Hi Everyone, I took a couple of days off from blogging.  Sometimes I just don’t feel like stamping, GASP!  No fear, the mood was back with me this morning, so here I am with another tutorial.

I rarely paper piece things on my projects, but I love to make easy to create vases out of circles and ovals, such as the one I did in this morning’s tutorial.

Let’s get started. 🙂

Supplies:

Cut a 2 1/8 circle out of Whisper White card stock using my coluzzle.

Cut a piece off of the top and bottom of the circle to create a vase shape.

Put a post it note on a 5″ square piece of Whisper White card stock.  I put the top edge of the post it note where I want the top of the vase to be in my finished piece.   I held the vase shape to the post it note and drew a line along the top flat edge of the vase to indicate how wide the opening of the vase is.  This gives me some indication where to stamp my stems so they will appear to fit in the vase.  🙂

I stamped the stems 3 times using Cranberry ink and a Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.

Stamped the stems again to put a shadow on the wall for them using Lake Mist ink and the Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.

Removed the square post it note mask and put another post it note on to mask the wall so I can sponge in my table top using Raisin ink.

Added some Espresso ink with a sponge to the top of the table, along the post it note edge.

Removed the post it note mask and stamped the flourish twice using Espresso ink and the Stamp-a-ma-jig again for placement.

Time to color my vase shape.  Dragged the Antique Linen ink pad across the cut out vase.

Used the Frayed Burlap ink pad and dragged it on the 3 edges of the vase shape.

Sponged on Antique Linen lightly on the wall portion of the panel using very little ink on the sponge and also using a swiping motion, back and forth.

Added some Raisin marker to the right side of some of the twig leaves.

Added a bit of white gel pen highlights to some of the leaves.  This is hard to see in the photos.

Glued my vase on my main image panel using my favorite all time adhesive, Tombo Mono Multi.  I no longer use a dry adhesive.  I got tired of my cards falling about.

Sponged Frayed Burlap ink around the edge of the main image panel.

Assembled my card and added brass brads to each corner of the main image panel.  Here is the completed card measuring 5.5″ square.

Now I know you have some flower stamps just waiting for a vase.  Give one a try!

May your day be filled with flowers and friends.

Until my next post. . . . . .. . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

Links to all my tutorials can be found here:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

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