Miss Ink Stamps – Storybook Alice

Happy Thursday everyone! It’s time for more Miss Ink Stamps inspiration and I’m still having fun with the most recent additions to the Alice Collection. This week I finally played with the Storybook Alice set.

I’m obsessed with the fabulous open book image but also love the new Hatter and other characters too!

I started by stamping and coloring all of my images with copic markers. Then, used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I ink blended the Starburst stencil on a piece of white cardstock using light purple ink, removed the stencil and went over the panel again with the same color to soften the bright white. Then I trimmed that panel down to 5.5×3.5 inches.

After deciding on the arrangement of my images, I glued the characters to the book with liquid glue and I also decided to add faint keyholes to the background with the Vintage Keyhole stencil. Now for assembly.

I added a strip of black cardstock to the bottom of my card front, then a strip of glittery washi tape for interest. Then I popped the background panel up with foam tape and added the images the same way. Last, I added the sentiment strip with foam strips.

For finishing touches I added scattering of dots of glue all over the background and sprinkles Champagne Stardust embellishments on them. My thought on this was the magic coming from an open book. I love how it turned out!

Products used:
Storybook Alice stamps and dies
Starburst stencil
Champagne Stardust embellishments
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn fresh lavender and narwhal ink
Foam tape, squares and strips
Liquid glue

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Mama Elephant – Ice Cream Truck Scene Card

Welcome everyone. Today I have a sweet little scene card that makes me want summer to be here even more than I already do. Ice cream trucks are fun and exciting and we all know it’s time for warmer, nicer weather when we hear that music coming down that street.

I picked up the Little Agenda Ice Cream stamp set on release day but hadn’t created with it yet. So I definitely had to fix that asap. What better addition to pair it with than the original Little Agenda Bunny stamps too! So I chose my images and colored everything with copic markers. Then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out.

For my background, I positioned the Urban City stamp to the upper part of my panel and stamped it with brown ink. I ink blended the buildings with the same light brown and the sky with teal. Then I took a dark gray ink pad direct-to-paper for a city street look.

I glued the panel to a card base and popped my images up with foam squares. Then I stamped a sentiment from Urban City with the same gray as the road and die cut it with a sentiment strip, popping it up with a foam strip as well.

For finishing touches I added orange twine around the top of the card, tying it in a knot. Then came in with stardust Stickles on the top of the ice cream truck and glossy accents on the ice cream scoops all over.

Cheers to the thought of summer fun and treat yourself moments at the ice cream truck this year!

Products used:
Urban City stamps
Little Agenda Ice Cream stamps and dies
Little Agenda Bunny stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip dies
Liquid glue
Foam squares and strips
Lawn Fawn Inks – narwhal, mermaid, walnut
Stickles – stardust
Touch of gloss
Blending brushes

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MFT Stamps – Hoppy Birthday

Hello everyone! I’m so excited that my most recent MFT Stamps order came late last week and I was able to play with these adorable frogs straight away! I went with the brown copic-friendly ink again because I just love the soft lines with these colors.

I started by choosing a few of the frogs in the set to stamp and color. Then I used the coordinating dies and cut them out. I had these squares from die cutting a grid backdrop earlier and I just couldn’t part with them because I knew they would make a cool background later on. Which I was right about!

I took a light yellow ink pad direct-to-paper before popping up each grid square with foam. Then I glued that panel to a white one, and finally a teal one. I used foam squares to add each of my frogs, double-stacked if they overhung a gab between the squares so everything laid flat.

Keeping with the softer feel, I stamped my sentiment in the same brown ink on kraft cardstock and cut it out with a banner die. Then I trimmed the left side flat and adhered it to the top row of squares with a foam strip.

For finishing touches I added a scattering of glitter enamel dots across the whole design.

I had so much fun pulling this together and working outside of the box of my normal feeling designs.

Products used:
MFT Hoppin’ Good Time stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Grid Cover die
Lawn Fawn Extra Sentiment Strip dies
Foam squares and strips
Lawn Fawn sunflower ink
Pink & Main enamel glitter dots
Liquid glue

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Doodlebugs – Birthday Balloons on Balloons

You can never have too many birthday balloons. Am I right?!? Well, I don’t think so. So when I had the chance to ink up the adorable Mama Elephant It’s Poppin, I had to pair it with my favorite Spellbinders Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder. It’s a match made in heaven.

To start, I actually stamped all of the images in It’s Poppin and colored them all with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and stashed the other two for later on.

