Easily Add Texture to Your Cards

Do you know that you can easily add texture to your cards with a stamp set?  Yes you can, with the Touches of Texture stamp set.Choose from a variety of textures such as scattered dots, lace, smudges, and or mesh-like images. Depending on where you place the textures, your card is sure to stand out.

Recipe

Stamps: Touches of Texture, Rooted in Nature.

Ink:Soft Suede, Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green,Gray Granite, Memento Tuxedo Black. 

Paper: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Poppy Parade.

Accessories: Linen Thread, Glitter Enamel Dots (Melon Mambo).

When adding texture with a stamp set, you can decide which colors you want to use, how much or how little stamping and which images to use. In fact, these types of stamp sets will make great collages too.

Details:

• For this card, I chose to use only 2 stamps to create the textured background.  Stamp the lace-looking stamp on the side of the Poppy Parade card base with Poppy Parade ink.  You may not be able to see the image, but it is there. Ink tHe scattered dots stamp with Soft Suede and randomly stamp on the Whisper White panel.
• Stamp the leaves and stem in Granny Apple Green ink.
• Stamp the flower line stamp in Poppy Parade, followed by the fuller flower stamp stamped in Poppy Parade.
• Now, add in the detailed stamps. Stamp the dragonfly with Grey Granite ink,and the bee with Tuxedo Black ink.
• To add even more texture, sponge the Whisper White panel with a sponge and Soft Suede ink.
• Adhere the Whisper White panel to the Soft Suede panel and finally add this panel to the Poppy Parade panel.
• Before attaching the above panel to the Whisper white card base, wrap Linen Thread around the panels and tie with a bow. To how the bow in place, add a glue dot under the knot.
• Attach one of the Glitter Enamel Dots to the knot.  I used Melon Mambo, however, doesn’t clash with the Poppy Parade color.
• Carry the texture through to the inside of the card by adding another stamp to provide the texture.

Stampin’ Up has a variety of stamp sets for easily adding texture to your cards. Now, you can easily add texture to your greeting cards. In addition to the Touches of Texture, the sets include: Gallery Grunge, Timeless Textures and any of the background stamps such as the Burlap, Post Script or Tree Rings.

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