Stampfest with Lynette October 16, 2019

Lynette and I had a great time stamping last Wednesday. We started by looking at ideas Lynette had pinned on Pinterest. The mountain scene card was not one of her pins. We were in search of Heather Telford's Lilac card and ran across her Lake Wanaka mountain scene card! It looked so dreamy and beautiful we wanted to play with that idea.

We used a pencil to draw the basic lines of the mountains. Then we decided to use inks and a water brush to "paint" them. We smooshed distress inks onto an acrylic block and picked up the color with a water brush. We used the distress ink colors Heather listed: faded jeans, stormy sky, weathered wood, frayed burlap, rusty hinge wild honey, tea dye, vintage photo, early espresso and forest moss.

Lynette used markers to color a tree from a Stampin' Up set called Artistically Asian.

I tried to paint in the tree and shrubs. I found the distress forest moss to be too dark, so I used peeled paint on the shrubs.

For our flower card we used a stamp set called Blossoms Abound from Stampin' Up.

Lynette found a Pinterest Pin showing a Lilac card made by Heather Telford. However the link went to a page that had many cards made by various people. Not helpful when looking for details about a specific card. After some web searching, we found the actual blog post for Heather Telford's Lilac card. Since we did not have the ink colors that matched Heather's beautiful lilacs, we substituted Stampin' Up's lavender lace and distress wilted violet for the 2 step flower stamps in the Blossoms Abound stamp set. We used Stampin' Up mellow moss and  old olive for the leaves.

We had fun trying to make a wreath card after seeing Karen Day's card here.
We made many samples and ended up using a 1-1/2 inch circle mask in the center. However we did not like the very defined circle look. So, we started with the mask but then removed it to get some stamped images into the circle area.

We used leaves stamps from Altenew's Wildflower Garden,  Judith stamps, Stampin' Up Yay You and an old foam SU set from 1996 that had a pumpkin in it.
Ink colors:
SU old olive, mellow moss, and close to cocoa
distress crushed olive, aged mahogany, fossilized amber,

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Stampfest at Lynette's on September 11

Lynette and I spent the day stamping at her house on Wednesday, Sept. 11. Lynette showed me the pink and purple hydrangea layers below which she made using a "crumpled tissue paper" aka "faux silk" technique. (We did not do any crumpled tissue technique on Wednesday.)

Lynette did an experiment and ran these through the cuttlebug with her new Tim Holtz Sizzix Botanical 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder.  They came out so pretty with the various textures! I would love to do a stampfest with the crumpled tissue/faux silk technique sometime.

Back to our current stampfest...we experimented with color combos.
Inks on the card above: distress tumbled glass, pumice stone;
SU (Stampin' Up!)  pistachio pudding
Dry embossed with Tim Holtz 3D Botanical embossing folder.

Inks: SU almost amethyst and pistachio pudding

We have been noticing that Stampin' UP! seems to be recycling themes of their stamps. Lynette used the bell pepper stamp from the old SU Very Veggie stamp set. She was inspired by Betty Saccocia's Garden Goodness card on her Booptique blog.
Inks from left to right: SU summer sun, cucumber crush, rocket red, yoyo yellow. Used old olive for the stem.

Lynette was inspired by Emily Midgett's Sixth Street Sundries floral card. 

She used a variety of stamps: Stamps by Judith, All night media, Altenew wildflower garden.

SU markers: pixie pink, cucumber crush

Inks: wild wasabi, ballet blue, and not sure what the fuchsia colored one is. Will check with Lynette and update later...

Sept. 15:  Lynette says we used an old inkpad with another brand of reinker. In my stash of inkpads, I would go with SU positively pink or SU pink passion or distress picked raspberry.

I am always in need of cards, so I completed mine. Sentiment (think it's SU) stamped in Versafine onyx black. Edges sponged in SU's pistachio pudding ink then adhered to a white card.

Here you see the wreaths we stamped and fussy cut. I laid them on top of blue paper for easier viewing. We were inspired by Karen Day's wreath card.
We punched a 1.5" circle and placed it in the center and stamped the branches and flowers around it. We also used a mask to avoid stamping the bottom of some of the stamps outside the wreath area.
Inks: SU bliss blue, almost amethyst, wild wasabi, certainly celery, pistachio pudding, creamy caramel, close to cocoa
Stamps: Stamps by Judith,  Altenew wildflower garden, SU-all season wreath, bird from 1999!
It was fun to use some very old Stampin' Up stamps!

Later at home, I made this card with my wreath. From my stash I found the green, Tim Holtz sizzix embossed layer (retro circles, which deeply embosses to the point of almost ripping the paper). The happy birthday sentiment and die cut is from Hero arts.

Here are two photos from Lynette's craft room while we worked on these cards.

I like to look back at our sampling of stamped images, etc.

Hope you have a great week ahead!
Enjoy every minute of the good times!

Stampfest with Lynette, August 1, 2019

Lynette and I made some cards way back on Aug. 1st. Finally have some time to blog these.  

We used two Stampin' Up! sets: 

Lynette's In the City set and my Fresh Cuts set.

Lynette designed the In the City cards.

I was in need of several birthday and anniversary cards. Graciously,  Lynette came to my rescue and helped me make 12 cards! She stamped the main outlines. And created the itsy bitsy cars, fussy cutting them all. I used the fill in stamp and added color to the buildings.

This is our sample card-the one I found in my Fresh Cuts stamp set. I think I bought it second hand from a demo, Karen Weber. This card may have been made by her.
 

Here are our cards. We changed the colors a bit and made a few simplifications. 

Here are further modifications by Lynette. Love the addition of the circle layer stamped with "from the heart" She mailed this to us as a thank you for the stamping and visiting day. Her husband came along and we spent the whole day together.

Here is my card.
 I cannot find the list of ink colors we used. I usually write the colors down as we work. But that was over a month ago. If I find my scrap of paper with the info, I'll edit this.

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Enjoy the last few days of summer!

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

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Enjoy the little things in life.

Mother's Day Cards

I made some Mother's Day cards today. Used Stampin' Up's Watercolor Minis, Lots of Lavender and Wreath of Roses stamp sets. The feathery leaf stamp is by Judith. The embossing folder, Flowers & Leaves from Spellbinders, was a little too thick for my 2 B plates/Cuttlebug. So I used one C plate, a piece of sheet metal flashing and a medium thickness piece of paper. I really like the floral design on this Flowers & Leaves embossing folder.

Materials used: twine and some old Hero Arts plastic sequins.  

Inks:

Distress wilted violet, wild honey, 

Distress Oxide worn lipstick,

Stampin' Up wild wasabi

Here's a similar card with a yellow background.

I tried adding stems from the Lots of Lavender set. Not sure that worked well. 

Inks:

Distress wilted violet, abandoned coral, scattered straw, wild honey

Memento tuxedo black

Stampin' Up wild wasabi

Here is another slight variation.

Inks:

Distress wilted violet, spiced marmalade, scattered straw

Distress Oxide worn lipstick

Stampin' Up wild wasabi

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