Stampfest with Lynette May 13, 2019

Lynette and I spent Monday visiting and stamping. We made more Z Fold cards and tried something new for us: Smack Down technique.

Though we had made the Z Box Fold card before, we reviewed Deb Valder's tutorial on Splitcoaststampers. We cut the base as she suggested. After seeing a card on Splitcoaststamers made by annsforte3, we changed the top layer on the left front panel to fill the entire space. And we went with annsforte3's flower and butterfly theme. Lynette chose the stamps and colors!

Stamps:
Tim Holtz Visual Artistry Flights of Fancy CSS25856 set.
Stampin' Up's Watercolor Minis
Hero Arts Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut DC184 for the best wishes  and other Hero Arts
Fiskars

Inks:
Tombow brush markers, Stampin' Up! lavender lace, Distress wilted violet

Other:
Stampin' Up! Sizzix Embosslits butterfly die
Fine leaves-Punch by McGill

by Lynette

View of flattened card by Lynette

My card

We tried out some printed papers on these Z Box Fold cards.

Lynette made this one. She used 2 step stamping for her mini roses and leaves.

Picked raspberry was stamped off  first, then full strength used for the second stamp.

The same with the leaves using peeled paint.

Die leaf from Stampin' Up Sizzix Embosslits sweetest stem

Stitched Shapes Oval Framelits Dies from Stampin' Up!

I used oxide picked raspberry on my roses. For my leaves I copied Lynette's idea of stamping off with peeled paint for the first impression, then full strength for the second stamp.

On the sentiment oval, I used  Tombow markers to ink a stamp from SU's Lots of Lavender set.

The green sentiment stamp, from Hero Arts was stamped in SU's wild wasabi.

Ovals dies from Nestabilities-Spellbinders.

Lynette found a fun, quick and easy technique called Smack Dow on Karen Dunbrook's Snippet's blog. Karen said this is a variation of a technique from Splitcoaststampers.

Lynette chose the stamps, SU's Watercolor Trio 

and ink colors: Stampin' Up! going gray Distress salty ocean, mermaid lagoon and peacock feathers. Then the sentiment from Ranger Letter It called Birthday LEC59295 was inked in Versafine onyx black.

by Lynette

my card

Thanks for looking! Hope your week is going well!

Enjoy the little things in life.

Mother's Day Cards

I made some Mother's Day cards today. Used Stampin' Up's Watercolor Minis, Lots of Lavender and Wreath of Roses stamp sets. The feathery leaf stamp is by Judith. The embossing folder, Flowers & Leaves from Spellbinders, was a little too thick for my 2 B plates/Cuttlebug. So I used one C plate, a piece of sheet metal flashing and a medium thickness piece of paper. I really like the floral design on this Flowers & Leaves embossing folder.

Materials used: twine and some old Hero Arts plastic sequins.  

Inks:

Distress wilted violet, wild honey, 

Distress Oxide worn lipstick,

Stampin' Up wild wasabi

Here's a similar card with a yellow background.

I tried adding stems from the Lots of Lavender set. Not sure that worked well. 

Inks:

Distress wilted violet, abandoned coral, scattered straw, wild honey

Memento tuxedo black

Stampin' Up wild wasabi

Here is another slight variation.

Inks:

Distress wilted violet, spiced marmalade, scattered straw

Distress Oxide worn lipstick

Stampin' Up wild wasabi

Thanks so much for visiting!

Hope you make someone's day!

Wild Wacky Women Birthday Cards

I made 3 birthday cards for my dear friends who have April birthdays. They came to my house on Easter Monday for a birthday breakfast brunch! It was fun to visit and relax and eat together. 

I used scraps of watercolor paper from my stash for 2 of the cards. You can see the texture in this close up.

For the 3rd card I used Ranger Inkssentials Specialty Stamping paper.
The label says matte coated cardstock. 

Here is a close up of the Inkssentials paper--it is very smooth.

I used Jane Davenport watercolors to paint the yellow, blue and green stripes. Once that was dry I used distress hickory smoke and salty ocean to stamp some background stamps from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set called  Bitty Grunge CMS089. 

On a separate piece of paper with Versafine Onxy Black ink, I stamped the lady, a Dawn Houser Inkadinkado stamp (number listed on stamp 8340 N). I used my new  Beautique oval brush to add distress squeezed lemonade ink to cover that layer. This brush worked well. I bought a set of 3 from Amazon.  The happy birthday stamp is from Stampin' UP! from 2001! I added some fun fur yarn as an accent.

On the inside I used an old Annette Allen Watkins stamp for the "wishing you" sentiment. On the top part of the inside, I stamped a favorite stamp, They who are wild and wacky women, a Suzy Toronto/PSX stamp.

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Thank you so much for visiting!
Wishing you Spring Happiness!