Miss Ink Stamps – Spooky

Happy Friday everyone! Miss Ink Stamps is doing a little re-release of their amazing Halloween sets and I’ve been playing with my favorite Boo Sheet set. I have a simple card to share with you today and I’ll be back again on Sunday with another one. Be sure to check out the whole team the next few days to see what kind of awesome inspiration they’re sharing as well!

I started by stamping out all of the ghosts, plus duplicates of some, along with accessories to go with the ones with open hands. I colored them all in an array of light tones for some shading. I always use the same super light BG copics and today I just had fun with all the colors.

I used my scan-n-cut to cut them out and set them aside while I worked on a background. I had a vision in my head of color blocks behind the ghosts and using five of them like the dots on a die. Ultimately you see that didn’t work out and I swapped the center ghost for my sentiment. But first I used the large blob stencil in the Artsy Abstracts stencil set to add my color blocks.

I splattered the panel with watered down black metallic watercolor and popped my ghosts up with foam squares. Then I decided to add a second sentiment over the top. That is heat embossed on vellum and carefully adhered with little dabs of liquid glue.

For finishing touches I just added Touch of Gloss to the lollipop. I glued a black panel to my card front and popped the inked panel up with foam tape and my card is all finished.

Products used:
Boo Sheet
Halloween Sentiments
Artsy Abstracts stencils
Blending Brushes
Lawn Fawn dye inks
LH Colors watercolor
Foam tape
Touch of gloss

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Pink & Main – Peppermint Circle Shaped Cards

Hey friends! We’re making our way through the week. Today I’m on the Pink & Main blog sharing a pair of circle shaped cards that I made using images from the new Oh My Garland stamp set and last year’s Peppermint Swirl die.

I started these cards by just stamping a few of the sweet images from Oh My Garland and spent some time coloring with my copic markers. I had no design or plan in mind. I just wanted to color these cuties. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. This is when I started playing around with groupings and thinking about designs.

I remembered the Peppermint Swirl die from last year and had to try it out. So I cut it from some melon pink cardstock in my stash, keeping the stripes too. Then I cut it from white cardstock as well. Next, I cut white circles using the Layered Circles die that is one size bigger than the peppermint swirl. I glued the pink swirl to one and inlayed the white stripes to it.

Something about this blue mug on the pink swirls was just perfect to me so I added him and that cute star, plus a heat embossed sentiment. Last, I added some enamel dots and a bit of Touch of Gloss to this hat.

For my other peppermint swirl, I didn’t like the white swirl on the white circle so I took the green copic marker I used on my images and colored the edge to match. Isn’t that super cute?!? I love how that turned out.

I added my images and heat embossed sentiment with foam squares. Then I added Touch of Gloss to the elf hat and doorknob on the gingerbread house. Last, I had to add Stickles to the gumdrops on the roof. They were just asking for it!

To turn these into cards, I cut the same white circles two more times, scored them about 1/2 inch from one side and adhered that portion to the back of my decorated circles with EZ Tear Tape. I folded them open and reinforced the crease with a bone folder.

Products used:
Oh My Garland stamps and dies
Peppermint Swirl die
Foam tape
Touch of Gloss
Magic anti-static brush
Embossing ink
Embossing powder – icicle
Enamel dots – fall fun
Stickles – stardust

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Doodlebugs – Brewing Up Some Fun with Die Cut Inlay

Hello again. I’m on the Doodlebugs blog today mixing it up with Mama Elephant Little Agenda cuties and the Pretty Pink Posh Haunted House die. They’re perfect for each other! Let’s get started!

To start things off today, I pulled out the Pretty Pink Posh Haunted House die and my Mama Elephant Little Agenda Mummy and Witch stamps. I placed the stamps all over the house to see which ones and how many I wanted to use. Then I stamped and colored everything with copic markers, using the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Between the house and the background panel, I did two sets of ink blending full panels. For the house, I used hickory smoke, gathered twigs and black soot distress oxide inks. I was super messy and intentionally didn’t blend the panel well. For my background panel, I inked top to bottom with twisted citron, mowed lawn and rustic wilderness. Then I went around the edges with black soot. Still using distress oxides; it’s was I typically reach for. I spritzed the green panel with water and blotted it dry.

