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Rediscovered Delight: Creating with Shady Designs (+ My New Instructions!)

I have recently been having to move lots of photos and projects from one very poorly hard drive to my new one - huge thanks to hubby on all his help as I was worried all had been lost! While doing this, I discovered a card that I have never shared and I thought, why not do it now!

Handmade greeting card with layered, brightly colored floral stamped images and splatters on a white background. The sentiment reads 'Like a flower you bring colour to my world.' The card is displayed on a wooden board.

This card for me, is something I don't often do - embrace the white space! The stamps used are from Shady Designs A Bit On The Side Collection.
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A bit of back history ...

When I made the card, I also wrote out a set of "how to" instructions but as a PDF download. Getting feedback from everyone, people prefered to be able to read the instructions on my blog and were not keen on a download. So I have converted them to PNGs which means if you wish to save them, right click and save to your PC. 

Instructions are below:
Step-by-step instructions for making the 'Like a flower you bring colour to my world' card. The image shows a supplies list and five numbered steps with accompanying photos demonstrating how to stamp, color, and layer the card elements.
Step-by-step instructions for making the 'Like a flower you bring colour to my world' card. The image shows a supplies list and five numbered steps with accompanying photos demonstrating how to stamp, color, and layer the card elements.

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Like a flower you bring colour to my world!

Supplies:
Shady Designs A Bit On The Side stamp set
Shady Designs Make Your Own Bit stamp set
Sakura Koi Brush pens
Versafine Clair Nocturne
Acrylic stamp blocks or stamp platform
White card (from stash)
3D foam pads & glue (from stash)

Although I have embraced the white space for this card, I couldn't resist adding lots of layers. However, I do not always know how many I want to add so always stamp more images than I probably need ...! For this card, I chose to use water colour pens, my Sakura Koi's, to colour all the images.

Close-up detail of a handmade card, showing layered and colored floral stamped images in pink, yellow, and orange, with green leaves and pink ink splatters. A black-outlined sentiment frame is partially visible.

I layered up all the images around my chosen sentiment, "Like a flower you bring colour to my world", to make it appear as if it's inbedded amongst the flowers. The butterfly image you see, is actually taking one of the petal stamps and stamping twice to give the illusion of wings for a butterfly.

Close-up detail of a handmade card, highlighting the sentiment 'Like a flower you bring colour to my world' and a vibrant pink and yellow butterfly accent. Pink and yellow ink splatters are visible on the white background.

After I finished the card and "embraced the white space", it was just a little too white in places so I couldn't resist adding a few splatters. 

Handmade greeting card with layered, brightly colored floral stamped images and splatters on a white background. The sentiment reads 'Like a flower you bring colour to my world.' The card is displayed on a wooden board.

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A little bit about Shady Designs

When I designed these stamp sets, they were all about creating lots of layers in easy, achievable steps. These stamp sets, this could be tag shapes, layered florals, pattern building to create mandala shapes - basically you take the images and create in the style that you create in.

I have a blog post coming shortly showing how I take these designs to make wonderful mandala patterns both for card making or art journal pages, so please do follow me via this blog and my social media pages.

Until next time, take care,

Lou
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