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Shell Card

Description

A card stamped with shells, with a cut-out shell mounted in the centre. Decorated with glitter glue.

Materials used

• Ivory deckle edged card 88mm x 114mm
• A piece of ivory card
• Rubber stamp De Nami Shell F119
• Tinted or silver ink pad
• Autumn Leaf dye quick drying ink pad
• Silver embossing powder
• Clear or crystal glitter glue
• Double-sided adhesive foam pad

Method

On a piece of ivory card stamp a shell with a tinted or silver ink pad and emboss with silver embossing powder.

Cut out the shell and highlight alongside the stamped lines by following them with clear/crystal glitter glue.

On a small ivory deckle edged card stamp a shell at each corner using Autumn Leaf dye (quick drying) ink pad.

Highlight alongside the stamped lines of each shell by following them with glitter glue.

When the glue is dry mount the silver shell in the centre using a double-sided adhesive foam pad.

Shell card made by Shirley Little.

The stamp De Nami F119 Shell is reproduced here by kind permission of the copyright owners De Nami Design and may not be reproduced elsewhere without their permission.

Please note that this is an old project. It is left here for the interest of the reader. Some of the materials used may no longer be available. We regret that we can not help you find a source of supply for these.