Hello crafty friends!! Today I’m joining Hero Arts’ countdown to the release of the November My Monthly Hero Kit!!
Today’s card feature not only the new kit but also one of my favorite stamping techniques, ghost stamping!
To create this card I first stamped several images from the included stamp set in Sea Salt Reactive Ink onto an A2 sand card base. Once I had the front my card covered with image I then repositioned the stamps, now slightly off-set from the white images and then stamped them in a variety of inks.
- Birds: Cup O’ Joe, Splash, & Blue Hawaii
- Flowers: Fruit Punch & Crimson
- Branches: Cup O’ Joe, Pine, Fruit Punch, & Crimson
I used my MISTI and partial inking to create a gradations on the images or to ink up different sections of the stamp in different colors.
Once I had finished all the ghost stamping I then positioned a sentiment in my MISTI to curve around the images and then stamped it in INTENS-ified Black Ink.
I hope you enjoyed my card!! Thank you so much for stopping by!
~Channin
Supplies:
Crafts by Channin 
I love the ghosting stamping technique and colors you used for your design!
Pretty card. I like the colors you used and the way you applied multiple colors to the stamped images. Thanks for sharing!
Pretty card, love the birds, great use of many colors!
The ghosting technique is one I haven’t tried, but I will now, because it gives a beautiful vintage feel to the images. Thank you for sharing this lovely card.
I like this card a lot because it can be used for any occasion, but most of all the ghosting technique gives the birds life. Tfs
This is a beautiful layout on this fabulous card – TFS
I like the technique and the card. Beautiful!
I love the bird dies, such a cute look!
Love the ghosting and the colours on kraft are so effective. Thanks for the inspiration!
What a great technique. Love the bird image and how you curved the sentiment.
I really like the ghost stamping and it made me wonder if outlining the stamped images with white gel pen would create a similar effect.
I think that would look really cool too, different but still could be a really neat effect!! By stamping the image in white ink it creates a base for the dye inks so they appear more opaque when I stamp the image the second time.
Love bird stamps. Never heard of ghosting stamps. Thanks for a new technique for me! Cute card!
Gorgeous! It’s been awhile since I’ve used the ghosting technique- thanks for the reminder!
I love the birds!
Love the cheery bird and your ghost stamping!
thanks for sharing this technique. I had forgotten about it.
I don’t think I’ve seen that technique before. It looks like it would be an interesting way to give a snow effect on branches.
What a beautiful card! I love the ghost stamping effect and the look of the images on the kraft cardstock. Great job!
Gorgeous card!! I love the birds!
I like the birds- really pretty.
Very pretty bird. I love the ghost stamping , it is a technique I have yet to try. Your card came out beautiful and love the coloring!
Thanks for the ghost stamping technique reminder. I get in a zone and tend to forget about different techniques. Great job – love the bird and branch images.
Beautiful card love the colours and this is a technique I haven’t tried before but will definitely try now.
Gorgeous card! Love the ghost stamping technique, as well as the beautiful color combo you chose. Everything really pops against the sand cardstock used. Excited to see more, more MORE!!!
Such a pretty card! Thanks for sharing how you made it. Can’t wait to see the whole kit!!
Your ghosting is fabulous! This reminds me of museum pieces I’ve seen.
Beautiful card Channin. Looking forward to seeing more of the kit 😊
I love your mix of colors giving this a winter and fall feel together.
WOW! that is a colorful card and beautiful. Love the curved sentiment.
So beautiful! Love it! 💜💜💜
Beautiful design and choice of colors. This kit looks Awesome
Thanks for explaining the ghosting technique. I always appreciate learning something while I marvel at the beauty of the card!
I love this bird. This is such a great card.
Channin- what a great way to add depth and texture; neat technique!
Love the birdie and your brilliant idea to ghost stamp with it! I haven’t done that in ages. Thanks for the reminder!
I love the background you created and the way you laid out the sentiment… very nice! What cool texture on the birds
Love the little bird! Interesting technique. This would look great as a wrapping paper too!
Your card is so gorgeous looking! I am so loving that bird stamp big time!
This is beautiful. I love the bird. I could use it all year round. And the detail on the bird stamp is amazing!
I love the look you’ve created with the white stamping under those bright colors on the colored cardstock. Very interesting look.
I love the ghost stamping… This is a stamp that can be used on birthday, thinking of you and several other cards too.
Lovely ghosting technique – the poinsettias are especially well suited for this. 🙂