Happy Thursday everyone! I’m back with another bit of inspiration featuring the new Miss Ink Stamps Magical Release. It’s so amazing and so fun to play with! Today I have a graduation card to share that will be perfect for my stash until next summer.

For today’s card, I chose images from Magical Graduation to stamp and color with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut everything out and liquid glue to adhere them together. I also stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from the set and cut it out with a banner die.

For my background panel I took a piece of white cardstock that measured 4×5.25 inches and blended distress oxide ink at an angle. Today I started with aged mahogany and went into fired brick, fading into nothing. I spritzed the panel with water and blotted it dry. Then I added the Lightning stencil over top and spread gold Glitz Glitter Gel through it, making a point not to cover the whole thing.

Once everything was dry, I added foam tape to the panel and popped it up on a white card base. Then I added foam squares to the sentiment banner and images and popped them in place next. For finishing touches, I added a little black glaze pen to his eyes and glossy accents to the scroll tie and tassel on the cap.

Products used:
Magical Graduation stamps and dies
Lightning stencil
Thermoweb Glitz Glitter Gel – gold
Stencil pal
Foam tape and squares
Distress Oxide – aged mahogany, fired brick

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Happy Saturday friends and happy release day for Miss Ink Stamps! Be sure to head to the store to check out all the amazing magical goodies that are available for purchase now! Today I have a teeny bit of inspiration featuring Misery Loves Company stamps and dies, along with some stenciling too!

I stamped and colored my images first with copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and used a little liquid glue to adhere them together before adding foam squares to the back.

Then I took an A2 panel of white cardstock and the Ins & Outs Marquis and started inking. First, I placed the window mask down and inked blue around it. Then I layered the new starburst stencil over that and inked it artichoke green. I removed those stencils and added the marquis frame layer next and inked it with a deep dark blue. Then I used the green ink left on my brush to add a shadow where I wanted the images to go.

Using the images as a guide, I placed my sentiment and inked it up. Then I removed the release paper and adhered the images in place. For finishing touches, I added white gel pen highlights on the images and black glaze pen to their eyes.

Then, I opened up the card and added the other half of my sentiment and another image from the Misery Loves Company set.

Products used:
Misery Loves Company stamps and dies
Ins & Outs Marquis stencils
Stars stencil
Foam squares
Liquid glue

Remember there’s a whole magical release to check out. Click HERE to head to the Miss Ink Stamps store.

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Hello my crafty friends! Today I have fabulous news to share with you! We are finally sneak peeking a new release from Miss Ink Stamps. My card today actually sneaks a new fantastical background stamp called Banquet Hall and new characters from Magical Graduation.

I started by stamping and heat embossing Banquet Hall on a piece of white cardstock in black and then blended Distress Oxide over the top in tea dye and gathered twigs. I went back and forth a few times before adding black soot around the edges. Then I spritzed it with water and splattered ink and paint on the whole panel.

Once it was dry, I roughed up the edges being VERY NOT careful letting it tear and bend and crumple all over. I wanted that old distressed look. Then I pulled out images from Magical Graduation to stamp and color with my copics. Once they were colored, get this, I used COORDINATING DIES to cut them out! Yippee!!! For those who prefer die cutting images, feel free to insert jumps for joy here.

I added foam tape to the background panel and adhered it to a white card base. Then I added foam squares to the images and popped them in place. Finally, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock and cut it out with a banner die before popping it up with a foam strip too.

I only added black glaze pen to the girls’ eyes for finishing touches on this card. I was going for rough and older so I didn’t want to add a lot of gloss or glitter.

Products used today:
Magical Graduation stamps and dies
Banquet Hall stamps
Trinity Stamps 4-Bar Card dies
Foam tape, squares and strips
Distress Oxide – tea dye, gathered twigs, black soot

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Happy Thursday everyone! The week is chugging along and I’m back with another fun Miss Ink Stamps card today. I realized I hadn’t used the awesome Feline Spooky stamp set yet this year so I just had to pull it out and remedy that problem right away.

I stamped and colored the single cat from the set with copic markers and used the scan-n-cut to cut it out. Then I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment on black cardstock and used a sentiment banner to cut that out too.

