May 7, 2018 Pick of the Week Project.

This week I am doing Pick of the Week over at The House that Stamps Built.

I am doing an OLD technique but one that I have always enjoyed doing - Retiform design.  Below are the supplies:

Stamps of the same subject - (for mine I choose to do "sewing".  I used 3 colors of distress inks, sponge daubers for each color, layering card stock and base card stock.   and scrap paper or post-it notes, copy paper works well also,  better than a piece of card stock. 

I choose to go with green as my first color.  Mask off a section or corner of your white/layering card stock.   If you use a post it note you don't need any re-positionable glue or tape to hold it in place.  Starting at the edge sponge the first color - leaving some light or white space is fine. I did this in both corners.

Mask off the other corners with either post it note or copy paper. 

I sponged in my blue in opposite corners - again leaving some lighter spaces. 

 For the center of my project I used a tan/brown color masking off each corner as I sponged in the middle. 

Stamp your images in the sectioned colored areas.  For this step I used:

  9307-L  Dress Form   9314-E Sew Special  and 9318-B Spool of Thread

I thought the button image went well with this collage so I used:

4126-G Cute as a  in which I got the sentiment and button into two stamps.  

I had some tiny buttons which I used for embellishments and a piece of brown twine tied around the top of the card.  

Hope you give this a try soon.  There really is no right or wrong way to do technique - just let your imagination take over.