Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good morning everyone Today I have photos of the MDF heart that I decorated, & which I started at the Mold II meeting late last month; This is the back of the heart which I covered with a blue & white Snowflake designer paper & added a die-cut fancy Merry Christmas to put on it. This is the front, which I painted with a mixture of acrylic paints to arrive at this shade of blue which is as close as I could get it to the colour of the paper on the other side. (In real life it is a little more subdued than this - but not much). I die-cut some Poinsettia petals out of white paper & blue & white snowflake designer paper.  I glittered the edges of the blue shapes - a slightly unusual thing for me.  Having worked out where I wanted the poinsettias I then stamped the sentiment, which as I did on the black heart - I stamped with white gesso.  I then glued the white flowers in place, followed by layering the blue flowers & then placing a ...

Good morning ladies Popping in quickly before going out for most of the day in order to show you my second heart that I decorated - rather differently to the first one.  Also before going out I will be loading last night's photos onto my computer & will put the Show & Tell photos here later. I covered the heart with black gesso (it took 2 coats), then stamped the sentiment on the right hand side in white gesso.  I have to admit I took a couple of practice attempts on thick card to see how the gesso worked & to see how much I needed on the stamp.  By the way it is important to wash the gesso off as soon as you have stamped.  When I was happy with my technique I stamped it on the heart. Recently I have been playing, again, with air drying clay & made these lovely flowers & leaves (& lots of other pieces). So I painted them with white gesso to make them whiter & then painted them again with white acrylic paint.  After glui...