You Bake Me Happy with Brutus Monroe

 

Hello everyone!  Today I'm bringing you a sweet project using

products from

Brutus Monroe

You Bake Me Happy Stamp Set

Chroma Mists

This was such a fun project to put together.  There's so many ways

you can use small stamps.  Let me show you how I made my card!

I started by taking a heart die and lightly tracing around it, in pencil, on a

piece of watercolor paper.

Then, using dark brown ink, I stamped my elements.  I did use my

MISTI to do this in case I needed to stamp my image more than

once - which I did.  

Once my ink was dry I erased my pencil lines.  I wanted my elements

to have a 1950's vibe to them, so using Chroma Mists I painted them

in aqua and coral.  For the aqua I used  Cobalt Blue and Bumblebee

Yellow Chroma Mists.  I actually mixed a puddle of green and added

it to a puddle of blue.  For the coral, I used Candy Apple Red, White,

and Bumblebee Yellow.  I made a pink with the red and white and

an orange with the yellow and red and then mixed the 2 together.

I did very simple painting with no shading.  For the brown on the

cookies I mixed red, yellow and blue with more yellow than the

other 2 colors.  Next I took a scrap of watercolor paper and with a

1/2" flat paintbrush, painted a strip of aqua and one of coral.

I trimmed my painted panel to 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" and adhered it to the

middle of my A2 size top folding white card base.  I trimmed the

2 strips of color and added them to the sides of the card.  I also

added thin brown peel-offs between the panel and the painted strips.

I stamped my sentiment onto a scrap of the watercolor paper and die

cut it with a small round die.  I die cut a slightly bigger circle out of

aqua paper to put behind the sentiment circle.  I adhered this to my

card.  For embellishments I used small 2-tone flatback pearls around

my elements and added a tiny pink translucent heart to the sentiment

circle.  I adhered the sentiment circle to the lower right of my card.

and that finished my project!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial and it gives you some ideas on

how to use those little stamps!  All of the products mentioned

are available at

Brutus Monroe

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Brutus Monroe, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.