Miss Ink Stamps – You’re to Die For

Alright friends! I’m back at it again. I couldn’t put the Halloween stamps away. Sorry, not sorry. Hahaha!!! This is another smaller, but totally adorable and fun Halloween set from Miss Ink Stamps and I love it!

I easily shaded these cuties with my copic markers and cut them out. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Halloween Sentiments on black cardstock and cut it out with a small banner die.

For the background panel, I blended ripe persimmon and carved pumpkin distress oxides. Then spritzed it with water and flicked black paint on the panel before die cutting it with the Mama Elephant Mod Heart die set. One gives this awesome wonky rectangle and another gives you that cool striped heart I cut from black and white cardstock. Aren’t those stripes so fun?!?

Finally, I created a black card base with a white insert for the inside. Then I popped the orange panel up with foam tape and then the heart next. The ghosts are added with foam squares and finally the sentiment with foam strips.

For finishing touches I used my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the shading areas of the ghosts.

I barely got the photos finished of this card before my daughter stole it and put it on the shelf in her room. I guess this one is spoken for. Hahaha!

Products used:
Kindred Spirits stamps
Halloween Sentiments stamps
Mod Heart dies
Distress Oxide – ripe persimmon and carved pumpkin
Foam tape, squares and strips
4-Bar Card dies
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Watermark and Embossing Ink
Embossing Powder – frosting
Magic anti-static brush

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Pink & Main – Foiling Fun with Toner Paper

Welcome everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Today I have a really cool card to share with you featuring the new Black and White paper pad. This paper is toner printed so you can foil on it! Everything that is black will be foiled if you run it through a laminator.

I specifically chose a print with lots of black so most of my card front would be foiled. Then I chose my foil – gold shattered glass – and heated up my laminator.

A few pro tips for foiling on toner! First, take a clean microfiber cloth and wipe the back of your foil carefully and the front of your paper. This removes the oils from your fingers which inhibit the foiling process. Once you’ve done that, be careful to only handle the edges. Second, make sure your laminator is really good and hot. I let mine heat up twice as long as suggested. Third, look at the back of your foil. There are usually striation lines going one direction in the foil. You want these to go through your machine parallel to the opening. It helps keep wrinkles down.

With my panel foiled, I used the largest A2 rectangle die to cut the panel down and saved the leftover for another project later on. I love distressing for two reasons. First, it’s cool to look at and, second, it hides imperfections wonderfully! So I splattered my panel with some black paint and let it dry.

While that was drying, I used two more layered rectangle dies to create a thin frame. I used liquid glue to adhere it after the paint was dry.

I wanted to focus to be on the awesome foiling so I stamped and heat embossed an image from Floral Wings with licorice embossing powder and used the coordinating die to cut it out. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment with frosting embossing powder and used another layered rectangle to cut that out. Both things were added with foam squares and my card is finished.

I hope you’ll give foiling a try and I also hope that my tips are helpful to you too!

Products used:
Floral Wings stamps and dies
Layered Rectangles dies
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Watermark & Embossing Ink
Magic anti-static brush
Embossing powder – licorice and frosting
Deco Foil – gold shattered glass
Foam squares

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Pink & Main – Best Wishes Stencil Layering

Happy Friday everyone! I’m so glad you stopped by. Today I have more Pink & Main inspiration featuring a new layering stencil to add color to your image. I don’t know about all of you but I’m really having fun with these types of products. Today I stepped it up a bit at the end and really love the outcome.

I started by stamping the Simple Bouquet image in dark gray ink. Then I used the layering stencils to apply my color. Then I placed the image back in my MISTI and stamped the sentiment in the banner.

There are a ton of options in the set that match the curve of the banners perfectly. It’s so perfect and fun to mix and match them different ways!

Next, I die cut the next-to-largest Stitched Arch die from white cardstock and ran it through my die cut machine with the new Many Hearts embossing folder. I popped this up with foam tape on a kraft card base and then popped my image up with foam tape on that.

