I Brake For Stamps: August 2024

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Rainbow Eclipse Card Technique

Today's project showcases the Eclipse Technique. Eclipse technique is when you die cut a word or a shape on a background panel, then raise this die cut up slightly with foam or layered die cuts. I hope you like it.

The stamp I used is the I Brake For Stamps License Plate Vintage Style Alphabet Rubber Stamp. This is an unmounted red rubber stamp that comes in two strips of letters and icons. You have an option to cut the letters apart or keep it together. I did not cut my stamps apart.

I repeatedly stamped the letters on a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" watercolor paper with a black watercolor friendly pigment ink. I painted the letters with different colors of water-based markers. I heat set the water-colored panel to speed dry it.

Here comes the fun part. I die cut a sentiment on the panel making sure I kept every piece of the die cuts.

I adhered tape to the back of the opening created by the sentiment die. Using a double adhesive tape will be even better.

I die cut the word on brown cardstock three more times. I applied dots of glue to the back of one of the word die cuts, then pieced this on the opening of the water colored panel.

I adhered the drop out pieces to the opening of the letters. It already looks good at this point, right? You can actually stop here to make this into an inlay card.

Since I am making this card into an eclipse card, I adhered the other two pieces of sentiment die cuts over the piece that is pieced in the panel to build layers. I adhered the sentiment die cut from the water-colored panel on the top.

It is kind of difficult to see the raised sentiment on the first photo but this is what makes this card magical. The sentiment is hidden and you only figure out that there is a sentiment once you run your fingers over the panel and/or tilt the card.

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Thursday, August 15, 2024

A Witchy Halloween

Halloween in August! Lyneen here with a fun technique that I learned many years ago and seem to forget about it. Creating my own layering stencil. Tonight, as I type this a big barn owl is hooting. It reminds me of Fall and all the hauntings of Halloween.

Stamp from I Brake for Stamps
Large Witch with Cat

Other Supplies:
All & Create Rectangle #32
Circle die ½ inch

Tim Holtz Oxide Ink Hickory Smoke, Squeezed Lemonade, and Carved Pumpkin
Staz On Jet Black
Stamping Platform
Tree Punch
Acetate
Water squirt bottle

Paper Towel

For this project I wanted to create the background with inks, with an ominous full moon. To do that I needed a mask for the moon and then a mask to cover the night sky surrounding the moon. Using a 2 1/2-inch circle I die a circle in the center of the acetate.

Using the All & Create Rectangle #32 cut the black frame and the center white mat.

On the stamping platform place the white mat, with the circle die cut from the acetate.

Apply Tim Holtz Oxide Ink Hickory Smoke on the map as pictured. Spritz whit water and dab with a paper towel to remove excess water.

Now place the piece of the stencil with the circle cut out of the center of the acetate.

Then ink the moon using mask stencil and Tim Holtz Oxide Ink Squeezed Lemonade, and Carved Pumpkin. Ink the whole moon with Squeezed Lemonade, then lightly ink the edges with Carved Pumpkin.