Another Ghost stamping card

I made a couple of cards using the ghost stamping technique shown by both Jennifer McGuire and also Darlene DeVries.  I thought I would try the layout that Darlene used...so I followed her paper measurements and went to town.  I used PTI kraft paper, colorbox frosty white, distress inks: bundled sage and ripe persimmon.  My stamps were from PTI Beautiful Blooms and Turning a New Leaf.

My sentiment is an MFT stamp, Cheerful Blessings.  I added a hand drawn black line at the top and bottom of the card for balance.  I think I still need to work on that "ghost stamping" so that I can line things up better...maybe I should use the stamp-a-ma-jig!!

Ghost stamping

Jennifer McGuire demonstrated something she calls Ghost Stamping HERE and Darlene DeVries also demonstrated it HERE .  I really liked the looks of that technique and finally tried it out myself. 

I used the same technique on both cards.  The top one was stamped with color box red ink and I hand drew the lines around the card.  The second card was stamped with terra cotta tile and I did a little masking with that technique.  The stamp is PTI Flower Garden, the sentiments are Hero Arts.  the white ink is colorbox "frost white" pigment ink...I did heat dry it after each stamping to be sure the white dried and did not smear.