This is when I had that genius idea to step things up with the stenciling and use glossy gel with super fine glitter. Definitely not the order I recommend but I was VERY careful and thank goodness it all worked out!

So, I replaced the detail stencil layer over my flowers, spread the glossy gel through it and sprinkled on ice rink glitter. I tapped off the excess and left it all to dry before using a dry paint brush to really brush off the excess.

Once that was done, I decided to tie some baker’s twine around the top of my card and tie it in a bow. Such a cute little addition and I really think it finishes things off well.

Products used today:
Simple Bouquet stamps, dies and stencils
Stitched Arches dies
Many Hearts embossing folder
Ergonomic blending brushes
Glossy gel
Super Fine Glitter – ice rink
Foam tape

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Miss Ink Stamps – Boo Cats

Hey there! Thanks so much for stopping by. Today I have some out of season inspiration to share with you because, let’s be real, I cannot be the only girl out there just wishing for fall to get here so I can create all things pumpkins, spooky and leaves! I love fall so much and it seems that every year my yearn for it gets a little earlier into summer. Lol! So even if the weather doesn’t cooperate, at least I can craft like it’s October!

To create my card, I started with stamping the main image from Boo Cats and colored it with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut it out and set it aside. I had the idea to use the Diagonals Masking Stencil but hadn’t decided on colors or extra layers yet so I went digging. Ultimately I chose to pull the colors from the kitty hats and go with a classic polka dot accent. So fun!

After the stenciling was done, I die cut a vellum rectangle and heat embossed the sentiment on the bottom center. While the rectangle dies were out I trimmed the stenciled panel down with on and cut a darker purple background from the largest one. Then I had a random thought to add a little visual texture by cutting the same size rectangle as the vellum from the center of the panel and popping the frame up with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights to the kitties and their hats, then a little stardust stickles to the stars and moon on the center hat. It’s simple but I love it!

This is one of my favorite Halloween sets! I think it’s so much fun and I enjoy coloring it every time I pull it out!

Products used today:
Boo Cats stamps
Diagonals Masking stencil
Layered Small Alternating Dots stencils (just small layer)
Trinity Stamps Embossed Edge Rectangle dies
Foam tape and squares
Stickles – stardust
Magic Anti-static Brush
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Embossing powder – licorice

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Newton’s Nook – Joyful Tidings

Hello everyone! Guess what today is?!?!? It’s the half-way mark to Christmas! Yeah, the years just seem to fly by. I don’t get it. But I couldn’t resist the temptation to dive into my Newton’s Nook Christmas stash and make a little nutcracker fun to share with you all.

I had a design in mind when I started this card but today I actually started with my background panel and found the copics to coordinate from there. The background is ink blended with distress oxide in rustic wilderness and bundled sage. I faded out to nothing at an angle as I came down. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry before layering the Music stencil over the top and spreading gold glitz glitter gel through it.

While the panel was drying, I stamped one of the nutcracker images and colored him with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating die to cut him out and went digging for a different shaped sentiment. I love the sentiments in the set but I really wanted that banner to the left of him so I looked at all my Roundabout and Heartfelt sets, landing on this one from Heartfelt Holidays. I think it’s simple and nice to go with the feel of the card.

Since the Banner Trio dies are solid, I always die cut that part first, then stamp and heat emboss on the shape. At the beginning I kept forgetting and tried to blindly line things up but it never goes well. Lol.

With the glitz gel panel dry, I die cut it with the largest Framework die and popped it up on a white card base with foam tape. Then I glued the banner to the nutcracker, added foam squares to them and popped them up as well.

For finishing touches I came in with stardust Stickles on all the gold parts of the nutcracker. I wanted his gold areas to be shiny like the background. Last, I added black glaze pen to his eyes to make them raised and shiny. I really love that part.

Products used:
Nutcrackers stamps and dies
Heartfelt Holidays stamps
Banner Trio dies
Framework dies
Music stencil
Glitz Glitter Gel – gold
Stencil pal
3D foam tape and squares
Distress oxide – rustic wilderness and bundled sage
Stickles – stardust

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Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers – Christmas in July Hop

Hey friends! I’m super excited to be sponsoring another Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers Hop! This is such a genius way to use your products more throughout the year and get a jump start on holiday cardmaking. Goodness knows we never have enough time to get it all done during the holiday season, so why not start early!

