Hello everyone. I’m joining you today for a fun way to customize the new Hang In There stamp set from Trinity Stamps. I had so much fun creating this card and hope you enjoy it.
I started this card by stamping the image from Hang In There as it is. Then I masked off the words on the inside and stamped 2 more shirts. Then I cut another mask for the negative of the shirt, being sure to cover the ribbing too. I chose the smaller images in the set to decorate my other shirts with but really, the possibilities are endless. You could add anything you wanted.
I colored the images with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then, moving on to my background I blended distress inks on a panel and splattered it with the darkest of the inks. I took out the Layered Lakeside stencil set out and stenciled some clouds with texture paste over the top.
I inked up a small panel in greens and splattered it as well. Then I used the slimline scenic borders dies to cut some grass from it and adhered it to my panel sky panel.
Next, I adhered some twine to the back of the panel so my shirts could hang on the line and adhered it to a card base. The shirts are popped up with foam squares and then I moved on to finishing touches.
For those, I added glossy accents to the words and Stickles to the hearts and clouds on the other shirts.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Holy moly! It’s been an amazing week of Newton’s Nook awesomeness and today is the icing on the cake! These new images are sooo much fun! I love them both!
Pug-kin and Knight Owl Stamps and Dies
Seriously??? They are the cutest things ever and I have super fun cards using each one to share with you today.
I knew straight off that I wanted to create a fun forest scene for my Knight Owl to be in. He’s on a quest, you know. This is just fitting. 😉 I inked up a panel with distress inks and used the Falling Stars stencil and some Metallix gel for a night time background. Then I die cut a vellum panel from one of the Frames & Flags dies. I inked up another panel with green and die cut it from the same die and again with the grassy border die. Then I cut some trees from the Forest Scene Builder set and inked them up. I die cut my starry panel with the Framework die and popped it up on a dark blue card base with foam tape. I glued my grass and trees to the vellum panel and carefully put glue on the vellum behind those places and stuck it down to the stenciled panel. This hides your glue spots.
I had colored my Knight Owl with copics and die cut him, now it was time to pop him up with foam squares. I decided to pull that dark blue in a little more and heat embossed my sentiment (which is a combo of Heartfelt Essentials and Knight Owl) on a flag from Frames & Flags. To make things cohesive I ran the flag through my die cutter with the same die as my vellum panel so the stitching matches up. The flag is popped up with foam tape. To finish the design off I added white gel pen highlights and glossy accents in a couple of spots like the shield and owl’s beak and feet.
I have to be totally honest here…I could color a hundred of these pug-kins and it wouldn’t get old. I really love watching them come to life. They’re too cute! I paired this little sweetie with some extra pumpkins from the new Paw-tumn set from earlier in the week. For the background, I inked up a panel with distress oxides and then used the new Houndstooth stencil over the top in brown. I found a brown textured cardstock in my stash and cut a couple of circles out using the Circle Frames dies. The brown panel is popped up with foam tape. I die cut 2 banners from the Banner Trio dies and stamped my sentiments (one from Heartfelt Essentials and the other from Pug-kin) on them. Those are popped up with foam tape and then the cute Pug-kin and his pumpkins are adhered with a combo of liquid glue and foam squares.
I finished this card off with some white gel pen highlights, a little glossy accents on his nose and some clear gems from my stash. I just love this!!!
Would you like to win the “Knight Owl” and the “Pug-kin” Stamp Set?We will choose TWO lucky winners to each win this duo of stamp sets!
Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday August 20th at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 21st.
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Welcome to day 3 of Newton’s Nook’s August release reveals! Today is packed full of Halloween goodness! I have 3 awesome cards to share with you so I’ll keep them all brief.
Isn’t all of this incredible?!?!? I love Halloween and creating Halloween themed projects, so today is making me sooo happy! I hope you like it all too!
