Stampfest at Lynette's March 11, 2025

Lynette, Don and I spent the day together at her place on Tuesday. We had a great day visiting, enjoying a delicious lunch at Naf Naf's and at the end of the day, enjoying some wine, cheese and crackers and chips and salsa! 

Lynette and I always have a great time stamping together! Tuesday was no different! Above you see three of the four card designs we made.

This card was made by Lynette a long time ago. It's such a pretty card that we decided to try and make one like it. The green ring was made from the outer petals of Stampin' Up's Summer Sunflower stamp. The butterfly and script stamps were part of Stampin' Up!'s Botanicals.

We decided to use the flower from Stampin' Up!'s Botanicals. For the flourishes we use a clear Rhonna Farrer? stamp from Lynette's stash. Used a clear circle stamp with lines made by Kelly Panacci called Memo.

We cut a circle mask from thinner paper with a circle punch. Stamped the Summer Sunflower stamp with distress peeled paint over the circle mask to create border of  "leaves". Then stamped Kelly Panacci's circle lined stamp in the center with distress peeled paint ink. Using what was left after punching the circle, we masked the green leaves area and stamped the Botanicals script in distress candied apple. 

Stamped the flower from Botanicals in distress candied apple. Stamped the butterfly from SU's Botanicals with candied apple on separate cardstock to be applied with foam tape after all was done. Used blending brushes to add candied apple and peeled paint to the background. Used foam tape apply our butterflies.

These cards were made with Lynette's My Meadow stamp set by Stampin' Up. Lynette found a similar My Meadow card on from Pinterest. (We were unable to find the source of the Pin.) We used watercolor paper and Gina K's inks, starting with moonlit fog for the gazebo, warm cocoa for the tree trunks. We used an aqua painter/water brush to blend the ink right after stamping to give a watercolor effect. We learned this from Jackie Bolhuis' YouTube 

https://klompenstampers.com/stampin-up-card-ideas-feel-like-an-artist/

which you will see more in the next card. 

We used GK sea glass for the pond (I think), moonlit fog for the bridge, jelly bean green for the leaves and grassy meadow. Not sure which green for the flower leaves. The flowers were stamped in cherry red, wild dandelion, sweet mango and wild lilac. The stones by the pond were stamped in soft stone. We used colored pencils to add a little extra color and for a little shading too.

After beginning and finding that the brown tree trunks bled into the green leaves, I started to use a heat tool to dry my work with the aqua brush before stamping the next item in this fun scene.

The two cards above are made with Stampin' Up's Snow Front, a scene type of stamp set. We used the Jackie Bolhuis technique from her YouTube linked above. I added one of Lynette's sentiment stamps for the thinking of you card I want to send.

We used Lynette's old wood mounted Stampin' Up! Tulip set for these four card panels using Gina K's cherry red and bubblegum pink inks for the flowers. For the more solid leaves we used Gina K's jelly bean green. For the accent lines stamp on the leaves, we used fresh asparagus ink. 

We really enjoyed "going back in time" using the old wood mounted stamps! Always enjoyed Stampin' Up's definitely decorative two step stamps. This one was surprisingly easy to match up. 

Thank you for visiting!

Wishing you peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's January 17, 2025

Don and I visited Lynette Friday, January 17, 2025. We walked to Sugar Bowl restaurant, enjoying the sunshine and warmer weather. Two of us had the delicious Hobo breakfast skillet and one had a big hamburger meal with fries. Plenty to eat and lots of leftovers to bring home.

Lynette found a great card idea created by Ceal Pritchett for My Sweet Petunia. Lynette used her Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die to make two postage layers. We then cut the individual "stamps" by using scissors to cut on the perforation lines. Voilá 6 stamps for each of us. We decided we could each make two cards.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! - Nature Walk, Botanicals, French script and postage cancellation

Unity - a butterfly collage stamp, and stamps from her stash

Inks: Gina K warm cocoa for the script, Versafine onyx black

Colored pencils

We had so much fun making flowers on watercolor paper at our May 7, 2024 Stampfest that we 

re-visited Amy William's technique Water Coloring Made Easy! This time, we used Lynette's watercolors from her stash. She had made a palette of dried tube watercolors on a plastic covered tray with round "wells". It worked great with a waterbrush...and we used an old rag to absorb extra water from the brush when needed.

Lynette's four panels are first. Then the next image of five panels is mine. 

We were inspired by some Pinterest pins to add more to the stems this time...extra lines and dots and lots of little leaves. We plan to add the panels to a card base.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Peace and all good!!

Fun with Faux Postage Cards

You will see four faux postage cards below. The first one is cut from Lynette's Waffle Flower Postage Collage die. The other three are made with the old Just For Fun wood mounted stamp and stencil set.

For this card, I started with a faux postage layer made at Lynette's house on November 13. At home I stamped some postage stamps from Stampin Up onto white cardstock and fussy cut them. I placed one of them over my badly stamped leaf in the center of the panel. The Postcard "word" is from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous clear stamp set called City Central CSS27911.