Since we’re sponsors of the hop, I wanted to highlight a few of our products.

Magnetic Die Stand

This product comes in a variety of shapes and colors to match your personality and style. Great for keeping track of dies while you’re crafting and not ready to put them away.

Pressure Pal

Our ever popular Pressure Pal helps apply even pressure with less stress on your hands when using a stamping look like a MISTI. This also comes in a variety of colors.

Embellishments

We offer a huge variety of embellishments to adorn your cards, create shakers, slime and so much more! Something for every occasion, all through the year!

Embellishment Trays

Be sure to check out our embellishment trays while you’re at it! These are fantastic for dumping embellishments into, rooting around to find what you want and then using the pour spout to easily put them back in the bag. It sure beats picking them up off your table one at a time or trying to dig in those little baggies.

We have a bunch of shapes and colors of these too. They are so fun and I seriously keep 4 on my desk at all times to hold die cut images and other things as well! They’re so cute and handy.

We have lots of other products in the shop so please take a moment to head over and then leave me a comment on what you plan to add to your stash!

This wouldn’t be a proper hop and celebration without a sale. So, before I go. Let’s put the shop at 20% off so you can try us out and get crafting!

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Pink & Main – Happy Bee-day!

Welcome, welcome crafty friends! I’m so glad you’re here today. I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing this adorable bee themed birthday card. You all know that I love to get inky and messy so today’s card is not unusual for me at all and I just love how it turned out!

I planned my layout a bit in advance by laying the stamps on the plain white scalloped die cut to see how they would fit together. I liked it so I stamped and colored everything with copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and set it all aside while I worked on the background.

Originally I cut a smaller rectangle from colored cardstock and used the second die in the Dotted Cover dies set to cut the polka dots. The texture was not working for me at all. It was too much and distracting from the images. So I went back to square one and thought I’d start with inking. I taped off the edges and used distress oxide in salvaged patina and dried marigold randomly on the panel. I spritzed that with water and flicked ink of both colors all over. Now, I was getting somewhere! But it needed something else. So I layered the Rainbow Fun stencil over top and spread Glossy Gel through it.

I love it so much! So, then I added all my images with foam squares, heat embossed a sentiment and cut it with a circle die and popped the whole thing up on a white card base.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the bees’ eyes, nose, hands and feet. Then I used stardust stickles on the wings and glossy accents on the sun. Eeeep! Isn’t is so cute?!?

Products used today:
Sweeter Than Honey stamps and dies (Stamp of the Month)
Dotted Cover dies
Layered Circle dies
Rainbow Fun stencil
Glossy gel
Magic Anti-static Brush
Watermark & Embossing Ink
Embossing Powder – frosting
Foam tape
Distress Oxide – salvaged patina and dried marigold
Glossy accents
Stickles – stardust

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Miss Ink Stamps – Science is Like Magic

Happy Thursday everyone! Today I have another week of Miss Ink Stamps fantastic inspiration. This time I used only one stamp set for my entire card. Sometimes it’s nice not to need a stack of products to create something awesome! I get the mixing and matching but doing more with less is awesome!

I started by choosing a couple of images from It’s All Relative, stamping and coloring them with copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out and glued them together with liquid glue.

I took an A2 piece of white cardstock and stamped the two atom images from the set and stamped them randomly all over it. When you’re doing something like this, be sure to stamp some off the edge of the paper to create the illusion of continuation off the page.

After the panel was covered, I didn’t like it at all. Honestly, it wasn’t doing anything for me. But I don’t like to give up so I took a blending brush and inked the edges a little with the same color ink I stamped with. That was a little better but I kept going. I added tea dye distress ink to the edges and then more blue. I kept going back and forth with light layers until it was looking cool. Then I spritzed it with a distress sprayer and that’s when the magic happened! I love how it reacted with the inks differently. Also, exactly why I chose the sentiment that I did to stamp on the desk.