To create this fun Batty Newton shaker, I started with blending distress inks on a panel and used Thermoweb transfer gel and black decofoil with the bats stencil. Then to create the shaker mechanism I used Thermoweb glitz gel on a panel, let it dry and die cut a frame from the Framework die set to make it super glittery. I stamped, colored and die cut my Batty Newton; making sure to cut lots of extra bats for my shaker. I die cut the smallest Circle Frame and heat embossed my sentiment. Batty Newton and the sentiment are popped up with foam tape on the shaker and the shaker is adhered to the foiled panel with liquid glue. Then the whole thing was popped on a card base and I used some simple glossy accents on Newton’s nose and toe beans.
For a different spin on the roundabout series, I stamped and colored 2 Spooky Roundabout images. Then I took various dies from the Circle Frames set and cut them out. I inked up a panel from the Slimline Frames and Portholes with distress inks and spritzed it with water. I adhered my circles all over and then flicked pearl and gold watercolor and black paint all over it. This panel is popped up with foam tape on an orange card base. I used the Banner Trio dies and heat embossed my sentiment. Then this is also popped up with foam squares. Isn’t it so much fun?
Finally, I wanted to create a card where the new Spider Web stencil was the star of the show. So I inked up a panel with distress oxide inks and used Thermoweb glitz gel over the stencil and set it aside to dry. I pulled out the fabulous Witchy Newton image from last year and color him with my copics, die cutting him with the coordinating dies and setting it aside. I pulled out the Fancy Edges Tag set and cut out a tag base from a green distress inked panel. I cut a black top and adhered it together, popping Newton up with foam squares. I strung some baker’s twine through the hole and popped the tag up over the stenciled panel. For a sentiment I used the Spooky Roundabout set and another Banner Trio die and popped it up. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the image and Nuvo Crystal Drops in apple green.
Would you like to win the “Spooky Roundabout” or the “Batty Newton” Stamp Set?We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!
Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday August 20th at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 21st.
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Thanks for stopping by again. Today we’ve got even more fall fun to share with you! A few stamp sets and one coordinating die set. Let’s jump right in.
Heartfelt Essentials Stamps (coordinates with Banner Trio dies)
With all of this goodness, I’ve got 2 cards to share with you today. I had so much fun creating both of them; I hope you enjoy them!
For my fall roundabout card, I started by stamping my image on Bristol smooth cardstock and watercolored with my zig clean color real brush markers. Then I took out the circle frame dies and cut it out, along with creating a frame from the same cardstock. I create a circle shaker feature and set it aside to work on the rest of my card.
I used various Nuvo embellishment mousses on cardstock, let them dry and die cut autumn leaves from the panels. I cut an A2 panel from kraft cardstock and used the houndstooth stencil with brown ink. I arranged my leaves under the shaker mechanism and adhered them with liquid glue. Then I adhered my shaker and moved on to a sentiment. I love that the sentiments in the roundabout sets work perfectly with the banner trio dies so I die cut a banner and stamped my sentiment on it. Then I went around the letters with a light blue zig marker for a little extra interest. The banner was then folded on the crease lines and adhered with liquid glue.
For this amazingly adorable paw-tumn set, I’ve got some great slimline fun to share with you. I started by coloring my images with copics and then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I stamped extra leaves, pumpkins and acorns because I wasn’t sure how many I would want in my scene. Pulling from the fall colors I used on the images, I die cut a panel from kraft cardstock using the slimline frames and portholes dies. Then I cut a frame from dark brown using the slimline frames and windows dies. I stamped the leaves all over the kraft panel and adhered the dark brown frame with liquid glue. Then I popped that panel up with foam tape on a golden yellow card base. I arranged my images and adhered them with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue.
For the sentiment, I die cut a flag from Frames & Flags die set and heat embossed it in white. I wrapped some baker’s twine around the end and glued one last leaf to the end. Then I popped it up with foam squares. For finishing touches on this card, I added glossy accents to various parts of the images like sunflower centers, acorn tops, leaves and pumpkin stems.
