Urban Mermaid Designs: Stamped-All Over Easter Card

I was inspired by the look of some a new home decor trends to create this monochrome, mini-stamped Easter Card.

I started by sketching a hare freehand onto a large piece of multi-media paper. I used this silhouette I found on Google for reference. If you don't feel comfortable drawing free-hand, you could print out a silhouette and trace it.

I then assembled all of my mini stamps. I would highly recommend using an acrylic rod or several rather than an acrylic block when working with minis. You can attach a mini stamp to both ends and just stamp directly into the ink pad for speed. You will find that the image builds up really quickly,

CLOSE UP: Hand stamped paper. You build up the image gradually. I couldn't resist hiding a few fairies in with the flowers.

I mounted the bunny onto some paper and card and then added a bit of bling with a flower I had harvested from an old necklace!

To finish I highlighted some of the daisy centres with yellow. You could colour in each flower if you wanted, but I was going for a monochrome effect.
I printed the sentiment out and then went round it with a white pen to give a chalkboard effect.

Supplies
White, black A4 card
Mini stamps: various brands incl. Prima, Cardio (Enchanted Garden)
Black stamping ink
Flower embellishment
Rusty Pickle Princess Bride 12" paper
Majestix Acrylic Stamping Rods
White Posca Pen

Challenges
Addicted to Stamps - Not a Square Card + Stamps 16/5

10 comments:

Lynne K said...: A very clever and striking design! Thank you for sharing it with us at Stamping Sensations.

Lynne; 19 April 2017 at 14:07
brenda said...: My apologies as I failed to realise you had stamped over the image, clever idea.

B x; 20 April 2017 at 01:08
Karin Lovise said...: What a cool and stylish card. A cool way to make your own pattern paper. Thank you so much for joining the hobbygarasjen challenge. Hugs from Karin Lovise; 21 April 2017 at 08:27
Julia said...: Love how this card become!
Thank you for sharing!
Dt Julia, Hobbygarasjen; 22 April 2017 at 01:35
Bibi Lindahl said...: This is really adorable and I love your idea of the silhouette stamped with mini stamps!
Thank you for entering it to our black & white + one colour challenge at Rubber Dance ♥; 22 April 2017 at 23:53
ionabunny said...: Lovely idea with the silhouette and mini stamps. Gorgeous. Thanks for joining the Rubber Dance challenge. Hugz; 23 April 2017 at 04:14
Susanne Rose said...: Lovely card. Thank you for joining us over at the Rubber Dance challenge. Hugs, Susanne.; 25 April 2017 at 00:58
Sue said...: I really like this, and well done you for drawing your own hare! I also 'harvest' bits of broken jewelry (and so does my Mum bless her). Thank you for joining us at Rubber Dance, and have a fun week. Sue xx; 25 April 2017 at 12:26
Alex H. said...: What a great way to use handstamped paper... really like this card! Thanks for joining us at Addicted to Stamps!
;-) Alex H.; 29 April 2017 at 06:30
Anonymous said...: such a creative easter card; i love the stamping and colours! thank you so much for playing along with us at penny black and more!
linda; 1 May 2017 at 15:28