Your Next Stamp: Wave Die and Alcohol Ink Pearl

For the month of May I had the honour of guest designing for Your Next Stamp. I really enjoyed using their stamps and dies to create several blog posts. This one I shared a few weeks back using one of my favourite YNS items: ‘The Wave Panel Die Set’. It is such a versatile die. Not only is it great for making summery water scenes, in the winter I’ve turned it into ski hills and winter scenes. I made not one but two cards using both the frame and wave elements of the die.

So before die cutting the wave panel I started by using alcohol ink pearls sublime and tranquil with blending solution. I tilted the card around until I was happy with the outcome. In addition to die cutting the wave panel out of the alcohol ink pearl card, I also cut several more wave panels out of white card stock. These extra frames and wave pieces were used to build depth on both cards. 

For the first card I laid the alcohol pearl ink wave pieces on a A2 card base, slightly right justified and trimmed off the right side. Then I choose a few of the alcohol wave pieces and glued 3-4 layers of white card stock beneath to create different thickness waves for added interest. Finally, I used the wave panel frame as a guide to help nicely position and glue the waves to the card base and added the coloured images from ‘Sea Friends’ on top. The sentiment is from the same set, which I embossed vertically. 

The second card I layered the alcohol ink pearl wave frame on top of acetate and then glued 4 more frames underneath to create separate wells for sequins. I stamped and masked the squid from ‘Totally Narly’ on the background card. Then blended distress inks cracked pistachio, salty ocean and chipped sapphire over the background and splattered on perfect pearls. I dropped the sequins into the wells, glued on the background, stamped sentiment on acetate and attached coloured seahorse to finish off the shaker card. 

See I told ya the wave panel die was versatile!