Would you like to win the “Fall Roundabout” or the “Paw-tumn Newton” Stamp Set?We will choose ONE lucky winner for each stamp set!
Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday August 20th at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 21st.
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Yippee!!! Welcome to another amazing release from Newton’s Nook! Today for day 1 we’ve got a couple of fabulous stencils and an amazing stamp and die set to share with you! Be sure to check back each day to see all of the fun that’s in store.
Mugs Stencil
Houndstooth Stencil
Sips & Stories Stamps and Dies
Aren’t these all so fun! I had a blast creating with everything. Today I have a card to share with you using the new mugs stencil and Sips & Stories. I hope you like it.
To create my card I started by using Thermoweb transfer gel over my mugs stencil. I let it dry and ran it through my laminator with light blue flocking. So the mugs in the background are all fuzzy. It’s super fun! I stamped, colored and die cut my images and started arranging them. Then I thought it would be fun to make a couple of scenes on my card so I used the Framework dies and cut dark brown frames and glued vellum to the back. After getting and idea for image placement I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment. Then went back to adhere all of my images and finally adhered the panels to my flocked piece.
The panel was attached to a card base and I moved on to finishing touches which were just a few spots of glossy accents on the book spines and various mugs in the scenes.
Would you like to win the “Sips & Stories” Stamp Set?This stamp set will be given away to ONE lucky winner!
Here’s how to win: Comment on the NND blog and Design Team blogs (see list below)! Thewinner will be chosen at random from the collective reveal posts. Make sure to check out each of their blogs and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Thursday August 20th at 9pm EST to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday, August 21st.
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Hellooooooo everyone!!! I am soooooooo beyond excited to share that I have joined the Miss Ink Stamps Design Team! This is so surreal and I am so grateful to be designing along this incredible team of talent! To celebrate, I’m sharing my first card today!
This super fun card was created with just one of the stamp sets from the amazing Alice in Wonderland release from earlier this year. I stamped and colored the images from Painting the Roses with my copics. Then I ran them through my scan-n-cut to cut them out. Then I took the bush image and repeat stamped it across a slimline size panel (8.5×3.5 inches). Then I used distress inks in mowed lawn and salty ocean to create my grass and sky. Next I colored the bushes with my copics and set to adhering the images where I wanted them.
I popped them up with foam squares to give the card a little extra dimension and interest. Then I stamped my sentiment and cut it into a flag shape, popping it up too.
At this point I thought my sky was a little boring so I pulled out a Newton’s Nooks stencil called cloudy sky and inked Hero Arts unicorn white pigment ink through it with a blending brush. It was easy to manipulate the stencil around the images and I love the little bit that it adds. Finally I finished the design off with glossy accents on various things like some roses, garden tools and the soldier’s staff and then a scattering of red clay hearts across the sky and one on the sentiment to tie it all together.
This is just the beginning of sharing some amazing creations with Miss Ink Stamps products. I hope you enjoy the journey with me.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Happy weekend everyone! We’re having a heat wave here so this card is helping me cool off mentally. 😉 I was very excited to finally make my first order from Reverse Confetti. I love their unique critters and had a really hard time choosing just a couple.
As soon as they came in I couldn’t resist inking them up. Here’s the first card I made.
I knew that I wanted to try keeping my color palette limited and softer than typical so I pulled out some pink and mint and immediately thought brown would go great with it all. I mean, who doesn’t love chocolate ice cream???
I colored up my images from Ice Cream Social with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Then I set to ink blending my background with spun sugar and cracked pistachio distress inks. Then I flicked watered down color on the panel.
I used my Newton’s Nook cloudy sky stencil with some texture paste for fun dimensional clouds in the sky. Once this was dry I adhered my panel to a card base. Then I used Newton’s Nook Frames & Flags dies to make a frame and popped it up with foam strips. I used a combination of foam squares and liquid glue to adhere all of my images down next. I stamped my sentiment on a soft pink cardstock and cut it into a flag, then popped it up too.
