Christmas WIshes

 It is not too late to start your Christmas cards!  Even if you don't send Christmas cards this is an easy technique to make a lot of cards in a short amount of time.  You can do this technique with any stamps.  

Stamp from Blank Page Muse

Santa on Sled with Reindeer Art Silhouette Style RubberStamp

Stamp from I Brake for Stamps

Bold Christmas Wishes

Other Supplies:

Watercolor paper

Dinkles Powder - Pine

Silicone mat

Versafine Black Ink

Embossing Powder Clear

Heat Tool

Wide tip gold Sharpie

Stamp images on watercolor paper with black Versafine ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder. 

On a silicone mat sprinkle Dinkles powder, spritz with water to dissolve the powder.  With image face down place the watercolor paper in the water on the silicone mat. 

When the watercolor has dried, edge with wide tip gold pen. Mat on black cardstock.  

May you have a great time creating your holiday cards. 

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Give Thanks

Hi, friends! It's design team member Walter on the blog today with a beautiful card celebrating Thanksgiving.  The Harvest Moon stamp from I Brake for Stamps creates such a beautiful scene.  I used lots of earth tones set against the night sky and a golden full moon in my design.  I can smell the fall leaves and feel the cool, crisp air when I look at this image!

Here's what I used to create it:

• Harvest Moon Red Rubber Stamp
• A2 Kraft card base
• Vintage Newspaper Clipping Paper
• 4"x5.25" piece of Cream cardstock
• Embossing ink
• Gold embossing powder
• Colored pencils
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Scorched Timber
• Piece of twine
• Two mini clothes pins
• Label Maker
  

Here's how I made it:

• Added grunge to Kraft card use using Scorched Timber ink and ran the ink pad around the card edges.

• Tied piece of twine around the top inside of the card base; used a blending brush to add some grunge with Scorched Timber ink.

• Placed mini clothes pins onto twine.
• Adhered Vintage Newspaper Clipping paper to the card base.
• Stamped image onto Cream card panel with embossing ink, dusted with gold embossing powder, and heat set it.
• Colored the image with colored pencils.

• Used a blending brush to add grunge to the card panel with Tea Dye ink.

• Added grunge to the sides of the card panel with Vintage Photo ink.
• Adhered card panel to base with double sided foam tape, ensuring the top of the panel is inserted into mouths of clothes pins.
• Created sentiment with label maker and adhered it to the card.

 

I love the rustic and vintage look & feel of this card.  It makes me want to put a turkey into the oven to roast right now!

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today!  See you again soon.

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Autumn Treasures

  Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps.

 

I Brake for Stamps:  Pretty Pumpkin

Blank Page Muse Stamps:  Guardian of Autumn

Blank Page Muse Stencil:  Pebbled Path

Score a 5" x 6" card 1/2" around the front panel.

Use gray ink with the Pebbled Path stencil.

Cut a 3" x 10" panel and score in half for the front of the card.

Use the same Pebbled Path stencil on the front panel.

On the flap, add a torn strip of paper across the bottom.

Using a mask, stamp the phrase on white cardstock and mat with orange cardstock.

Add a 3" x 5" panel within the scored lines on the inside of the card.

Create an envelope and slip a gift card inside.

Stamp a phrase on the envelope and adhere to the card base.

Stamp the image and color with Copic Markers, then fussy cut.

Add the image to an oval and adhere to the card front.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Autumn Park Silhouette

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter on the blog today. By now you've heard me say several times how much I love creating vintage themed cards.  Today's creation is another example of this.  I fell in love with the IBFS Silhouette Stamp Set as soon as I saw it.  One of the larger stamps in the set is this beautiful scene set in a park.  I decided to use it in a monochromatic palette to make it look older and thought it would be really fun to have a burlap frame around it.  The result is a beautifully nostalgic scene that may be used for so many different occasions.  Let's jump into my creative process.

Here's what I used to make it:

• Silhouettes #1 from I Brake for Stamps
  
• Special Day Clear Stamp Set from Blank Page Muse (sentiment)
  
• A2 card base
• A2 sized piece of burlap paper
• A2 card panel
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Scorched Timber, Lost Shadow
• Delicata Golden Glitz Metallic Pigment Ink
• Brutus Monroe Tea Stain Spray, Vignette Vintage Mist, Ice Gey Vintage Mist
• Pearl gems

Here's how I made it:

• Ink blended the card panel with Lost Shadow ink.

• Stamped the image onto card panel with black ink.
• Stamped the woman on bicycle just below the image to make it look like a path used for walking and riding.

• Ink blended some Vintage Photo and Scorched Timber along the path to darken it.
• Used an oval die to cut the center out of the burlap panel.

• Used a brown alcohol marker to darken the inside rim of the burlap panel.

• Spritzed the card panel and burlap panel with Tean Stain, Vignette Mist, and Ice Grey Mist and let them dry.