Next, I die cut the haunted house from the gray inked panel and glued the frame down with liquid glue. Then I cut the house again from black cardstock, carefully leaving as many of the little pieces in the die as possible so that I could inlay most of them onto my panel. This did take a while, not going to sugar coat it, but it was therapeutic and totally worth the work.

I slid some images behind the window frames, trimmed out the center frame so my mummy would should through, and popped some of the images up with foam squares. I used a black pen to add web from the window frame to my spiders hanging down too.

Last, I cut a sentiment strip using the new die set from Pretty Pink Posh and stamped a sentiment on it using the coordinating Halloween stamp set. The sentiment strip was cut from green cardstock so to mute it down I inked the edges with black soot distress oxide ink left in my blending foam. I popped it up with foam strips and added some glossy accents to the candle flame.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Little Mummy Agenda
Mama Elephant Little Witch Agenda
Pretty Pink Posh Haunted House die
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strips: Halloween stamps
Liquid glue
Distress Oxide Ink – hickory smoke. gathered twigs, black soot, twisted citron, mowed lawn, rustic wilderness
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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Miss Ink Stamps – Tea Cups Sneak Peek Part 2

Hello everyone! I’m back with another sneak peek of the upcoming Miss Ink Stamps September Release! It’s a fantastic addition to the Alice collection that already exists. Today I have a card featuring the other images in the Tea Cups set that I just adore!

I had some fun stamping and coloring the images and then used a craft knife to cut a slit in the tea cup so I could slide Alice and the Hatter inside it. I secured them with washi tape and switched gears to get messy!

I took a piece of white cardstock and a few distress oxide sprays and started spritzing. I let them dry and totally hated it. The cool thing about these sprays is that you’re never done until you’re done. So I pulled out different colors and spritzed and sprayed more. Then I sprayed water and dabbed here and there. It was literally a mess and I loved every step of it! Once the panel was dry I taped the Leafy Swirls stencil over top and spread glitz glitter gel through it, also intentionally being messy and not complete.

Next, I trimmed the stenciled panel down to 4×5.25 inches and glued it to a white card base. Then I added my banners, lanterns and lights to the top with a combination of foam squares and liquid glue. Then I added my tea cup and sentiment with foam squares below that.

Typically I would go mad with gloss and glitter but there is a lot going on here so I kept it simple and let the images stand on their own this time. That except for a little over spray on my teacup from the distress oxide spraying event. Oops and definitely ties things together with the mixed media vibe.

Be sure to head to Miss Ink Stamps to check out the whole release tomorrow when it’s available for purchase! You’re going to love it all!!!

Products used today:
Tea Cups stamps
Leafy Swirl stencil
Thermoweb glitz glitter gel
Stencil pal
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Distress oxide sprays

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Pink & Main – Happy Fall Die Cut Card

Hello everyone! I’m on the Pink & Main blog today sharing a card featuring just two die sets. The new Fancy Frame dies are gorgeous and come with some little dies in the center that are perfect for adorning those frames. Add that with a sentiment – stamped or die cut – and you have a gorgeous and easy to create card!

Today, along with those Pink & Main dies, I’m using all their cardstock colors too. They’re so rich and vibrant; perfect for this type of card. I did a little ink blending around the edges of my die cuts for some depth but that’s definitely not a must if you don’t like the look or don’t have the time.

After cutting all the pieces, I used EZ Squeeze liquid glue to adhere everything together and then to the blue frame. Once that had dried for a minute I added foam tape to the back of everything and popped it all up on a white card base. I really love the white breaking up the blue and yellow portions.

To finish things off and add a little sparkle, I pulled out my Ballroom gems and added a few where the vines meet on both spots. I love this little bit of sparkle and the bright, happy colors of the whole design together.

Products used:
Fancy Frame dies
Autumn Greetings dies
Ballroom Gems embellishments
Foam tape roll
EZ Squeeze liquid glue
Cardstock – school bus, on the green, wildflowers, river walk, coffee shop and the park

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Newton’s Nook | Simon Says Stamp – Stamptember Collab Release

I’m popping in really quick tonight with a fun card featuring the Newton’s Nook | Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Collaboration set. As always, it’s totally adorable and has a million and one ways to use it.

Straight away, I want to make gift tags with them, paper piece patterns on the stockings and customize the critters to all of our pets!

Today I went a little extra because that sweet reindeer was just calling out to have his nose light up. Isn’t he just the cutest!?! I started by stamping and coloring him with copic markers. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut him out and switched gears to my messy background so it could dry while I did the light up part.

I love this layered stencil. It makes it so easy to customize your lights in different ways. Today I inked green light strings and spread Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel through the lightbulb layer.

While that was drying, I cut a tag shape with the Fancy Edges Tag dies from a piece of patterned paper from the Christmas Time paper pad. Then I cut a hole in the center of that for the light to shine through. I added my Pear Blossom Press One Light to the back of the tag with glue dots and then glued my reindeer in place so the light was under his nose.

I added foam to the back of the tag and tied some ribbon through the hole. ***Note that you always need double layer foam for the light mechanisms to sit flat.***

With the glitz gel dry, I die cut the panel with the largest Frames & Flags die. There was too much bright white for me so I used the green left in my blending brush and inked the edges. Then I took the green ink pad I used originally and went direct to paper to ink up the edges of my card front. It’s a darker, more saturated version of the same green so they go together plus I don’t have to try and color match my cardstock.

I chose my sentiment from the set and heat embossed it on a circle from the Frames Squared dies before adhering all my pieces together.

You all know I like dimension but I try to keep it no more than two levels high, since my tag is that high from the light mechanism, I glued the light string panel directly to my card base with liquid glue, then removed the release paper and added the tag and finally added the sentiment circle with foam and liquid glue as well.

Be sure to pop over to Simon Says Stamp and snag this adorable stamp set before they’re sold out. These things have barely been lasting the night so don’t miss it!

Products used:
Stamptember Collab stamps
Frames & Flags dies
Frames Squared dies
Christmas Lights stencils
Thermoweb Glitz Gel
Stencil Pal
Foam tape
Liquid glue
Blending brushes

Pear Blossom Press One Light

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Waffle Flower – Sneak Peek Kit #09

Hey friends! I am super excited to be sharing with you a look at the Waffle Flower Sneak Peek Kit #09! These kits give subscribers a peek at the next upcoming release before it’s available for purchase! They have all been amazing so far and this one is no different!

I couldn’t help myself and created three cards straight away, in one crafting session. It was so fun, I just couldn’t stop!

For my first card, I had to try inking on kraft cardstock. Nothing says fall to me more than those muted natural colors and I was excited to play. So I cut the panel from kraft using the die from the kit and lined up my stencil to ink blend. The kit also comes with one of the detail blender brushes which is so cool!

The sentiment die used on all my cards is also part of the kit. For this card I cut the shadow from vellum and the words from the same dark brown as my card front. I used liquid glue and adhered everything together.

Sticking with the same colors but a brighter background, I mimicked the same idea on a white panel to see the difference it would give. Oh my wow is it huge!

This time I cut the sentiment from gold foil cardstock, also lined my card front with is so that’s what shows through the lifted leaves. The sentiment shadow is cut from black cardstock this time for a bold statement on this card.

Next, I just had to try making a shaker window from the shadow die in the sentiment. I don’t think to create shakers all that often but this one was a must do for me.

This is also a great was to show that you don’t have to use the cover plate die with the stencil. This is a pretty stencil on it’s own as well.

I took some of the shaker bits and glued them across the design to give it a little extra without the die cut details. I also had fun trying non-traditional colors on this card too.

Do you have a favorite today?

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Doodlebugs – Thank You Box Card

Hey friends! Mix it up Monday brings us thinking outside the box a bit…a box card that is. I love making box cards and don’t do them near often enough. I recently picked up the Pretty Pink Posh Box Card die set and it’s total perfection. Probably the easiest and most complete I’ve used yet. No need for extra “insert” dies and I love the scallop pieces to decorate every part of your box card.

I started by choosing a few of the adorable Mama Elephant Little Agenda Hamsters to stamp out. I colored them with copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

Sticking with my love of teal, I found some cardstock in my stash and started die cutting the pieces to my box card next. I chose white for all the decorative pieces so I could ink blend on them. Today I chose peacock feathers and cracked pistachio distress oxide ink for those.

For my sentiment I stamped the large sentiment from Mama Elephant Thank You (Love You) in Lawn Fawn dye inks – rainforest, peacock and mermaid for the ombre effect and used the coordinating die to cut it out. I also stamped a small sub-sentiment from the same set and used a Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip to cut it out.

I used liquid glue and reverse tweezers to assemble my box card and then tear tape to add my images to the different levels of the card. I also cut a second large scalloped piece from white cardstock to glue on the back so I had a big clean area to write my message on.

Products used:
Mama Elephant Little Agenda Hamsters stamps and dies
Mama Elephant Thank You (Love You) stamps and dies
Pretty Pink Posh Sentiment Strip dies
Pretty Pink Posh Box Card dies
Distress Oxide Ink – peacock feathers and cracked pistachio
Lawn Fawn Ink – rainforest, peacock, mermaid
Liquid glue
Tear tape

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Pixi Dust Designs – What’s This? Jack Mug Card

Welcome everyone! I’m sharing a card featuring the new Jack Mug dies from Pixi Dust Designs. I am absolutely loving this new die set! Jack is one of my very favorite characters and this die set is just perfect! If you’ve seen the movie you’ll know that I had to use this sentiment too.

I cut all of my elements and used liquid glue to adhere them. Then I used a blank card base to figure out placement of my spoon and mug together and glued them in place as well. I added foam tape to the back and set it aside to work on my ink blending.

I blended distress oxide inks in seedless preserves and pumice stone at and angle from one corner to the other. Then I splattered the panel with water and black metallic watercolor. Next, I trimmed 1/4″ off the right side of the panel and added foam tape to the back.

I added a strip of bat washi tape to the side of my card base and adhered the inked panel over that. Then I cut the letters for my sentiment from black cardstock and arranged them on my glass mat. I used pixie tape to keep them lined up, added glue to the back and adhered them to the inked panel. After those were in place I popped my mug and spoon below them and my card is finished.

Is the song playing in your head yet? It’s definitely in mine.

Products used:
Pixi Dust Designs Jack Mug dies
Newton’s Nook Essential Alphabet dies
Distress Oxide Ink – seedless preserves and pumice stone
Bearly Art liquid glue
Foam tape
LH Colors watercolor – black

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Miss Ink Stamps – Alice Revisited Sneak Peek of Upcoming Release

We’ve got a new release coming from Miss Ink Stamps and I’m super excited about it! It’s an add on to the original Alice collection and it’s amazing!!! Today I’m sneaking a peek at an upcoming Tea Cups stamp set and a new die set that’s coming soon too.

This card actually makes me giggle because I can’t image under any circumstances the White Rabbit giving the Red Queen a heart or saying anything encouraging to her. But all the same, I am having so much fun coloring and creating with these new stamps. If you’re an Alice fan in the least, you’re going to love it all!

For my background on this card, I stamped the Queen’s Castle image on white cardstock and did ink smooshing with Tombow Brush Markers and a spray bottle. I chose a couple of reds and then threw in a brown at the end to tame it all down. Do you spy that new cool woodgrain frame too? That’s coming soon to the Miss Ink Stamps shop as well with more goodies to go with it.

The sentiment I chose was from Wonderland Wisdom which is a fun sentiment set full of quotes and sentiments in the Alice theme with a few small sub-images you can use in different ways too. This is definitely a must in the Alice Collection.

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks from the design team, especially the end of next week when everyone is flooding your feed with all this goodness!

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