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 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!!

Stampfest at Lynette's August 15, 2024

Don and I went to visit Lynette on Thursday, August 15, 2024. We enjoyed lunch at the Sugar Bowl restaurant...each of us ordered the Hobo Skillet. It was delicious! We all took home leftovers! 

After we were done stamping, Lynette served us her wonderful Seafood Salad, plus chips and salsa and Brie cheese and crackers and some Espiral Vinho Verde!

For our Stampfest inspiration, Lynette found an uncredited pin on Pinterest displaying a  sweet bird card made with one of Dina Wakley's Scribbly birds. I brought that set. Also brought Gina K's  Mandala stamp set and the Stampin' Up! Artistically Inked set-recently gifted to me by my dear friend, Mona.

Lynette made these Mandalas using Gina K's inks: Grass Green, Ocean Mist, Turquoise Sea, and Blue Raspberry. We followed Jennifer McGuire's Kaleidoscope Card YouTube.  

We both worked on these fun bird cards!  I stamped the Dina Wakley Scribbly bird twice on old music paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink. Lynette fussy cut them. 

We stamped the white card base with a stamp called Woven Linen by All Night Media #408K using SU's bordering blue ink. Then I added various Gina K ink colors with blending brushes to the card base: Powder Blue, Turquoise Sea, Wild Dandelion and Kraft.

We tore a strip of old book paper as shown and used Gina K Kraft ink on the edges. We made the ruler strip with an embossing folder, trimming to fit. Lynette punched the hearts from red cardstock. We used a Stampendous clear set #SSC039 Window Box for the happy birthday sentiment. We stamped it in Versafine Onyx Black ink.  

With the Stampin' Up! Artistically Inked stamp set, we followed Jackie Bolhuis' YouTube tutorial.  Thanks to Mona for the stamps and for sharing Jackie's One Card Wonder tutorial. This technique makes it so easy to create 4 card fronts at once using 8-1/2" by 11" cardstock. I had already tried this technique when I received these stamps from Mona. If you want to see my samples go to my Artistically Inked cards here. 

As usual, we had a great day visiting and stamping! 

Thank you for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Artistically Inked Stamp Set from Mona

My dear friend, Mona, recently sent me a package of stamping goodies including, but not limited to the  Stampin' Up! Artistically Inked stamp set. Plus, she sent me a beautiful card made from SU's Artistically Inked stamp set, following Jackie Bolhuis' YouTube tutorial. Jackie's method is similar to the old One Sheet Wonder technique, but she mindfully stamps to create 4 beautiful cards. Her technique was very quick and easy and fun!

I took a photo of my attempt, putting my inkpads in the picture so I'd remember what colors I used. I found it very helpful to follow Jackie's YouTube while I stamped on the entire sheet of cardstock.

I copied Mona's method of stamping the envelopes. This Artistically Inked stamp set was perfect for this technique and so much fun. 

I will created another blogpost for the Gina K Mandala Maker-original set.

Thanks for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's May 7, 2024

Lynette and I had a wonderful time stamping on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. We had lots of inspiration from cards we saw online. Thanks to those who share their artwork!  

Our "torn book and ledger" card was fun to make. Inspired by Natasha Foote's YouTube #991...and a card posted by a member of Natasha's Facebook group. It's called Come crafting with Natasha. Thank you to Natasha and the FB member for sharing their artistic talent!

I worked on the background pieces, stamping with a Hero Arts ledger stamp, using an old book page,  tearing and sponging distress gathered twigs ink on the edges of both.  I found a piece of darker brown cardstock that was already stamped with a tiny script. I trimmed it to fit the card and  added flourishes from Stampin' Up's Carte Postal, using Brilliance white ink. 

Lynette worked on the flowers and leaves, stamping Stampin' Up's Secret Garden flowers in versafine black onyx onto a soft buttercream linen cardstock. Then she did some ink blending with distress lemonade and honey to add more color. The leaves were stamped in Gina K's jelly bean green.

Inspired by a card Lynette found online created by Scrappin' and Stampin' in GJ. Scroll down-the card is toward the bottom of that webpage.

We cut book paper, 2-3/8 wide by 5-1/2 long. And added a piece of black card stock to back it. 

We used the silhouette stamp in Stampin' Up's Just Believe set. 

The green butterflies were die cut from a  Stampin Up's Embosslit called Beautiful Wings

We cut our own banner and stamped with sentiments.

We used Versafine Onyx Black ink.

We really like the big dragonfly blueprints image from Tim Holtz's old Stampers Anonymous Classic Favorites "Classics #1 SCF001" cling rubber stamp. We created a stenciled background with

Tim Holtz Collection Dot Fades THS006

Circles and X's aka Dotted and stitched-THMM114

Harlequin THS016

TH Mesh & Typo stencil from TH Mixed-Media Stamps & Stencil set THMM121.

Then stamped the dragonfly with Versafine onyx black ink.

Inks used to blend over the stencils: distress broken china, wild honey, peeled paint.

