Thursday, March 13, 2025

Stampfest at Lynette's March 11, 2025

Lynette, Don and I spent the day together at her place on Tuesday. We had a great day visiting, enjoying a delicious lunch at Naf Naf's and at the end of the day, enjoying some wine, cheese and crackers and chips and salsa! 

Lynette and I always have a great time stamping together! Tuesday was no different! Above you see three of the four card designs we made.

This card was made by Lynette a long time ago. It's such a pretty card that we decided to try and make one like it. The green ring was made from the outer petals of Stampin' Up's Summer Sunflower stamp. The butterfly and script stamps were part of Stampin' Up!'s Botanicals.


We decided to use the flower from Stampin' Up!'s Botanicals. For the flourishes we use a clear Rhonna Farrer? stamp from Lynette's stash. Used a clear circle stamp with lines made by Kelly Panacci called Memo.

We cut a circle mask from thinner paper with a circle punch. Stamped the Summer Sunflower stamp with distress peeled paint over the circle mask to create border of  "leaves". Then stamped Kelly Panacci's circle lined stamp in the center with distress peeled paint ink. Using what was left after punching the circle, we masked the green leaves area and stamped the Botanicals script in distress candied apple. 

Stamped the flower from Botanicals in distress candied apple. Stamped the butterfly from SU's Botanicals with candied apple on separate cardstock to be applied with foam tape after all was done. Used blending brushes to add candied apple and peeled paint to the background. Used foam tape apply our butterflies.


These cards were made with Lynette's My Meadow stamp set by Stampin' Up. Lynette found a similar My Meadow card on from Pinterest. (We were unable to find the source of the Pin.) We used watercolor paper and Gina K's inks, starting with moonlit fog for the gazebo, warm cocoa for the tree trunks. We used an aqua painter/water brush to blend the ink right after stamping to give a watercolor effect. We learned this from Jackie Bolhuis' YouTube 
https://klompenstampers.com/stampin-up-card-ideas-feel-like-an-artist/
which you will see more in the next card. 

We used GK sea glass for the pond (I think), moonlit fog for the bridge, jelly bean green for the leaves and grassy meadow. Not sure which green for the flower leaves. The flowers were stamped in cherry red, wild dandelion, sweet mango and wild lilac. The stones by the pond were stamped in soft stone. We used colored pencils to add a little extra color and for a little shading too.

After beginning and finding that the brown tree trunks bled into the green leaves, I started to use a heat tool to dry my work with the aqua brush before stamping the next item in this fun scene.


The two cards above are made with Stampin' Up's Snow Front, a scene type of stamp set. We used the Jackie Bolhuis technique from her YouTube linked above. I added one of Lynette's sentiment stamps for the thinking of you card I want to send.




We used Lynette's old wood mounted Stampin' Up! Tulip set for these four card panels using Gina K's cherry red and bubblegum pink inks for the flowers. For the more solid leaves we used Gina K's jelly bean green. For the accent lines stamp on the leaves, we used fresh asparagus ink. 

We really enjoyed "going back in time" using the old wood mounted stamps! Always enjoyed Stampin' Up's definitely decorative two step stamps. This one was surprisingly easy to match up. 

Thank you for visiting!
Wishing you peace and all good!

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Stampfest at Lynette's January 17, 2025

Don and I visited Lynette Friday, January 17, 2025. We walked to Sugar Bowl restaurant, enjoying the sunshine and warmer weather. Two of us had the delicious Hobo breakfast skillet and one had a big hamburger meal with fries. Plenty to eat and lots of leftovers to bring home.

Lynette found a great card idea created by Ceal Pritchett for My Sweet Petunia. Lynette used her Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die to make two postage layers. We then cut the individual "stamps" by using scissors to cut on the perforation lines. Voilá 6 stamps for each of us. We decided we could each make two cards.




Stamps: Stampin' Up! - Nature Walk, Botanicals, French script and postage cancellation
Unity - a butterfly collage stamp, and stamps from her stash
Inks: Gina K warm cocoa for the script, Versafine onyx black
Colored pencils

We had so much fun making flowers on watercolor paper at our May 7, 2024 Stampfest that we 
re-visited Amy William's technique Water Coloring Made Easy! This time, we used Lynette's watercolors from her stash. She had made a palette of dried tube watercolors on a plastic covered tray with round "wells". It worked great with a waterbrush...and we used an old rag to absorb extra water from the brush when needed.

Lynette's four panels are first. Then the next image of five panels is mine. 

We were inspired by some Pinterest pins to add more to the stems this time...extra lines and dots and lots of little leaves. We plan to add the panels to a card base.

Thanks so much for visiting!
Peace and all good!!