Our Hummingbird Cafe stamp set works beautifully on paper and on polymer clay. Come along as we make a heart-shaped embellishment and a card with this stamp set (don't forget the pendant!).
Stamps
Hummingbird Cafe stamp set
Postmarked Love mini peg stamp
Papers
White cardstock half-sheet, folded
2 White card stock quarter-sheets
White card stock scrap
Inks
Versacolor Lapislazuli, Green Tea, Khaki, Cyan, and Sage;
Archival Black
Other Tools and Embellishments
Embossing folder of your choice
Colored Pencil - Yellow
Gold Paint Pen - Extra Fine
RST positioning template - Small Shapes
PopIt! Shapes - double-sided foam tape
Polymer Clay
Heart Pendant (optional)
Ribbon
Heart Brads
Instructions
Take one of the quarter sheets and run it through the embossing folder. While you are using the die cut machine, run a second scrap piece of White paper through the same embossing folder. Set both pieces aside for now.
Take the second quarter sheet and prepare to stamp the following around the border:
Stamp the Flower in Lapislazuli ink.
Stamp the Flower again, this time in Khaki ink.
Stamp the Flower a third time, in Green Tea ink.
Stamp the Leaf in Cyan.
Stamp the Sprig in Green Tea ink.
Stamp the Sprig again, this time in Archival Black ink.
Stamp the Hummingbird in Archival Black ink.
Take small scissors and cut out the center of the stamped panel, around the stamped images. Then take the Gold Paint Pen and make squiggly marks about 1/4 inch from the outer border of the stamped panel and 1/4 inch from the inner border of the stamped panel. Then use the Sage ink pad to distress the outer and inner edges of the panel. Glue the stamped panel to the embossed quarter sheet you made earlier (you will attach the pendant, with heart brads, to the embossed panel and then attach that panel to the card base, to hide the backside of the brads). Set aside for now.
Make a Tall Heart embellishment (for detailed instructions, visit our earlier blog, Nature's Path pendant).
Attach the heart to the stamped panel with ribbon and prepare to make the sentiment medallion.
Make the sentiment medallion
Using Lapislazuli ink, stamp the Postmarked Love stamp on White paper. Line up the square shape on the Small Shapes positioning template and shade a silhouette with Cyan ink. Cut out the resulting sentiment/diamond and glue it to a slightly larger piece of White card stock that you embossed in the first step of this project. Attach the sentiment medallion to the card with double-sided foam tape.
Here is the finished card, with a polymer clay heart embellishment. I used the metal Tall Heart pendant as a pattern for making my polymer clay heart, shown here by itself.
If you like, you can opt to use both heart embellishment and pendant!
I sure hope you enjoyed today's blog.
Until next time...
Happy Stamping from Susan and rest of the gang at Rubber Stamp Tapestry!
Lovely ideas... as always.
Posted by: Catharine | May 24, 2011 at 06:56 AM
thank you for the beautiful card.
I hope to make one like it soon.
love your stamps thanks for making them.
Posted by: Connie Blackburne | May 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Just as pretty as last week's.
Posted by: NWFlamingo | May 24, 2011 at 01:14 PM
The balancing of embellished elements works really well. I would never have thought to use such a teeny sentiment. I will try that with my small sentiment stamps.
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Barbara Dashwood | June 07, 2011 at 09:32 AM
Love your color choices on this card. So soft and pretty. Those heart pendants are also lovely, and one of these days I will try to make one. Just used some of your stamps yesterday to add an edging on a card. I have so many that it was hard to choose some. Thanks again for another great tutorial.
Shirley L.
Roseville, CA
Posted by: Shirley Lee | June 07, 2011 at 09:33 AM