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!

Wildflowers #2 Thinlits Die Cards

Made some cards with an old Tim Holtz Sizzix Wildflowers #2 Thinlits die set. I rarely used these dies because they did not cut nicely. Cardstock stuck in them or the paper ripped. 

Recently, I saw an advertisement for a self healing pad to use in a die cutting machine. That gave me an idea to try using my old eyelet self healing pad, substituting this and 2 cardboard shims for one of the die cutting plates. Did not work any better than before. 

Then I remembered that Gina K said to put dies facing upward in the die cutting machine. So back to my original plates. I taped the die to my cardstock and placed it facing up. That worked like a charm! I cut two more sets of the three flowers and made these cards.  Hope this continues so I can make more cards with the Wildflowers #2 dies!

This is the inside of the card.

Stamps:

Stampin' Up flowers background stamp from 2002 Botanicals set

Stampin' Up Watercolor minis-butterfly 

Tim Holtz mixed-media Stampers Anonymous clear stamps/stencil set THMM114

Tim Holtz mixed-media Stampers Anonymous clear stamps/stencil set THMM121

Dimensions-Crafts clear Happy Birthday stamp

Vertical Happy Birthday from Verses Rubber Stamps BB0424-C

Inks: Stampin' Up barely banana

Gina K: dark chocolate, jelly bean green, wild dandelion

distress: dried marigold,

Used a brown permanent Zig pen to draw the squiggly lines border

This fun fold card was inspired by Jennifer McGuire's YouTube: NEW! Stenciled Stamping Technique.  I just used her fun fold idea. She took a half sheet of cardstock, 5-1/2 inches tall and 8-1/2 inches wide. She scored that at 1-1/4 inches and 5-1/2 inches to get the fun fold card, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inches. For this card, I used yellow paper, dry embossed with Cuttlebug's Swiss dots and cut a piece- 4-1/4 inches wide by 5-1/2 inches which was adhered to the right side of the front. .

The happy happy happy  birthday sentiment is from Stampabilities.

This card was inspired by a gorgeous card I saw on Splitcoast Stampers created by Sabrina in September 2019. She goes by Cook22 on Splitcoast Stampers. After embossing with Sizzix Bricked embossing folder, I blended Gina K's wild dandelion, jelly bean green and sweet mango.

Happy Birthday sentiment from Stampabilities stamped in Gina K dark chocolate. Also used the same background flowers stamp from Stampin' Up's 2002 Botanicals set.

This is the inside, pretty much like the other cards.

I added some large flowers to the left side of this fun fold card, inspired by the same Jennifer McGuire's  YouTube NEW! Stenciled Stamping Technique from May 2, 2023. However, I did not do her beautiful stenciling technique. I used Gina K's stamps and dies from Tropical Blooms that a dear friend gave me. Thanks again, Mona!  This was very fun to do. I need a little more practice with the placement of the leaves.  It was difficult to take pictures of it closed. That's why I have the acrylic block against it.

Here you can see how it opens a little. I used a Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder on white and also green paper that I added to the sides. I have not decided if this will be a birthday card or ??? Will add a sentiment on the front and inside later.

Inks: 

Gina K sweet mango, jelly bean green and wild asparagus

distress rusty hinge, vintage photo

Thanks for visiting.

Peace and all good.

More Background Cards

Three more cards today using more of backgrounds I shared yesterday. 

For this card, I added stenciling with distress abandoned coral and salty ocean. Used distress hickory smoke to stamp the lady, feather and flower from Bella Blvd, distributed by Hampton Art. Happy Birthday from Stampendous is stamped in Versafine onxy black. Used colored pencils to color the images. 

Used a scalloped rectangle die from the Gina K Master Layouts 4. I'm really loving this die! And it cuts easily every time (unlike some other brands of dies-which is so discouraging!)

After adding some stenciled circles using distress picked raspberry, I tried to stamp and clear emboss two flowers using distress ink. In the past this has worked fine for me. But today, the embossing powder was not sticking well. My ink pad must need to be re-inked! So, I switched gears and tried a Gina K technique that I saw on her recent YouTube, Emboss in Any Color and a Touch of Patterned Paper - Stamp and Chat  Using my misti, first I stamped the flower with distress broken china. Cleaned the stamp and inked it with Versamark and then stamped over the blue flower then added clear embossing powder and embossed it. This worked great! I repeated this method for the picked raspberry leaves stamps. 

On this card, I am using the other lady stamp from Bella Blvd, distributed by Hampton Art. The flowers and leaves are from an Altenew set called Wildflower Garden. The Happy birthday and curvy layer was made with Hero Arts, DC184 Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut set.

