Fun with Faux Postage Cards

You will see four faux postage cards below. The first one is cut from Lynette's Waffle Flower Postage Collage die. The other three are made with the old Just For Fun wood mounted stamp and stencil set.

For this card, I started with a faux postage layer made at Lynette's house on November 13. At home I stamped some postage stamps from Stampin Up onto white cardstock and fussy cut them. I placed one of them over my badly stamped leaf in the center of the panel. The Postcard "word" is from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous clear stamp set called City Central CSS27911.

I was so happy to find my old Just For Fun brand wood mounted postage design rubber stamp and stencil from years ago! I used stamps from the sets shown in the photo above. Below is a close up of my Faux Postage card.

There are lots of faux postage samples on the Waffle Flower website and other blogs. For the design above, I was inspired by the colors of  Galina Filippenko's card with distress pumpkin ink blending at the bottom.

This card was inspired by Lisa of  My Card Trip. I stamped  then ink blended with the same ink in each of the rectangles. 

Gina K inks: bubblegum pink, light orchid

distress inks: lucky clover, fossilized amber

and Versafine onyx black

The card below has the same colors of ink blending as the first card, which was made at Lynette's house. See more details listed on the image. Click on this image or any image to see a larger view.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's November 13, 2024

We visited Lynette Wednesday, November 13, 2024 and had a great day! For lunch, we took a walk to nearby Chipotle's for  Burrito Bowls.

Back at her house, she helped me decide on a simple Christmas card design.

Inside of my Christmas card

Then we had lots of fun playing with her new Waffle Flower Postage Collage Die, Waffle Flower Postage Collage Blocks Stencil (contains the "window openings"/rectangles to mask out the perforation areas and a little border AND the Waffle Flower Collage Wild Flower Stencil set (of 3 stencils) to add the flowers. 

We were impressed how easy it was for Lynette to die cut the faux postage layer in her Cuttlebug. The Postage Collage Wild Flower Stencils (set of 3 stencils) are etched with text on each showing the order to be used. Made it easy to add the ink with blending brushes.

Remember to click on any image for a larger version.

We used Gina K inks: wild dandelion, sweet mango, warm cocoa and grass green.

On our second postage collage, we ink blended 3 background colors to each of the rectangles. We used the Waffle Flower Postage Collage Blocks Stencil and we added paper to block each rectangle when the colors did not go across the blocks.  

Then we stamped various small image stamps from our collection using Versafine onyx black ink.

For the background ink blending, we used Gina K inks, starting at the bottom and working our way up...

bottom: jelly bean green 

middle: wild lilac 

top: light orchid.

When we were done stamping, Lynette taught Don and me to play Mexican Train Dominoes. It was a  lot of fun. We played a few rounds and I think we'll play again next time. 

Lynette always puts out a beautiful charcuterie board with some delicious wine and last night was no different! We enjoyed the food and listened to music and then showed her many pictures from our recent vacation. It was a lovely day!

Thanks for visiting!

Peace and all good!

Stampfest at Lynette's March 21, 2022

Lynette and I had a great time stamping and visiting this past Monday, March 21, 2022.

Lynette liked a card I made, similar to the above. I was honored...and happy to bring the supplies for that. She made these two card fronts with Gina K's water droplet stencil and some sequin waste as a stencil.

Inks: Gina K key lime, turquoise sea; 
          distress abandoned coral

"Hello" and "Happy" stamps and dies from Gina K's Tropical Blooms

Die cut flower and butterfly and matching stencil from GK Fluttering Fall kit.

Lynette and I used my new Gina K's "A Little Love Layering Stencil Bundle" which includes 3 Ruffled Flower stencils. We brushed on Gina's Turquoise Sea and Blue Lagoon for the flower petals. The yellow center is stamped in Gina's Wild Dandelion ink using a tiny round stamp from Gina's A Little Love stamp set. The vines are sponged using the Ruffled Flowers stencils with Gina's Key Lime and Jelly Bean inks.

