Every 2 weeks someone in the team writes a tutorial for our team facebook page and this time it is my turn, Today I am sharing the card I made using the Colorful Seasons stamp set and the Kissing Technique.

To re-create the kissing technique card you will need ;

Petal Pink card base – 8 ¼” by 5⅞” – scored and folded at 4⅛” – upper left hand corner rounded
Blackberry Bliss 5⅞” by 2¼”
Whisper White 5⅞ by 2
Whisper White 5⅝” by 3⅞” – for the inside
Blackberry Bliss 2½” by ⅞”
Whisper White 2½” by ¾”
C6 Whisper White Envelope

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

I began by inking up the large Crackle Paint stamp with Blackberry Bliss ink. I find it easier to do this if I place the stamp face up on my work top and take the ink to the stamp rather than the stamp to the ink.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

I then inked up the solid maple leaf image with Petal Pink ink and carefully ’kissed’ the 2 stamps together picking up some of the Blackberry Bliss onto the Petal Pink image. I stamped the leaf image onto the long strip of Whisper White cardstock.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

I repeated these steps until the whole Whisper White strip was covered.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

I used the Decorative Ribbon Border punch to decorate the right hand edge of the larger Blackberry Bliss layer and glued it to the back of the stamped panel with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

This panel was then added to the front of a Petal Pink card base using the same adhesive.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

The sentiment from the Beach Happy stamp set was stamped in Blackberry Bliss onto the smallest Whisper White piece of cardstock. This was then adhered with the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive to the small Blackberry Bliss piece and the end was bannered using sharp scissors. The piece was then added to the card front with the same adhesive.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

I stamped the same maple leaf image, inked up in the same way, to the largest Whisper White panel and adhered it to the inside of the card base using the liquid glue.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

The same image was then stamped onto the front of a Whisper White envelope.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

The front of the card was decorated using the Faceted Dots.

www.crafty-rootes.com – A ‘kissing technique’ card made using the Colorful Seasons and Crackle Paint stamp sets.

This technique works with most solid image stamps paired with a more detailed stamp. It works best if the solid image is inked up with a lighter colour and the more detailed image with a darker colour. I love the effect this gives and you can get some very quirky images. I hope you like the card.

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

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