I stamped the lady in distress antique linen as a kind of a test. I read somewhere that someone liked to use antique linen ink to stamp an image before coloring it. I cannot remember who, sorry! Added color with colored pencils. I am not sure which ink color I like better, the hickory smoke in the first card or the antique linen here. What do you think? 

This anniversary card is similar in style to yesterday's yellow card. Again I'm using Gina K's Master Layouts 4 scalloped die and the same circle stencil to sponge with Stampin' UP's Lavender Lace ink. Used distress broken china  for the best wishes from Hero Arts, DC184 Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut.

Thank you for taking time to visit! Peace and all good!

Backgrounds for Cards

 

I should have taken a picture of all the backgrounds I made before making these cards. Above you see the five cards I finished.  Below are the rest of my backgrounds that hopefully will become new cards.

Made my backgrounds using wrinkle free distress and acrylic block stamping techniques.

For this card I used an acrylic block, dabbed it with Gina K's Bubblegum pink and Sea glass ink pads. Then I spritzed with water and pressed it onto my paper. After it was dry, I stamped sewing images from a small 5 piece Stampabilities set called Sewing. The happy birthday sentiment and curvy layer is from Hero Arts Stamp & Cut.

Inks: 

distress salty ocean, weathered wood, spiced marmalade, wild honey and  brushed corduroy, which was added to just the edges of the sewing machine stamp and happy birthday sentiment after being inked with wild honey, Gina K bubblegum pink for the button

Another acrylic block stamped background using Jane Davenport's Mermaid Markers, which are like "ink filled aqua pens". Colors, starting with lower right corner: Starfish (hot pink), Jellyfish (purple), Pirate's Gold (yellow), Seaweed (green). Applied to acrylic block, "coloring it" as you would with markers, then spritzed with water then pressed onto paper.

Used Versafine onyx black ink for the stamping: 

Heart shaped script with flower in center-no stamp manufacturer listed

Happy birthday and curvy layer, from Hero Arts, DC184 Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut.

Background inks:  distress mustard seed and twisted citron for the wrinkle free distress technique. 

Heart stamp, L1900 Poppy HeartPrint from Hero Arts

Flourishes, Love with a Flourish by Autumn Leaves/Rhonna Farrer

Sentiment, best wishes and curvy layer from Hero Arts, DC184 Ribbon Messages Stamp & Cut

Ink: Versafine onyx black

Background inks: distress raspberry, salty ocean and abandoned coral for the for wrinkle free distress technique

Circles stencil from a Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Mixed Media kit

Bricks stencil sponged in abandoned coral. The stencil is from an old Tim Holtz Stampers 

Anonymous Mixed media stamp and stencil set labeled THMM102. Here is a photo that I've used before here.

Flower stencil SA152 Flower Swirls Stencil Pairs from Hero Arts, sponged in distress salty ocean

Stamped the happy birthday stamp from Dimensions using Versafine onxy black ink.

 

Background ink:  distress abandoned coral, picked raspberry, twisted citron for wrinkle free distress technique

Flower stencil SA152 Flower Swirls Stencil Pairs from Hero Arts, sponged in distress abandoned coral.

Stamps: Thinking of you by Dimensions and Gina K, On My Mind and In My Heart

Inks: Versafine onxy black

Thanks so much for visiting. Peace and All Good!

More Inside Shadow Box Beach Cards

 

Here you see the fronts of two Inside Shadow Box cards that I made. I found a "new for me" Hero Arts Stamp & Cut set called Beach Please (DC238) at JoAnn's on clearance for $6. Used that on the card front.

I stamped the images with distress black soot and colored with coloring pencils. Here is a closer look at one of the fronts of the cards. You can always click on an image to see an enlarged view.

Here you see the inside of one of the cards. Both cards are the same inside-an Inside Shadow Box card. I followed Jennifer McGuire's instructions.  

For the water scene inside, I cut a separate panel, which goes behind the oval cut out. Used my Misti and stamped the waves (Hero Arts Color Layering Waves CM316) with Gina K's inkpads, stamping with the lighter blues and going to the darker:

ocean mist

turquoise sea

blue lagoon.

The cloud is stamped in distress broken china.

The islands are stamped in Stampin' Up! wild wasabi. I used the 2 smaller cloud stamps for this, stamping the bigger portion once and the smaller portion (for dimension) a couple times to make that a darker green.

For the sand, I applied oxide antique linen ink with a blending brush. Left a little white before I reached the waves. Stamped some dots in distress tea dye ink with a Judith peg stamp. Afterward, I noticed that the Beach Please set HAD a stamp of 4 tiny dots that I could have used!

For the boat, birds and sentiment, I used distress black soot.

