Decorative Diamond Winter Wishes

Hi all

Here is a simple but pretty made for the using the beautiful decorative diamond stamp. I love the shape and pattern, very stylish and Art Deco looking to me, but I wanted to use it in a different way so stamped onto a piece of square card aiming for the middle with the longest point of the diamond so that I didn't capture the full image, but made a pattern that filled the square instead.

Decorative Diamond Stamp

French Mint Spray Ink

Smooth Stamping Card

So to start with I coloured a piece of Smooth Stamping Card with French Mint Spray ink, dabbing some away to leave a few lighter areas. Once dry I stamped the diamond using an Archival ink in a circular motion laying each side together, sometimes overlapping a little. Then I went around the edges with a black marker pen, and layered it onto a complementary piece of coloured card from the Paper Mill. After Stamping the lovely text and adding a few gems I layered this onto a square white card blank. Easy! Hope you have fun with yours. Suz xxx

Colour Chemistry in a Bottle

Here are some photos Ben took at a recent Open Day of me just playing and showing just a little of what you can do with the Colour Chemistry Inks. The possibilities are endless.

The height you spray from will change the type of outcome you get.

The closer you spray the more intense the colour and wet you get your project

Spray from about 6 inches (15cm) above the work to get a gentle mist.

If you can't wait for it all to dry, employ your heat gun

As it dries, you can add more colour.

Then dry again

Is this me using Purple and Yellow??

And now time to get stamping

Tap your stamp into all that surplus ink laying on your hot and messy mat.

Keep tapping till you think you have enough ink on your stamp.

stamp on to the card and repeat

LOVE IT!

still got some ink left, well find a tag or something to stamp on too.

Oh yes and why not try it on some of our cream stamping card?

hmm loving that too!

At this point I did clean my messy mat, but could have done lots more.

Well hope you liked this quick session on just some of what you can do with our products. The stamp I used was the medium Sunflower. The inks I used where Precious Purple and Citrus Lemon. We also sell tags, stamping card in cream and white 250gsm and of course Hot and Messy mats in two sizes.