Playing with Leaves!

Hello!  Susie on the blog today with more fall leaves.

One of my favorite things to do with my crafty friends is to play with the exact same rubber stamp and see how different the finished card, tag, atc, layout or page ends up!  I really love the  amazing detail in the large oak leaf stamp in Terri Sproul's Leaves Rubber Stamp set, so I thought I would make a couple of different style cards to share with you today!

Time to play...

Supplies:
Leaves Rubber Stamp Set Sheet by Terri Sproul
Scribble Hearts & Elements Mixed Media Set by Pam Bray
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Wild Honey, Carved Pumpkin, Spiced Marmalade, Gathered Twigs
Patterned paper
cardstock

Directions:

• Position leaf stamp on a stamp platform and select inks. 

• Starting with the lightest color first, apply ink to stamp surface. 

• Create a variegated effect by inking parts of the stamp with different colors.  
• Continue adding colors until you are happy with the results.

Now you can take that image and create a CAS (clean and simple) card by adding a stamped sentiment, like this "thankful" one from Pam Bray's Scribble Hearts & Elements Mixed Media Set.  (I think it is perfect for this time of year, don't you?)

Or you can take the exact same image and distress and ink the edges, add layers and twine and a charm...

...to create a totally different kind of card!
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Whatever your style, the important thing is to start with a great image and have fun!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find some time to play today!
Susie

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Fall Leaves Layout with Acetate

Hello!  Susie on the blog today and I am going back to my scrapbooking roots to share a fall layout.

One of the reasons I love living in northern Virginia is because we get all of the seasons here.  I have always loved fall because of the seasonal craft shows and holidays, but now I really enjoy the beautiful fall leaves when "every leaf is a flower".  Today I am sharing a quick idea so you can add those colorful leaves to your layouts, planners and cards!

Time to play...

Supplies:
Leaves Rubber Stamp Set Sheet by Terri Sproul
Stazon Inks- Mustard, Timber Brown, Pumpkin, Blazing Red
Elizabeth Crafts Dies - Planner Essentials 4 & 5
Stamping platform
Acetate sheet

Directions:

• Position your stamp(s) on a stamping platform.
• Place acetate in stamp platform on top of a sheet of white paper and secure with magnets and/or washi tape.
• Select several fall colors of StazOn ink.
• Apply the lightest color ink to all of the stamp surfaces and stamp the image(s) on the acetate.

• Apply layers of StazOn ink, one color at a time, until you have the desired colors.  Note: create a variegated effect by adding different color inks to only parts of the leaf surfaces before stamping. 

At this point you have options!  You can die cut the acetate to create planner inserts and card embellishments.

You can use the acetate sheets just like patterned papers on your layouts.  I love the large scale leaves in the background!

Add a favorite photo and you are done!

Stamping on acetate is so easy if you use a stamping platform and the right ink. To make sure you don't smear the images don't over ink your stamps and wait until the ink is dry before you handle it!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find some time to play today!
Susie

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Thankful

Hi!  Chris here and today I would like to share my project I created for Sin City Stamps! 

I love the colors and textures of fall leaves (even if my allergies don't like them!)  So I decided to try to recreate them! 

To recreate this project you will need:

Sin City Stamps Leaves Rubber Stamp Set 

6x8 Canvas

Thankful die cut

Card stock - green, white and orange (for die cut)

Distress inks

Spanish Moss

Glue gun

Start by stamping your leaves onto green and white card stock. 

Fussy cut all the leaves.  Dip "white" leaves into distress ink.

Here are some of the finished leaves.

Glue Spanish Moss to bottom left of "back" side of canvas.

 Attach leaves to canvas.

Finish by adding the die cut Thankful to canvas. You can see all the texture in the close up!

Hope you are inspired to get stamping!

The Color of Fall with Gratitude... with Tamiko

I love creating this page.. It totally says fall to me.. The the color of the leaves and texture of the bark of the trees.. I used a bunch of stamps from Sin City Stamps to create this page.  My supplies included:

Sin City Stamps- Leaves stamp plate by Terri Sproul

Tim Holtz - Woodgrain stencil

Archival Ink Pad

Acrylic paints

Gelli plate

Deco Art- Moldeling paste

Deco Art Metallic Lustre- Espresso

Dylusions Paints- red, orange, green, yellow and brown

Gelli Plate ( I use the 8x10)

Helmar Craft and Hobby Pva glue

Spatula

Scissors

Distress ink

White Sharpie (water based)

Unibal Vision pen

What I did first is what you cant see is I made a few gelli prints using the leaves and some of the paint. I smoothed paint on the plate and stamped across it.

Then I took the modeling paste and with a spatuala I stenciled some on the page, rather thin-like.

 

Then I painted over the areas I stenciled with brown paint, to create what looked like a bark of a tree.

After the barks were created, I added a little bit of definition to the raised areas, by rubbing some metallic lustre. Can't see it well here..  ::sad face::

I started working on the leaves.  The leaves were stamped with archival inks and fussy cut.  I then inked the edges just a little bit.

I took my scoring tool and along the length of the leaf i created a faux crease to resemble a stem.  I also curled some of the edges of the leaf.  

I finallally adhered the leaves to the page with some Professional Craft & Hobby PVA.  I wrote my quote in white sharpie (waterbased) and outlined the lettering with plain unibal vision pen.   Gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.  Here just a few more photos of closeups for the page.

Thanks for stopping by today and checking out my journal page.  Remember you too can see the light in every day things and its starts with gratitude and some stamps from Sin City Stamps!!  Now GO MAKE SOMETHING!!

Garden Sign

Flowers, I love them! How about you?

 Are you out enjoying the sunshine and feeling the grass between your toes? How about decorating that garden with a beautiful sign decorated with stamps? Yep, stamps aren't just for paper products, they can be used for outdoor projects too!

First I started with a scrap piece of board that I painted with Deco Art's Chalky paint.

Then I created a border around my sign using a black Sharpie.

Next, I used Terri Sproul's Plate of Rubber Stamps "Leaves" to create a background with some green ink, randomly stamping a 3 leaf pattern.

You can also use your stamps as a guide and paint them in like I did with the 2 accent leaves that are on the sides of the quote.

The last thing I did was to attach my sign to the stake after a coat of varnish to make sure it was properly sealed.

Thanks for stopping by!

A CHRISTMAS STOCKING

Christmas is fast approaching!!  Are you ready?  I am just finishing up some decorating and I am done!  Except I have to wrap the presents.  I better get going!

I made this super cute wood stocking to finish my decorating.  It will be hanging on a shelf with other Christmas crafts.

SUPPLIES:

• SinCity Stamps "Steampunk's Christmas" Stamps
• SinCity Stamps "Terri Sproul Leaves" Stamps
• Stewart Superior Ink
• Staz On Ink
• Kaiser Craft Stocking
• Bella Acrylic Craft Paint
• Ribbon, Button and Flower Gems

I painted the stocking green and the top piece white.  I added glitter on top of the white paint.

I used some of the gear stamps from the Steampunk's Christmas set, because I thought they looked like candy.  I also used a leaf from the Terri Sproul Leaves set to put on top of the stocking,like holly.  I tried a bunch of different inks to find just the right shade.

I finally settled on the Staz On Cactus Green ink and I used a 2" circle punch to punch out the gears to glue to my wood stocking.  I stamped the leaves with the same ink on white paper.

I used a paint marker to make the faux stitching around the stocking.

I LOVE this!!  I glued the "Candy" to the stocking and added some flower gems.  On top, I added the leaves and a bow with a button in the center.

Thank you so much for visiting today!

Wishing you very Happy Holidays!!

xxDaniella