I stamped the chair in Stampin' UP! peekaboo peach ink multiple times using my Misti. Then I fussy cut and glued part of it to the oval opening.

Footsteps are stamped in distress tea dye ink.

The "Thinking of you sentiment" is from an old (2012) Hero Arts set called Everyday Sayings, CL342.

Thanks for visiting. Peace and All Good!

Generational Stamping on Christmas Card

Inspired by Heather Telford's Tannenbaum Forest Video I made these card layers using Canson 140 lb watercolor paper. A great big thanks to Heather for sharing this very fun and easy tutorial! 

Since I do not have the Penny Black Tannenbaum Trio set, I used an Inkadinkado wood mounted stamp labeled #96683. It has two pine trees. Also used a smaller wood mounted pine tree stamp that was not labeled. As Heather suggests, I inked my stamp with mowed lawn, then added some peeled paint then a little chipped sapphire on the edges.  The inked stamp is spritzed before stamping. Then two more impressions are made with that stamp without adding more ink! The spritzing allows a lighter and then again another lighter image! The lighter trees look farther off in the distance.

I used a distress vintage photo marker to add brown to the trunk of my small tree. Heather used a gathered twig brown distress marker. This is done before the first impression is made. My larger trees did not have tree trunks. 

My stamp is smaller than the Penny Black Tannenbaum Trio, so I just kept at this process till I felt I had enough trees. I followed Heather's instruction to change the color order to peeled paint, then mowed lawn, then chipped sapphire after a couple of rounds of stamping. I think she did that for her  second round of three impressions. Please refer to Heather's video for all the details on her wonderful method of generational stamping!

Heather recommends using Yellow Frog tape. I wish I had that because the blue painters tape ripped my paper when removing it. Before using it, I stuck the tape piece to my hand a few times to try to remove some of the "stickiness".  

I planned my layers to be 4 x 5-1/4 inches. But I made a mistake when cutting. Then I had to trim the rips from the blue tape removal. So I have some odd sized layers.

I used a heat tool to dry the paper before the first strip of tape was removed. Added a circle mask cut from a sticky note. Used a blending brush to add distress faded jeans to the top edge and around the circle and to the edge of the tape to get "snow hills". Once the first hill was "created", removed the tape and reapplied it for more "snow hills".

Below you can see some of my finished cards. I used a dark green card base, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inch size.

Then I experimented using Michael Strong's cloisonné Christmas tree, adding the distress mowed lawn, peeled paint and chipped sapphire, spritzing  and stamping. I only did the one impression with that stamp. Then I switched to the Inkadinkado two tree stamp used above and continued with Heather's generational stamping technique.

Heather's generational stamping technique was very fun and easy! I hope you give it a try!

Happy Stamping! Peace and all good!

Restful Tree Cards

I had a lot of fun making cards with the Penny Black Restful stamp. It's quite large, extending over my 4 x 5-1/4 inch layer of paper. The Misti platform worked great on this. I used Versafine onyx black ink to stamp the tree.  After the ink was thoroughly dry, I sponged it with distress and Stampin' Up inks:  scattered straw in the sky behind the tree and fossilized amber on the ground. I sponged a little blue jeans ink along the horizon and then used Stampin' Up brilliant blue for the rest of the sky.

Below are some variations.

Sponged with distress scattered straw for the ground.

Sponged distress spun sugar ink behind the tree. And intentionally made "swirl lines" while sponging the SU brilliant blue of the sky. The ground is sponged with fossilized amber ink.

I used some Sure-Line touch up paint pads to sponge this one. They are about 1-3/4 inches wide by 2 inches long. I really like the smooth result. The ground here is sponged with distress crushed olive and fossilized amber is used behind the tree and along the horizon.  

Below are photos of these Sure-Line pads. 

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Snow Blanket Card

This Penny Black Snow Blanket stamp arrived in today's mail. I have been wanting to try a scene stamp using my Misti. One of the disk magnets broke. But I was able to use the Misti without a problem.  I do have a bar magnet ordered. 

I copied the sample on the package of this stamp. It was easy using the Misti, adding each color separately with either the markers or the distress inkpad.

The stamp was huge! About 5-7/8 inches wide by 4-3/4 inches high. 

I was using a 5-1/4 x 4 inch piece of cardstock so I added a piece of computer paper underneath my cardstock so it wouldn't mess up the bottom of the Misti.

I pulled out all my markers to find the colors I wanted. Here is what I used...