For finishing touches on this sweet card, I used glossy accents on the critter noses, eyes and toe beans, the ice cream truck window, horn, light and decal on the side of the truck. Then I thought it would be fun to add some sparkly so I used unicorn Stickles on all the sprinkles of the ice creams.
I’m in love with this guys! Totally hooked and can’t wait to create more. I hope you find some inspiration to create something wonderful today!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Happy Friday everyone!!! I wanted to pop in with just one more fun Shark Week themed card that I made. Today I’m featuring Trinity Stamps Shark Bait and Ocean Reef Builder stamp sets along with some fun ink blending.
To make my card, I pulled out Shark Bait and stamped a bundle of images, multiple times to fill my scene. I wanted more variation at the bottom of my ocean floor so I also stamped a few from the Ocean Reef Builder set. I colored them all with my copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out.
Then I moved on to my background. I inked up the bottom with antique linen and tea dye distress inks and the top with blueprint sketch and salty ocean. Then I flicked droplets of each color onto the panel for some distressing with a little color to it.
I adhered all of my scenery with liquid glue to the bottom of my ocean floor. Then I popped up my sharks with foam squares and die cut my sentiment from the coordinating dies to Shark Bait. I used a quickie glue pen to adhere these because they are so tiny.
For finishing touches, I added some white gel pen accents to various images and then added Nuvo Crystal Drops in morning dew as bubbles above the sharks and to add a little shine to my starfish and sea urchin.
I had a bunch of fun putting this sharky scene together. I hope you enjoyed it.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hi there! Just popping in today to share a wedding card I made last week featuring the Trinity Stamps foliage frame and some fun embellishments from my shop.
My parents were going to a wedding and needed a card. I don’t really have wedding stamps, or a talent for fancy looking cards but the foliage frame popped in my head. I took a little inspiration from a crafty friend and created this beautiful shaker card.
I started this card by die cutting the foliage frame from white cardstock and iridescent vellum and layered them together. Then I lined the back with scrappy tape and adhered a sheet of acetate to it. Next, I added a layer of foam tape and created a 3.5×8.5 card base to stick it to.
I added a pile of holographic hearts and snow queen embellishments from my Etsy shop along with a few clear microbeads and then adhered the frame to my card base, sealing all the shaker bits inside.
I didn’t have a large congratulations sentiment so I got my Cricut out and made a custom one just the size I wanted and glued it to the acetate window with liquid glue.
I think this card turned out really pretty and was very simple to come together. It would also be simple to customize with wedding colors or holiday colors and a new sentiment across the front as well.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a great week so far. Today I’m over on the Birch Press Design blog featuring this set of 4 stenciled cards. They are quick and easy to pull together if you need something in a jif or if you’d like to mass produce cards to have in your stash. They would make a great gift to give as well.
I used the same mandala stencil on each of these cards. I just changed up the ink colors and where I placed the stencil on my panel. I used blending brushes and dye inks for all the stenciling. Let’s take a closer look at each card.
For this first card, I used some blue and purple inks and started my inking from the center of the mandala out. I finished it off with some gem stones accenting the different points of the mandala to make it a focal point and added a die cut sentiment to the bottom.
For this next one, I wanted to use bright, fun colors for my inking and then made the sentiment flashy with a rose gold mirror cardstock for the shadow portion. I finished it off with some opal half-round embellishments scattered across the design this time.
For this design, I brought the stencil down much further and stuck with some natural green and muted yellow inks. I absolutely love how this turned out! I also brought a little shine to this sentiment with gold mirror cardstock and pearl confetti bits scattered all about. This one may be my favorite.
Something struck me when I moved on to this final card and I decided to try stenciling at an angle instead of centered. I think it turned out really cool and would definitely try this design again. I finished it off with a simple hello and some great clear blue and green bubbles from my stash.
I hope you enjoyed today’s cards. If you’d like to see the step-by-step, head over to the Birch Press Design blog where I lay it all out with a photo tutorial.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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