hero Hues Paradise Cardstock Shop at: SB | HA |
 Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Shop at: SB | CCS |
 Vellum Shop at: SB | HA |
 Copic Markers Shop at: SBP |
 Tombow Dual Brush Pens Shop at: SB | DB |
 ATG Tape Runner Shop at: SB |
 Foam Squares Shop at: SB |
 Clear Foam Adhesive Shop at: SB |
 Blending Brushes Shop at: SB | SBP |
 Cutterbee Scissors Shop at: SB | SBP |
 Zig Two-Way Glue Pen Shop at: SB | SBP |