Mix It Up With Veggie Stamping!

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Hello friends!  Happy July!  I can’t believe that June is gone and the 4th of July Holiday is gearing up now!  I’m looking forward to some happy times ahead through the Summer and I hope you are too!

Today begins a new challenge over at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog and it’s always “Anything Goes with an optional theme“.  For the optional theme this time, we’d like to see some “Veggie Stamping“! (In other words:  use vegetables as your source for stamping with!)  I’ve never done it before, but I gave it a try!  Here’s what I came up with:

Now I’ve heard of people carving food as art, but I don’t think I’ve ever really seen anybody actually use vegetables/food as a stamp!  Have you ever tried this?  I encourage you to give it a try and join in the challenge with it because it was so much fun to play!

For my vegetable stamping, I didn’t want to use ink pads in fear of contaminating/ruining it, so I decided to use some acrylic paints instead.  I grabbed some veggies from the fridge along with a plate to hold the paints and cut the veggies to dip into the paint piles.  My husband decided to come around and snap a photo of what I was doing, so I thought I’d share my mess:

I was actually in the process of cutting out the “veggie flowers” when he took the photo, but I started with some acrylic paper because I was using paints and cut the paper large so I had plenty of room to play around.  It was a bit of trial to figure out how each veggie would look.  I thought it worked best to dry out the veggies as much as possible on a paper towel.  The coral large flower came from the red pepper.  I found that using a paint brush to apply it to the veggie was a better look.  Then I dipped the celery end to make the purple flowers.  The shallot was used to create the teal flower (the shallot was applied the same as the pepper) and I used the end of the carrot for the center of the flowers with yellow paint and then I used a broccoli to dab on the center of the flowers as well with some dark grey paint.

I then tried to arrange the flower bouquet how I wanted on my card base after cutting out the flowers.  I took a paint brush with (no kidding) celery green colored paint and painted the stems coming from each flower.  For the “leaves”, I used the same paint and dabbed the celery end around the stems.

I finished out my card by stenciling the brick background before attaching the cut out flowers.  I popped some of the flowers up with foam tape and then I white heat embossed a sentiment over dark grey cardstock and popped that up over the bottom of the bouquet.  This was attached to another panel of grey cardstock that I attached to a top folding white A2 card base.  I topped it off with a few gems.

  • So what do you think?  First time trying it out and just playing around having fun is all!  A little abstract for sure, but hopefully they do look like flowers on here🏵️!  I’m really looking forward to seeing what everyone does with this!  Hope you can play along too! (Remember you have 6 weeks to enter!  So plenty of time to play!)

THANKS SO MUCH FOR POPPING BY TODAY!  HAVE A GOOD ONE & I’LL SEE  YOU SOON!

Challenges:

  1. Addicted to Stamps & More – #471 Make Your Mark(I used paint)
  2. Little Red Wagon – #762 Layer It Up (I cut out flowers to layer on top)
  3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes (Used a MFT stencil)
  4. CRAFT – Anything Goes
  5. Just Us Girls – #733 Stencil Week(Brick stencil)
  6. Creative Fingers – #281 Anything Goes
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30 thoughts on “Mix It Up With Veggie Stamping!”

  4. Well this was a journey in creative stamping for sure! LOL I never could have imagined using fresh veggies to stamp flowers, but your artistry led you in direction that brought fun results. I love how the flowers were made and then placed on the stenciled background. I’m sure this was a fun project for you and the card will be a real conversation piece for anyone who asks how you made it! Enjoy the week ahead and stay cool.

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  5. well that’s a fun way of using food! Looks great with the stenciled background thanks for joining in at JUGS

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  6. You definitely are the star of the show with all the different veggies you used! This twist has been a fun one through the years and definitely a conversation starter! I love this card and love that you shared a process photo!

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  9. Wonderful fun Vicki and your card came out gorgeous, love the colours and softness of the paint paint..we used to do vege stamping especially with potatoes, you can cut the spud in half make a design, ink and stamp..you can use your dies to start the shape too then just cut a bit deeper…love your card, looks amazing..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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    1. Thank you! You’re so creative and I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve already tried this out! I would be inspired I’m sure!

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  10. Fabulous card and result Vicki,love the beautiful veggie flowers and stencilled background. I used this technique once but as a background using the cut off end of a head of celery.

    Carol x

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  11. Vicki… I am sitting here smiling! What a fun post. I can just see you stamping with your cut veggies… too funny. I love the cut red pepper on the plate. I think your veggie flowers turned out beautifully! I can’t thank you enough for joining and sharing at Just Us Girls this week!!

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  12. Hey thank hubby for taking the process shot because it really helps visualize how you did this and you were so smart about it. Plus 4 veggies! And I love your resulting flowers and card, yes they do look like flowers! Great work on this challenge, xoxo

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  13. Sorry it’s taken me a few days to get by and visit Vicki. These veggies make the coolest images. They definitely look like flowers. I could tell the pepper, but nice purple celery flowers. I also like their little abstractness- is that even a word? Have a super July 4th, and I hope it’s cooled down some. We’re back in the warm up here. Hugs-Erika

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  14. What a fun card for you to create and to read about. Very pretty and doable. But – a bit messy??? And you have veggies all ready for dinner – lol.

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  15. Your adventure with vegetable stamping sounds incredibly creative and fun! Using acrylic paints instead of ink pads was a smart choice to preserve the veggies. It’s fascinating how you transformed everyday vegetables into colorful floral stamps, each one uniquely contributing to your bouquet. The addition of the brick background stencil adds a nice contrast and texture, complementing the vibrant colors of your veggie flowers. The white heat-embossed sentiment on dark grey cardstock provides a striking focal point, and the finishing touch with gems enhances the overall charm of your card. Great job on exploring this unique technique and turning it into a beautiful card!

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  18. A very creative approach to vegetables and stamping 🙂 As always, you turned out to be brilliant!

    xx

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  21. gosh never heard of this before but what an amazing effect looks so different a super creation Vicki can I also thank you for your support and wonderful comments on my blog

    hugs

    Lolo x

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  22. Vicki, What a clever and creative idea using vegetables and acrylic paints to make such an awesome bouquet. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, you surprise and inspire me. Smiles, Kathy

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