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!

Blue Sunflower Mini Stampfest with Lynette

Lynette and I found a little time to stamp together on Wednesday, September 26. This is Lynette's card. Our inspiration came from Carol Read's blue sunflower card: Stampin With Carol Read. We used the smaller sunflower from the 2000 Stampin' Up Summer Sunflower Definitely Decorative set. The circles were made from Lynette's Stampin' Up's circle dies-I think they are called Stitched Shapes Framelits.

My card is lacking some blue! Wish I had added more sunflowers!  I really like how Lynette's card pops with all the blue! Lynette found the perfect ink colors for the two step stamping of the sunflowers: ballet blue and limeade from Stampin' Up and ultramarine from Vivid.

I made this card front at Lynette's and finished it at home.
The birthday wishes stamp is from Hero Arts.

Made this card today, trying to fit in more flowers like Lynette's card.
I had to make do with my inks: Stampin' Up's brilliant blue and old olive instead of Lynette's Vivid ultramarine and SU limeade.
I added a grosgrain ribbon and a paper "banner".
Sentiment from Fiskars.

Here is  look inside my card. Sentiment stamp by PSX.

Wanted to remember the evening at Lynette's so took a photo of the charcuterie we enjoyed with our husbands while watching some travel shows on TV.

Thank you for visiting! Hoping you have a fun week end!

August 14 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I had a wonderful time visiting, stamping, drawing and painting yesterday.  We experimented with my new distress oxide ink pads: broken china, faded jeans, fossilized amber and worn lipstick. We were inspired by Jennifer McGuire's blog post and video demonstrating distress oxide ink on kraft and other dark papers. It was fun to see the "oxide" effect, a whitening of the stamped image after it is sprayed with water. We added accent marks with a white gelly roll pen after the stamping was dry. We also used a green ink pad. I think it was a Tsukineko Opalite Interference. 

Update Aug. 17, 2017: Versa Magic Tea Leaves, a chalk ink pad.

Most of the images are just card fronts, 4 x 5.25 inches in size.

Card front created by Lynette

Card front created by Lynette

Card front created by Lynette

Card front created by Lynette

Card created by Laura

Card created by Laura

Card front created by Laura

Card front created by Laura

Stamps:

Hero Arts CG303 Luscious Bold flowers
 Stampin' Up! Tropical Blossoms
Punch Box Designer labels Stamp Set and matching punch
Rubber Stampede

Lynette and I both drew a lady face and then added watercolors to it.
Here are the unfinished pieces.

Lynette used a piece of  Canson 140 lb watercolor paper.

I worked on the watercolor paper inside my Jane Davenport Butterfly Book. It's also known as a travelers notebook. I have not had the nerve to paint it this till now. 
We ran out of time. Hope to do more work on these lady paintings.

Materials:
Jane Davenport watercolors, neutrals and brights
Aqua brushes

For  our dinner, Doc grilled Coho salmon that his friend caught in Lake Michigan. Yum!

Lynette made fresh green beans and a yummy seafood pasta salad!

My husband, Don and I had always have a wonderful time with Lynette and Doc. 

Thanks for visiting!

August 22 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I stamped together on Monday at her house.
She made a wonderful seafood pasta salad for lunch.
Then we made cards inspired by pinterest.
Lynette wanted to make some Scribbly bird cards
like the ones I made here
and I wanted to try her new Tim Holtz small crazy birds.
Note: click on image for larger view

Inspired by Barb Mann's Fish & Coral Card - Old Olive

We changed the stamps and colors. 

 Inks: SU tempting turquoise, limeade

Stamps: Balmy Breezes and unknown SU happy birthday 

Inspired by a card on Jacqueline's Craft Nest blog

we used several stamps to duplicate her pretty frame.

Lynette used watercolor crayons to ink the Hero Arts flower stamp

and used cut outs from the Natural Beauty word stamp by Stampin Up.

The top layer was fussy cut and attached with dimensional foam.

Lynette used my Dina Wakley Scribbly Bird cling stamp set making her cards like mine here.

Inks used for the wrinkle free distress backgrounds that Lynette created:

mermaid lagoon, crushed olive, peeled paint and squeezed lemonade.

I used Lynette's Tim Holtz Bird Talk clear stamp set that comes with 3 birds and matching dies, some word stamps and an embossing folder. This set was from Michaels. It seems that the sets vary depending on which store carries them.

We both used her Prismacolor pencils to color our birdies.

Lynette is working on card arrangement.

Thanks for visiting!

Dots Stampfest on November 18

For our November 18 stampfest, 

Lynette and I made fall tree cards.

Inspired by Michelle Zindorf's card

we used Judith's dots stamp AAA-04 to add various colors to a little fall scene.