I took a piece of white cardstock and embossed it with the Spellbinders Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder, then placed the panel in my splatter box and went to town with distress oxide sprays. I let the panel dry, splattered it with water, let that dry and then thought it better to run the panel through the embossing folder again. It did make a difference in the balloons standing out.

***So, suggestion to spray your panel with color first, let it dry completely and then emboss it.***

With that done, I splattered the panel with white paint and then trimmed it down to 4×5.5 inches and popped it up on a white card base. I added a couple strips of washi tape to the bottom edge. Then I cut the Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday three times and glued the layers together before gluing them to the card front. Last, I added the image with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the kitties’ eyes and noses and stardust Stickles to the stars in the balloon.

Products used:
Mama Elephant It’s Poppin stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday die
Spellbinders Floating Balloons 3D embossing folder
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide Sprays – wild honey, abandoned coral and wilted violet
Sakura Gelly Roll black glaze pen

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Newton’s Nook – Butterflies and Rainbows

Hey friends. I’m happy to be on the Newton’s Nook blog today with a fabulous glitz rainbow filled butterfly card.

I started with a piece of white cardstock and inked up the first layer of the Butterflies stencil set in an angled rainbow. I remove the layer and went over the whole panel with the same inks so there was no white space and the rainbow continued. Then I positioned the second layer of the stencil and spread Thermoweb iridescent glitz gel through it.

While that panel was drying, I inked up the three butterflies in the Monarchs stamp set with the same inks I used to blend the background. I chose the area the butterflies would be adhered a loosely kept the colors close.

Then I die cut a black banner from the Banner Trio die set and heat embossed a sentiment from Heartfelt Butterflies on it. With the background panel dry, I trimmed it to 4×5.25 and popped it up on a card base, then popped the sentiment banner and butterflies up on that with foam squares.

Products used today:
Monarchs stamps and dies
Butterflies stencil set
Banner Trio dies
Heartfelt Butterflies stamps
Foam squares and tape
Magic anti-static brush
Embossing & watermark ink
Embossing powder – frosting
Thermoweb glitz gel – iridescent
Blending brushes
Lawn Fawn inks – ballet slippers, peach fuzz, sunflower, mermaid, juice box

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Doodlebugs – Reverse Embossed Backgrounds

Hey friends! I’m playing with reverse embossed backgrounds today and LOVING the outcome! It’s simple to do but looks complex which makes it all that much cooler!

I started with a piece of white cardstock and ink blende it randomly with distress oxide inks. Today I chose picked raspberry, abandoned coral and wild honey for my colors. There was very little blending involved, mostly just getting color coverage on the panel. Then I put the panel in my Spellbinders Flower Frenzy embossing folder with the color side touching the protruding flowers. This way the flowers are inset into the panel instead of popping up.

After running that through my die cut machine, I inked up my brayer roller with black ink and carefully rolled ink over the panel. As long as you don’t push your embossing flat with the roller, the ink will stick to the top of the panel and not go in the flower indents.

I glued the panel to a white card base and pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Butterflies dies. I chose a simple one to cut from white cardstock with a gold glitter body. I used liquid glue to adhere the pieces, wrapped some gold thread behind the butterfly and popped it up with foam squares on my card front. Last, I chose a sentiment from the Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Valentine stamps to ink up with Lawn Fawn guava ink on a sentiment strip, also from Pretty Pink Posh.

Isn’t this technique so cool?!? I can’t wait to try it with different color combos. Maybe even leaving the embossing white and rolling a color over the top. So many possibilities!

Product used:
Spellbinders Flower Frenzy embossing folder
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips | Valentine stamps
Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Butterflies dies
Foam squares
Distress Oxide Ink – picked raspberry, abandoned coral, wild honey
VersaFine black onyx ink
Lawn Fawn guava ink
Brayer roller

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Miss Ink Stamps – What a Wonder You Are

Hello everyone. I’m popping in with a bit of Alice inspiration from Miss Ink Stamps. I’m currently decorating my office at work and one corner is dedicated to Alice so I couldn’t help but pull this collection out and play a bit. It definitely made my heart happy.

I started out the top layer, ink blending distress oxides in stormy sky, faded jeans and blueprint sketch. I spritzed it with water, blotted it dry and when the panel was completely dried I cut one of the Nested Keyhole dies from the center. Now I have my window and can position my background images the way I want them.