Next, I cut down a piece of light orange cardstock and centered the Halloween Mandala stencil on it. I inked it up with black ink making a point to be messy with my light and dark areas. I love the way it looks.

After that, I taped down just the border stencil from Ins & Outs Marquis and spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through it. I set the panel aside to dry and heated up the laminator. This little bit of gel doesn’t take long so they were ready close to the same time. I placed the panel in a Craft & Carrier sheet with Peach Princess deco foil and ran it through the laminator.

Last, I just added foam squares to my cat and sentiment banner and popped them in place. I used liquid glue to adhere the whole panel to a white card base and my card is all finished.

Isn’t it spooky fun!?!? I think so and I really love the foiled border. It’s really cool when it tilts in the light.

Products used today:
Feline Spooky stamps
Ins & Outs: Marquis stencil
Halloween Mandala stencil
Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco
Deco Foil transfer sheet – peach princess
Stencil pal
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Hey friends! I’m over on the Miss Ink Stamps blog today with a trio of super quick and awesome cards to share with you. This is a really fun way to use any of your large background stamps, no coloring but awesome colorful impact.

Here’s a quick look at the trio I made today. Now, these are all Halloween-ish color schemes when you look at them together but they don’t have to be, especially for this stamp set and the sentiments I chose. However, these colors are completely where my heart is right now so it was super fun to play with them!

Because of the height of the background stamp I was using, I masked off 3 1/2 inches down from the top on each of these panels. Then I blended the following two colors in distress oxide ink on each one:

seedless preserves and villainous potion
carved pumpkin and crackling campfire
twisted citron and forest moss

Then, I removed the mask and stamped the awesome toilet papered house from Roll With It on each one in black ink. I used VersaFine for this because it stamps detail wonderfully and sits on the oxide ink without getting chalky.

Once all of the houses were stamped, I came in with a different sentiment on each panel just below the masked line. Then I used the two toilet paper roll images in the set to add just a little something fun.

I feel like these inks take a moment to dry so I let them sit and then adhered each one to a white card base.

I wanted these cards for specific people but the process totally sparked my creative brain and I want to try the same technique with literally all of my awesome Miss Ink Stamps backgrounds. Wouldn’t this be an amazing, easy to mass produce, technique for your Christmas cards? Definitely stay tuned because those are coming!

Products used today:
Roll With It stamps
Distress Oxide Ink – seedless preserves, villainous potion, twisted citron, forest moss, carved pumpkin and crackling campfire
Bearly Arts liquid glue

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Hello everyone. I’m so glad you’re here today. I have a fun Alice in Wonderland card featuring all Miss Ink Stamps goodies to share with you. Let’s go down the rabbit hole together, shall we?

I had a simple idea in my head so I started right away stamping and coloring the images from Alice with my copic markers. I used the scan-n-cut to cut them out and a little liquid glue to adhere them all together. I backed them with foam squares and switched gears to get inky for my background!

I chose distress oxide inks in blueprint sketch and faded jeans to start out with. I started in the center with faded jeans and the outer edge with blueprint sketch. Then I added the Rabbit Hole stencil over top and added more ink. This didn’t show up like I wanted so I added black soot over the edges and blueprint sketch in the center. I generously sprayed the panel with a distress sprayer for lots of different size droplets and let it dry.

Once it was dry, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment in silver. It shows up quite well in the light but isn’t bold and bright like white would be. Then I removed the backing paper from the foam squares and added the images to the lower right corner. I used liquid glue to adhere the panel to a card base next.

For finishing touches I added a little glossy accents to the bottle glass, Alice’s headband, belt and shoes, and Chesh’s nose. Then I glued a generous scattering of Champagne Stardust confetti all over the background.

It takes me a minute to color these images differently than the typical, advertised colors but I love being able to have that control and try new things. Also, keeping the images more pastel against the dark background is really striking and I love it!

Products used today:
Alice stamps
Madness stamps
Rabbit Hole stencil
Champagne Stardust confetti
Liquid glue
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Distress Oxide – black soot, blueprint sketch, faded jeans

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Happy Thursday everyone! It’s time for another round of Miss Ink Stamps inspiration. Today I have a sweet fall card using some of my favorite squirrels and another mandala stencil for my background.

