Adorable Quails

The inspiration for today's craft came from watching the "Lost: Season 6" Blu-Ray this week. There is a brief glimpse of a wall decoration behind the shoulder of a minor character in one episode, and it caught my eye. It was layer circles painted onto the wall. I stopped the show and got out my craft things!

To make this card, I took a sheet of plain computer paper can cut it to the size of my background paper. I then took various sizes of circle punches and punched randomly. I saved all the circle bits. Then I used Dotto re-positionable adhesive to glue all the circles and the remaining background piece to my Very Vanilla cardstock. I took turns peeling a few circles off and using my brayer in different colors of ink. After I inked one color, I marked the scratch paper circles (so I knew those ones had ink under them) and put them back onto the inked part. I did this with the two other colors, until all the circles were inked up.

I'll admit, this was the first time I inked up this adorable stamp set. How sad is that? These quails are too cute to just sit in their box on the shelf! I think they fit perfectly with the background I made. Do you have a stamp set that has yet to have the joy of ink put on it? Get it out and have some fun!

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Supplies Needed:

Paper:
Very Vanilla
Bashful Blue

Stamps:
Happy Together

Ink:
Marina Mist
Baja Breeze
Bashful Blue
Basic Gray

Tools:
Paper Trimmer
Brayer
Various-sized circle punches
Curly Label Punch

Adhesive:
Snail Adhesive
Dotto
Dimensionals