Pumpkin Spice

For my project, I decided to revisit a technique I truly love-ink blending over a masked image. 

 I selected the Pumpkin Spice mini stamp set from Lawn Fawn, stamping the cup and shaker images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, as I intended to color them with Copic markers, and cut masks for them from Post-its.

I adore the beautiful, creamy blend I get with Distress Oxide inks, and knew I wanted to do an ombre background. I selected Abandoned Coral, Carved Pumpkin & Wild Honey Oxide inks, blending them onto and A2 panel of 65# white cardstock, with a heavy hand, using a couple of Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tools and Mini Ink Blending Foams. I used a spray bottle to add water droplets, picking up the reactiviate ink with a paper towel.

I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink, and trimmed the panel to 3.75x5 inches. I cut a panel of Craft Creations Gold Shimmer Paper to 4x5.25 inches and mounted it on a white 110#, top folding A2 card base, before adhering my finished panel, centered, atop that. For a touch of shine, I added some of the pretty leaf confetti from the Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Be-Leaf in Yourself  to look like spice falling from the little shaker & then brushed a generous coating of Clear Wink of Stella on the whipped cream and coffee mug

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Add-On Products Used:

Lawn Fawn Pumpkin Spice stamps

Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends Be-Leaf in Yourself

Craft Creations A4 Shimmer Paper Gold

Halloween Candy Dreams

For my card today, I decided to mix and match brands, using the Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel (Coming to the store soon), the oval window from the Reveal Wheel Square Add-On, and Your Next Stamp Sprinkles Sugar Rush stamp set. 

I stamped the design, with some minimal post-it masking, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored the images with Copic markers, and added a layer of sparkle with Dovecraft Crystal Glitter Glue. Finally, I stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink. 

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I hope you enjoyed my card today! Hurry over to White Rose Crafts and pick up some of their great Autumn products for yourself!

Midnight Movie

I had the immense pleasure of working with the new Midnight Movie stamp set, and it totally thrilled me!

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For my first card, I started with a certain cross dresser and his creation, coloring them with Copic markers and Sakura clear Stardust pen.

I cut out the sun ray panel die from Hero Arts in DCWV Gold glitter paper, mounting a stitched oval of dark red cardstock in the center. I stamped the "You're my creature" sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink on a strip of 110#, Recollections White cardstock. To help it stand out, I used a red, fine liner pen to add a slight "shadow" to the left side of the letters. Finally, I mounted my colored characters using Multi Medium Matte.

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For my second card, I knew I needed to utilize some of the supporting images from the stamp set, so I stamped the Toast image, randomly, all over an A2 panel of 65#, White Recollections cardstock & stamped the Happy Couple and one more slice of toast on a seperate piece of cardstock, before coloring them all with Copic Markers.

I didn't have cardstock that matched the colors I used, so I used one of my E30s series Copic markers to color a strip of white cardstock to match. I stamped the sentiment, "A toast to the happy couple" using Versamark Onyx Black ink, and adhered my detailed toast image next to it, on the right. Finally, I adhered the happy couple using 1mm foam tape, for just the smallest bit of dimension. 

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For my third card, I knew I had to show this sassy red head some love. I colored her with copic markers, topped with a heavy coating of Sakura clear Stardust pen for tons of sparkle and shine!

I selected a beautiful monochrome patterned raindrop paper with gold foil accents from my stash, cutting it to 4x5.25 inches and mounting it on an A2 panel of Neenah Desert Storm cardstock, with 1mm foam tape, for dimension. Next, I stamped the "You're my favorite obsession" sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink, and adhered our fiery red head with a penchant for sparkle to look as though she were standing on the word "Favorite". 

Elf Train

To start off the hop today, I decided to combine two challenges into one card! In addition to our Hop, this is also "How do you Doodle" week over at White Rose Crafts--celebrating both Doodles Paper Playground: Sparkle Blends & Heffy Doodle stamps & dies! I'm a huge fan of the Elfish Antics stamp set from Heffy Doodle & wanted to mix it up a bit by pairing it with our Bubblegum Ice Sparkle Blend! If you've seen this blend you might be raising an eyebrow right now, but I love a good non-traditional Christmas color palette, and thought the icy blues & silver, soft pinks, and transparent purples made the perfect, contemporary Christmas combination for this simple stamped and Copic colored, frame style shaker card.

I used a frame die from my stash to cut a white, 110# frame & my Misti to repeat stamp the train and car around the frame in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I also stamped the elf girl and remote control & colored them all with Copic markers.

I backed my colored frame with a clear acetate window & used Woodware 3mm foam mounting tape to create a shaker box. I selected a sheet of beautiful, blue snowflake paper from the Wild Rose Studio Frosted Lace paper collection as my background, adhering it to a top folding, white A2 card base. I added a generous amount of Bubblegum Ice Sparkle Blends to the middle of the panel & then centered my shaker box and adhered it to the background.

I topped the windows of the train engines & the white areas of the elf's clothes with a generous coat of Sakura clear Stardust Pen & coated the grey train sections with Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen, so they look more silver than grey.

Finally, I glued the remote control in the elf's hands & adhered her to the card, using Multi Medium Matte. I found a tiny "Season's Greetings" stamp from the Papertrey Ink Snow Globe Mini Sentiments stamp set. 

