This is a retired SU stamp set called Heavenly Heralds.
I chose this set to use for my Christmas cards this year.
The first card had the fold in the middle. I used the French Script background, masked the circle and stamped the first word from the sentement inside. I used the Poppin' Pastels technique for the main image and used the sketch from Splitcoaststampers sketch challenge 67.
The second card was using the sketch from last year's idea book. It was using a different stampset but I like how it worked with this one too. This was a really quick and easy card.
The third card was done using the bleaching technique. I have tried before to stamp with bleach but, especially with a stamp as detailed as this, it never turned out right. There were spots that were really bold and others did not change color at all. I gave up on bleaching until we did this kind of bleaching technique at our stamp club meeting. In this card I embossed the image in gold then applied bleach with a Q-tip filling in the image.
The last card I did with a blue marker and pencil crayons. I highlighted the dress with the blue marker then used the blender pen to color it in. The rest of the image, I used pencil crayons. I hope to get the watercolor wonder crayons soon. Right now I am limited in coloring mediums. I know the blender pens and classic ink work but I only have one family in classic right now. I still use what I have so I can create and practice for better mediums in the future.
This is only one of the angels in the set. The other angel in the set is picking flowers and goes with the quote, “The love of beautiful things is heavenly homesickness.”
I do like the quote but for what kind of card would you use it?
I would
use it in a card to someone who gardens or scrapbooks.
(We all know every scrapbooker has their stash of pretty things.)
In that case, I wouldn’t use the angel.
Other than someone who collects angels, I really have no ideas.
Even so, I do love the set because of the Christmas angel and quote and have often used the other two stamps alone.
This is a technique that I developed due to my lack of supplies. There might be a technique out there similar already but I’ve never heard of it. I call it faux bleaching. I use white craft ink and blender pens. In the first sample I just colored in the daisy petals with white craft ink using the blender pens. For the second sample I stamped the angel in white craft ink and smudged the image with a blender pen to make the faux bleach background. Once it was dry, I stamped over the white background with black Staz-on and colored with chalk.
