Triple Layer Stamping

Hello again! My very first ever blog post was a demonstration on Triple Layer Stamping. Well, I am bringing back the technique to complete another Heart 2 Heart Challenge. This time the challenge was a color challenge, assigned by birthday. I have a December birthday, so I needed to create something featuring the color Ponderosa Pine. This was a challenge for me, because I don't regularly use this color in my artwork. It never seems to fit, because I either need a deeper green, or I need a brighter green. Ponderosa Pine is somewhere between forest green and green, like a pine tree! So, here is what I came up with.

So, Triple Layer Stamping is a technique that makes a big impact without a lot of work. The Ponderosa Pine Cardstock (layer bases) is cut at 5.25 x 4, 4.75 x 3.5, and 4.25 x 3. You'll want to set these aside until you've finished stamping.

The White Daisy Cardstock is cut at 5 x 3.75, 4.5 x 3.25, and 4 x 2.75. Taking these three pieces, you will glue them together with a removable adhesive. (I use painter's tape rolled up on the backs.)

Choose you image to stamp. For this card I used A Budding Friendship. When you stamp, stamp across the layers of the three pieces. Remove the tape, and adhere the layers to the cardstock bases. *Note, I forgot to take a picture before I put the layer bases on. You do not stamp with these bases in place!

After I layered the card, I added some hemp twine and button to create a sort of ribbon. I also added gold gemstones to the flowers to give the card some bling. Lastly, I added a "Just Because" sentiment stamped in Cocoa that I heat embossed.

Important: 

• Make sure you do not mix up the direction the paper is positioned when you remove the tape. This will cause your final product to line up incorrectly.
• I also recommend using a thick cardstock as your card base. CTMH White Daisy or Colonial White both work perfectly for this. I do not recommend using our premade card bases for this particular technique, because the card is quite heavy, and the bases cannot support it as well.

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Ingredients: White Daisy Cardstock (1385), Ponderosa Pine Cardstock (1276), Ponderosa Pine Ink (Z2145), Saddle Ink (Z2171), Bling Gem Gold Assortment (Z2023), A Budding Friendship Stamp Set (D1602)

Happy Scrapping, My Artsy Friends!