Had so much fun with the stenciled background and the large dragonfly that we made a second, portrait version, which was inspired by Rita Wright's Masked Butterfly card. 

Stencils: Tim Holtz circles THMM114 and sequin waste stencil

Inks: Gina K sea glass and jelly bean green 

Stamped the dragonfly with Versafine onyx black.

We were inspired to make these watercolor flowers after seeing Amy Williams' YouTube: Water coloring made EASY! We used Jane Davenport's set of 12 watercolors-brights pallette. I had already played with this technique using reinkers, which you can see here. We used water brushes. However, next time I would like to try using a paintbrush.

 

Below are close ups. Click on an image to see a larger version.

Here you see Gina K's 4 x 4 inch Happy Hydrangea stamped image from using Lynette's luxurious Caran D'Asche watercolor crayons. 

I have to tell you about the right layer. We spritzed the stamp first then added the watercolor crayons and spritzed it before stamping. That image was too watery. We then worked on the left panel, in which we did NOT give it the 2nd spritz of water after coloring the stamp with the watercolor crayons.  That came out better!

We decided to give the right panel another chance...spritzed the stamp and added watercolor crayon (2nd time)...but this time we DID NOT SPRITZ the stamp a second time. Lynette stamped the hydrangea right on top of the stamped image and I think it looks great now!

I hope that the descriptions make sense. It can be handy for us to look back and see what we did to create these cards and panels.

Thank you for visiting.

Peace and all good.

Stampfest at Lynette's January 31, 2024

Time flies...can't believe it's been almost 7 weeks since our Stampfest on Jan. 31! Finally have these cards up on the blog. Sorry for the delay! 

Lynette wanted to try Melanie Muenchinger's Direct to Paper Technique: Embroidered Denim Flowers. It was on YouTube January 26, 2020.

Used Gina K's Powder Blue mini inkpad to swipe the paper directly with ink for the background. Then used Gina K's Water Droplet stencil and a blending brush with the same Powder Blue ink.

Flowers and leaves are from a Stampin Up! clear set called What I love. They are stamped in Gina K's Blue Denim ink.

Lynette also wanted to make a sprig card like my Christmas thank you cards. I found inspiration for those here: Jackie Bolhuis' cards which she posted on her blog and YouTube.

Used the 3 different sprigs and the sentiment from Gina K's Perfect Poinsettia set. The pinecone is from Stampin' Up!'s Fantastic Foliage set. I forget which stamp set had the cute little group of 3 berries...

Used Gina K's You Have My Heart set for the guitar. I think the musical notes and sentiment are from Lynette's stash. Not sure which brown and blue inks were used.

I wanted to made cards based on Natasha Foote's Creating Your Own Stamps From Fun Foam, with Magnificient Results Youtube #977

I used Stampin Up's Little Shapes set, from 2000 instead of creating my own blocks with fun foam, though it would be fun to try!

Gina K inks: powder blue, dusty rose and peach bellini 

The flowers are from Lynette's stash: Time Well Spent by Stampin Up!

Ink Colors: Gina K's Key Lime, Sweet Corn and kept the Powder Blue.

Thank you so much for visiting!

Peace and all good.

Direct to Paper, Swiping then Stamping

Thank you, Melanie Muenchinger for sharing your very cool technique to make this fun and easy card! Check out Melanie's YouTube from January 26, 2020 called, "Direct to Paper Technique: Embroidered Denim Flowers". This was a quick and easy and very fun card to make!

I used Gina K Powder Blue ink to swipe the layer. Then used Gina K's Water Droplets stencil with the Powder Blue ink, just on the left side of the layer.  The flowers and leaves stamps are from Stampin Up's clear stamp set called, What I Love. The sentiment is from Altenew's Wildflower Garden stamp set. I stamped the flowers and the sentiment in Gina K's Blue Denim. Used an old Spellbinders Nestabilities Lables Four die.

I would like to try this technique in other colors. It's so quick and easy and I love the look that it creates.

Thanks you for visiting!

Peace and all good!

More Tim Holtz Wildflowers 2 Cards

 

This time I used white cardstock to die cut these flower from that old Tim Holtz Sizzix Wildflowers #2 Thinlits die set. To cut these easily I needed to put the die cut side up and add a cardboard shim. 

The backgrounds are a variation of my August 22 cards. Sadly, I needed a sympathy card.

With blending brushes, added Gina K Blue Lagoon and distress peeled paint inks to the flower die cuts.

Background: 

Stampin' Up's background floral script in Gina K dark chocolate ink

Hero Arts window screen E2305 in Gink K wild dandelion ink

Stampin' Up's circles Itty Bitty Background (from 1997!) in Gina K key lime ink

Sentiment from Great Impressions stamping in Gina K dark chocolate

Wheat stamp from Inkadinkado's Meadow stamped in distress wild honey

I cut these flowers with white cardstock and added color with blending brushes. Used a piece of book paper as a background.

Thanks for visiting! 

Wishing you peace and all good!