I stamped some images from Oh, Nuts! and colored them with my copics before using the scan-n-cut to cut everything out. I used liquid glue to adhere the small images to the squirrels and foam squares behind them.

Next, I took the Fall Mandala stencil and sprayed it with Pixie Spray because it’s such a finely detailed stencil. I stuck it to an A2 piece of white cardstock and ink blended red, yellow and green dye inks randomly over the whole panel. After removing the stencil, I positioned “Hello Autumn” in the center and stamped it with black ink.

Finally, I removed the release paper from the foam squares and placed my squirrels on opposite corners of the panel and adhered the whole thing to a white card base.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen to the eyes, letting it dry before adding a white gel pen highlight back in. Then I added glossy accents to the caps of all the acorns for a little shine.

I like how bright the background is but the colors still feel like things changing to fall. It’s just perfect!

Products used today:
Oh, Nuts! stamps
Autumn Thanks stamps
Fall Mandala stencil
Thermoweb Pixie Spray
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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Hi there! I’m back today with some spooky fun inspiration using some more amazing Halloween goodies from Miss Ink Stamps. I didn’t get a chance to use this awesome Halloween Mandala stencil last year and forgot about it until this week, so I immediately pulled it out to play.

I started with an orange panel of cardstock and used pixie spray on my stencil to adhere the two together temporarily. Then I spread wild lilac glitz glitter gel through the stencil. After removing the stencil, I set the panel aside to dry and cleaned up immediately.

While digging through my Halloween stamp sets, I thought it would be so fun to pair the critters in Welcome Home with sentiments in Halloween Sentiments over this awesome stenciling. So I started stamping and coloring everything with my copics. I used the scan-n-cut to cut everything out and added foam squares to the back.

I didn’t want the sentiment to be a big obtrusive block on the bottom of the card so I stamped SPOOKY and heat embossed it on vellum, then trimmed it into a strip. These letters are so chunky, I was able to hide foam strips behind them to pop the sentiment up a bit. Next, I chose a second sentiment to trim into as trip and place on top of that.

When the glitz gel was dry, I added foam tape to the back and popped it up on an A2 black cardstock panel. Then removed the foam back papers and added the critters and sentiments to that. Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere the whole thing to a white card base.

For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the hedgehog’s hat band and pumpkin. Then stardust Stickles to the stars on the hat and the mouse’s candy costume. Last of all, I added black glaze pen to all of their eyes, let it dry and came in with a white gel pen highlight.

Isn’t this so much fun!?! I am still loving all things Halloween and fall right now. It feels like I’ll be in this mood well through Christmas at this point. Lol!

Products used:
Halloween Sentiments stamps
Welcome Home stamps
Halloween Mandala stencil
Glitz Glitter Gel – wild lilac
Stencil Pal
Foam squares and tape
Heat embossing powder, ink and anti-static brush
Glossy accents
Stickles- stardust

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Hey crafty friends! I’m back today with a super spooky fun Halloween card that is just one layer. This design would be so fun to add to a basket of goodies and easy to mass produce if you had a group you wanted to share them with.

I started with an A2 size panel of kraft cardstock and stamped the Woodgrain Background stamp with brown ink. In this stamp set, there are a variety of stamps to insert into the “tree knot” area. This time, I chose the spooky eyes for added creepy effect. I stamped that part with black ink and used a bright yellow copic marker to color the eyes in.

Next, I used distress oxide ink in tea dye and black soot to ink up the edges of the whole panel. I watered down some black soot ink and flicked it on the panel for extra distressing too. Then, I chose a few sentiments from the Halloween Sentiments stamp set and decided to heat emboss them in black to help them stand out a bit.

Once that was finished, I just adhered the panel to a white card base and my card is all finished. It’s a really simple design but I think it’s spooky fun and it totally makes me happy given my level of “ready for fall” at this moment.

Products used:
Woodgrain Background stamps
Halloween Sentiments stamps
Magic Anti-static Brush
Embossing and Watermark Ink
Embossing powder – licorice
Bearly Arts liquid glue

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