I was so happy to find my old Just For Fun brand wood mounted postage design rubber stamp and stencil from years ago! I used stamps from the sets shown in the photo above. Below is a close up of my Faux Postage card.

There are lots of faux postage samples on the Waffle Flower website and other blogs. For the design above, I was inspired by the colors of  Galina Filippenko's card with distress pumpkin ink blending at the bottom.

This card was inspired by Lisa of  My Card Trip. I stamped  then ink blended with the same ink in each of the rectangles. 

Gina K inks: bubblegum pink, light orchid

distress inks: lucky clover, fossilized amber

and Versafine onyx black

The card below has the same colors of ink blending as the first card, which was made at Lynette's house. See more details listed on the image. Click on this image or any image to see a larger view.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's November 13, 2024

We visited Lynette Wednesday, November 13, 2024 and had a great day! For lunch, we took a walk to nearby Chipotle's for  Burrito Bowls.

Back at her house, she helped me decide on a simple Christmas card design.

Inside of my Christmas card

Then we had lots of fun playing with her new Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die, Waffle Flower Postage Collage Blocks Stencil (contains the "window openings"/rectangles to mask out the perforation areas and a little border AND the Waffle Flower Collage Wild Flower Stencil set (of 3 stencils) to add the flowers. 

We were impressed how easy it was for Lynette to die cut the faux postage layer in her Cuttlebug. The Postage Collage Wild Flower Stencils (set of 3 stencils) are etched with text on each showing the order to be used. Made it easy to add the ink with blending brushes.

Remember to click on any image for a larger version.

We used Gina K inks: wild dandelion, sweet mango, warm cocoa and grass green.

On our second postage collage, we ink blended 3 background colors to each of the rectangles. We used the Waffle Flower Postage Collage Blocks Stencil and we added paper to block each rectangle when the colors did not go across the blocks.  

Then we stamped various small image stamps from our collection using Versafine onyx black ink.

For the background ink blending, we used Gina K inks, starting at the bottom and working our way up...

bottom: jelly bean green 

middle: wild lilac 

top: light orchid.

When we were done stamping, Lynette taught Don and me to play Mexican Train Dominoes. It was a  lot of fun. We played a few rounds and I think we'll play again next time. 

Lynette always puts out a beautiful charcuterie board with some delicious wine and last night was no different! We enjoyed the food and listened to music and then showed her many pictures from our recent vacation. It was a lovely day!

Thanks for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's October 2, 2024

On Wednesday, October 2, Don and I visited Lynette. We had a great time having lunch together at Buona Beef, stamping and later visiting and relaxing!

Here's another view of our cards.

Lynette wanted to try a stencil technique that I have used to make sympathy cards. We used the Lattice section of the Tim Holtz Stencil called Flourish And Latticework Thmm115 and Stampin' Up's cameo coral ink with a blending brush.  We stamped Gina K's long flower from the Lisa Hetrick designed Hugs & Wildflowers stamp set using SU's lucky limeade and cameo coral inks. The card base is a  heavy weight creamy white cardstock from Hobby Lobby.

When Lynette showed me the butterfly and stenciled cards she made based on Natasha Foote's YouTube A 'Must Know' For Crafters!!! The Classic Split #1040 I wanted to make it too! So Lynette cut the butterflies with dies from Crafters Companion and I added stenciling and ink blending to the card using the Flourishes portion of the Tim Holtz Stencil Thmm115 with distress broken china and SU gable green inks. Also used a piece of waste canvas as a stencil. Lynette's work was the hard part, getting all those pieces removed from the die! 

We were both interested in making the Scribbly Bird cards posted on Anneke De Clerck's blog, Some Fiddling on the Kitchen Table. Below are 2 of Lynette's birdie layers, then 2 of mine:

We used Lynette's Caran D'ache watercolor crayons and a water brush on cold press watercolor paper--the smooth side. Used a heat tool to help dry the panel before stamping with Versafine onyx black ink and Dina Wakley's Scribbly bird stamps. We also stamped a separate bird image for layering as shown by Anneke, leaving the legs and feet of the image on the panel showing. We used a zig permanent pigment ink marker to hand draw leaves and circles and lines and a pink marker for groups of dashes, as Annke showed.  It was so relaxing to make these layers!

We also stamped some floral designed panels, using Gina K's Hugs & Wildflowers stamps designed by Lisa Hetrick. We duplicated the panels we made on our March 27, 2023 Stampfest. However we used Stampin' Up inks: lovely lilac ink for the flowers and old olive for the stems and leaves. We used an embossing stylus after inking the leaves to create the "line" in the center of each leaf.

After we finished stamping, Lynette served us an assortment of crackers with a Double Gloucester cheese with onion and chive, tortilla chips and salsa, a pumpkin spice caramel cluster candy, and Motif Cabernet Sauvignon Red Hills Lake County wine from Trader Joe's. We enjoyed watching some old music videos on YouTube on the TV. It was great fun visitng, stamping and relaxing!

Thank you for visiting!

Peace and all good!