Along with the other girls in the Design Team, I have been lucky enough to play with these stamps while they were under wraps. Using some of the oriental lantern and branch images I came up with this card.
When I saw these lanterns, I wanted to play to get a real glow in the lanterns against a dark moonlit sky. After masking the moon and inking the sky with Distress Inks in Stormy Sky, Squeezed Lemonade and Chipped Sapphire, using a scallop mask for the effect, I stamped the branches, highlighting with coloured pencils. I embossed the lanterns in a dark coppery metallic EP. Then I shaded the lanterns with DIs again, this time using Cut 'n' Dry foam and used more Squeezed Lemonade, Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade. I added the tiniest touch of Raspberry Adirondack dye ink at the outer edges. I added colour with Inktense pencils into the patterns on the different lanterns and then cut them out. I stamped the smaller lanterns onto the base card and then decoupaged the different lanterns on the background, positioning the lanterns so they looked like they are hanging in the tree. I finished off with a sentiment from an old favourite set Paisley Elephant.
Talking about keeping the stamps under wraps, the packaging on the new stamps is brilliant. They come in a neat little A5 wallet that keeps the stamps safe and sound and can be clipped into a ring binder with integral tabs, very ingenious.
There are loads of ideas for using the new clear stamps over on the Design Team blog. Just click on the link in my side bar and be sure to pop over to the CB on line shop to see all the lovely new designs.
Elaine
