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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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

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Hey friends! I’m on the Miss Ink Stamps blog today highlighting the super fun coffee themed gift with purchase stencil that is available! I have two cards and a bonus gift tag to share.

I started today by taking a 6×6 piece of white cardstock and inked it up very messy and random with distress oxide inks in tea dye, gathered twigs and ground espresso. Once I liked the look of the panel and spritzed it with water and then flicked black acrylic paint on the whole thing. After it was dry I spread Thermoweb transfer gel blanco through the coffee stencil. I removed the stencil, cleaned up and set the panel aside to dry.

Once the panel was dry, I heated up my laminator and ran the whole panel through with copper deco foil in a craft & carrier sheet. Then I trimmed the text blocks and rainbow apart using my paper trimmer. I adhered the text blocks to black panels giving them a small border and popped that up with foam tape on white panels.

For this card, I inked up a teal A2 panel with the new Latte Love stencil and white pigment ink before adding the foiled layers to the center.

For the second card, I did the same thing with the foiled panel, adding the white and black mat layers before inking up the teal panel with the Lava Lamp stencil and darker teal ink for a tone-on-tone contrast.

Bonus! This stencil has a third image that is a cup ring/coffee bean rainbow! It’s so fun and different! This time I decided to add it to a tag that I could tie to a box of K-cups to share with a friend.

I cut the large tag from textured teal cardstock and the stitched layer from white. I attached the Perfectly Plaid stencil with Pixie Spray and inked it up with Dusty Concord distress oxide ink. Since I pounced my sponge dobber instead of using a brush I got this cool distressed looking texture. I splattered the panel with watered down Cracked Pistachio distress oxide ink to tie in the teal color and adhered the tag layers together.

Using my MISTI I stamped the sentiment from Brewtiful on the lower center and popped the rainbow up with foam squares. To finish it off I threaded some ribbon through the hole and tied it with twine.

Don’t miss your chance to get this super fun gift with purchase stencil! Click HERE for all the details.

Products used today:
Free with Purchase Coffee Stencil
Perfectly Plaid stencil
Latte Love stencil
Lava Lamp stencil
Brewtiful stamps
Thermoweb Transfer Gel Blanco
Thermoweb Deco Foil – copper
Thermoweb stencil pal
Thermoweb 3D foam tape
Thermoweb Pixie Spray
Avery Elle Easy Layer Tag dies
Distress Oxide Ink – tea dye, ground espresso, gathered twigs, dusty concord, cracked pistachio

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Hello there! Thanks so much for stopping by. Today I have a little inspiration featuring some magical products from Miss Ink Stamps. I pulled out the Lovely Unicorns because it had been a minute since I colored these beauties up and decided to pair some beautiful stencils together too!

I started by stamping my images out and coloring them with my lightest copic markers. I wanted to keep things soft and sweet for this card. Then I used the scan-n-cut to cut them all out.

Knowing the general design direction I was going, I trimmed a piece of white cardstock down to 2×4.25 inches and stamped my sentiment on the upper right side. I added 1/8″ scrappy tape to the edge and adhere a strip of silver cardstock to it. Then, I set this aside with my images while I worked on the stencil panel.

I have really been itching to try out the new On the Vine stencil to see how it was in person and I can’t even tell you how much I love it. It’s beautiful and is going to be so versatile with any images you try it with! Today I inked up a white piece of cardstock with light blue ink. Then I sprayed the stencil with Pixie Spray and stuck it down before adding another layer of the same color blue ink over the top. The moment I peeled the stencil away I was in love!

But thanks to my friend Lynnea, I just can’t leave these alone without trying to layer a little something over the top. Today for that added magical feel, I used the Sparkles stencil with iridescent Glitz Glitter Gel from Thermoweb for the perfect amount of magic!

Once the glitz gel was dry, I lined everything up to figure out final spacing and decided to trim the sentiment panel down to 1.5 inches and pop it up with foam tape. Then I added foam squares to the images and added them next.

For finishing touches I added unicorn Stickles to the unicorn horn and hooves and also the butterfly wings. Then I took my Wink of Stella glitter brush pen and added a little shimmer to the unicorn mane and tail too. You can’t have too much sparkle on a card like this, ever!

Products used today:
Lovely Unicorns stamps
Sparkles stencil
On the Vine stencil
Glitz Glitter Gel – iridescent
Stencil Pal
Pixie Spray
Foam squares
Foam tape
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen
Stickles – unicorn
Scrappy Tape – 1/8″

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Hello everyone. I have a bit of Miss Ink Stamps inspiration to share with you featuring one of the new animal portrait stencil sets. These layering stencils are gorgeous and so easy to use! Today I stepped them up a bit from just inking to glitz glitter gel for some sparkle and interest.

In this stencil set you get three piecs – the cheetah shape mask, the shading layer and the spots layer. They are super easy to line up and ink how you want.

Today I started with kraft cardstock and used the mask to ink around the cheetah with peeled paint distress oxide ink, then I inked the edges of the panel with rustic wilderness distress oxide for a color gradient.

Next I added the shading layer stencil and inked it up with carved pumpkin distress oxide ink. I chose this bright color for some contrast on the kraft cardstock. If I were using white, I would probably have stuck to another color in the yellow family instead. Just something to keep in mind when you are choosing colors.

Finally, I added the spots layer and inked the whole thing up with VersaFine black ink before selectively adding black glitz glitter gel to the spots. However, I didn’t mask anything off, I was just careful when adding the glitz and didn’t mind if it went outside of the spots to the face lines or something else.

I let that dry and then went in with the frame layer for the Ins & Outs Marquis stencil to add a gold glitz frame to really bling things up. While that was drying, I stamped a sentiment from Jungle Ruins and cut it out with a rectangle die. I inked the top with a little green ink that coordinated with my card front and popped it up with foam squares.

Once it was all dry, I glued the whole panel to a white card base and my card is completely finished. Sometimes it’s not to just get inky and not color anything. I love these stencils for those moods.

Products used today:
Cheetah Portrait stencils
Ins & Outs Marquis stencils
Jungle Ruins stamps
Glitz Glitter Gel – gold and black
Stencil pal
Foam squares
Distress Oxide Ink – rustic wilderness, peeled paint, carved pumpkin
Pink & Main Layered Rectangle dies

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