Hi!
Today I’m starting a series of posts showing some of my favourite stamp sets that are retiring from the Stampin’ Up! 2018-2019 annual catalogue.
The first one I’m featuring is called Mediterranean Moments and contains 4 line-art sketch images that are great for different colouring techniques.
I held a class featuring this stamp set in 2017 where we made the 3 cards shown above.
On this card I brayered Night of Navy ink onto the Petal Burst embossing folder before putting in my panel of Whisper White cardstock and running it through the Big Shot – it creates a cool background for the laneway scene on the feature panel, a little like cobblestones.
The scene image was stamped in Night of Navy ink onto Shimmery White cardstock, and then I used an Aqua Painter to paint water along the lines in the scene to create a subtle wash effect.
On the second card I stamped the scooter scene onto Watercolour Paper using black archival ink, and then coloured in with Watercolour Pencils and used my Aqua Painters to draw the colour into the image. The background panel was from a limited edition embossed specialty paper that was sponged with Night of Navy ink, and then splattered with a few drops of water.
We didn’t have our alcohol markers then, and I’d love to revisit this card using a different colouring medium. I may hang onto this set after it retires.
This one is similar to the previous card, but here I stamped the cafe scene image onto Shimmery White cardstock and used Watercolour Pencils and an Aqua Painter.
In a later class where the feature stamp set was Beautiful You, I used the laneway scene from Mediterranean Moments to be a background that the lady walks into. I had been inspired by similar cards I had seen on Pinterest.
I coloured the lady using our Stampin’ Write markers, which are dye based markers. This was one of my most popular cards at the time, and one of my personal favourites.
The Beautiful You stamp set will come back in the next annual catalogue as one of the new cling stamps. At the moment it is available as a wood mount or clear mount stamp sets.
What do you think? Which is your favourite card?
Here are some of the supplies used to make these cards. If you’d like to purchase any, just click on the image to be taken to my online shop.
Product List
Happy Stamping,
Tina
Lovely cards. I have been trying to purchase the Beautiful you stamp set…. but apparently retired. Have you any idea where to source one from. Thanks in hope . Doreen
Thanks Doreen, sorry but I sold my set about a year ago. Maybe you can find a second hand one on eBay or the Facebook groups for retired Stampin’ Up stamps. Good luck