Stamp Without Ink. . . . . .

The challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show is to stamp without ink. I love using acrylic paints for all kinds of things so I've chosen to stamp with some burnt umber paint.

I already had some leaves left over from my fabric tag project (you can see it here if you wish), so they were my starting point. The leaves are die cut from fabric which I coloured using distress inks applied to TAP and then ironed onto the fabric - if you haven't tried this stuff yet, you should as it's wonderfully versatile. The large bottom layer of the card is the TAP backing paper after  it had been used to transfer the colours to the fabric. I looked at it and just couldn't bear to bin it so here it is put to good use. The berries are from a very inexpensive decoration which I took apart. I enjoyed being able to make another project with my leaves - probably no more now for this year!

Here's the card I made with the same leaves, berries and sentiment but hopefully, a different look:

My card front is a little warped because I usually weight them down for several hours (if I can) before I attach the final pieces but I ran out time so it really needs some strong card on the back to flatten it.
The berries are faux but I like the look. To complete the leaf spray it was wrapped with some fine jute thread - I love this thread as it can work in such a variety of ways.

The leaf spray was attached to a piece of wood grain embossed card which was coloured with distress and heavily sprayed with shimmer spray. The matting layers were all stitched and inked; the top two were also distressed with a distressing tool.
Some jute braid was knotted and added to complete the look.

The leaves are cut from quite a heavy weight calico and the threads in the fabric show up well. The stitching is in brown thread to tone with the colour scheme chosen.
The sketchy stamped leaves can be seen in the background here and on a few other photos. These were stamped onto kraft card with the paint. I love how the paint gives a matt look with a little texture too.

The sentiment was also stamped in paint onto a scrap of the TAP backing paper which was stuck on card. I love that you can see the texture of the fabric left behind on the back paper! A scrap of the paint stamped leaves was used under the sentiment layer with some ink around the edges.

I hope you like the card. I've made it for the birthday of someone special so I hope that person will like it too! Thank you for spending time looking at my work and welcome to Chrissie my latest follower.