Stampfest with Lynette May 13, 2019

Lynette and I spent Monday visiting and stamping. We made more Z Fold cards and tried something new for us: Smack Down technique.

Though we had made the Z Box Fold card before, we reviewed Deb Valder's tutorial on Splitcoaststampers. We cut the base as she suggested. After seeing a card on Splitcoaststamers made by annsforte3, we changed the top layer on the left front panel to fill the entire space. And we went with annsforte3's flower and butterfly theme. Lynette chose the stamps and colors!

Stamps:
Tim Holtz Visual Artistry Flights of Fancy CSS25856 set.
Stampin' Up's Watercolor Minis
Hero Arts Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut DC184 for the best wishes  and other Hero Arts
Fiskars

Inks:
Tombow brush markers, Stampin' Up! lavender lace, Distress wilted violet

Other:
Stampin' Up! Sizzix Embosslits butterfly die
Fine leaves-Punch by McGill

by Lynette

View of flattened card by Lynette

My card

We tried out some printed papers on these Z Box Fold cards.

Lynette made this one. She used 2 step stamping for her mini roses and leaves.

Picked raspberry was stamped off  first, then full strength used for the second stamp.

The same with the leaves using peeled paint.

Die leaf from Stampin' Up Sizzix Embosslits sweetest stem

Stitched Shapes Oval Framelits Dies from Stampin' Up!

I used oxide picked raspberry on my roses. For my leaves I copied Lynette's idea of stamping off with peeled paint for the first impression, then full strength for the second stamp.

On the sentiment oval, I used  Tombow markers to ink a stamp from SU's Lots of Lavender set.

The green sentiment stamp, from Hero Arts was stamped in SU's wild wasabi.

Ovals dies from Nestabilities-Spellbinders.

Lynette found a fun, quick and easy technique called Smack Dow on Karen Dunbrook's Snippet's blog. Karen said this is a variation of a technique from Splitcoaststampers.

Lynette chose the stamps, SU's Watercolor Trio 

and ink colors: Stampin' Up! going gray Distress salty ocean, mermaid lagoon and peacock feathers. Then the sentiment from Ranger Letter It called Birthday LEC59295 was inked in Versafine onyx black.

by Lynette

my card

Thanks for looking! Hope your week is going well!

Enjoy the little things in life.

Mini Stampfest with Lynette April 24, 2019

Lynette and I had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make this Z Box Fold card.
We used Deb Valder's tutorial from Splitcoaststampers
starting with a 4 x 9.75 inch piece of white cardstock.
We found other tutorials for similar cards, but we liked the finished
size of this card: 4.25 x 5.5 inches.

Here is Lynette's sweet frog card.

On the front she used a Penny Black frog stamp called, "Oh I wish".
The ferns/leaves were made with some of her dies.

On the inside she used an unmounted frog stamp from her stash.
She did a fabulous job coloring the stamped images with coloring pencils
and then fussy cutting them!

Here's the card flattened out to show you the folds and cut area.
The bottom part is attached to a base -a piece of green cardstock that is 4.25 x 5.5"

For my card, I used Lynette's Silhouette Sentiments stamp set from
Stampin' Up. I used markers to color directly on the stamp.

The circle was die cut  with a "stitched circle die" from Lynette's stash.
I cut the rectangles with a paper trimmer.

Once we figured out where to place the cut and folds, this card was easy to make.
Looking forward to making this again.

Thanks for visiting!
Hope you enjoy the day!