Showing posts with label #Stamping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Stamping. Show all posts

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Freshly Made Sketch Challenge #437 and Some More Homework

Happy Sunday everyone!! I hope you are all doing well. 

It is a PERFECT day in Connecticut today-mid 60's, low humidity with the sun shining. I spent some time outside watering my plants and planting some basil seeds in my skimpy veggie garden. We only are ever successful with tomatoes. Every time I have planted any kind of cucumber or squash, cucumber beetles kill my plants no matter what I do. 

I was busy in my craft room yesterday. I created a card for Freshly Made Sketches #437.


Below is the sketch that inspired this card:
Instead of having the design at the top, I kind of "flipped" the sketch to have it at the bottom. I also could NOT have my rectangle images not be uniform. 


I have been trying to use more of the stamps that I own so I dug out this old PaperTrey Ink set, "Building Blocks" to use on this card. I used five different shades of purple ink to stamp each of the five images.


I added a white die cut flower from MFT and Eucalyptus Leaves from Simon Says Stamp.

Supplies:
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Purple Rain
Stamps: PaperTrey Ink Building Blocks
Dies: Simon Says Stamps Eucalyptus Leaves, MFT Stitched Flowers
Ink: MFT Boysenberry, Purple Rain, Lavender Fields, Wild Wisteria and Egglplant (retired), Memento London Fog and Hero Arts Soft Granite

Now for some cards for the Online Card Class Spring Stamp Camp 2. I still have not done all of my "homework" but I have worked on some.  I have not created cards with everything I have made, though.

My first card is my homework from Day 6.


I stamped the Pinkfresh Studio "Enchanted Blooms" with Hero Arts Unicorn White pigment ink on some pink cardstock. 


I cut up the cardstock and layered it on the bottom of my white card base. I then added a MFT diecut sentiment and sentiment strip at the bottom.


I die cut a ton of sentiments last weekend and glued three of them together to give them a little lift. I usually do this as I make my cards but I have been trying to be more efficient and have some die cuts pre-made to add to my cards.

For my next three cards, I used a really cool technique by Dawn Woleslagle from WPlus9. We learned this on Day 19. Instead of making my embellishments for these cards, I embellished some pre-made die cuts from Pink Paislee.


I actually never do this type of thing but love designers like Jeanne Jachna that use pre-made embellishments on their projects. I have a TON left over from my scrapbook days and I recently bought these because I fell in love with them at the store. They make me HAPPY!!!


Dawn taught us how to do mono printing with Ranger Distress Oxides. I cannot say that I was that successful BUT it was fun to try!!


I embellished my my die cuts with some Aqua Shimmer Pen and Glossy Accents. 


The sequins were added in purple and silver. The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti. 


My second card used the printing part of the technique.


This was my FAVORITE card of the bunch. I think the background is so cool. Most of my examples did not come out like this, though. 


On this card I added a Stampin Up doily die cut with the pre-made die cuts. 


I also added some purple Nuvo drops instead of sequins on this card. 




Again I used the pre-made die cuts for the card. I added an MFT smile die cut for the sentiment.


I added some Aqua Shimmer and Glossy Accents over the top of it to make it SHINE.


I altered the sentiment strip to say what I wanted it to say. I used some foam adhesive to pop it up off the card. 


Using these pre-made die cuts was a lot of fun and I have a TON left over to make more cards at a later date!!

Smile, Laugh, Be Happy Supplies:

Paper: Neenah Solar White, PTI Vintage Jadeite

Stamps: WPlus9 Winter Greenery, Reverse Confetti So Many Sentiments,

Dies: Stampin Up Doily Builders, MFT Blueprints 13, MFT Smile Die

Ink: Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink, Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink, Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink

Die Cuts: Pink Paislee Bloom Street Ephemera

Other: Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen, Glossy Accents, Foam Adhesive, Gemini Jr., Ranger Multi Matte, Scotch Dot Adhesive Roller, Gelli Plate


I think that is all from me today. I could add a ton more but won't. This class was a BLAST and even though it isn't live anymore, I would recommend for others to take. 

I thank you for stopping by. Have a FABULOUS night!!


Thursday, December 7, 2017

Happy Birthday Charlotte!!

Just popping in today to wish my daughter, Charlotte, a Happy 17th Birthday. 

Charlotte always complains that I never make her a home made card designed JUST FOR HER so I created a quick card last night in honor of her birthday. Yup, I am the shoemaker whose kids have no shoes!!!

I used My Favorite Things "Happy Hippos" to create my card.


The design was extremely simple so I could make this in a jiffy. I stamped the hippo and bird from the set and used Copics to color them in.


I added a die cut orange hat on the hippo that I did some doodling on.


