Stampfest at Lynette's on September 11

Lynette and I spent the day stamping at her house on Wednesday, Sept. 11. Lynette showed me the pink and purple hydrangea layers below which she made using a "crumpled tissue paper" aka "faux silk" technique. (We did not do any crumpled tissue technique on Wednesday.)

Lynette did an experiment and ran these through the cuttlebug with her new Tim Holtz Sizzix Botanical 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder.  They came out so pretty with the various textures! I would love to do a stampfest with the crumpled tissue/faux silk technique sometime.

Back to our current stampfest...we experimented with color combos.
Inks on the card above: distress tumbled glass, pumice stone;
SU (Stampin' Up!)  pistachio pudding
Dry embossed with Tim Holtz 3D Botanical embossing folder.

Inks: SU almost amethyst and pistachio pudding

We have been noticing that Stampin' UP! seems to be recycling themes of their stamps. Lynette used the bell pepper stamp from the old SU Very Veggie stamp set. She was inspired by Betty Saccocia's Garden Goodness card on her Booptique blog.
Inks from left to right: SU summer sun, cucumber crush, rocket red, yoyo yellow. Used old olive for the stem.

Lynette was inspired by Emily Midgett's Sixth Street Sundries floral card. 

She used a variety of stamps: Stamps by Judith, All night media, Altenew wildflower garden.

SU markers: pixie pink, cucumber crush

Inks: wild wasabi, ballet blue, and not sure what the fuchsia colored one is. Will check with Lynette and update later...

Sept. 15:  Lynette says we used an old inkpad with another brand of reinker. In my stash of inkpads, I would go with SU positively pink or SU pink passion or distress picked raspberry.

I am always in need of cards, so I completed mine. Sentiment (think it's SU) stamped in Versafine onyx black. Edges sponged in SU's pistachio pudding ink then adhered to a white card.

Here you see the wreaths we stamped and fussy cut. I laid them on top of blue paper for easier viewing. We were inspired by Karen Day's wreath card.
We punched a 1.5" circle and placed it in the center and stamped the branches and flowers around it. We also used a mask to avoid stamping the bottom of some of the stamps outside the wreath area.
Inks: SU bliss blue, almost amethyst, wild wasabi, certainly celery, pistachio pudding, creamy caramel, close to cocoa
Stamps: Stamps by Judith,  Altenew wildflower garden, SU-all season wreath, bird from 1999!
It was fun to use some very old Stampin' Up stamps!

Later at home, I made this card with my wreath. From my stash I found the green, Tim Holtz sizzix embossed layer (retro circles, which deeply embosses to the point of almost ripping the paper). The happy birthday sentiment and die cut is from Hero arts.

Here are two photos from Lynette's craft room while we worked on these cards.

I like to look back at our sampling of stamped images, etc.

Hope you have a great week ahead!
Enjoy every minute of the good times!