Stampin' Up! Just Believe while you take your Nature Walk!

Two more of my favorite retiring stamp sets: Just Believe & Nature Walk!

Just Believe is fun stamp set to use for many different techniques. Let me show you a few.

This pretty card shows the results of coloring directly on the stamp. After coloring, the stamp was lightly spritzed with water and then stamped onto water color paper.

On this card, Judy Prahl also colored directly on the stamp, but notice how she added a pearl to the center of each flower and how, by using an oval, only part of the stamped image shows. The same three colors used on the stamp are also used as strips for the background.

Embossing folders were used to add texture.

Just inking the stamp in the Whisper White Craft Pad and stamping on red gives this beautiful look! I have used this card often for sympathy cards this year.

Try it on different dark colors and see what you can create.

This is a beautiful technique used by Lynne Tormoen. After stamping the background words in Chocolate Chip, she embossed the flower and leaves stamp in clear and then sponged over that with red ink. It sounds much more complicated that it really is, and the look is worth it!

And, on this last card, the special technique is used on the background. Its actually Whisper White card stock which was sponged in Marina Mist, then run through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. Then it is sprayed with gold ink.

This gives a nice vintage look to this stamp set.

Is that enough techniques to get you started with the Just Believe stamp set?

Now on to Nature Walk!

I’m sharing the two very simple cards that I have made over and over with this set.

I love the realistic bird in this set and the eggs that are lightly stamped over it. This makes a great masculine card for birthdays or anything else.

I received this card from Brenda Taylor and I have used this idea many times for thank yous and even sympathy cards. I love the lines of this flower and leaves.

Nature Walk is a great set for the collage look too. I like the realistic look of all of the images in this set. In addition to the three stamps shown, it includes a butterfly, a bee, a bird cage, and a number like scientists would use. (No wonder its a realistic set!)

Be sure to check out both of these sets if you like making nature cards. And if you are enjoying these posts about the retiring sets, please share them with a friend.