Monday, March 18, 2024

Stampfest at Lynette's January 31, 2024

Time flies...can't believe it's been almost 7 weeks since our Stampfest on Jan. 31! Finally have these cards up on the blog. Sorry for the delay! 


Used Gina K's Powder Blue mini inkpad to swipe the paper directly with ink for the background. Then used Gina K's Water Droplet stencil and a blending brush with the same Powder Blue ink.

Flowers and leaves are from a Stampin Up! clear set called What I love. They are stamped in Gina K's Blue Denim ink.


Lynette also wanted to make a sprig card like my Christmas thank you cards. I found inspiration for those here: Jackie Bolhuis' cards which she posted on her blog and YouTube.

Used the 3 different sprigs and the sentiment from Gina K's Perfect Poinsettia set. The pinecone is from Stampin' Up!'s Fantastic Foliage set. I forget which stamp set had the cute little group of 3 berries...

Used Gina K's You Have My Heart set for the guitar. I think the musical notes and sentiment are from Lynette's stash. Not sure which brown and blue inks were used.

I used Stampin Up's Little Shapes set, from 2000 instead of creating my own blocks with fun foam, though it would be fun to try!
Gina K inks: powder blue, dusty rose and peach bellini 
The flowers are from Lynette's stash: Time Well Spent by Stampin Up!
Ink Colors: Gina K's Key Lime, Sweet Corn and kept the Powder Blue.


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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Direct to Paper, Swiping then Stamping

Thank you, Melanie Muenchinger for sharing your very cool technique to make this fun and easy card! Check out Melanie's YouTube from January 26, 2020 called, "Direct to Paper Technique: Embroidered Denim Flowers". This was a quick and easy and very fun card to make!

I used Gina K Powder Blue ink to swipe the layer. Then used Gina K's Water Droplets stencil with the Powder Blue ink, just on the left side of the layer.  The flowers and leaves stamps are from Stampin Up's clear stamp set called, What I Love. The sentiment is from Altenew's Wildflower Garden stamp set. I stamped the flowers and the sentiment in Gina K's Blue Denim. Used an old Spellbinders Nestabilities Lables Four die.

I would like to try this technique in other colors. It's so quick and easy and I love the look that it creates.

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Friday, December 15, 2023

Bubble Wrap Background Cards

I made these "bubble wrap background" cards after seeing Natasha Foote's Youtube:  #UseWhatYouHave - BUBBLE WRAP Edition! Inking/Cardmaking fun with BUBBLE WRAP! from  Nov 25, 2020. 

I cut a used bubble wrap bag from Amazon to fit my 4 by 5-1/4 inch layers of cardstock, cutting the bubble wrap slightly bigger so it would extend over the edge of my cardstock.

I dabbed the ink pad directly onto the bubble wrap. Then pressed that onto my cardstock sitting on scrap paper on my desk.The bubbles transferred nicely, just pressing with my hands. I did not sponge a second color of ink like Natasha did. May try that sometime. I liked her brown and victorian velvet combo.  

I used distress oxide inkpads: wild honey, broken china and worn lipstick.. However after these were done, I did a test comparing the plain distress ink with the oxides and both looked very similar.

Once the bubbles were dry, I trimmed to 3-1/2 by 4-3/4 inches except for the blue one, which was an odd shaped small scrap, 3-3/8 by 4 inches.

Butterfly from Momenta Set of 5 Embossing Folders Hello There Butterfly
Leaves from Gina K Perfect Poinsettia, stamped in Gina K sandy beach ink
Oval vellum layer cut from Hero Arts Nesting Oval dies
The kraft card base was from my stash which already had the white small circles stamped on the edges. I think that was white acrylic paint.


Butterfly from Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, broken china ink blended onto it
Scalloped circle vellum layer cut from Spellbinders
Leaves from Gina K Perfect Poinsettia, stamped in broken china and distress hickory smoke
Used a pumice-grey cardstock from my stash.
Butterfly die cut from Momenta Hello There Butterfly set. Distress spun sugar ink blended onto it.  Used a cut out layer of the center of the butterfly from a separate, botched butterfly.
Leaves stamped in distress hickory smoke.
Used a pumice-grey cardstock from my stash.

Butterfly stamp from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous Mixed Media collection Stamps/Stencil THMM144 (wow that's a big name for a stamp set!). Stamped in oxide worn lipstick and fussy cut.
Leaves stamped in distress broken china and distress hickory smoke.

Leaves from Gina K's Perfect Poinsettia set,  stamped in  distress broken china and distress hicory smoke.

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Monday, November 27, 2023

Stampfest at Lynette's November 15, 2023

Lynette and I had a great visit almost two weeks ago. We took a walk, had lunch at a nice restaurant and stamped! 

After watching Natasha Foote's YouTube #915 called Is the the best layout ever we made these cards.  We both loved how easy these cards were to make.
Close up of Lynette's card-with 2 pieces of coordinating paper cut to  3-7/8 by 5-1/8 inches, your first cut is 1-1/2 inches. Then you turn the pieces and your 2nd cut is 1-1/4 inches. You are able to make 2 cards! And use up some of that printed paper in the stash!

This is the card I made the night before coming to Lynette's to test out Natasha's idea. I used one of Lynette's Stampin' Up! Stamps for the "hugs and kisses".

On this card, I used Lynette's pretty kraft paper with a delicate design printed in black. I wanted to try my new Gina K stencil, Bold Bouquet. My inspiration was Gina K's YouTube, Gift Card Holder Card - Inspired by Mindy Eggen

Lynette let me look through her stash of stamps for a Christmas stamp for my Christmas cards this year. I found this beautiful PSX nativity scene. I stamped it in Gina K's blue denim ink.

Just wanted to include this photo with  "Graphic Tree" from Gina K. I was experimenting with possible Christmas cards.

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Halloween Cards 2023


In looking back at my 2020 Halloween cards, I decided to make this cat and moon card AGAIN. It was inspired by Tami Bastiaans card from her Plays Well With Paper blog.

Had fun with the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Snarky Cat Halloween set. 

For the moon, I just outlined a punched circle with a Faber Castell PITT pen and then added dots inside for the moon's craters.

Trees are from Stampscapes. 



Fussy cut my own bats and ghosts drawn from home made templates.
Bird background from a stencil in my stash.


Oval alphabet from Michael Strong. Candy corn from Hero Arts. Pumpkins are an unmounted stamp.

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