Creative Stamping 112 bonus card

We love the latest designs from Cleverprints, featured in Creative Stamping issue 112. Here’s one more of the Design Team’s creative ideas to inspire you.

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Birthday rose
Designed by Alison Markham

Materials
white DL card blank
white & grey cardstock
Cleverprints Brave Rose & Your Own Hero stamp sets
Morning Mist VersaFine Clair inkpad
Shaded Lilac Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink
Ecoline watercolour pens
white gel pen
paintbrush
acetate
water spritzer
3D foam tape

How to create
1 Stamp the rose on white cardstock using Morning Mist ink. Stamp it again on a 9x19.5cm piece of cardstock, adding hearts and crosses as shown.
2 Colour the separate rose using Ecoline pens, scribbling ink onto a non-porous surface and painting using a wet paintbrush. Colour the hearts on the background piece. Add white highlights once dry. Cut out the rose.
3 Use a piece of acetate to smoosh Shaded Lilac ink onto it. Spritz lightly and dab onto your background piece. Don’t worry about going over the rose and hearts. Add splats of colour.
4 Mount the background piece and the sentiment onto grey cardstock. Adhere the background piece to a DL card blank.
5 Add the cut-out rose directly over the image on the background using 3D foam tape.
6 Position the sentiment over the stem.

Top tip
Add a swipe of glue to the foam tape before sticking the rose to the background to allow you to manoeuvre it into the correct position easily