Gradient knits {saturday creations}

A little two-fer today.

I'm stamping a little assignment for the Clean and Simple card-making class...

...and getting some help from Precious Remembrance to make it happen.

The assignment on day 3 was to use 3 ink pads to stamp a gradient pattern:

I used 3 different hero arts ink pads: raspberry jam, bubble gum, and soft pink.

Starting at the bottom, I stamped in the raspberry jam, and, without wiping the stamp clean, I added some bubble gum ink before stamping down again.  The idea is to create "in between colors" and have a whole spectrum of different shades, all with 3 ink pads.  

By the way, I actually own a similar sweater :)  Just a Saturday morning fun-fact.  A few more, about the card:

- I stamped onto a vintage white cardstock, so that there are fleckles all over.  All of my knits have lint and pilled fibers all over, so I thought my stamped version should too.

- once I finished the stamping, I embossed a very subtle texture onto the sweater, to make it look more like a soft fabric.

- the sweater is a die (from Papertrey Ink) and I could have die-cut the sweater as the base layer of my card, but I liked the look of sticking it onto a card-base.  Plus, there was less stress involved in trying out this new technique: if I messed up, only half the amount of cardstock was wasted.  And I did waste one sweater in the process, ha.

- I added the super cute Precious Remembrance sentiment, from our Thanks stamp set, in a dark brown ink, and added another wood veneer heart.  I'm pretty sure I'll be using them all up at the rate I'm going *wink*

Happy weekend, all!

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