Hello there!
I am SO Excited about this cross promotion that is happening with Helmar, Unity Stamps Company, and my company Susan K. Weckesser Inc. I have been so {THRILLED} to see all the wonderful creative artwork that is being done with the wonderful products from Helmar, Unity Stamps, and mine. I really have felt so INSPIRED and I hope that I can share something with you!
For today's post I took out some of my Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive Glue, my Live in Color paper line which is now available through Want2Scrap , and my 'Fly Away', 'Painted Sentiments', and 'A little bit of Washi' stamp kits from Unity Stamp Company.
First I made some fun washi tape with my stamps. I used Canvas Corp's wonderful tissue paper to stamp on with Clear Snap's ink to create Washi tape that acts like... well, like washi tape. What is wonderful is that you take the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and put it on the tissue stamp with a little spatula and the stamp goes like tape and shows no glues lines! LOVE!
For the background of my layout I had fun drawing with watercolor pencils and stamping away with my stamps. Just being {colorful}.
Since I used a darker color for my background I wanted to make my words pop. So, I wrote the sentiment that I wanted on lighter paper and glued it on with Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. I used one of my stamps from the 'Painted Sentiment' kit to start the sentence.
I love to add color and whimsy to my artwork & I do this in different ways. Here are some off the ways that I do it...
1) Punch butterflies out of my 'Live in Color' paper and glue them on with Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. Always use GOOD glue like Helmars!!!
2) Add BLING! Love this bling from Want2Scrap.
3) Use colorful & sparkley {EMBOSSING POWDER} with the stamps. I used American Crafts brand with this project.
4) Outline.... I LOVE to outline and highlight when creating a layout or project. I like using good pigment art markers. The ones I used in this project were Kuretake's ZIG Memory Writers in Black & their chalk pastel color in white.
5) Gotta SMOOCH! *giggle* I love adding bits of wonderful color to images, art, photos....you name it, and Clearsnap's SMOOCH is AWESOME!
Just a little bit of extra, MAGICAL color to a project adds so much pizzaz!
There is a sale going on at Unity. My stamps are on sale just until the end of the Cross Promotion. You can find the Unity Sale ---> HERE <------
Be sure to check out everyone's WONDERFUL artwork on both the Helmar and the Unity Stamp Co. blogs and say hi from me... Susan!
I will be posting on my blog too... {my sweet earth} which is linked to my website susankwesser.com.
Thank-you SO much for stopping by and have a WONDERFUL day!!!
hugs,
Susan
Susan K. Weckesser
Helmar DT Member
