Stampfest at Lynette's July 23, 2026

Don and I visited Lynette on Thursday, July 23. We had a great time visiting! We took a walk to a favorite little restaurant for lunch. The weather was so pleasant...not too hot! Then Lynette and I had a productive stamping session. We enjoyed making quilt style cards, an impressive style one layer card and fun collage cards.

For our Quilt Look cards, we followed the YouTube tutorial by Jacque Williams

from September 7, 2022

Three Easy Ways to Create A Quilting Effect with Paper!

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AruyIo_KxDw&t=198s

This card tutorial starts at about the 7:42 minute mark.

Lynette found the perfect paper for this technique from a 12 x 12 paper pad. It had one inch rows of different designs. We each needed a 3 inch square for this technique. We cut that square in half vertically and horizontally. That gave us 4 pieces, each 1-1/2 inch square. We rotated each square to get a new design. We used a piece of blank printer paper as our base, adhering the 4 pieces to that. The center where the 4 squares meet need to be even. It's ok if the sides are not even. Any uneven part on the side can be trimmed. Once our 4 squares dried on the printer paper, we trimmed and ran that piece thrrough the cuttlebug in an embossing folder. Lynette had a great "quilt look" embossing folder! We mounted our "quilt piece" onto dark green cardstock...then onto a cream card.

For our One Layer cards we followed the YouTube tutorial by Justine Hovey

from June 7, 2026

These One-Layer Cards Are Fooling Everyone (Here's How I Made Them)

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZT8KDvw4aw&t=298s

This card tutorail starts at about the 9:13 minute mark.

We used Lynette's pretty outline flower stamp.  For this technique the flower has to be just an outline. We will be ink blending over the flower, but with the bloom part masked, so it remains white. We stamped the flower on the left side of a white card with Versafine Onyx Black ink. It needs to dry thoroughly.  

On a separate piece of printer paper, we stamped the flower and let the ink dry thoroughly. Then fussy cut out just the bloom part to create a mask. Lynette did that! She's excellent at fussy cutting! She added removable tape runner dots to the back of the flower and placed it over the flower to mask it before we added the blue ink blending!

We tore a piece of printer paper large enough to cover the right side of the card. Placed that on our card where we wanted the card to be white. You can tear the paper to whatver shape/design you like. Then we ink blended the left side of the card, where the flower is stamped and where the blossom is masked. The home made mask worked very well. No curling up as we ink blended. Lynette used Distress Faded Jeans ink. I used Gina K Turquois Sea ink.

Lynette's collage cards

For our collage cards  we were inspired by Sherry Roth's Stamped Treasures blog

from June 17, 2026

Have Scraps? Try This!

LINK: https://stampedtreasures.com/have-scraps-try-this/

We used old book paper, vintage look yellow vellum with advertisements, printed tags from a 12 x 12 printed paper pack, and some other odds and ends.

We stamped some images and text with Versafine Onyx Black ink, Distress Frayed Burlap and Ground Espresso. 

All our cards were fun to make. It's especially fun working with Lynette, who is very creative and artistsic and is very welcoming!

Thank you for visiting!

Peace and all good!