The cards today show you how to colour stamping on coloured cardstock, show you how to do this on light and dark coloured cardstock. For these cards, I’ve use the lovely Altenew Watercolour Doodles stamp set along with a great sentiment die. To add more interest, I have added shine to the cards with both embossing powders and metallic cardstock. So let’s get started.
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Coloured stamping on coloured cardstock - on dark cardstock
For this first card, we want to stamp on dark coloured cardstock. The trick for stamping in colours on dark cardstock is to use pigment inks or pigment hybrid inks like the distress oxides.

For this card, place a piece of Gina K Plum Punch cardstock and position the outline layers of the stamps onto your card, off to one side. Next stamp these in clear embossing ink and cover with WOW! Metallic Gold Rich Pale embossing powder before heat setting this.

Adding the colour
Now position the first layer of the stamps over the outline images on the card and stamp these in light distress oxides colours. Don’t worry about stamping over the embossing powder as this will resit the ink. The colours used here are Spun Sugar, Shaded Lilac, Shabby Shutters and Bundled Sage Distress Oxides

Once the background is stamped, using some metallic paints, add a selection of varying sized paint splatters onto the background and let this to one side to dry.
For the sentiment, die-cut the Altenew Fancy For You die out of Gold metallic cardstock as well as 3 out of Gina K Lovely Lavendar cardstock. Layer these up, offsetting the gold to create a shadow.

To assemble the card, adhere the sentiment to the front of the card, add a small ‘Just’ heat embossed sentiment over the top. Foam mount the whole card panel onto a card base of Lovely Lavendar and finish the card off with some gold sequins.
Coloured stamping on coloured cardstock - on light cardstock
For the second card, we are instead using light coloured cardstock. Instead of using pigment ink, we can use dye inks on the lighter card.

Again for this card, stamp the outline layer of the floral stamps onto the card, creating a floral swag across the card. Next, once stamped in embossing ink, heat set with rose gold embossing powder.

Creating interest:
You can now stamp the first layer of the stamps over the top of the embossing powder as this will resist the dye in. The colours used here are Queen for a Day, Sangria, Eucalyptus and Spruce Catherine Pooler Designs Inks.

To add more interest, splatter white metallic paint over the background and set to dry. Again this card uses the Altenew Fancy for you di, die-cut out of a rose gold cardstock and 3 layers from Plum Punch cardstock. When complete, the card panel was mounted onto a Plum Punch Cardstock and finished off with a few sequins scattered around.










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Coloured stamping on coloured cardstock
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![]() Watercolor Doodles – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP | ![]() Fancy For You die – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP | ![]() Spruce Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD |
![]() Spruce Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD | ![]() Spruce Ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | ![]() Eucalyptus ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD |
![]() Eucalyptus reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD | ![]() Eucalyptus Ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | ![]() Sangria Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD |
![]() Sangria Reinker – Catherine pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD | ![]() Sangria Ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | ![]() Queen for a Day Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD |
![]() Queen for a Day Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CPD | ![]() Queen for a Day Ink Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | ![]() Bundled Sage Distress Oxide – Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | BP |
![]() Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide – Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | BP | ![]() Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide – Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | BP | ![]() Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide Reinker – Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
![]() Spun Sugar Distress Oxide – Ranger Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Reinker – Ranger Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide – Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | BP |
![]() Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide Reinker- Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() Metallic Gold Rich Pale – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | ![]() Rose Gold Embossing Powder – WOW! Shop at: WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
![]() Plum Punch Heavyweight Cardstock – Gina K Designs Shop at: BP | ![]() Lovely Lavender Heavyweight Cardstock – Gina K Designs Shop at: BP | ![]() Burnished Rose Satin Mirror Craft Perfect Card – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | TS (UK) |
![]() Original MISTI – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | SB | HA | BP | ![]() Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP | ![]() Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4″ white Shop at: SB | BP |
![]() WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | ![]() WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: WOW (US) | ![]() Teflon Bone Folder – Lawn Fawn Shop at: BP |
![]() Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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