To offset the stark white edges on the images I inked them just a touch with the tea dye distress ink before adding foam tape and popping them up on a vellum circle. I hid tape runner behind the images and added that to the background panel and trimmed anything hanging off the edge.

Last, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole panel to a card front and came in with glossy accents for the character’s eyes. I finished the card off with white gel pen highlights and the whole card is finished.

Products used:
It’s All Relative stamps
Trinity Stamps Embossed Edge Circle dies
Bearly Arts liquid glue
Thermoweb foam tape
Glossy accents

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Newton’s Nook – Hip Hip Hooray Balloon Shaker Card

Hello everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing this really fun shaker card featuring products from the July Birthday Release! Be sure to check it all out if you haven’t yet. It’s an amazing release and I absolutely love everything!

For today’s card, I knew I wanted to pair this sweet image with the Balloon Shaker dies so I stamped and colored him right away. I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and started cutting and assembling the pieces to my balloon shaker. The top frame and bottom layer are both cut from a piece of paper in the new Birthday Party paper pad that released last week. The shaker bits are just sequins from my stash and I used the stacked die cut technique to create my shaker well in stead of foam strips.

For the background, I inked up a white panel with distress oxide in blueprint sketch, salty ocean and tumbled glass. I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Then I added the Cloudy Sky stencil over the top and spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through it. I removed the stencil, cleaned up and waited for it to dry. Fast forward, to a heated up laminator and dry transfer gel – I cut a piece of white latte deco foil flock transfer the size of the panel, layered it on top of the stenciled panel, placed them in a Craft & Carrier sheet and ran it through my laminator.

I die cut the flocked panel with the largest Framework die. Then cut the smallest die in that set from black cardstock. Next, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the Birthday Oval set in white on it.

To assemble my card, I cut an orange piece of patterned paper and added it to a white care base. Then I popped the stenciled panel up with foam tape and glued my shaker directly to that with liquid glue. I popped the mouse and sentiment up with foam squares.

For finishing touches, I added black glaze pen to the mouse’s eye and glossy accents to his nose and the whole balloon.

Products used today:
Birthday Mice stamps and dies
Birthday Oval stamps
Framework dies
Balloon Shaker dies
Cloudy Sky stencil
Birthday Party paper pad
Thermoweb 3D foam tape and squares
Thermoweb Transfer Gel BLANCO
Thermoweb stencil pal
Thermoweb Deco Foil Flock Transfer – white latte
Glossy accents
Bearly Art liquid glue

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Trinity Stamps – Mini Watercolor Frame & Fold Cards

Hello everyone! I’m excited to share a fun trio of cards that I made for my daughter when she was away at dance camp last week. I absolutely love the Trinity Stamps Love Dani line of 3×4 stamps and think they are so fun to watercolor. When the most recent additions release, I just had to have them and couldn’t wait to play!

To create these cards, I die cut the mini card that is part of the Slimline Frame & Fold die set from Trinity Stamps. It gives you this really fun 3×4 miniature card. I cut mine from Bristol Smooth cardstock because I knew I was going to heat emboss and watercolor my images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

These were so much fun to color and experiment with. I also love that the Zigs don’t bleed through so I didn’t need an extra layer of cardstock to hide anything.

As I said earlier, these cards were for my daughter. She went away to a 4-day dance camp and I thought it would be fun to stash some happy thoughts in her suitcase. After I watercolored each card and let it dry, my husband and I each wrote different messages inside each card so she could open them each day.

Then, I used my WeRMemory Keepers envelope punch board to create coordinating envelopes that went with the colors on each card. I used some fun washi tape to seal each one and tied them together with baker’s twine.

This was silly and so much fun to create! These cards are also perfect for holding a gift card if you wanted to do that too!

Products used today:
Slimline Frame and Fold dies
Rooting For You stamps
Easy Peasy stamps
One in a Melon stamps
Watermark & Embossing Ink
Embossing powder – licorice
Magic Anti-static Brush
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

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