Stamp Study #3: Concord & 9th February Release

Good morning!  I’m really excited about today’s post!  Exactly one year ago I blogged my first Stamp Study…then I posted a second one.  And then I promptly forgot about it…oops.

But I’m back (and hopefully it won’t be another year before my 4th stamp study!)!!  I’ve realized that I will often use a stamp set once or twice and then it’ll get put away for months (or until I pull it for a destash).  And most of the time when I use the set I only make one card…not only is it a little depressing to spend all that money and only use a stamp set once or twice, but it’s also a little sad because most of the time I have a lot of ideas when I first get a stamp set but by the time I pull it out again I’ve lost that inspiration.  I had a lot of fun with my first two stamp studies so when the new stamp and die sets arrived from Concord and 9th’s February release I just let loose and kept creating until I ran out of ideas!  And ten cards later, here we are!  I’m not going to go into specific details for each card but please feel free to leave a comment if you’ve got any questions!

I guess it’s not technically a single stamp set study since I used the entire February release from Concord & 9th but I’ll let it slide! 😉  Just some basic notes:

• To create the colorful flowers I painted a large background wash using Winsor and Newton watercolors in Winsor Orange Red Shade and Opera Rose…I die-cut the entire piece of watercolor paper including flowers that were partially white and I really love how those ones turned out!
• When embossing on black cardstock with white embossing powder THOROUGHLY cover your cardstock with the powder tool.  You can always remove excess powder with a swiffer cloth.
• I added various embellishments, sequins, gemstones, splatter, and enamel dots
• I die-cut the ‘beautiful’ word die with black glitter paper for a little extra sparkle
• I stamped the flowers with Altenew inks (exact colors listed below)

And that’s it!  Hope you enjoyed my stamp study…I’d love to know if you have a favorite in this study or if you have a stamp set you’d like me to focus on next!  Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!

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