Stampfest At Lynette's August 20, 2025

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On Wednesday, Aug. 20th, Don and I visited Lynette and had a great time.  We all had lunch at Naf Naf's and then Lynette and I had a wonderful time stamping. Lynette had lots of great ideas! 

Lynette found great inspiration for the Altenew Leaf Canopy stamp set on Pinterest. The title of the Pinterest page is, "Colorful Leaf Stamping". This card inspired the next seven cards below: the three brick embossed layer cards and the four cards mounted on orange cardstock. 

The first three cards were initially a trial on some odd colored watercolor paper from Lynette's stash. We lightly spritzed the Altenew Leaf Canopy stamp which was on an acrylic block. Then we colored the leaves with Lynette's wonderful Caran D'Ache watercolor crayons, using a few different colors. Then we lightly spritzed again, before stamping on the watercolor paper. Adding the color from the watercolor stamp was a fun way to stamp the leaves! The three cards above started out as a test, but we liked the result. We added them on top of a "brick" panel made with the Sizzix Tim Holtz Bricked embossing folder.

Leaf Canopy on orange cardstock:

For the four cards above, we did the same technique, using different colors from Lynette's Caran D'Ache watercolor crayons. When dry, we used a dotted stamp from Stamps by Judith with Gina K Peach Bellini ink to created a splattered look. Then we mounted the watercolor layer onto orange cardstock.

Kraft cards:

Our inspiration for these kraft cards is from an Altenew blog hop back in 2018. Scroll down to card #3, #4 and #6 to see Erum Tasneem's card. We used Brilliance ink on the leaf canopy stamp.

For these cards we were inspired by Erum Tasneem's No-Line Watercoloring using Leaf Canopy Stamp Set by Altenew, July 29, 2018. On watercolor paper we stamped the outline of the leaves with distress antique linen ink. Them used Caran D'Ache watercolor crayons and a water brush to add color within the stamped antique linen leaves. For splatters, we used that dotted stamp from Stamps by Judith. We mounted the watercolor layer on kraft paper, then on a white card.

Lynette helped me to copy this card design that she made previously. When I saw her card, I fell in love with it. 

We inked one side of Gina K Tapestry embossing folder with brilliance blue ink....the side where the images are raised, I think. .

We stamped the Stampin Up Marvelous Morning Glory flowers with SU Tempting turquoise, stamping off three times for the lighter shade (the fuller stamp). Then stamped the inside details part with full Tempting Turquoise.  

Thanks so much for visiting!

Peace and all good! 

Stampfest at Lynette's July 11, 2025

We visited Lynette on Friday and had a great time as always! For lunch, we took a walk to a nice restaurant in her neighborhood...delicious food, with leftovers to take home. 

Lynette found inspiration for our cards from Lisa Hetrick, Gina K (who was inspired by Natasha Foote) and Jodene Tripp.

For our first card, we followed Lisa Hetrick's flower card with a wet on wet watercolor technique demonstrated on Lisa's YouTube tutorial from May 28, 2019. 

Card Tutorial: Washy Watercolor Florals + 3D Sentiment Embellishments

Lisa described it as  "wet, wet, washy watercolor". 

Lisa stamped her flowers first with GK amalgam ink-obsidian/black waterproof ink. Apparently the amalgam ink is waterproof. However I left that inkpad at home. So we decided not to stamp the flower first. 

First we added water to the watercolor paper with a paintbrush. Then we used watercolors from Lynette's stash, trying to keep our work area wet so the color would travel. We followed Lisa's video as we worked and set aside our panels to dry before we stamped the large outline flower from Gina K's Hugs and Wildflowers set, using Versafine Onyx black ink. It was very fun to watch the colors move and "go with the flow" on the paper.

Lynette mounted her both panels on a dark pink panel from her stash (this one and the next).

I decided to add the extra stamping shown on Lisa's demo, stamping the little branches with Gina K dandelion yellow and medium lilac. I stamped the leaves on a separate piece of cardstock with GK grass green ink. Then I fussy cut the leaves and attached them with GK connect glue.

For our second card design, we followed Jodene Tripp's Sept. 16, 2019 blogpost:

Altenew - Clean & Simple Boutique Cards

using the large leaves stamps from  Altenew's Leaf Canopy stamp set. First we stamped the the large shadow image with GK soft stone ink. Then stamped the large leaves outline stamp in Versafine Onyx Black ink. In both instances we followed the placement that Jodene used.

For our third card design we followed Gina K's YouTube from Jul 8, 2025: 

Inspired by Natasha Foote! Ripped Masking Technique - Fun Cardmaking Technique to Try Tonight!

Apparently Gina was inspired by Natasha Foote's YouTube from Jan. 22, 2025

Ripped Masking Technique TWO DIFFERENT WAYS (1131)

I forgot to bring my GK Masking Magic, so we used Lynette's removable tape. We used a solid mask for the sides, and ripped the tape for the wavy our ink blended areas. We used Post It's as shown by Gina to prevent our ink blending from going anywhere but the intended space! After ink blending an area, we stamped a design with the same color ink as what we used for the ink blending. 

From top to bottom, used Gina K inks:

Wild Dandelion, Turquoise Sea, Lucky Clover, Wild Lilac. 

Then we stamped the flowers from Gina's Natural Silhouettes stamp set using Versafine Black Onyx ink.

Thnaks for visiting!

Peace and All Good!