Lynette found a card like this one on Jenny Engelke's Giddy Stamper blog. We scored a layer of white cardstock at about the 1/2 inch mark. Then we stamped with Gina K's Tropical Blooms and some fern stamps from Lynette's stash. We used Gina K's Wild Lilac Ink, stamping off on the ferns to add a lighter version. For the green ferns we used Gina K's Jelly Bean green.

I was gifted with a huge assortment of Gina K stamps and papers when my friend, Mona S. mailed a treasure box filled with supplies! It was like Christmas when I opened that box! THANK YOU SO MUCH, MONA!!! The guitar is from Gina K: You Have My Heart and the sentiment from Gina's: You Get Me. The flower and vine are Gina's Sketched Flowers. Musical notes from Lynette's stash of stamps! I used colored pencils to add some color to the guitar.

Inks: Gina K's honey mustard, bubblegum pink, jelly bean green.

Here is Lynette in her huge craft room! We always have so much fun when we meet! She made Don and me a wonderful Chili dinner too! Plus we had a nice walk in the neighborhood, enjoying the 72 degrees F weather!  THANK YOU, LYNETTE for a wonderful day!

And thanks to my cyber friends for taking the time to visit. Wishing you Peace and All Good!

Stampfest at Lynette's, October 29, 2021

 

My friend, Lynette, and I had so much fun stamping together yesterday. We explored the Gina K technique of Stencils as Embossing Folders and the Laser Cut Wood Technique. I brought a bunch of stencils from my stash and my the Gina K Joyful Holiday Kit which includes the Perfect Poinsettia set. 

Using white cardstock measuring 4 x 5.25 inches, we scored it at every 1/2 inch as shown. For our first two cards, we applied ink directly from the inkpad to the scored paper piece, starting with distress pumice stone, then adding distress stormy sky over that.  

To emboss with the Cuttlebug, we placed a tan rubber cutting mat on the thickest "A" plate. Then we placed our scored layer face down. On top of that we placed the stencil. Then we added 2 cuttlebug B plates on top. Then we added some paper shims. When at home I use a piece of cardboard Cuttlebug packaging that came with one of my larger embossing folders. You need some some pressure when running the layers through the Cuttlebug, but not too tight to break anything! Just enough pressure to get an impression. 

After removing the cardstock we swiped across the paper with more ink. I think for these first 2 cards we used stormy sky distress ink.

For the next two cards, we used distress pumice stone first, then distress worn Jeans before and after using the stencil with the Cuttlebug.

I wanted to try this Fleur de Lis stencil. 

Used distress antique linen on the scored paper first. Then added distress scattered straw. Once the stencil was embossed with the Cuttlebug I swiped the paper with distress wild honey.

Here you see we switched gears...we were trying to imitate a beautiful card made by Debbie Cowles on the Gina K Facebook group.

Lynette's card looks much more like Debbie's card!  Used one of the stamps in Gina K's Perfect Poinsettia set.  Lynette stamped the flower in shaded lilac, but after inking the stamp she spritzed a little water on it before making the impression. She stamped the stem and leaves, from Stampin' Up's Definitely Decorative Tulip set, in SU's certainly celery ink. For the flower center she stamped another flower stamp using distress chipped sapphire ink. She was not quite finished with making this card. The panel is just sitting on top of purple cardstock from her stash.

I had to try something different and did not do so well, especially when I mixed up the greens! I stamped some trailing leaves and individual leaves from Gina K's Sketched Flowers set using Gina's lucky clover and SU's certainly celery. I need to make some large poinsettias to cover up my mistakes!  May also try Lynette's water spritzing technique on watercolor paper to get that gorgeous dreamy look that  Debbie Cowles created. 

Lynette and I had the best time stamping together and just hangin' out for the day. God has blessed me with a dear friend in Lynette! Hope you are able to spend time with dear friends! Thanks for visiting and stay healthy and be safe! Peace and all good.