Vintage Postage

I don't often grunge things up when I'm crafting, but I wanted a vintage vibe to today's card.  This is the June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes.

I pressed the plate with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink onto some cream cardstock, then used Vintage Photo to age it a little with a foam applicator.

I used the Bold Diagonal Stripe stencils from Pigment Craft Co. to create my postal background on another piece of cream cardstock, using Faded Jeans and Lumberjack Plaid inks.  Since I wanted the sentiment mat to match the blue, I swiped Faded Jeans onto some cardstock, then cut out the mat with the die (Studio Light).  I had a few matte enamel dots to add a little something extra.

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Postage Card

This is the pretty June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes.

I used the Nature Tones set of four Betterpress Inks (Tawny Brown, Saffron, Wild Berry and French Blue) to ink up the large plate, and pressed on regular white cardstock.

I used the Nested Postage Labels & Tag dies from Spellbinders to cut out the background cardstock as well as all the little stamps, in coordinating cardstock colours.

The sentiment was pressed in Tawny Brown, cut out with the coordinating dies, and popped up with 3D adhesive foam.  You can get a Betterpress Society subscription from The Papercrafter's Workshop.

Delivering Wishes

 My first project with the June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes, was to try ink smooshing!

I pressed the plate on regular white cardstock with Betterpress black ink, then picked my colour combos of four coordinating inks.

I put some ink on my work surface, spritzed with water, then picked it up with a piece of acetate, and smooshed it onto my image, intentionally adding the ink on top of the shapes.

I cut the image out with the stitched rectangle from the Postage Rectangle and Tag dies from Spellbinders, and cut a larger shaped piece out of coordinating cardstock to mount it on.

The sentiments from the set were pressed on the same colours of cardstock.

After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I cut two more out of black cardstock and stacked them all together so the sentiments would have more height.  I added a few iridescent sequins.

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