Toward the Sunshine

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter back on the blog today.  We now in that in between time of the year where summer is still trying to hold on as the cooler temps of fall are trying to move in.  It's such a pretty time of the year and I wanted to capture it visually with a color palette that shares the last vestiges of summer and the beginning of autumn.  It's an homage to the sun and all the inspiration that it brings.

Here what I used to make it:

• Sunshine Cherub Sun Flowers Art Stamp Set
  
• Distress Oxide Inks: Fossilized Amber, Antique Linen, Cracked Pistachio
• Delicata Golden Glitz Pigment Ink
• Pure Palette Glay Shades Pigment Ink
• Versa Vine Clair Ink
• Jewels

Here's how I made it:

• Created a 6"x6" Kraft card base
• Used the deckle edge blade on my paper trimmer to cut a 5.75"x5.75" of orange card stock and a 5.5"x5.5" white cardstock panel.
• Used double sided tape to adhere orange card panel to card base.
• Ink blended the background on white card panel using Fossilized Amber, Antique Linen, and Cracked Pistachio Oxide inks.

• Decided on placement of sun on the blended panel and stamped it with Golden Glitz pigment ink.
• Decided on placement of sentiment and stamped it on card panel with Versa Fine Clair ink.
• Arranged floral stamps at bottom of card panel and stamped them with Glay Shades pigment ink.

• Used a heat tool on low to ensure that pigment inks were set and then adhered card panel to base with double sided tape.
• Glued three jewels to around the sun.

This would be such a nice card to send to someone who needs a little encouragement.  I love how the golden sun pops against the amber and linen colors, and the green florals stand so tall as they reach towards it.

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Sunflower Dreams

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter back on the blog today.  Sunflowers have a special meaning for me.  They were my mom's favorite.  She grew them in her yard - a tradition that one of my sisters has kept going since mom passed away.  They're such strong, resilient, and beautiful flowers.  I wanted to feature them since they're considered a fall flower and also in loving memory of my mom.

Here's what I used to make it:

• Butterfly Breezes CLEAR Stamp Set
  
• Dreams Come a Size Too Big Sentiment Stamp
• Sunshine Cherub Sun Flowers Art Rubber Stamp Sheet Set (Dragonfly stamp)
  
• Distress Oxide Inks: Tumbled Glass, Rustic Wilderness, Squeezed Lemonade
• Lawn Fawn Yeti White Pigment Ink
• Alcohol Markers
• Glitter gel pens
• Nuvo Shimmer Pen
• Gems

Here's how I made it:

• Cut a piece of white card stock to 4.5"x6.5" and ink blended it with Tumbled Glass ink to create a sky.

• Stamped sentiment towards middle of card panel with black ink.
• Stamped dragon fly in top right corner with black ink.
• Colored dragon fly with gel pens (purple, green, and white).
• Stamped two sunflowers onto a scrap of white cardstock, colored them with alcohol markers, and fussy cut them.

• Determined position of sunflowers on card panel and then hand draw & color stalks and leaves with Rustic Wilderness ink; add some yellow highlights with Squeezed Lemonade ink.

• Use double sided tape to adhere card panel to a 5"x7" Kraft card base.
• Adhere sunflower heads onto stalks with double sided foam tape strips.
• Use white pigment ink and a blending brush to tap some white clouds onto the card panel.

• Glued down three gems in upper left hand corner.

The result is a very pretty, yet simple, encouragement card.  I know that my mom would have loved it.

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It's Bearly Autumn!

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter back on the blog today.  My last post on Halloween got me thinking that I'm ready for some Fall weather.  It's my favorite time of year!  The crisp, cool air.  The smell of falling leaves.  Pumpkin everything!  With that in mind, I created this card to feel a little bit of Fall in the summer.

Here's what I used to make it:

• Autumn Leaf Costume Bear Rick St Dennis Line Art Rubber Stamp
  
• A2 Kraft Card Stock card base
• 3.75"x5" Brushed Copper card panel
• 3.25"x4.5" White card panel
• Deckle edge oval die
• Tim Holtz Tea Stain Distress Ink
• Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink
• Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink
• Brutus Monroe Ice Grey Vintage Mist Spray
• Brutus Monroe Brown Vintage Mist Spray
• Brutus Monroe Mint Chroma Mist Spray
• Brutus Monroe Apricot Chroma Mist Spray
• Alcohol markers and Metallic Gel pens

Here's how I made it:

• Rubbed the Kraft card base with Vintage Photo Distress ink pad along the front edges of the card; rub Tea Stain Distress ink pad along the side edges of the card base.

• Used the deckle edge oval die to cut out the center of the Brushed Copper card panel.

• Stamped bear image and colored it with alcohol markers and color leaves with metallic gel pens.

• Use an ink blending brush to add a light covering of Antique Linen Distress ink.

• Use a piece of scrap paper to cover the image of the bear.
• Take the Brutus Monroe Mint and Apricot Chroma Mist sprays, remove sprayer, and gently tap the end with the plastic tube over the card panel to add splatters.  Repeat with the Brown Vintage Spray Mist.

• Remove scrap paper and spray image with Ice Grey Vintage Mist.
• Once dry, use craft glue to adhere the brushed copper panel over the stamped image panel.
• Use craft glue to adhere the combined panel to the card base.
• Cut a sentiment strip from scrap white card stock, run Antique Linen Distress ink pad over it.
• Used a black marker to write sentiment, put craft glue on the back of it, and adhered it to card.