Cute Unicorns With a Twist

Cute Unicorns with a Twist

Featuring Cute Unicorns from Kindred Stamps

I've had some internet problems for the past week, but I'm finally back online to share a super fun, interactive card I created using the ultra adorbs Cute Unicorns stamp set, as my Design Team project

To start with, I created a top fold, 110# White card base. I used a cloud border die from my stash to cut a stencil and ink blended some pastel clouds with my Nuvo Dual Ended Blending Brushes & Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade, Tattered Rose, & Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks. Next, I cut 3 of the 2nd smallest clouds in the Ellentina Stacked Cloud Dies (retired). I used a cream colored marker, topped with Sakura clear Stardust pen to accent them. Next, I used a grass border die from my stash to cut the ground, and used Squeezed Lemonade mixed with Salty Ocean Oxide ink to blend a custom green (because I was too lazy to walk over to my stamp storage and grab a green ink!) Then I performed a little stamp surgery so I could stamp the "Always be yourself" sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink. 

I stamped all of the images from the set a couple of times on 80# white cardstock, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored them using Copic markers. I adhered the elements together with Glue Dots. 

For the inside, I selected a beautiful, ombre purple star paper from the Craft Smith Stay Magical 6x6 paper pad & used the largest of the Double Stitched In and Out Cut Rectangle die set by Gina Marie Designs to cut and adhere panels to the inside. I also used the middle size to cut a white rectangle as my writing area, adhering it to the bottom center of the card, and stamped the "Shine Bright" sentiment in the top left corner of the top panel.

I decided I wanted this card to have a Twist! So, I decided to try out my Lawn Fawn Pivot Pop Up die set! I cut all of the pop up elements from the same 110# cardstock I used to make my card base & attached the pop up mechanism to fold of the card following this Lawn Fawn Tutorial, using super strong Ranger Multi Medium Matte adhesive, to make sure it didn't go anywhere! I used the same technique I used on the front pieces to create my pastel, fluffy cloud background & to color the hill and stamp the other half of the sentiment: "Unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn." in Onyx Black ink. I again used glue dots to adhere all of the elements to the pop up panel and Double Sided Sticky Tape to adhere the panel to the mechanism. I added a ton of sparkle with both a Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Overlay pen & the Clear Stardust pen.

I absolutely adore this combination of Cute unicorns with the pop up panel & hope you like it too!

You can purchase this Cute Unicorns stamp set for yourself, over at Kindred Stamps.

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Create like no one is watching.

I Miss Your Face

Did you know that White Rose Crafts has a Monthly Sketch Challenge over on Facebook, now? 

Well, we totally do! I designed the sketch for this month, and I think its a really fun one! I decided to combine the sketch with this week's DT theme. This week we're highlighting a fantastic new brand from Poland that offers a wide variety of truly stunning paper collections, Craft O'Clock! I fell in love with the "My Cat Friend" collection and decided it would work perfectly for this month's sketch.

I dusted off the old hexagon stack, & a multi size circle background die from my stash and a Gina Marie Double Stitched rectangle die, and cut pieces from a variety of the patterns in the "My Cat Friend" collection, and assembled them, following the general guidelines of the sketch. Finally, I added a sentiment from Heffy Doodle's Whatcha Sayin' stamp set. I thought about adding some sparkles, but surprisingly, couldn't come up with an option I liked. 
(I know, that's just crazy!)

What would you have used to give this card some shine? Answer in the Comments!

Demon Hunters

I'm back with another design team project for Kindred Stamps. I absolutely loved using their Demon Hunters stamp set. If you know me at all, you know I'm a big fan of a certain set of brothers and their angel bestie, but this girl is a sucker for a great, classic car, so I knew I had to color the Impala up with my Copic Markers!

I decided she deserved a starring roll on this card, so I went with some simple layers on a rich, navy blue card base. I cut mountains out of textured, medium grey cardstock with the Lawn Fawn Mountain Border Dies, the layered road out of white cardstock and black textured cardstock with the Lawn Fawn Road Border Dies and a moon out of cream cardstock, with a circle die from my stash. I layered them up at the base of my side folding, landscape, A2 cardbase using Ek Success 2 Way Glue Pen. 

Next, I pressed my White Colorbox ink pad onto an acrylic block and sprayed it with some water, to thin it. I mixed it up and used a piece of torn copy paper as a makeshift mask, then used a paint brush to flick the thinned ink onto the "sky" portion of my card. I liked how the ink faded back as it dried, leaving a subtle galaxy of stars, but I also wanted some brighter points, so I pulled out my trusty Sakura White Gelly Roll pen, and added some little dots as more stars. Finally, I heat embossed the "My Prince Charming..." sentiment from the stamp set in the top left corner, using Ranger Superfine White Embossing Powder. I added a coat of Spectrum Noir Clear Shimmer Pen to the moon, and then moved on to the inside. 

Because I like to bring the outside of my card to the inside, I decided to heat emboss the Impala image with Ranger Super Fine Clear Embossing Powder in the bottom right corner & then used the same white from before to add the "You've possessed me" sentiment next to it.

I hope you've enjoyed my card today. I loved working with the Demon Hunters stamp set so much, I will likely have one or two more projects coming later in the month featuring some of the other images I've already colored & more sentiments, so stay tuned!