Crafter’s Q&A

I’ve been given a large Succulents background stamp and I’m a bit stumped for a design. Can you help?

Sherry Richards, via email

The first thing to remember is that you don’t need to colour all of the elements in large background stamps. For example, with the Succulents stamp by Stampendous you could leave some of the outer leaves in the background blank. For this card, I chose brush markers in three different greens, a few pinks and beige colours, then mixed and matched them. I stamped and heat embossed the image in dark green then fussy cut around the top edge to emphasise the plant shapes. I curved the