My plan for the evening was to catch-up on some of my homework from the Stretch Your Stamps 2 Class. This year, I had decided not to buy any of the stamps the artists were using in the classes, since the purpose was to learn new ways to use stamps I already had.
Unfortunately, the graphic stamping classes used a small solid image, and all of my graphic images were too large for the techniques I wanted to try. After hunting through my stash, I finally found an Inkdadinkado Guitar Pick that I thought would do the trick.
The first challenge was finding an ink that gave the coverage I wanted (I finally settled on Colorbox Chalk Inks). The next hurdle was finding a color palette in those inks that moved through the shades of light to dark. Then I had to get the *random* positioning to work with the card size & my larger Super Script Sentiment from Alt E New.
This is the finished result after filling my trash can with many, many do-overs (likely the reason I have failed to purchase any stamps like this for my stash). I still don't love it, but I'm calling it good enough for tonight's learning experience.
It truly made me appreciate talent of Debby Hughes when I see how flawless her finished designs appear.
seriously? you don’t *LOVE* this?! how is that even possible??! but don’t worry, i love it enough for both of us! guitar picks & sequins! who knew! (ok, maybe keith richards, but he doesn’t stamp that much i don’t think.) 🙂