As our three week vacation in the Mediterranean comes to an end, we spend our final day today in Rome…sigh. I’ll miss the Cioccolato Gelato, Margarita Pizza Neapolitan, Espresso and more historical sights than I can possibly store away in my mind. What I won’t miss is are the crowds or the street hawkers…lol! To catch a glimpse into some of my favorite sights, be sure to see the end!
With all this historical overload, today I need a little clean and simple! Have you tried watercolor stamping yet? If not, what are you waiting for!?! Today’s project is actually a product of using what’s left over from my main project. Always a great thing.
Recently I shared an awesome Watercolor Stamped Birthday Butterfly card for the VIP Community and figured, I already had the ink on my stamp, why not keep going with a scrap? When I cut tags with my Chalk Talk Framelits by Stampin’ Up, I always cut two or three at a time and keep them in a scrap bin on my desk. This tag is definitely one of my favs.
I had inked up my Chevron background stamp with Seedless Preserves Distress Ink, gave a couple spritzes with my mini mister, and then with the left over ink after my main project, threw a tag cut from Stampin Up’s Whisper White card stock on there and what you see is what was left. Don’t you just love the grunge part of how the tag turned out? I couldn’t do that if I intentionally tried…lol. It was a complete product of second generation stamping.
I popped it up on an angle, added a die cut thanks using my Simon Says Stamp Thanks steel die and there you have it – a card in literally minutes! Leaving all the white gives it such a great clean and simple look – for more on that check out this article on Clean and Simple Defined.
Have you tried watercolor stamping yet? Show your projects on our Facebook page here, or tell me what inks you’ve tried it with in the comments below! And definitely tell me what you think of all those street hawkers in places like, Athens, Rome or Paris! I know I’m not alone…lol! Here are a few of my favorite photos from these past few weeks…
Ciao for now –
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Fantastic pictures! What a truly awesome vacation. Did you have to pinch yourself? Love the way you used my favorite distress inks on your card! You rock my friend!
It really was a lot of fun – busy, but fun! I’m even more impressed that I actually LOST two pounds – tells you how much on the go we really were…lol! Glad you loved it – those colors rock, have to use them more. 🙂
Like the grunge look on that tag, must get out my distress inks again, been awhile. Tried to go to your travel FB page and it tells me link is broken. Loved your pictures, especially see inspiration in the shop with all the little bags or purses all in a row, LOL.
Thanks Carol – I fixed it, had two .com’s in there – that never works…lol! Definitely break them out – I have mine right in front of me on my desk so that I use, use, use them! 🙂
Love your card!!! Thank you so much for sharing these amazing pictures. I am jealous! 🙂
CAS never gets old for us two, does it…lol?! Glad you liked the photos – only 2500+ more to go through…lol…ah the digital age. 🙂