The speech bubble is from Simon Says Stamp "Talk Bubbles," which is now retired.

Here are a few photos from Charlotte's senior photo shoot in October:





I cannot believe she is graduating!! Where has the time gone?

I want to thank you for stopping by!! Have a great day!!



Supplies:
Stamps-MFT Happy Hippos
Dies-MFT Happy Hippos, Blueprints 27 and Simon Says Stamp! Talk Bubbles
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Archival Black
Other-Copic Markers, Sizzix Big Shot, White Gel Pen, Neenah Solar White, Foam tape

Monday, August 14, 2017

Freshly Made Sketches #300

Happy Monday!! Just popping in to help celebrate Freshly Mades Sketches Anniversary. It is their 300th sketch-how exciting is that?

I chose to make a really simple card, using pre-made die cuts and papers from Doodlebug Design, as well as a stamped sentiment by Altenew.


Who says a card has to take hours to make? I adore this "Cream and Sugar" collection by Doodlebug that has been sitting on my desk for MONTHS. I decided I needed to use it!!


I did make a boo boo, as you can see. For those of you who LOVE Nuvo Crystal drops-how do you get them to be flat? I got a little extra pink on the cheeks due to a little thread. I was so mad!! Even erasing it with a sand eraser did not help.

Here is the anniversary sketch #300 from Freshly Made Sketches.


That is all from me today. Thank you for stopping by and have a FABULOUS day!!


Supplies:
(*Affiliate links are used when possible at no extra cost to you. I only buy and use what I like and all opinions are my own.)
Stamps-Altenew "Coffee Talk"
Paper-PaperTrey Ink "Hibiscus Burst," *Doodlebug Design "Cream and Sugar" 6" by 6" paper pad, *Doodlebug Design “Coffee Break," Neenah Solar White ,
Dies-My Favorite Things "Inside & Outside Diagonal Stitched Rectangle Stax," My Favorite Things "Die-namics Stitched Mini Scallop Oval STAX" My Favorite Things "Pierced Oval Stax" (retired)
Ink-Lawn Fawn “Walnut
Other-*Sizzix Big Shot Machine, *MISTI, *Doodlebug Design Cream and Sugar “Odds and Ends,” *Nuvo Crystal Drops "Carnation Pink," *Glossy Accents, *Glossy Accents


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Thursday, August 3, 2017

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps August Reveal Day 3-"Mermaids"

I hope you are all enjoying the fun reveal this week from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps.

Today is day three of the reveal and I have two cards that I created using the new "Mermaids" stamp set.


For my first card, I used  blue Distress Inks to do a "smooshing" technique to create a blue background on watercolor paper.


I then used pigment ink and white embossing powder to stamp and heat emboss the mermaid silhouette.


I adhered the stamped square to a dry embossed, white, A2 sized card front. I adhered a sentiment strip that I had stamped using the "Breathe" stamp set. I used glossy accents on the bubbles and added a couple of blue sequins for some shine.

My next card made a one layer card using one of the sentiments of the "Mermaids" set and the small shell images.


I first stamped the sentiment three times on with blue ink onto the front of the card. I then covered all three with Glossy Accents.


After that was dry, I randomly stamped shell images around the sentiments. I covered the solid shells with a sparkle pen and Glossy Accents. The finish the card I used some ombre floss to wrap around the top and tie in a bow.

Here is a sneak peek of the whole "Mermaids" stamp set:


This set will go on sale August 4, 2017. If you used nora2017 you can get 15% off your total order-including all sale items!!


Want to see some more projects using this fabulous set? Hop on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog for a complete list of links for the Design Teams blogs!! Don't forget to comment to be entered into a random drawing to win this stamp set.

Tomorrow is our last day of the reveal so do not forget to stop by for one more day!! Thanks for taking the time to peek at my blog today!!


Supplies:


Embossed Mermaids Card
Stamps-CAS-ual Fridays Stamps-”Mermaids,” "Breathe"
Ink-Ranger Ink “Glacier White” Pigment Ink, Ranger “Salty Ocean” Distress Ink, Ranger “Mermaid Lagoon” Distress Ink, Ranger “Tumbled Glass” Distress Ink, Memento "Tuxedo Black

Other-Ranger Ink “Superfine White” Embossing Powder, Wagner Heat Tool, Scrapbook Customs “3 by 3 Acrylic Block,” Taylored Expressions “Snowfall,” Sizzix Big Shot Machine, 3L Scrapbook 3D Adhesive Foam Squares

Shellebrate Card
Stamps-CAS-ual Fridays Stamps-”Mermaids
Ink-Hero Arts "Tide Pool"
Other-Ranger "Glossy Accents," DMC Floss