World Map Archives - My Elegant Cards

World Map is one of the first stamp sets I bought. I intended to make a Father’s Day card with black embossing. It was a dismal failure because it was my first time at embossing and it was late evening and thus very hard to see whether the powder was melting. Plus, I had no idea what to expect. In the end, if I recall correctly, I just stamped the map in black ink. So I wanted to go back to my original plan and emboss the map.

I started with a piece of very vanilla and was reaching for the black embossing powder when I remembered that I have it in early espresso and my resolve to use more brown. So after using the embossing buddy and stamping the map image with versamark, I sprinkled on the early espresso embossing powder. It’s quite hard to see it melt, even in the middle of the day but this time, almost two years later, no powder fell off after I’d “finished” embossing. Next I used my aquapainter with no water and pressed my marina mist ink pad to get some ink on the list. I added one drop of water and started colouring in the water on the map. The reason for doing this almost dry was that I didn’t want to saturate the non-watercolor paper. Once the seas and oceans were completed, I coloured the land similarly, this time using crumb cake.

I used fast fuse to fix the piece of very vanilla to an early espresso card base and then pulled out Sunburst Sayings for a small and simple birthday greeting. Finally, I’ve found where this sentiment came from – I was looking for it a couple of days ago. I stamped it in early espresso on crumb cake – isn’t it interesting how the watered down crumb cake ink on very vanilla looks so different to the card? – and then popped it out with the 1.5 inch circle punch. I also had the 1 3/4 inch punch so I made a mat of early espresso for the greeting. I popped this up with dimensionals. I finished off the card by lining the envelope using the retired backgrounds DSP (there’s a replacement at the moment) and the envelope liner framelits. If you want the framelits, don’t forget that they are retiring at the end of the month.

Looking at the order information, I can see that my Paper Pumpkin for this month is likely to arrive on Monday as is my pre-order. I won’t know what to play with first!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

The world map is one of the first stamps I bought and it was used on the first card I made for my father on Father’s Day two years ago. And I haven’t used it since. I’m not sure why. But I wanted to make another Welcome card and this stamp set called out to me. I work in IT with my brother and tomorrow one of the developers who used to work for me at my previous company is starting work where we are now, working for Martin. I’m thrilled that he’s joining us and he definitely needs a card! The Welcome Words set has come in really useful lately – I think this is the fourth welcome card so far this year. And I need a fifth because somebody just joined my (Stampin’ Up!) team.

I stamped the World Map onto watercolour paper using the archival basic black. Then, using my aquapainter, I put fairly pale washes of pacific point (I’ve recently found how perfect this colour is for skies and seas) and delightful dijon onto the paper. I matted this with a slim basic black border and then mounted it onto a pacific point card base. The Welcome is stamped in pacific point onto very vanilla which extends over the image and mat. To make the sentiment even more dramatic, I popped it up with dimensionals.

The envelope is lined using the retired backgrounds DSP brights stack in pacific point. I’m almost done with this stack and really must get the new version of it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz