Stempelglede card contest

Stempelglede stamps have a card contest to use their stunning stamps at the moment, using the above pictures as an inspiration colour guide. Gunhild designs the most beautiful stamps and I am lucky that I have two of the sets, the grunge collection and the grunge flourish hearts collections. I have used stamps from both sets to design the card below for a Wedding Anniversary.

I have stamped the splatter stamp from the grunge collection around the edges of the paper with white Q chalk and again with antique linen distress ink to give an aged look to the papers. The edges have also been distressed with the edge of a metal ruler and stitched on the sewing machine.

I wanted to show a variety of ways the Stempelglede stamps can be used. In two corners of the paper I have stamped a flower from the grunge collection with white Q chalk edged with weathered wood distress ink. I then masked the flowers and stamped a flourish from the grunge flourish hearts collection over the top using brushed cordoruy distress ink so that the flowers look as though they are on top of the flourishes. I have then added tiny blobs of gold liquid pearls to the centres of the flowers.

Here you can see the masked flowers and grunge stamp in the bottom left corner, I really love the effect it has achieved so you will be seeing this again on my cards for sure! I have used this flower/flourish design as a base for the paper flowers. The large blue rose is from Hobby Craft and the rest are from Wild Orchid crafts, all sprayed with glimmer mist. I also curled the wire stems and have added some leaves punched with a Woodware punch and distressed with brushed cordoruy ink. The gorgeous fibres are from Craft Obsessions and I thought they perfectly matched the gingerbread inspiration picture!

The main focus of the card is a heart from the grunge flourish hearts collection. First I stamped the heart with weathered wood distress ink onto a white paper and distressed the edges with a splatter stamp and sponging. I then stamped the stamp with brushed cordoruy ink onto a duck egg blue paper and cut out just the centre heart. This has been raised on foam pads for dimension and I have added gems around the entire heart. I have layered the heart section onto the card using foam pads and added some punched leaves around the edge.

Along the top edge I have torn into the paper and added some pale grey lace peeping out.

I hope this shows the versatility of these stunning Stempelglede stamps and that you have enjoyed looking at my creation. Happy Sunday! x