Double Stamped Peaches

Here's another card using the same technique as the last post.

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Card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

For this card I started with pale medium green cardstock. I used Stampin' Up!'s markers to color the peaches (unknown manufacturer). Actually I'm not SURE these are peaches - could be oranges! LOL

I pierced the two corners as shown, and stamped the phrase (Endless Creations) in black ink. I layered this main panel to a black piece of cs, then attached two SU word window-punched pieces of rust cs, folded over the edges, tacked down with rivets. Still don't have any black rivets LOL so I "painted" silver ones with a marker. I layered this to a yellow panel.

*tip*

Slick Writers (like Sharpies) will write on almost any slick surface, without that irred. tint).

I stamped the crackle (Judi-kins) using black ink on an orange panel, then adhered the rest on as shown.

Thanks for looking!

Double Stamped Stem

Didn't realize I'd be using a spring word stamp so this card is kind of strange colors for the upcoming season! If I did it again I'd opt for more pastel-y colors.

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Card measures 4 3/4" x 6 1/2"

I started with a sheet of cream cs, inked up the word stamp (A Lost Art) partially with a purple marker and stamped it. Then using a sea sponge brayer, I loosely rolled gesso over this. After it had dried (less than 5 minutes), I inked the blooming stem stamp (Hero Arts, Real Salvia) and stamped over the gesso. I repeated these steps, the second time just eyeballing it to get an overlapped shadowy effect. Then I stamped the viney image (Hero Arts) in Stampin' Up!'s Close to Cocoa as shown on the panel. I then tore the edges of the panel randomly.

*tip*

Wash your gessoed brayer and surface inbetween coats or it will start drying, making your brayer crunchy and crusty ;o)

I stamped the spring word stamp (Hero Arts) once in brown and once in the wine, then trimmed them apart and edged them with the brown ink. I glued the small words flat and pop-dotted the word Spring. I used a decorative picture hanger and matching brad to attach a sheer ribbon tied with twine as shown. Then I layered the main panel to a wine panel with roughed up edges. I adhered these panels onto a cream piece I'd randomly stamped the vine onto, then adhered these to a brown cardfront.

Thanks for looking!

RAK from Mom!

Just got this card in the mail a couple days ago from my Mom and wanted to share (don't worry - I've adopted a policy never to post other's work here without asking permission!). The colors are so subtle that it looks best in person, and I maybe should have used a camera rather than scanner to show all the textures.

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Card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

This card has a lot of tactile appeal in person! The card front is grey, then there is a layer of torn mulberry paper, then a wallpaper panel with raised stripes. The leaves were Cuttlebugged with the script folder, then run thru it with 2 of the 4 leaf dies. The flowers (from Archiver's Hot Spot) are pop-dotted - there is a gemstone in the center of the small one, and a decorative acrylic dome on the other. What's really hard to see is the sparkle all around the edges of the large flower and the irredescent (I'm sorry! I can NEVER remember the spelling on that word - ugh!) and patterned paper. The sentiment panel is soft metallic gold over cream.

I think it's just beautiful in it's serene colors and clean design, and how can I not feel loved with that sentiment? :o) Thanks Mom!

New Blogs Alert!

I'm so excited to be able to tell you guys to head on over to Pawsitively Inky!! Brand new today! Cheri's work is beautiful and inspiring - I've been hoping like crazy that she would start up a blog so the rest of the stamping world can see the wonderful things she produces. I think you will want to bookmark her page for sure :o)

Also, go see Card Art Etc. right now!! Just in case you missed it, Shirley's blog has been up and running for a few days and it is awesome! I'm always so intriqued to see how she uses color and sparkle! And she is generous with the info in case you want to try your hand at something similiar :o)

Faith Tulip with Swirls

Good morning :o)

Lots of times I start with my main image panel, and so as I keep adding layers, my card ends up way bigger than a standard A2 size card - that was the case here! I have both the large and small tulip and for whatever reason I started with the large LOL

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Card measures 5 1/2" x 7 1/4"

This card features background cs called Technicolor Dye Inks from the Dec TechniqueJunkie newsletter. The basic idea is to use a rainbow pad and brayer, and let me say, anytime you brayer more than one ink color together on the same sheet of cs, you NEVER know what you'll end up with!! I found the colors in my bkgd to be a challenge to match, but fun to try. IRL the purples are a little more true violet.

If you click for more detail you might be able to see that the main panel is actually some white over dark cream cs, and the stamping is done in layers. I was going for a look similiar to a piece of art hanging in the bathroom, but have not come very close yet...will keep trying! Tulip stamp is Hero Arts.

When this had dried, I stamped Faith (Stampin' Up!'s Graceful Words set) in black Versafine and layered it to two torn edge panels as shown. I stamped the verse (SU's God's Way set) on cream cs with the black ink, then overstamped swirls (Autumn Leaves Elegant Flourishes set by Rhonna Farrer) using Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink in Lavender. This was a second generation stamping as the ink was just a bit too overpowering full strength.

I trimmed my bkgd panel to size, stamped the writing (Penny Black "Letter Background") over one corner in the black ink, and tied a sheer cream ribbon around the panel before adhering it to a purple panel. I stamped some more swirls on the textured cream card front, using the lavender ink full strength this time.

*tip*

Chalk inks can be a lot more liquidy than others, and will usually work well if your cs is textured.

I layered everything as shown, pop-dotting the verse.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday to ISC's Estamp-ina!

This image is from a brand new sheet of stamps just put out by Innovative Stamp Creations titled Estamp-ina! The sheet is full of great words like Sweetest Friend, A little something, Take Note, Pssst! Feel Better...and lots of accessory stamp images like boxes to check, a tiny butterfly, spatter grouping, large open circle, etc. plus a bunch more phrases to use for all occasions. This is a great set to introduce stamping to the pre-teen and teen girls in your life.

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Card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Okay, any of you who know me even a little know how I like to make all my own backgrounds vs. patterned paper, and generally don't get this bright! But I thought both were totally appropriate to show you how quick and easy a younger person could turn this set into something sophisticated but still cute. Or you if you need a hip card quick! ;o)

I used the same challenge layout as yesterday's post, from Mary Jo's blog, laying the patterned cs out as shown (from a 6 x 6 slab book of Embellishment Paper by Making Memories called Tropical Travel - check ISC's site to see if they have any). I wanted to use white for the main image panel so I layered all the printed cs onto white cs before adhering to the khaki card front as shown.

For the main panel, I inked the image with Adirondack Mushroom, then removed the ink from the mouth and eye areas using a rubber tipped Angle Chisel Colour Shaper by Royal Sovereign Ltd. I used markers to add pink to the mouth, and since I didn't have the right green marker to match the bkgd, I used a blue-ish green with yellow over.

I used my needle-nosed glue bottle to apply Diamond Glaze to the entire hair area. Then used the marker to ink the flower stamp, stamped it on a white scrap and trimmed it out closely. I used a glue dot to adhere the flower as shown, placing a flat-back pearl over the center (from Archiver's).

*tip*

My markered flower turned out a little too bright pink so I used a darker toned colored pencil over it to change the tone just enough to blend better.

To get the tabs on the side, I used a Fiskar's hand-held rectangle punch to get the three slots. Then I used a Stampin' Up! word window punch on the flowered cs, folded these in half, threaded them thru the rectangular slots, and put a pink brad thru each. The main panel was adhered to to the word bkgd cs from the same pack, then pop-dotted onto the cardfront. I applied a pop-dot to each tab to hold them in place permanently.

Thanks for looking!