Hello everyone! I’m here today with another card featuring some of the holiday releases from Ranger Ink and Simon Hurley Create! I love these fun vintage postage images in the Christmas Postage stamp set. I have had a few colored and cut out on my desk for a while but creating a card with them was eluding me every time I tried. Then, everything came together. It’s funny how that works sometimes.

My images are stamped and watercolored on watercolor paper and then fussy cut out. I added foam squares to the smaller ones and popped them up on the larger image.

For my background, I layered the stars from the Sparkling Stars stencil set over a piece of light teal cardstock and blended loch ness Stellar Ink over the top. I removed that and placed the sparkle layer over the panel and spread fool’s gold Astro Paste through that layer.

When that was dry, I used a corner rounder punch on the panel and wrapped jute twine around the left side, tying it in a bow toward the top. Then I added foam tape to the back, avoiding the twine so it lays flat. Next, I ink blended the edges of a kraft panel with weeping willow Stellar Ink and glued that to a card base.

Finally, I removed the release paper on the foam tape and popped my teal panel on the kraft card front. Isn’t this such a fun and whimsical design?!? I’m so happy I waited it out and didn’t force the previous designs I tried.

Products used:
Christmas Postage stamps
Sparkling Stars stencil set
Astro Paste – fool’s gold
Stellar Ink – loch ness and weeping willow
Blending brushes
Foam tape and squares
Liquid glue

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Happy Tuesday everyone! I’m here with simple, festive card to share using Ranger Ink and Simon Hurley Create products. Just simple stamping and watercolor with the same inks I stamped in. It’s really as simple as that to add color to your images.

I chose my image from the Christmas Borders stamp set and stamped it on watercolor paper with tropical tango stellar ink. Next, I took a clear acrylic block and smooshed my ink pad on the corner. I spritzed that with water and proceeded to use a paint brush to color in my leaves. The light leaves are one layer and the darker ones are two and three layers of ink.

Next, I smooshed love bomb Stellar Ink on another acrylic block and painted the berries in the same way. Gathering your ink from the ink pad gives you a more diluted color which works great when you’re painting with the same color you’re stamping in. If you want a deeper, richer color, I suggest dropping one or two drops of re-inker on the block and painting with that.

I used my heat gun to help the watercolor dry and then went back in to add more layers on various leaves and berries. After hitting that layer with the heat gun as well, I splattered the panel with tarnished brass Distress Spray Stain.

Once that dried, I stamped and heat embossed a sentiment from Skating By on the lower right corner. Finally, I glued the panel to a card base and wrapped some green organza ribbon around the top.

Have you tried this technique before? How do you feel about it? I think it’s refreshing to throw something different in from time to time.

Products used:
Christmas Borders stamps
Skating By stamps
Stellar ink – love bomb and tropical tango
Distress Spray Stain – tarnished brass
Liquid glue
Heat gun
Embossing and watermark ink
Embossing powder – black
Anti-static bag

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Welcome everyone! I’m back with another card featuring the recent release from Simon Hurley Create and Ranger Ink. This time I tried bold lunar paste on black cardstock with partial stenciling.

I love the pattern of the new Lush Leaves stencil so I paired it with Charming Lunar Paste on black cardstock. I turned my panel landscape and spread paste from top down making sure I didn’t cover the whole panel. Once the panel was dry, I trimmed about 3/8″ off the edge with no paste and added foam tape to the back.

I stamped my sentiment on the right edge of a card base. Then stamped my layered tiger from Wild About You and used the coordinating die to cut it out. I used black widow and guppy Stellar Inks for that guy.

When the stenciled panel was dry, I popped it up on the card base with foam tape. Then popped the tiger up with foam squares and finished the design off with some black ribbon tied around the left edge.

Have you checked out the new release yet? Are you one that likes to be in touch with your inner messy artist? You should try it!!! It’s fun!

Products used:
Wild About You stamps and dies
Lunar Paste – Charming
Lush Leaves stencil
Foam tape
Stellar Ink – black widow and guppy

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Hi friends! I’m back with more inspiration featuring the Simon Hurley Create release with Ranger Ink. Today I’m using more Lunar Paste but doubling up on colors using the same stencil.

When I do things like this, I spread the first color out and scrape as much excess off as I can, then I come in with the second color mixing them a little where they meet. It’s so cool if they are complimentary or opposing. They don’t mix into a new color but meld and swirl without combining.

After stenciling, I set the panel aside to dry and stamped a fun giraffe from the Wild About You set. I used brown for my base and layered yellow, orange and brown for my accent colors. It was a complete experiment as I’d never done that before. I just inked the yellow, stamped, then inked the orange and dabbed it away so it was a light layer, stamped and repeated that thought with light brown. I love the color it made!

After die cutting the giraffe, I cut a circle from vellum and heat embossed my sentiment. Then I trimmed the stenciled panel to 4×5.25 and popped it up on a white card base. I added foam to the giraffe but thought he needed grounding so I added a 1/4″ strip of black which balances things nicely.

Last, I trimmed the top off the vellum circle and then hid glue behind the words and glued it in place.

Products used:
Wild About You stamps and dies
Lunar Paste – limelight and jaded
Stellar Ink
Intertwined stencil
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti static bag
Embossing powder
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Happy Wednesday everyone! We’re halfway through the week and I wanted to pop in with an extra card today featuring more of the new release from Ranger Ink and Simon Hurley Create!

For this background, I literally just finger painted with three of the new Lunar Paste colors for a fun abstract background. Once the panel was dry, I chose my sentiment and heat embossed it along the bottom of the panel.

Next I stamped the awesome leopard in the Wild About You set with Stellar Inks – black widow and high tide. I used the coordinating die to cut him out and popped him up with foam squares.

I glued the panel to a card base and finished things off with a scattering of teal enamel dots from my stash. I love these new Lunar Pastes on black! They pop so well!

Products used:
Wild About You stamps and dies
Lunar Paste – limelight, mugshot & kiss and tell
Stellar Ink – high tide and black widow
Embossing and watermark ink
Anti static bag
Embossing powder
Foam squares
Liquid glue

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Hi everyone! I’m popping back in to celebrate the Ranger Ink | Simon Hurley Create release today! It’s got a fun array of stamps, dies and stencils, along with new pastes for some messy fun!

Today I have two cards to share because my background gave me a two-for-one and I couldn’t resist!

After I received my package of all the goodness in this release, I spent and evening getting messy creating different backgrounds, playing around with the different mediums and stencils. One of the backgrounds I created was this fun new Astro Paste called black widow. It’s a fabulous black glitter and was screaming to be used on this awesome Zebra stencil.

Once the background was dry, I just chopped it in half at an angle. Then I chose a couple of fun colors to stamp my zebra accents in and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. This one is prom queen from the Stellar Ink collection.

For my pink background, I drug the pad directly on the card front and splattered it with water for instant color and fun texture. Then to assemble, I popped the zebra panel up with foam tape and added a black strip across the seam. I added the zebra with half foam squares and half liquid glue so it lays flat. Then I stamped my sentiment using my MISTI.

Same vibe for my 100% Juice version but this time, I used a blending brush to ink up the card front for a softer, ombre look. I also splattered it with water. Stellar Ink is my favorite for this reaction. It’s so severe and looks amazing!

I have so many other cards I’m super excited to share with you using this new collection so stay tuned over the next week or so!

Products used:
Astro Paste – black window
Wild About You stamps and dies
Animal Prints stencil set
Blending brush
Stellar Ink – black widow, prom queen and 100% juice
Foam tape
Liquid glue

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