Always Follow Your Dreams - Ombre Stamping

Hi everyone!

Ilina here! Today I am sharing a fun card using the February Club Sursee products from Catherine Pooler designs.

I thought these hot air balloons were perfect to do some ombre stamping using my MISTI tool.

To make the card I started by die cutting bunch of the balloons, I aways do this and then save some for later use. 

I used the negative from the die cuts to position my stamp on the door of the MISTI and used it as a template to pop in my die cuts, so everytime I got perfect placement! 

First I inked the images with the darker ink and used blending brush to soften the edges at the half way point. Then stamped it. Next I inked the other half of the stamp with lighter ink and also softened the edge using blender brush, then stamped....and voila!!! 

Created my background using some ink blending and scoring 2 lines above and below the ink blended area. Adhered the balloons and stamped my sentiment and added the "Dream" die cut.