So I didn’t run the risk of smearing ink, I blended distress oxide ink from rustic wilderness to forest moss, into crackling campfire and topped it off with mustard seed. Then I used my keyhole panel as a guide and stamped images from Smokin’ Caterpillars and Wildflower. I lined the keyhole panel with foam tape and adhered it to the background panel.

Next, I stamped an Alice from Alice’s Adventures and colored her with copic markers before using the coordinating die to cut her out. I adhered her with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares so she lays flat. Then I stamped a sentiment from the same set and cut it out by hand before adhering it with foam squares as well.

For finishing touches I added some glossy accents to Alice on her shoes, dress, headband and collar.

I do love how this turned out! I think I’ll have to create a piece or two for my office soon.

Products used:
Smokin’ Caterpillars stamps
Wildflower stamps
Alice’s Adventures stamps and dies
Nested Keyhole dies
Foam tape and squares
Touch of gloss
Distress Oxide Ink – stormy sky, faded jeans, blueprint sketch, rustic wilderness, forest moss, crackling campfire, mustard seed
Distress Sprayer

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Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 4

It’s already the final day of release reveals for the Newton’s Nook April Release! Today I’m extra excited to go back to our critter loving roots and have a new Newton and Puppy set to share with you.

Newton’s Bubble Tea stamps and dies

Puppy’s Bubble Tea stamps and dies

Are these images not just adorable? They are great for cards but are also going to be fun for tags and things too! We love boba tea in our house! Do you?

First up, a shaker card with Newton’s Bubble tea. I colored the images soft and sweet and kept the card colors in line with that. Using the new Frames & Tags dies to create a grid with one window as a shaker was fun and different for me. The shaker bits are from the Newton’s Nook birthday last year – Celebration Embellishment Mix.

I went direct-to-paper with my ink pad again on the card base. I love that texture and variation that you get from such a quick technique. For finishing touches I added glossy accents to the boba and Newton’s nose and toe beans.

Moving on to Puppy’s Bubble Tea, I added paint to some texture paste to emulate the tapioca boba in his bubble tea. Then I used bits a pieces from the new die sets to pull everything together.

My rectangles were cut from pink cardstock to pull in the fun pink straw using the Frames & Tags dies. Then the flag banner comes from the new Basic Frames dies and is the perfect focal point to bring everything together.

For finishing touches I added some black bubbles and glossy accents. I also went over the puppy’s eyes with black glaze pen and a white gel highlight after that was dry.

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Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 3

Keeping on with the gorgeous floral idea, we have another stamp and die set along those lines to share with you today. This was equally as amazing to color and I hope to use it lots in the future!

Cherry Blossoms stamps and dies

With too many ideas flowing through my brain when I laid eyes on this set, I had to sketch them all out and choose one to start with. This idea won out and I’m very happy with the result.

I inked up a background panel with the Trailing Leaves stencil. Then I cut the new A2 Card Layout die from kraft cardstock. I kept the inside pieces for another day but glued the frame to my stenciled panel.

Next, I stamped and colored the Cherry Blossoms image twice and used the coordinating die to cut them out. They are popped up on the card front with foam squares.

Last, I placed the card in my MISTI and stamped my sentiment in the center space. For finishing touches I added stardust Stickles to the center of each flower. I love the sparkle it gives!

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Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – April Release Day 2

Let’s keep the goodness rolling with more new things from the April Newton’s Nook release!

Floral Delights stamps and dies

I’m not typically a floral person but there is something about these images that I flipped for! I love them and could sit and color them in a million color ways for days on end. Hence, I have two fun projects to share with you today, instead of one.

They were both very simple to put together and fun in their own ways. Let’s start with the card first.

I stamped the images and sentiment on a piece of Bristol smooth paper and watercolored them with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. Once the coloring was done I lightly ink blended blue around the images. Then I splattered watered down ink on the panel and let it dry.

When that was dry, I cut the panel with the largest Basic Frames die and added it to the largest Frames & Tags die with foam tape. To add color to my card base, I took my yellow ink pad direct-to-paper so it left vibrant color and some great texture too. Then I added the images to the card base with foam tape as well.

I couldn’t decide if this would end up being a gift tag or bookmark so I cut two panels, white and yellow, but didn’t glue them together. I inked the yellow with the Sunscape stencil and stamped my sentiment on the upper right. I splattered the panel with some yellow ink for added texture. Then I added the images that were also watercolored with foam squares.

Last, I threaded ribbon through both layers of tags and tied it together with baker’s twine from my stash.

Enter to Win a $25 Prize!

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Diane Morales
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox