Stampfest At Lynette's, June 20, 2026

We visited Lynette yesterday and had a great time! Enjoyed the summer activities with food specialites of the area. And we had lots of fun stamping! Above are the cards we made.

Our moon tags were inspired by a YouTube by Jenny Card Designs...called 

Simple Nature Scene-Ink Blending and Stamping

from May 30, 2026

LINK:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgCJ-LBOwk0 

We cut our own tags with white cardstock, 6-1/4 by 3-1/8 inches. Then we made our own circle mask for the moon area using Hero Arts infinity dies-the same diameter as our moon stamp from Gina K (To the moon and back).

We used blending brushes with  Distress Antique Linen to add color to the circle/moon. Then we stamped the features of the moon with the "To the moon and back" Gina K stamp using the same Distress Antique Linen.  When done, we covered the moon with our circle mask to create the blue sky on the rest of the tag. We used Distress ink and blending brushes. 

Starting at the bottom of the tag Lynette ink blended with Faded Jeans ink, then Broken China and Weathered Wood at the top. I think I used Weathered Wood at the bottom, then Broken China, then Stormy Sky at the top.  

The rest of the stamping was done with Versafine Onyx Black. We stamped a wood mounted Hero Arts stamp, #K5517, retired Tall Wheat (sometimes referred to as Large Cattails). We used a stamp from the Stampin' Up! set called Garden Silhouettes, a Tim Holtz clear stamp from the Flights of Fancy set. The birds are from a Tim Holtz clear stamp set called Lost and Found.

This group of cards is inspired by Natasha Foote's 

6 Splotches Technique: Use ANY Materials for Amazing Card Backgrounds! (#1290)

from January 26, 2026

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SglTDkNu8fw&t=2s

Lynette's card are the two above. Mine are the two below.

Lynette had some metallic watercolors in her stash, so we used those. We had to set the panels aside to let them dry. We used her sweet Waffle Flower Lake Sunset and Beach Days stamp sets and Versafine Black Onyx ink to stamp the "squares". Immediately after stampin the summer images, we used clear embossing powder with a heat tool to set the black ink.  I love using those very fun summer images! Thank you, Lynette!!

My paper warped quite a bit. Lynette's not so much. We decided to run the layers through her old crimper, which saved the day. The corrugated look and it hid the warping! Next time will use watercolor paper or maybe my Tim Holtz multi media paper, which I keep forgetting about!

Above you see the result of trying Natasha Foote's debossing technique. Her YouTube is called,

1000 VIDEOS!! Let's Celebrate With a Freebie FOR YOU! Debossing In Card Making(#1000) 

from March 22, 2024  

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3XwgSUEd4w

We used a Cuttlebug embossing folder called Stylized Flowers.
On the debossed side (indented part of the flowers, leaves and stems, we ink blended with Stampin Up's Pink Passion and Green Galore. 

Then using Distress Chipped Saphire, we swiped the ink directly from the inkpad onto the entire surface of the panel, going backand forth till all the white areas were gone. The result was dramatic!

Our final card is from Natasha Foote's 

SCRAPS into TORN ELEGANCE (#1337)

from May 15, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_rzhDBOj6Q&t=490s

We were inspired by a flower card like this created by a member of Natasha's Facebook. It was rough going at first. We were not sure how to do the paper piecing. Finally decided to create a 5 petal sketch on computer paper. We didn't have scraps of printed paper, so we tore into Lynette's stash. It sure looked like a "hot mess" at first (as Natasha would say!). But we were happy with the results. The stitching lines really help it come together. 

Thank you for visitng!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's May 22, 2026

Don and I visited Lynette yesterday. We enjoyed a nice lunch at Olive Garden. Then we returned and had a wonderful day of visiting and stamping!

 

Lynette showed me the "Tommy Bahama" Tropical shirt card she had made after seeing Tami White's YouTube: "Tommy Bahama" Tropical shirt card featuring Stampin' Up products . I am grateful that she was willing to help me make two of them! We used navy cardstock cut in half at 4-1/4 inches to get two topfold cards. With another piece of the navy cardstock Lynette cut four-2 inch squares to get 2 sleeves on each of the 2 cards. She also cut two navy collar pieces, 1 x 4-1/4 inches and two white inner collar pieces.

Using the Stampin' Up ink colors Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Only Orange and Real Red, I ink blended the white panels. Then stamped the tall palm trees from Gina K's Ocean Silhouettes using GK's  In the Navy ink. On the pocket, I stamped It's Your Day with an old 2001 SU stamp. 

Lynette cut two pocket about 1-1/4 x 1-1/2 each. We just trimmed the bottom corners off before ink blending with Tempting Turquoise. 

The sleeves were just a  2 inch square adhered to the front of the navy card at an angle, before the "shirt" panel was added.

The shirt panel is cut in half at the center, 2-1/8 inch from the side. The left panel is then prepared with a paper pierce tool. Lynette had a plastic template with tiny holes to get an even placement.  The tiny holes make the shirt edge looked stitched. Lynette had navy brads to use as buttons. I added 6 evenely down the shirt front. I inked the edge of the shirt with a dark navy marker. 

The collar is folded so that the top corners meet. The white panel is put inside the collar. It should not go beyond the diagonal fold. You cut partially into on the fold, about 1/2 inch up from the bottom. This allows the front part of the collar to be placed over the inked shirt part. You adhere the back part of the collar centered on the top of the blue card base. It will be behind the shirt when you add the 2 shirt panels. I made a mistake on the first card, gluing the collar to the back side of the navy card. So then I  had to add a crease in collar back to open the card. It's a bit confusing. I didn't watch the YouTube closely enough! Once this card was done, it really looked impressive. On the inside white panel that is 4 x 5-1/4 inches, I stamped Happy Father's Day with a stamp from Lynette's stash-not shown. 

Our pink rose card was inspired by Karen Dunbrook's Everything Rosy? blogpost.We used Lynette's Stampin' Up! Mixed Bouquet wood stamp set for the flower and leaves. The  card we saw had green leaves but with some stamping on those leaves from the stamp with the 6 circles with dots.

First we inked a separate piece of white cardstock with Gina K's dusty rose ink. Then Lynette stamped the big rose stamp with Brilliance white ink and used white embossing powder over that for beautiful outline/texture. 

We did the same for the leaves, inking the white cardstock with Gina K's jelly bean grean ink. Then we  stamped the "6 circle stamp with dots in the centers" using the same jelly bean green ink. If you look closely, you can see portions of that circle stamp in the leaves. Lynette used Brilliance white ink to stamp the leaves and then used white embossing powder over that for the outline texture.  

The rose and leaves were fussy cut. We added a strip of black polka dot paper to our card base. Then using foam tape added the rose.  The leaves were adhered with double stick tape and a little bit of clear acrylic medium for glue.

It was so much fun making this Swing Card. Again, Lynette had made one previously and she was willing to take the time to show me how she did it. She found this YouTube

HOW TO CREATE A SWING CARD THE EASY WAY!  by Angela Pyjas of StampingWithAmore

from May 19, 2020.

The card is a regular 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inch card. The front flap is scored at 2-1/8 to get the fold back flap. We used 2 circle dies and a Cuttlebug machine.

Our circle die that cut just half of the circle in the card was 2-7/8 inches in diameter. 

Our die to cut the entire white circle was  2-1/2 inches in diameter.

As shown in the YouTube...we placed our card flat onto the Cuttlebug plate centering the larger circle die evenely between the edge and the fold. We taped it (with low tack, easy release tape) and placed the top plate over, just to the edge of the fold...maybe a tiny bit over the fold as instructed in the YouTube. You hold the plate in place until the rollers grab and then you run everything through.

Stamped a sentiment on the inside white circle (2-1/2 inches wide) and adhered it to the inside of the circle.

We cut a piece of printed paper 2-1/4 wide by 5-1/4 high and left a small border of the cardstock. 

I may add a piece of white cardstock next to the printed paper to add a personal note.

All of these cards were so much fun to make! I am so happy that Lynette had such good ideas for our cardmaking day!! Thank you, Lynette!!!

And thanks to my friends who visit this blog!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's March 23, 2026

Yesterday Lynette and I had a great time stamping. We worked on ideas we have been thinking about.

Our trees in the sky card was fun to make. We used a layer of dark blue card stock from Lynette's stash, Stamped trees from Gina K's You Warm My Heart and Natural Silhouettes stamp sets with Versafine Onyx black ink. The die cut happy is from Hero Arts and the "birthday" is from Lynette's stash.

Lynette and I saw a card like made by Audrey Pettit on her Audrey Pettit Designs website. We had lots of fun with this. Seems like we do a lot of substitutions but thie time we actually had the Leafy Texture Fades embossing folder. We inked the raised side of the embossing folder with Gina K white pigment ink, then placed the kraft paper inside and ran it through the Cuttlebug. We die cut 3 flowers from the Tim Holtz Sizzix WILDFLOWERS Thinlits Die set from white cardstock. Then ink blended with Gina K's lemon drop, powder blue and lucky clover inks. Sentiments from Lynette's stash.

Lynette and I saw Vicki Perry's February 22, 2026 post in the Gina K Designs & StampTV Friends Facebook group where she created her own background paper using blue and brown inks. We both loved it and wanted to give that a try. We used leaf stamps from these Gina K's stamp sets: Gentle Silhouettes, Flower Builders, The Greatest Gift, the Original Wreath Builder and Hugs and Wildflowers and Fresh Florals (the Birthday Blessings sentiment). 

We ended up liking a kraft oval for the sentiment in black ink. And stamping flower outlines from the Hugs and Wildflowers set on blue cardstock. The white oval got lost in the background print and so did blue flowers stamped on white cardstock.

We always have such a great time together! I'm so glad that Lynette hosts this very fun day!

Thank you for visitng and wishing you

Peace and all good!

 

Stampfest at Lynette's December 12, 2025

 

Don and I visited Lynette yesterday. We had great time visiting. We took a short walk to a restaurant for lunch which was delicious and we got a few "steps in".

For our Stampfest, we were inspired by two cards made by Meghann Andrews. She used Gina K's Great Outdoors stamps on her June 30, 2025 blog and Youtube: Gina K. Designs The Great Outdoors Livestream. 

We had some technical challenges. Lynette's Waffle Flower Postage Collage die did not have three rectangles going across. However, we were able to use my Gina K Master Layouts 4-it has a single rectangle postage die. So we cut three for each of us. We were glad we could squeeze these three postage pieces on a 5.5 x 4.25" card. 

Lynette found a beautiful wood  mounted stamp from Stampin' Up! called Homespun Plaid to use on blue cardstock. She stamped  both of our cards in Gina K's In the navy ink.

We used Lynette grip mat from Waffle flower. I cut strips of printer paper to mask off the rectangles, using washi tape to hold the paper in place. I liked how securely the grip mat held the three postage rectangles side by side as we worked.

For the sky and water, we ink blended Gina K wild dandelion, Stampin'Up only orange and Gina K powder blue. 

Then we carefully stamped the rocks stamp and the birds with GK in the navy ink. The rocks stamp was not long enough, so we had to mask off part and re-stamp trying to "match" the scene. I think it worked out pretty well.

You can see how well Lynette inkblended the sky and water and how she did a great job on stamping the rocks, which was tricky because the stamp was not long enough for the whole width. 

I did not get good coverage of in the navy ink in the center rectangle. And I had an empty spot on the left which I tried to re-stamp. It's not perfect, but I'm afriad to mess it up worse with a marker.

It was very fun creating this scene with the faux postage look. Having Meghann Andrews' sample was super helpful! Thank you Meghann for sharing your art with us on your blog and in your YouTube!

Now I'd like to try her golf version!

Lynette generously helped me make these three Christmas cards. She showed me cards she had made before our get-together with a Stampin' Up! kit called Sparkling Holiday that had adhesive on the back of the printed cardstock. I loved the design she created!  

Just wanted to thank my blog visitors. Just a reminder that you can always click on an image to see a larger version.

Wishing you peace and all good!

More Browns Technique Cards

This card started as a panel made at Lynette's house on Oct. 23rd using Natasha Foote's YouTube tutorial,  Browns Only Technique, Video #1237 from Sept. 24, 2025. The embossing of the hill and trees was demonstrated by Natasha at about the 10:15 minute mark in her video tutorial.

I tried the technique, first wiping the bottom of the panel with an anti-static powder bag. I tore a piece of paper to make the mask for the hill.  I applied Versafine embossing ink to the paper below the hill mask with a makeup sponge. Then I stamped the trees with embossing ink. Finally I added the gold embossing powder and heat set it all.

I liked how the gold embossing looked, but the paper I used was thin and there was warping from when I did the browns technique. I tried to "get rid" of some of that warped paper by cutting my panel with a Hero Arts Oval nesting infinity die. I cut a black "frame" with the next size larger oval die. I did not get my panel centered perfectly, however! 

The photo above shows  the way the "swiping" of the 3 colors looks, working from the bottom of the page toward the top: Gina K's dark chocolate, warm cocoa and soft stone at the top. 

Below are three cards and another sample showing the swiping of the inks at the beginning. Below each card I list the ink colors I used for the sky. Info about the stamps is at the end.

Ink blending: distress tumbled glass for the lake and streams. The sky, bottom up: distress fossilized amber, Gina K sweet mango, blue denim.

Ink blending: distress tumbled glass for the lake and streams. The sky, bottom up: Gina K wild dandelion, sweet mango, bubblegum pink, blue denim.

Ink blending: Gina K peach bellini, lovely lavender, wild lilac.

Above you can I tried swiping greens for the land. Used Gina K's asparagus, then jelly bean and soft stone at the top. I liked using the Fabiano Smooth Bristol paper 103 lb. (280 gsm). It worked much better than my regular inexpensive cardstock. It held up to water without much warping to much. 

The stamps for the outline mountain and a solid, filled in mountain are from Momenta, a small set that Lynette gave me. 

The tree stamps are from Gina K's Natural Silhouettes & You Warm My Heart, Stampscapes:  Tree Duo 085A and Inkadinkado-2 pine trees 96683 K, 

The birds are from Gina K's Fearless Flyers and Stampscapes-Gulls 302A.

The ground cover filler in the green card is from Stampscapes: Bush, 191A.

You can always click on an image to get a larger version.

Thank you for visiting! 

Wishing you Peace and all good!