Miss Ink Stamps – Big Mugs

Hello again friends. I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog today sharing a little coffee themed inspiration and ideas for stepping up your multi-layer stencils.

Here’s a look at the finished card before we start with the stenciling process. I went with foil with is super fun when it catches the light and adds a lot of interest to your background.

I started by inking up the mug shape stencil layer with gathered twigs distress oxide ink on a kraft panel. You could use any ink and any color at this point. This will be the base of your coffee mugs for the layering stencil set.

Then, I lined up the detail layer which adds the mug handles and decorations to each mug too. At this point you have tons of choices. Keep it simple and ink another color, add transfer gel which leads you to either flocking or foiling, or add glitz glitter gel for some pizazz. So many different looks!

Today I used transfer gel blanco, cleaned up my stencils and work station and set the panel aside to dry. While it’s drying, this is the prime time to stamp and color your images, heat emboss your sentiment, all the other things.

When the panel was dry, I heated up my laminator and ran it through in a craft & carrier sheet with an emerald watercolor deco foil transfer sheet. It’s like magic every time you peel one of these away. It’s so cool!

Once the panel was foiled, I wanted it to have more texture and dimension so I inked up the edges with brown dye ink and splattered some of the same ink across it too. A little note, if you foil, you you can blot splatters off the foiling, but if you flock it will soak in. Just keep that in mind when you’re crafting.

Then, like I said before, while the panel was drying, I stamped and colored the image from Big Mugs and fussy cut him out. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock and die cut it with a sentiment banner. I decided that I wanted a focal point behind my image to draw your eye in, so I cut a zig zag circle from vellum and adhered the images and sentiment with foam squares.

I love how the vellum cancels the reflective part of the foil and just the color shows through. This is mind baffling to me but I love it! So, after adding the zig zag circle to the foiled panel with tape runner, I trimmed the excess off the edge and adhered it to a card base.

I finished things off with some white gel pen highlights to the image and let the background really shine. It’s so fun to turn in the light and see the different colors on the foil. I love it!

Products used today:
Big Mugs stamps
Hugs in a Mug stencils
Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco
Thermoweb Deco Foil Transfer – emerald watercolor
Pink & Main Large Sentiment Strips dies
Pink & Main Zig Zag Circles dies
Pink & Main Embossing Ink, Powder and Anti-static Powder Tool
Foam squares

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Newton’s Nook – June Release Day 2

Here we are again! It’s time for day 2 of reveals for the Newton’s Nook June release! Today we have another addition to the newest full card front series – ovals!

Flamingo Oval

I love how you can used this with the oval frames dies or on it’s own to fill up your card front. This time, I created an oval shaped card and turned it into a shaker too! This was really fun to make and I love playing with it!

First, I die cut the largest scalloped oval from white cardstock and lined up my stamp within the stitching lines. This is the easiest way for me to make sure I have enough edge for the scallop. I used my copics and colored the whole panel in, then chose a sentiment to stamp in the center.

Then I cut another of the same scallop from orange cardstock but used the next smallest oval to cut a window out of it. I inked up the edges with my blending brush, then added liquid glue to add an acetate window to the back side. I lined the oval frame with foam strips, filled my shaker well and added the colored panel to the back to seal it all up.

Finally, I cut the largest oval twice – once from the pink stripe in the Summertime paper pad we saw yesterday and once from white cardstock. I added a score line about 1/2 inch from one of the long side and adhered the two with scrappy tape only on this flap. That created the shaped card base. Last, I used liquid glue to add the shaker mechanism to the top.

Voila! The card is all finished and ready to play with. Isn’t it so fun!

Would you like to win the “Flamingo Oval” 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)! The winner 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 June 16th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday June 17th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Newton’s Nook – June Release Day 1

Welcome everyone! Super excited to be starting the release reveals for the Newton’s Nook June release! Get your sunscreen out because we’re ready for summer!!! Let’s take a peek at what’s revealing today.

Summertime paper pad

Palm Tree Line stencil

Beach Bound stamps and dies

Isn’t this an incredible way to kick things off??? I can tell you right now, I’m obsessed with this paper pad and having so much fun with everything else too! I have two cards to share with you so let’s get started.

For my first card, I inked up the new palm tree line stencil with various dye inks and trimmed it into a strip. Then I lined the panel with some strips from the paper pad. I popped this up on an A2 size piece of that fun blue bubble print from the paper pad but I thought it needed something else.

I just adore those flip flops from Flip Flop Life so I stamped and colored those, then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I thought it would be fun to mount them on a circle cut from another print in the paper pad so I used a circle die from Circle Frames and another from Frames Squared for that and my sentiment and added everything with foam squares.

I finished the card off with glossy accents on the flip flops and tied some pink twine around the top of my card.

You better apply a second layer of sunscreen before we move on. You’re going to get a sunburn. Lol.

For this card, I took all the vehicles from Beach Bound out and created my own patterned paper stamping them in gray on a white panel. Then I picked one – I just love that Bug – stamped and colored it with copics, then used the coordinating die to cut it out. This time I cut 3 1/4 inch strips from various prints in the paper pad for the border under my car. But the background with the other cars was a little distracting.

To remedy that, I took a strip of white cardstock and inked it up with mustard seed distress oxide ink and spritzed it with water. Then, to give it a little interest I layered the Sunscape stencil over the top and inked a little sunshine in the top left with spiced marmalade distress oxide ink. It’s subtle but I love it.

Now, to assemble all my layers, I used liquid glue to add the yellow panel to the top of the car panel. Then I popped my cute blue bug and the strips of paper up with foam squares and strips. Last, I die cut a banner from the Frames & Flags die set and heat embossed a sentiment from Beach Bound on it. I trimmed the top off and slid it under the striped strip, securing it with foam squares.

For finishing touches I added some glossy accents to the wheels and lights on the car and unicorn Stickles to parts of the surf board.

Would you like to win the “Beach Bound” 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 June 16th at 9pm ET to comment — winners will be announced on the blog post on Friday June 17th.

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

Newton’s Nook Designs
Donna Idlet
Ellen Haxelmans
Tina Herbeck
Larissa Heskett
Samantha Mann
Zsofia Molnar
Maria Russell
Farhana Sarker
Tatiana Trafimovich
Amanda Wilcox

Pink & Main – Berry Sweet Scene Card

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for stopping by today. I have a REALLY fun slimline scene card to share with you featuring my favorite Pink & Main bears. I love them so much and have so much fun mixing and matching them whenever I can.

Today my scene includes images from Bear With Wagon and Berry Sweet stamp sets. I chose various images from both sets and stamped them out, multiples of some like the berry plants and jam jars. I colored everything with my copics and used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I had a plan for layering my images so I used EZ Squeeze liquid glue to adhere the grass tufts to the berry plants and sitting bear and then added the jam jars to the wagon and the wagon handle to the bear’s paw. Now we can switch gears to our scene and get inky!

I used the largest Stitched Slim Line die to cut two white panels. The main panel I inked with blueprint sketch and tumbled glass distress oxide inks for my sky. The second panel I cut in half and inked one side with twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxides while the other half was gathered twigs and tea dye. I spritzed all the panels with water and blotted them dry. Then I splattered them with pearl watercolor and black acrylic paint. It’s silly, but I don’t wash my brush going from the pearl watercolor to the paint so my black ends up a little shimmery too. I think it’s fun but you could just rinse the brush to avoid it if you wanted.

When my panels were dry, I used EZ Squeeze liquid glue to adhere the layers together and also put them on a slimline card base. Then I added my images with a combination of liquid glue and foam squares for dimension and interest.

The last things I did were stamp and heat emboss my sentiment and finishing touches. I love that the sentiments in Berry Sweet are all punny and the the word “berry” is a separate stamp so you have options. Because it’s super easy to stamp one part and then the other, I decided to heat emboss them using different colors to emphasize the pun even more. These new heat embossing products are absolutely amazing and my favorites to use everyone! The ink stamps crisp and perfect, the anti-static tool is incredible and the embossing powders all melt beautifully.

I digress, but seriously, these products are awesome! So, after my sentiment was heat embossed, I came in with glossy accents on the bear’s noses and flower centers on the berry bushes for a little shine here and there.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project even a sliver of the amount that I enjoyed creating it.

Products used:
Bear with Wagon stamps and dies
Berry Sweet stamps and dies
Stitched Slim Line dies
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Magic Anti-Static brush
Embossing & Watermark Ink
Embossing powders – licorice and candy apple
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Distress Oxide Ink – blueprint sketch, tumbled glass, mowed lawn, twisted citron, tea dye, gathered twigs

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Miss Ink Stamps – For My Friend

Happy Thursday everyone. I hope your week is going good. Today I have some new Miss Ink Stamps inspiration featuring some stencil layering and that fabulous pup – Slim! I have fun coloring him in different combos each time, and the sentiments in this set get me giggling too!

I stamped and colored slim with my copic markers first, then fussy cut him out and set him aside. Next, I chose a sentiment, stamped and die cut it with a banner die and glued the two together. I love my dimension so I added foam tape to the back of these and switched gears to my background.

I knew that I wanted to use the new Diagonal Stripes Mask stencil so I started with that. You just place it over your cardstock, ink it up however you like, rotate it 180 degrees and ink it again to fill in all the spots perfectly. It’s so cool! Today I inked them up in gradient greens and teals, then layered another stencil over the top and added more of the same ink color to add texture to each space. The green has the square dance stencil over top and the teal has pocket full of posies.

I trimmed the stenciling down to 4×5.25 inches and popped it up on a white card base with foam tape, then added my image and sentiment. For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights and glossy accents to Slim’s eyes and nose. Last, I glued a scattering of stars from the champagne star dust sequin mix.

I had lots of fun getting inky and coloring Slim in a brand new combo for me. I hope you enjoyed today’s project too.

Products used today:
Slim’s Whims stamps
Square Dance stencil
Diagonals Masking stencil
Champagne Star Dust sequin mix
Lawn Fawn ink – jalapeno, celery stick, mermaid, peacock
Blending brushes
Foam tape
Glossy accents

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Newton’s Nook – PAW-sitive Vibes

Hey friends! Today I’m over on the Newton’s Nook blog sharing an adorable card that requires no coloring. I used a new paper pad and die set to create adorable kitty images and a fun sentiment to tie it all together.

This whole card started with me choosing a simple color palette and cutting strips of cardstock at random widths to create a background. I adhered the strips to a piece of copy paper with tape runner and used the rounded rectangle in the Frames & Flags die set to cut it out. After looking at the panel cut out, I realized I had chosen colors that go great with the new A Cat’s Life paper pad! So I ran with it.

I chose a neutral colored piece from the pad for my card front and glued it down. Then popped the striped panel up with foam tape. Next, I chose 3 more patterns of paper and cut the Cat Silhouettes from them. I haven’t even cut these dies apart yet, and just cut them all from each pattern, keeping the rest for another project later on.

Next, I chose a sentiment from Heartfelt Meows and heat embossed it on a banner from the Banner Trio die set. I added the kitties and sentiment with foam squares onto the striped panel.

For finishing touches, I glued 3 white hearts from the Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts clay embellishment mix above the cats and tied some gray twine around the left side of the card front.

Super simple and really fun with all of the patterns and textures together!

Products used:
A Cat’s Life paper pad
Cat Silhouettes dies
Frames & Flags dies
Banner Trio Dies
Heartfelt Meows stamps
Twiddler’s Nook Sweethearts embellishments
3D foam tape and foam squares
iCraft tape runner
Pink & Main embossing ink and embossing powder

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Trinity Stamps – Sweet Summer Celebration Release Hop

Hey friends! I’m so happy to be celebrating with Trinity Stamps for their Sweet Summer Celebration release! Today we have a blog hop for inspiration and chances to win. I have two cards to share with you today and will be back in the coming weeks with more!

First up, I have a super fun birthday slimline featuring the new Birthday Shark stamps and dies along with a couple of previously release stencil sets for fun!

I started my card by stamping and coloring that adorable shark with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating die to cut it out, along with stamping and cutting a sentiment too. I love that these dies cut the coordinating sentiments from the set! It’s my favorite!

For the background panel, I took a piece of white cardstock and used dye inks with the Waving Hello stencil in teal and blue inks. Then I layered the Layered Balloons stencils over that using distress oxide inks because they are pigment and will sit on top of the other ink, rather than blending together. I thought it helped set the scene a bit more.

Next, I took the fish in the set and used a gray dye ink to stamp them in the background before popping my shark and sentiment up with foam squares. Before adhering this to a card panel, I trimmed it down to about 8×3.5 inches and added some washi tape to the right edge of the card base. I used liquid glue to adhere the panel and moved on to finishing touches.

There’s a lot going on in this fun scene, so I just added glossy accents to the shark’s balloon and unicorn Stickles to his party hat and gift.

Isn’t this just adorable and so much fun! I can hardly wait to give this one away! It’s going to be such a hit.

Now, for my second card, I have a fun interactive, light-up card featuring the Little Light stamps and dies and a soft watercolor background.

I stamped and colored the main image with my copic markers and cut it out. Then I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on black and used a coordinating die to cut that out too. Then I started playing with some watercolors to create a simple background.

Once those were dry, I used an Embossed Edge Rectangle die to cut the watercolor panel down and started deciding where to position my light behind it.

I traced the inside of the die I used onto a piece of orange cardstock the size of my card front and set my EZ Light on it about where I thought it would go. I laid the watercolor panel on top and the fish image on that. Nothing is glued down! I pressed where the button was to make sure the light was shining in the correct area and carefully removed the panel so I could trace the light location. This might sound complicated but it’s super easy.

I used tear tape to adhere the light in place and then covered the panel with double thick foam inside the pencil line. Remember, I traced the inside of the die so this line won’t show at all and you don’t have to worry about erasing it. Next, I removed the release paper and adhered the watercolor panel on top.

I stamped “press here” in a blue ink close to the watercolor background, cut it out and glued it in place with liquid glue. Then I added the fish and sentiment with foam squares for some dimension and interest.

Ready to see this fun card all lit up?!? Drum roll please….

Isn’t it so much fun?!? I love it and had so much fun creating it.

Products used on today’s cards:
Birthday Shark stamps and dies
Slimline Layered Balloons stencils
Waving Hello stencils
Little Light stamps and dies
Embossed Edge Rectangle Stack dies
Foam tape
Pear Blossom Press EZ Lights
LH Colors watercolor palette
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Bearly Arts liquid glue

Remember, this is a blog hop for the release. There are two $50 gift cards to the Trinity Stamps shop up for grabs. Comment here, hop along and comment on all of the other posts to up your chances of winning. The hop ends June 15 at 11:59 PDT. Winners will be announced on the Trinity Stamps blog.

Next in line for the hop is the incredible and amazing Katie Brooks!

Pretty Pink Posh – Sending Monster Hugs

Hey crafty friends! I’m popping in this afternoon with a fun shaker card I create this weekend with my most recent Pretty Pink Posh haul. It wasn’t a huge order but it had somethings I have been wanting for a while and was very excited to play!

I knew I wanted to pair some cute monsters with the stitched film strip die, so that’s where I started. Once I chose my images, I stamped and colored them with copic markers, using the coordinating dies to cut them out. Then, instead of cutting a white film strip frame, I inked up a scrap of cardstock with blue, teal and green inks and cut my frame from that. I love how this part turned out. To keep the background neutral, I inked up a strip of white cardstock lightly with black ink.

To turn the stitched film strip die into a shaker, I adhered the monsters behind the inked frame and then glued a piece of acetate to that. I added foam tape to the film strip frame and filled the wells with Wishing on Rainbow Stars embellishments from Twiddler’s Nook and sealed the panel up with the black ink blended strip I had ready to go.

For a little outer space whimsy, I decided to use two of the three layers from the Spooky Sky stencil set. I started with a 4×5.25 inch panel of gray cardstock and inked the edges with gray ink for a little depth. Then I used white pigment ink on the cloud stencil layer and finished the panel off with yellow ink on the star layer. Using the shaker strip as a guide, I stamped my sentiment in the lower left corner and then added the panel to a card base with foam tape.

I used liquid glue to add the shaker strip to the card from and finished the whole design off with black blaze pen on the eyes and glossy accents on the antennae and horns of the monsters.

I think secretly I’m ready for Halloween or something. I keep being really drawn to all of the things I would usually pull out for spooky crafting. This totally makes me giggle. I suppose it’s like those who love Christmas all year long.

Products used today:
PPP Monster Hugs stamps and dies
PPP Spooky Sky stencils
PPP Stitched Film Strip die
Twiddler’s Nook Wishing On Rainbow Stars embellishments
Foam strips
Bearly Arts liquid glue
Glossy accents

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

Pink & Main – Sunshine & Smiles Slimline Card

Welcome everyone! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog sharing this slimline card featuring the newly released Window View stamp set. When I pulled this set out to play with, I immediately wondered if I could fit multiple windows on a slimline card. I absolutely LOVE the fact that I can easily fit two like the front of a house. It’s so fun!

Once, I realized that, I chose the “decorations” for each window and stamped all my images. I colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut everything out. I adhered the flower box and puppy with liquid glue and popped the kitty and bee up with foam squares.

Next, I inked blended a slimline panel with aged mahogany and fired brick distress oxide inks. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry before adhering it to a slimline card base measuring 8.5×3.5 inches. I wanted a more substantial sentiment than the one in the Window View set so I went digging and found this cute one in the Spring Sayings stamp set. I stamped and heat embossed it with Icicle embossing powder and cut it out using the smallest Notched Corners die.

I added the windows with foam tape and then layered the sentiment in the upper center with a foam squares and liquid glue where it overlaps the windows. Then I moved on to finishing touches, adding glossy accents to various parts of the images like flower centers and bee wings.

For the critter window, I just added glossy accents to their noses and the kitty’s tag. Aren’t they literally the cutest thing ever?!? I just love their faces!

Products used today:
Window View stamps and dies
Spring Sayings stamps
Notched Corners dies
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Embossing Ink
Embossing powder – icicle
Anti-static powder tool
Foam tape

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Miss Ink Stamps – Go Bananas

Hey friends! I have a really cool Miss Ink Stamps card to share with you today. It opens in a fun way and I did a little deco foil flock with my stenciling for added interest.

I started by die cutting a yellow panel from an A2 stitched rectangle die. I inked it up with the bananas stencil, first with yellow ink and then a little green on the tips of the banana stems for some dimension.

Next, I cut a stitched banner from kraft cardstock and started inking it up with the Jungle Vines stencils set. I started with two browns on the vines and green for one layer of leaves. For the second layer, I spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through it and set it aside to dry. While it was drying, I stamped and colored a monkey and the vine image from Go Bananas and cut them out with the scan-n-cut. After the leaves were dry and the laminator was heated up, I ran the banner through with green deco foil flock in a craft & carrier sheet. I love the fuzzy texture in the background.

For this card, you lift the banner up to write your message. It doesn’t open like a traditional card at all. To do this, I cut two more stitched banners, the same size from kraft cardstock and also a scrap as long as the banner and about an inch wide. I scored that down the middle and adhered it to the back of the stenciled banner, then to the back of the other banner. I used the third banner to adhere to the back of the stenciled one, hiding the hinge I created. It’s purely cosmetic and not necessary to make your card open.

Before adding my images, I placed the banner in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on the lower right. Then I added the images with foam strips and trimmed off the excess with scissors. Last, I added this to the yellow panel, and my card is all finished.

Isn’t it so much fun!?! If you wanted extra space to write or maybe hide a gift card or something, you could always mount this on a regular card base but you totally don’t have to!

Products used today:
Go Bananas stamps
Bananas stencil
Jungle Vines stencil
Thermoweb transfer gel blanco
Deco Foil Flock – green envy
Stencil pal
Foam strips

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!