We started out by stamping a tree stamp on a small piece of white cardstock

using either Penny Black's Fantasy tree

or Rubber Stampede Posh Impressions Tree Frame Z283-F.

 Used a circle punch and a post-it, to create our sun mask.

LEFT-Lynette used Versafine black onyx ink on the Tree Frame stamp.

After stamping, she added extra branches by hand with distress black soot marker.

RIGHT-Lynettte colored distress black soot marker directly on Fantasy tree branches.

After masking the sun with our circle

we stamped dots, starting in the upper corners with blue.

Then we used the yellows circling the "sun"

going from lighter in center to darker toward edges.

At the bottom we used blues, lighter to darker.

To create the sun, we sponged yellow using the reverse post-it with the circle opening.

Finally we sponged the edges with various blue distress inks.

LEFT- Used SU's chocolate chip on the Fantasy tree stamp.

RIGHT-Used Versafine black onxy on the Tree Frame stamp.

Inks for the dots and sponging

Distress-

scattered straw,squeezed lemonade,fossilized amber,

spiced marmalade, broken china, salty ocean, chipped saphire

Stampin' Up!-old olive

 

My Pentel fine point correction pen was clumpy

when I tried using it to add white highlights to my tree

so we switched to a white Sakura souffle pen.

Stampfest and Babysitting Gavin, July 25

On Saturday, July 25 we had the best time with our grandson, Gavin, who spent the night!

We are over the moon in love with our "happy chappy"!

Lynette and Doc came over for the day to meet him. Here are Lynette & Gavin.

Lynette and I were inspired by
Heather Telford's video: Adding dimension with a background stamp.
We inked our negative image flower stamp with tumbled glass distress ink.
Then we drew around the inner edges of the cut out flower image

with faded jeans distress marker.
We also drew around the outer edge of the stamp.
Stamps: Hero Arts E2758 Meadow Petals stamp,
from the Poetic Prints Pastel Petals set of four
and
Hampton Arts PS0747 Smallest Things

I forgot to use the marker around the outer edge of the stamp here.

The sentiment is stamped distress faded jeans ink.

Stamps: little flower-Hero Arts LL873 from Small Real Flowers quatros set
 and Stampabilities-Happy Birthday

This layout was inspired by Shari Carroll's post on Hero Arts.

The flower, script and birthday wishes are separate layers

adhered with dimensional foam.

The script and birthday wishes were stamped with stormy sky distress ink.

A pearl pen used for the accents.

Stamps: Hero Arts, Stampin' Up! and unknown

Hermine at Viva Las Vegas Stamps is our inspiration for the watercolor trees.

We stamped with Lynette's watercolor crayons, 

spritzing the stamp before and after coloring directly onto the stamp with multiple colors.

After it dried, Lynette used a distress marker to outline the trees.

Stamp: Rubber Stampede:  A1604F Oak Tree

Here we switched to the Stampscapes Pine Tree 196F stamp

using the same technique, except that we didn't outline this tree.

We experimented with stamping a second and third generation,

by spritzing the crayon color filled stamp. 

Added splatters of watercolor to the top two cards.

Gavin's daddy and mommy, John and Emily, came on Sunday morning to take him home.

We can't wait till our next visit!

Flower Card Inspiration

My friend, Lynette, sent me this darling card. I love the design and colors. 

I just had to CASE it.

Stamps:

Hero Arts- Thinking of You #CL140

Inkadinkado- Harelquin background

Stampin' Up!-Fast & Fabulous

Inks:  Stampin' Up!-Bliss Blue and Creamy Caramel

Colored Pencils

Lynette's New Stamp Room

Lynette has a new stamping room!

You will notice that my stamping area is not shown...because it's a mess!

Oct. 10 Stampfest with Hetty, Lynette and Shelly

Lynette and I stamp together frequently. On October 10th, we had the wonderful opportunity to stamp with Hetty, who came all the way from The Netherlands and Shelly, who is a friend of Hetty, but lives fairly close to me! Shelly brought her Pan Pastels for us to try. Lynette showed us how to use gesso and brass stencils to get gorgeous textured impressions on paper.

A sampling of everyone's artwork.

Hetty shared the Stampin' Up Owl punch with us and guided us in making cool Halloween Cards inspired by Michelle Zindorf's Any Hooooo Tutorial #409

Hetty actually worked in her journal at my house! How cool to be on vacation and actually do something like this in your journal!!!

Here are some photos of our fun day:

Lynette, Hetty and Shelly.

Laura, Hetty and Shelly.

Hetty and Raymond.

Lynette and Doc (Robert)

Don and Laura (Hetty gave me that Dutch designed apron!)