Hello!

I have a sample from the July shows on The Craft Store to share this week featuring the adorable peeking puss from Melina's fabulous zentangle style stamp designs.

My chosen substrate is an MDF Skinnie which I decided to cover with paper. I stamped a piece of smooth cartridge paper with one of the floral backgrounds using VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with clear powder.

I misted the stamped paper with pastel shades of Lustre spray, intending on a faux batik effect but when I ironed off the embossing powder all that was left was a sort of pearly residue which wasn't strong enough. I then over stamped the paper with the same image using toning Oxide inks.

I glued the paper in place on the assembled Skinnie and trimmed off the excess. I stamped a further floral spray on the cartridge paper with black ink and coloured the flowers with Zig markers and cut out the whole images.

I stamped the cat of smooth white card with black ink and cut him out, gluing him towards the top. I glued flowers and dots around him and across the surface and finished off with text from the stamp set, stamped on black card and heat embossed with white powder. 

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Melina's Floral Backgrounds

Have a great weekend and see you next week.