Silver Mandala Card

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Kelly (sunstamper).

I chose this card as my inspiration:



I focused on Kelly's:
-mandala design
-monochrome colour scheme
-no sentiment

I changed:
-everything on one layer
-heat embossed rather than dry embossed/stamped
-colour
-shape of card

I started by using my MISTI to stamp Catherine Pooler's background stamp Rondi's Window with gray ink onto white cardstock. I did not remove the stamp from the MISTI.

I coloured the panel with BG Copic markers, adding deeper tones to add contrast. I also used some cool grays, to try and create shadows to mimic the layers in Kelly's card.

When the colouring was finished, I put the panel back into my MISTI and stamped with WOW! Embossing ink and then embossed with silver embossing powder.

I trimmed the panel to a square, and then blended some C9 Aqua Sky ink onto the corners.

For some sparkle, I coated my 'central' mandala with some Stickle by squeezing some out and then spreading it out with my finger.

If you like the look of this stamp, you may be interested to see a video I made a while ago, when it was first released: