by Penny Bearcroft
Your FREE stamp plate, which goes with this issue of Guilded, includes some background elements that you can use together or separately. Use them for edging cards and ATCs or put them together for an intricate and detailed image that you can use for a focal point. The text is from an old poem ‘Ode to the Muse’. We have used some of the new Alcohol Ink pastel colours to make these projects. Like the original colours they all go together brilliantly, whichever you choose. Try them on cream gloss card as well as white for a subtly different effect.
The Stamp Bug has put together a kit to help you on your way with these projects. We haven’t included the Alcohol Inks in the kit as this then leaves you free to swap the colours if you wish. Ordering information and further details are listed separately, under Ode to the Muse Special Offer Pack.
The kit it includes:
Click here to buy the Special Offer Pack
We also used:
The Alcohol Inks we have used are some of the newer ones. Please call The Stamp Bug Ltd, 01285 750308, to order them. Tutti Frutti  Step by Step:
 - Make a C6 card, 10.5 x 15cm when folded, from the yellow card. Cut a panel of the Tutti Frutti paper and glue on to the card at an angle. Trim off any overhanging pieces of the paper.
- Cut a panel of white gloss card and cover with the two alcohol inks, using the applicator. Try not to overlap the colours too much or you will lose the effect.
 - Stamp text in the middle, using Eggplant ink.
- With embossing ink, stamp the Swirls round the edges and heat emboss with gold embossing powder. Mount on to gold card and stick on to the card with sticky foam pads.
 - Add a little of the ink left on your applicator tool to a couple of the flowers, then over stamp with Swirls, again in Eggplant ink.
- Secure the flowers together with a gold star brad and fix on to the top left of the card.
- Attach three star brads to the lower right of the card.
Stars and Flowers  Step by Step:
- Fold a piece of violet card into a standard C6 card. Tear down the right hand side, tearing off a strip that is about 1cm wide.
- Stamp the Swirls along the card edges with Eggplant ink. Swipe a little more ink along the torn edge with a sponge.
 - Stamp and gold emboss the text as shown, in the upper left portion of the card.
 - Tear a strip of gold pearlescent card and stamp it with Swirls using embossing ink. Heat set with gold embossing powder, then stamp some of the Diamond images, with Eggplant ink. Add a few star brads.
- Fix the gold panel on to the card and add a couple of cream flowers, fixed with brads, to finish.
Ode to the Muse  Step by Step:
- On a C6 Ivory Hammered card, stamp and clear emboss the swirls around the front edges. Sponge some Eggplant ink around and over the images. Wipe the ink off the embossed images with a piece of kitchen towel.
 - Open out the card and draw round a lid, or something suitable, on the inside front of the card, lightly in pencil. Mark the centre point and, using a craft knife cut into sections from the centre outwards. You don’t need to make them all symmetrical unless you want to – discard pieces here and then for a random effect.
 - Turn the card over and bend back all the tabs. Sponge carefully with Eggplant ink.
 - Add Lemonade Alcohol Ink to a cream panel, using the Applicator Tool, leaving some gaps. Make more than you will need and you can then uses the rest of it for something else. Over stamp with all the images, using Eggplant ink – putting the words ‘Ode To The Muse’ somewhere in the middle. Cut a piece to fit over the inside of the aperture, then fix to the back of the aperture.
- Cut a strip of the Tutti Frutti paper and glue across the lower front of the card. Stamp the words on to cream card scraps, once in Eggplant and once with embossing ink. Clear emboss the second one. Cut the strips out and sponge with more Eggplant ink.
- Add Cool Peri Alcohol Ink to two flowers and use to secure the word strips to the card with a star brad.
Tag  Step by Step:
- Cut a rectangle from the Hammered Ivory card to measure 13 x 7 cm. Trim off the top corners from 4cm down the sides to a central mark at the top. Stamp the text a couple of times at each end, using Eggplant ink.
 - Layer on to a piece of the Tutti Frutti paper and trim closely, leaving a narrow border all round.
- Tear a strip of Tutti Frutti paper, about 2.5 cm wide, and glue down the centre of the tag.
- Tear a piece of the already inked background from the last project to about 7 x 4cm, and add to the tag, securing with gold star brads.
- Layer up some flowers and add to one end, fixing in place with a brad.
The Finished Pieces:
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Japanese Lace Paper Set
