Blog Hop! Home Decor

Here I am with another blog hop. This month's theme is home decor, and was a real challenge for me. As it seems with a lot of the home items I do, I have these fantastic ideas in my head, but can never get them quite right. The same can be said for this project. I'm not as happy with it as I'd like to be, but perhaps it will inspire you. Allow you to take the idea and improve upon it.

When I first saw the theme, I knew what I wanted to do--stamp on cork and create a giftable cork board. Finding the cork was actually the easiest part of this. I do recommend a tight cork though, I think that was part of the problem. I could only find a loose cork and it didn't stamp up as well as I had hoped. You also want to stamp with Versacraft ink. This is a permanent, pigment ink that is great for stamping on those items that are not paper, wood for example. If you want to stamp and color right away, please heat-set the ink first. This will keep your image from smearing, and ruining your coloring medium.

Here I stamped my images, want to fly with the Versacraft and let them sit for several days. (I would have heat-set, but since I wasn't overly thrilled with how they stamped up, I had to sit on this for a few days.) When choosing stamps for this project, you really want one that is more bold than detailed. I colored my image lightly with Copic markers. Any permanent marker will work though, just be sure to test it first on the back, or some scrap to see how it colors.

To make the cork board a little more interesting, I added a post-it pad and ribbon to hang it up. I attached the ribbon with Wonder Tape. I used a wider strip and wrapped it over the edge of the cork for added security.

I hope you enjoy this project and do find some inspiration. It was fun to create and now that I know how my cork works, I think I will try this again with a different stamp set. Here are some other Home-Decor projects to enjoy!

Melisa

Barb
Ellie

Chris

Rita

Kim

Carol