• Used craft glue to adhere the burlap panel over the card panel.
• Ran the Scorched Timber ink pad along the combined panel.
• Attached card panel to card base using double sided tape.
• Stamped the sentiment onto the card in Scorched Timber and the stamped it again with Golden Glitz ink.
• Attached pearl gems to the corners.

I really love this scene so much!  It has such a nostalgic feeling to me.  This is one card that I may end up framing and using as a decoration!

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today!  See you again soon.

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Fall is Divine

  Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from I Brake for Stamps.

I Brake for Stamps:  Oh Bountiful Season

Stamp the phrase on white cardstock, ink the edges and add to brown cardstock.

Place brads in opposite corners.

Create a card from brown cardstock and add a layer of orange.

Wrap twine around the card, then add the stamped panel on top, slipping several leaves in the upper corner.

 Stamp the phrase again on white cardstock and randomly add assorted colors of ink.

Tear the panel and adhere to a panel of kraft cardstock, also torn.

Create the card and wrap with twine.

Add the stamped panel on top with foam adhesives for dimension.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Mr. Bones

 Hello! I created a 3D project for today's post. I used the I Brake for Stamps Mr. Bones rubber stamp. Isn't he cute? 

I stamped the image on white cardstock using a dye ink. Use a dye ink that will work well with the coloring medium that you are planning to use. 

A stamp positioner was very useful to me in stamping this image since this image is very detailed. The stamp positioner allowed me to re-stamp the image since I missed some spots in stamping. 

This rubber stamp is available mounted or unmounted. To use the unmounted stamp, adhere the unmounted stamp to the door of the stamp positioner, as you can see on the photo above. I used a glue stick to do this which worked really well. The stamp held on to the door during the stamping and re-stamping. To clean the glue off from the back of the stamp and the stamp positioner door, I just used a wet rag.

I used different coloring mediums to color Mr. Bones. I used color pencils for the base layer. A sharp color pencil was very useful in coloring those tiny areas. I then used an alcohol marker which worked well in coloring the hat since this is the largest part of the image. I also used gel pens for accents, coloring over some of the areas colored with color pencils. 

I fussy cut the image leaving a white border around it. I used a craft knife to cut the areas in between Mr.  Bones' arms and body.

I added dimensional glue to some areas and also colored some parts with a shimmer pen.

I adhered Mr. Bones to a 3D black coffin cut with an electric die cutting machine. I added some matting to the front of the coffin for some extra accent. 

This 3D coffin can be used as a decor. I forgot to mention that this coffin can be opened to reveal a hidden message or even a candy bar measuring up to ~1/2". 

I hope you like today's project.

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Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Nature Cardmaking

  Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps.

I Brake for Stamps Papers:  Cyan Consortium

I Brake for Stamps:  Nature

Create a card from green cardstock.

Cut a sheet of paper from the paper pack, then die cut a circle from the center.

Adhere the panel to the card front.

Stamp the phrase on the die cut circle, mat with cardstock and place over the die cut opening with foam adhesives.

Create a card from rust cardstock and add a layer of orange stripes.

Stamp the phrase on white cardstock.

Die cut the surrounding elements and adhere.

Place leaves around the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Boo!

Hi, friends! It's design team member Walter on the blog today with my final Halloween card of this year.  Ghosts, haunted houses, a headless monster . . . this one has them all!  I thought it would be fun to build a scene that's framed by spiderwebs.  What do you think?

Here's what I used to make it:

• Halloween 3/4 Sheet
  
• Halloween Half Sheet #1
  
• A2 Black Card Base
• 3"x4.5" White Card Panel
• Distress Oxide Inks: Lost Shadow and Hickory Smoke
• Delicata Silvery Shimmer Metallic Pigment Ink
• Sakura Black Glaze Pen
• Sakura Gelly Roll White Gel Pen
• Silver metallic gel pen
• Alcohol Markers
• Ranger Glossy Accents

Here's how I made it:

• Stamped spider webs onto the card base using silver metallic ink; ran the ink pad around the edges of the card base; set aside to dry.

• Used the deckle edge blade of my paper trimmer to cut the white card panel.
• Ink blended the white card panel with Lost Shadow Distress ink; started to blend in the Hickory Smoke around 2/3 of the way down.

• Stamped the haunted house image onto the card panel with blank ink.

• Stamped ghost, gravestone, and headless figure onto a scrap of white cardstock with black ink.
• Colored each of the stamped images with alcohol markers and fussy cut them out.

• Colored the house image with alcohol markers and white gel pen; colored the moon background of the image with a silver metallic get pen,
• Adhered the stamped panel onto the card base with double sided foam tape.
• Adhered down the cut images with double sided foam tape.
• Outlined images with black glaze pen.
• Added Glossy Accents to the pumpkin and spider bodies.

What a fun celebration of Halloween!  Fun with just a little touch of spooky.

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today!  See you again soon.

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