Fun Background Stamping

 

I created a small stampscapes scene on my block stamped area. Applied distress dried marigold and ripe persimmon on my acrylic block. Then I spritzed with water and placed the block onto a piece of watercolor paper. Once dry, I stamped the scene.

Stampscapes: 

Buck-191A and Gulls-302A in distress ground espresso

Tree Duo-085A in distress peeled paint

On the bottom of the blocked area I added green lines with my zig clean color real brush green marker. But I didn't like the look, so I stamped over that with stampscapes bush-191A.

Happy Birthday clear stamp from Dimensions-Crafts, stamped in dried espresso.

Mounted my watercolor layer on an orange piece of cardstock from my stash.

The color panel on this card was made with Dylusions Ink sprays: fresh lime, pure sunshine and postbox red. I love the vibrant color, but I am not a fan of the MESS sprays make. Maybe it's me and I'm just messy. I was trying to be careful...to spray my paper only... but the spray got all over my stamping area. Next time I will make more backgrounds outside! I probably have not used these sprays since Lynette and I had a book paper and altered book stampfest in June 2014! We used the sprays outside on her patio!

Stamps:

Stampin' Up! Antique Collectibles, Days Gone By

Rubber Stampede She Knows 3652C

Hero Arts sentiment

Here is a photo of my sprayed panels made with the Dylusions sprays. For my card above, I cut one of the panels in half. 

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Block Stamped Birthday Card

I'm still playing with Block Stamping. This time I applied distress spiced marmalade and ripe persimmon inkpads on my acyrlic block. Then I spritzed with water and placed the block onto a piece of watercolor paper. Once dry, I stamped a clear acrylic Inkadinkado stem from #97623 Garden Delight using Versafine onyx black. The sentiment is from a little clear acrylic Fiskars set called Birthday Bash.

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And More Block Stamping

This background was made using Tombow markers #873 (light orange), #062 (yellow) and #098 (a yellow-green). Color descriptions are mine-the markers are labeled with numbers only. I really like how my Tombow markers have stayed nice and juicy over the years. I do not have a huge variety of colors. 

I added the color to a large acrylic block, spritzed with water and placed the block onto a piece of watercolor paper. I had hoped to get darker color. For the second card, I went back to using distress inkpads to "color" the acrylic block. 

I sponged the edges with  distress inks: dried marigold, mustard seed, crushed olive and peeled paint over the bottom. I sponged crushed olive distress ink onto my home made hills stencil.

Stamps and inkpads used:  
Stampscapes: Old Fence 293C-vintage photo
Hot Sun 285E-creamy caramel
Cattails 016B-ground espresso
Ducks in Formation 027A-black soot
Smaller trees are Stampscapes Tree Duo 085A-pine needles
Large tree, unknown stamp company-pine needles.

I used crushed olive distress ink when using my home made hills stencil.

For this card, I went back to using distress ink pads on my large acrylic block. For me, I was able to achieve a more vibrant color. Used ripe persimmon, fossilized amber and crushed olives inkpads.

Stamps and distress inkpads used:

Stampscapes: 

Bear 167A-ground espresso

Hot Sun 285E-ripe persimmon

Bush 191A-old olive

pine tree group from Inkadinkado-old olive

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Started with Block Stamping

 

Here are some birthday cards I made:
Two Z fold cards, continuing to use up flower photos.
The map and boat card was not my idea. I CASE'd it from Lynette.

Experimented with "block stamping" by dabbing ink pads onto an acrylic block then spritzing with water. Inspiration from Cathy at Maine Mountain Stamper. She used markers to "color" the acrylic block. I used distress inkpads because I liked those colors.

The green card base is 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches and 8-1/4 inches. I cut 3 pieces of white cardstock, 2-1/4 by 3-3/4 inches.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Marvelous Morning Glory.    Using ballet blue ink, I stamped off  for the first impression for the fuller part of the flower. Then used ballet blue again  "full strength" for the detailed part of the flower. Same idea for the leaves using wild wasabi ink.  I stamped some tiny irregular dots in the center of the panel of flowers with SU's old Itty Bitty Background stamp. Used SU's Simple Sketches Happy Birthday stamp in ballet blue and added the little bird from SU's Feathered Hope.

Stamps: SU's Beautiful Friendship and Watercolor Minis using SU's wild wasabi and distress worn lipstick and dried marigold.  Not sure which SU set the "happy day" stamp is from?

Here is the guy card I CASED from Lynette's card. 

Stamps: Prima #572594 Seashore (a very tiny little clear acrylic stamp set), Sentiment from Tim Holtz cling set: Saying Stuff, SU Old World Map, that I embossed with Zing white opaque finish embossing powder.

Here are the block stamping cards. I used off  white cardstock from my stash. It has a laid finish. It's a little thicker than the Georgia Pacific 110 lb. that I use. I may try this technique with watercolor paper or a watercolor layer because the card front warped a little. I used 3 colors on this  card: distress spiced marmalade, fossilized amber and salty ocean.  It was difficult trying to tap ink in the middle. I put a piece of paper down on the bottom third of the block to keep that part clean. The very bottom of the color block did not seem to get enough water. One does not know what the result will be...keeping it kind of fun. 

Stamps: SU's Petal Prints (flower) and Denami Designs (sentiment) stamped in Versafine onyx black.

Here I switched to just 2 colors of ink, Salty ocean and crushed olive. Much easier to do. I would like to try and make a scene card with these colors...sky above and green grass below.

I probably did not add enough water for this block stamping? Instead of throwing it out, I thought little houses, trees and clouds from SU's Good Neighbor's set would be fun and funky? What do you think?

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Script Beautiful Friendship

 

Here are three cards I made for September's anniversaries. My inspiration came from Ingrid L's floral card that I saw on Pinterest. I really liked the way she used her script stamp with the flowers.

Now for a closer look...

The card base is cream cardstock with a laid finish from my stash. 

Stamps: Stampin' Up!'s Beautiful Friendship and Botanicals (script); Hero Arts Ribbon Message Stamp & Cut (sentiment stamped and die cut)

Inks: Stampin' Up! Going Grey, Pretty in Pink, Rose Romance, Certainly Celery on the first 2 cards. Switched to Wild Wasabi on the third card.

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Stamp Then Emboss

In preparation for making some September birthday cards, I found wonderful inspiration from Frenchie at her blog post:  Beautiful Friendship, Stamp, Emboss without Layers.

CASEing Frenchie's card, I stamped the hydrangea and leaves from Stampin' UP!'s Beautiful Friendship set. If you have been following me, you know how much I love this set, a gift from my friend, Mona! Thanks again!!! 

After stamping, I had trouble running the card front through my Cuttlebug. I was using a Spellbinders embossing folder called, Flowers and Leaves. I think this embossing folder is a little thicker than other brands. It would not go through my Cuttlebug with two B plates, the usual formula. However, I was able to run it through with just one C plate and the base! Glad it worked....well sort of...the impression is not too deeply formed... But I think I can send it out! I used a creamy card stock from my stash-brand unknown. It has a laid finish.

Inks: Stampin' Up!  Lavender Lace and Wild Wasabi

For my second card, I just used a separate layer, 4 x 5 inches of Georgia Pacific 110 pound card stock. Stamped the Fiskars butterfly (Many Thanks set), the tulips from Stampin' UP!'s Spring Garden and the sentiment from SU's Simple Sketches. Attached to a card base of the same cardstock.

Inks:

Stampin' Up-Lavender Lace, Wild Wasabi and Rose Romance

Distress: Black Soot

Used a Faber Castell black PITT pen to draw the squiggle border

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