Mandala medley

Hi There! I thought I would show you how I made this colourful mandala card. 

On a 14x14cm square of card I stamped a medium sized mandala stamp 3 times overhanging the edges and clear embossed (The embossing isn't necessary if you want to speed up the process.)

Next I stamped the mandalas I had chosen to use on to a stamp and mask sheet and cut them out

I used the masks to cover the mandalas I had already stamped and then stamped over them until the whole of the piece of card was covered in mandalas. If you are embossing it is worth adding the embossing powder after stamping each 2 or 3 mandalas and heat embossing as you go.

if not embossing it is worth heat setting the ink with a little waft of the heat tool at this point. 

next I used the distress inks to paint the mandalas 

whilst this dried I stamped and embossed a sentiment in white on black card and cut it out

I used a pale grey ecoline to add a little shadow around the edges of a few of the circles, and covered a few less than perfect bits of stamping with a sequin or three. I added the sentiment on sticky pads and mounted it on to a card blank. 

Here is the finished card again. 

I used:

14x14cm square of card

Doodle art mandala stamps set 1

Doodle art mandala stamps set 2

Stamp and Mask sheets 

Ticker tape wordage stamps set 4

Distress inks in Peacock feathers, Fossilized Amber, Crackling Campfire and Uncharted Mariner 

Grey ecoline pen

15x15cm card blank

black card for matting and layering and adding a sentiment 

Versafine Clair black ink

Versamark embossing ink

Clear embossing powder if required

On Wednesday evening I completed another page in my Grafix media journal, this time on black Duralar. You can see the live here

Thanks for looking!