Fence: Zig clean color real brush 062-Dark Brown

Bottom part of tree: Ranger distress marker-vintage photo

I decided to stamp the far edges of the branches next-Distress ink pad-rusty hinge

Then I went in the center part of the tree branches-Tombow 925-Orange

Pine trees-Tombow 098 kind of an olive green. On panel 2, 3, and 4, added strokes of Tombow 177-a darker green. This green was similar to SU's old olive

Then for the shadows on the fence, below the fence and on the snow on the horizon I used Tombow 526 blue dabbed onto the craft sheet and picked up with my water brush/aqua painter.

It was very fun and relaxing to play with this scene card. I can add a sentiment on  separate layer for a special occasion card. Or, just leave it as is for a hello card.

Hope you are staying safe from Covid! Thanks so much for stopping by to visit!

And More Block Stamping

This background was made using Tombow markers #873 (light orange), #062 (yellow) and #098 (a yellow-green). Color descriptions are mine-the markers are labeled with numbers only. I really like how my Tombow markers have stayed nice and juicy over the years. I do not have a huge variety of colors. 

I added the color to a large acrylic block, spritzed with water and placed the block onto a piece of watercolor paper. I had hoped to get darker color. For the second card, I went back to using distress inkpads to "color" the acrylic block. 

I sponged the edges with  distress inks: dried marigold, mustard seed, crushed olive and peeled paint over the bottom. I sponged crushed olive distress ink onto my home made hills stencil.

Stamps and inkpads used:  
Stampscapes: Old Fence 293C-vintage photo
Hot Sun 285E-creamy caramel
Cattails 016B-ground espresso
Ducks in Formation 027A-black soot
Smaller trees are Stampscapes Tree Duo 085A-pine needles
Large tree, unknown stamp company-pine needles.

I used crushed olive distress ink when using my home made hills stencil.

For this card, I went back to using distress ink pads on my large acrylic block. For me, I was able to achieve a more vibrant color. Used ripe persimmon, fossilized amber and crushed olives inkpads.

Stamps and distress inkpads used:

Stampscapes: 

Bear 167A-ground espresso

Hot Sun 285E-ripe persimmon

Bush 191A-old olive

pine tree group from Inkadinkado-old olive

Thank you for visiting! Hope you are having a great week end! Stay safe from Covid!

Started with Block Stamping

 

Here are some birthday cards I made:
Two Z fold cards, continuing to use up flower photos.
The map and boat card was not my idea. I CASE'd it from Lynette.

Experimented with "block stamping" by dabbing ink pads onto an acrylic block then spritzing with water. Inspiration from Cathy at Maine Mountain Stamper. She used markers to "color" the acrylic block. I used distress inkpads because I liked those colors.

The green card base is 4-1/4 by 11 inches, scored at 5-1/2 inches and 8-1/4 inches. I cut 3 pieces of white cardstock, 2-1/4 by 3-3/4 inches.

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Marvelous Morning Glory.    Using ballet blue ink, I stamped off  for the first impression for the fuller part of the flower. Then used ballet blue again  "full strength" for the detailed part of the flower. Same idea for the leaves using wild wasabi ink.  I stamped some tiny irregular dots in the center of the panel of flowers with SU's old Itty Bitty Background stamp. Used SU's Simple Sketches Happy Birthday stamp in ballet blue and added the little bird from SU's Feathered Hope.

Stamps: SU's Beautiful Friendship and Watercolor Minis using SU's wild wasabi and distress worn lipstick and dried marigold.  Not sure which SU set the "happy day" stamp is from?

Here is the guy card I CASED from Lynette's card. 

Stamps: Prima #572594 Seashore (a very tiny little clear acrylic stamp set), Sentiment from Tim Holtz cling set: Saying Stuff, SU Old World Map, that I embossed with Zing white opaque finish embossing powder.

Here are the block stamping cards. I used off  white cardstock from my stash. It has a laid finish. It's a little thicker than the Georgia Pacific 110 lb. that I use. I may try this technique with watercolor paper or a watercolor layer because the card front warped a little. I used 3 colors on this  card: distress spiced marmalade, fossilized amber and salty ocean.  It was difficult trying to tap ink in the middle. I put a piece of paper down on the bottom third of the block to keep that part clean. The very bottom of the color block did not seem to get enough water. One does not know what the result will be...keeping it kind of fun. 

Stamps: SU's Petal Prints (flower) and Denami Designs (sentiment) stamped in Versafine onyx black.

Here I switched to just 2 colors of ink, Salty ocean and crushed olive. Much easier to do. I would like to try and make a scene card with these colors...sky above and green grass below.

I probably did not add enough water for this block stamping? Instead of throwing it out, I thought little houses, trees and clouds from SU's Good Neighbor's set would be fun and funky? What do you think?

Thank you for visiting! I hope you have a wonderful day! Stay safe from covid!