Back to School and a tutorial

School will be starting soon...man where has the summer gone? I've been working on a card for each one of my grandkids to help send them off to school. I don't know if they'll appreciate the effort since it's sending them back.....summer's almost over. Poor babies!

I wanted to show you how you can easily make a cloud background for your stamp image. This works great for things like planes, kites, or even flowers if you'd like to have a sky type background to stamp your image on. And....it's very easy.

Here's the cast of characters.... a piece of white cardstock, a sponge dauber, ink in your choice of sky type color, and a scalloped punched piece. (I used the Marvy big purple punch for my scallop. You can use whatever scallop punch or die cut you might have.)

The first step is to lay your scalloped punch onto your cardstock and daub the blue ink lightly just over the scalloped edge.

Turn the punch different ways and continue to lightly sponge daub the edge only with your blue ink

This is kinda fuzzy, but you can see the clouds starting to emerge. Keep turning your punch different ways and daubing away.

When you get a piece the size you want, you can cut it out, then stamp your image on top. Eazy as pie!

So give it a try....you'll have fun!