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Technique 101 – Creating backgrounds with your clear blocks

October 4, 2017 By Michelle Last

Technique 101 with Michelle Last

This month we are sharing projects made by inking up the clear blocks and stamping them to create a background for your card.

Flower Shop & Pansy Punch from Stampin Up

I originally wanted to use one large clear block but just wasn’t get the background effect I wanted so I reached for my clear block B and inked it up with smoky slate ink and spritzed it with water from the spritzer bottle.

I then stamped it on the watercolour card background and pressed hard to let the ink soak in and didn’t lift up the block right away, I let it sit for a while to make sure that the paper had soaked up the ink and water.

If you have excess water when you remove the block, simply dab away any excess with kitchen towel or tissue.

I stamped the same block in the same ink twice more to create three blocks on my background.

Backgrounds with clear blocks

I them stamped three identical flowers from the flower shop stamp set and coloured with with Powder Pink and Flirty Flamingo ink and an aqua painter an stuck them on the blocks with a dimensional.

Finally I needed a greeting and die cut the hug using the Lovely Words Thinlit Dies and just snipped the ends of the word so it wasn’t encased in the circle.

A final addition of the glitter enamel dots and it was done!

I cannot wait to see the backgrounds the rest of the blog hoppers have created with clear blocks, lets go visit Frenchie and see her beautiful card.

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Hop on round but if you lose your way here is a list of the blog hop participants.

1. France Poitras Martin – USA
3. Leonie Schroder – Australia
4. Carmen Morris – Netherlands
5. Patrice Halliday-Larsen
6. Michelle Last – UK < You are here

All the items I have used to make this card are available from my Online Shop, simply click any of the images shared below to go direct to that item in my shop and place your order.

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Flower Shop Clear-Mount Stamp Set – 130942

Price: £18.00

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Lovely Words Thinlits Dies – 143733

Price: £24.00

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Clear Block B – 117147

Price: £5.50

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Pansy Punch – 130698

Price: £14.50

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Glitter Enamel Dots – 144200

Price: £6.25

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Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad – 131179

Price: £6.00

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Powder Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad – 144084

Price: £6.00

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Stampin’ Spritzer – 126185

Price: £2.75

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Watercolor Paper – 122959

Price: £4.50

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Filed Under: General, Love, Technique 1010 Tagged With: Flower Shop, Glitter Enamel Dots, Lovely Words, Pansy Punch, Spritzer

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Comments

  1. Karen Mulcahy says

    October 4, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    Love the effect of the “block” stamp. Will be giving it a try x

  2. Leonie Schroder says

    October 5, 2017 at 7:00 am

    what a lovely fresh card … love it Michelle 🙂

  3. Kay McBride says

    October 5, 2017 at 3:47 pm

    Never tried that technique!! Love the card, will also give it a try. TFS
    Hugs
    Kay

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