 This is such a cute card with a vintage feel to it.  I can almost taste the pumpkin bread!

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Beware the Haunted House!

Hello, stamping friends!  It's DT member Walter with you on the blog today with a very spooky card that is certain to get you counting down to October.  I've always enjoyed a good ghost story - and love it even more if it's rumored to be true!  This haunted house stamp could certainly inspire some good stories.  I used Distress Oxide inks to create the scene and spooky atmosphere.

Here's what I used to create it:

• Haunted House Halloween Rubber Stamp
  
• BEWARE Word Art Stamp
  
• Small skull stamp from Wildflower Yikes! Rubber Art Stamp Set
• Black A2 card base
• Grey A2 card panel
• White card stock strips cut to: 2 at .5"x5.5" and 2 at .5"x4.25"
• Cut Grass panels from Brutus Monroe
• Brutus Monroe Clear Embossing Ink
• Brutus Monroe Raven Embossing Powder
• Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks: Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans, Scorched Timber, Rustic Wilderness, Hickory Smoke, Lost Shadow
• Light yellow alcohol marker
• White, Brown, Yellow, and Silver gel pens

Here's how I made it:

• Used the deckle edge blade and regular blade on my paper trimmer to cut the strips of white card stock that will be used to make a frame.
• Colored the strips with Shaded Lilac Oxide ink and then used the brush to pounce them with Wilted Violet.  Once dry, I pounced them with a black ink pad.

• Stamped the haunted house onto the grey card panel with clear embossing ink and then heat embossed with the Raven embossing powder.
• Covered the outside edges of the house with Post-It tape to protect it while ink blending the background; ink blended the sky with Faded Jeans Oxide ink and then pounced it with Wilted Violet Oxide ink.

• Removed Post-It tape and colored the house with gel pens.
• Lightly brushed over the card panel with Lost Shadow Oxide ink to create a mist-like effect.
• Added Rustic Wilderness and Scorched Timber to grass panels and glued down to the card panel once the ink was dry.
• Cut a circle, colored it yellow, and shaded it with Lost Shadow Distress Oxide ink; once dry, stamped the skull onto the moon using Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink.

• Stamped the word BEWARE into the sky by the top of the house with Lost Shadow Distress Oxide ink; used a white gel pen to create smoke coming from top of the house (chimney) and to fill in the bottom half of the word BEWARE to make it look like the smoke is spelling the word.

• Adhered double sided foam tape strips to the back of frame pieces and adhered them into place.
• Adhered card panel to card base with double sided tape.

It's really such an easy card to make and it has such a creepy atmospheric feel to it.  This is such a fun card to send to haunted house enthusiast for Halloween (or any time of the year!)

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A Hungry Halloween Card!

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter on the blog today.  The year is now more than half-way over and Halloween will be here before you know it.  A lot of people are already focusing on Christmas cards . . . but how about some spooky ones first?  I wanted to make a Halloween card that was a little different and not so mainstream.  Guess what?  Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps had me covered!

The inspiration for this card is the musical Little Shop of Horrors.  It's a favorite of mine, and I thought of it as soon as I saw these Wildflower Yikes stamps.  They're so much fun and can create a unique Halloween card with something other than a ghost, witch, or pumpkin.  This is one hungry flower - so you better heed the caution warning!

Here's what I used to make it:

• Wildflower, Yikes! by Monique van Dijk Rubber Art Stamp Set
  
• BEWARE Word Art Rubber Stamp
  
• A2 Black Card Base
• 4"x5.25" Black Card Panel
• 3"x4.5" piece of white card stock
• Deckle Edge Circle Die
• Tim Holtz Lost Shadow Distress Oxide Ink
• Tim Holtz Mustard Seed Distress Oxide Ink
• White Pigment Ink
• Double sided foam tape strips
• Brutus Monroe Hematite Crystals
• Brutus Monroe Ice Grey Vintage Mist Spray
• Alcohol markers and glitter gel pens

Here's how I made it:

• Placed the black card panel into scoring tool and scored at each 1/16th of the panel from top to bottom

• Ran the Lost Shadow Oxide ink pad up and down the scored card panel; lightly misted it with water and let it dry.

• Used the deckle edge circle die to cut a circle from the scored panel.

• Stamped the large flower with teeth and two smaller eye flowers onto the piece of white card stock.
• Colored the images with a combination of alcohol markers and glitter gels pens.
• Misted the colored image with the Brutus Monroe Ice Grey Vintage Mist Spray to add some light grunge to the image.
• Placed double sided foam tape strips onto the back of the scored black panel, adhered the white image panel so that the image is visible through the circle, and adhered the combined panel to the A2 card base.

• Cut a strip of cardboard large enough to accommodate the CAUTION stamp and used the Mustard Seed Oxide ink pad to color it yellow.
• Once dry, stamp the word CAUTION onto the cardboard strip with black ink.
• Put craft glue onto back of the cardboard strip and adhere to card.
• Use the skull stamp and white oxide ink to stamp some skulls on the card.
• Adhere hematite crystals to the eyes of the skulls.

That's it - so easy but creates such a spooky Halloween card!

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Spooky Night Cemetery Crypt

Happy Halloween in August! Lyneen here, I don't think it is too early to start creating your spooky cards, tags and decor for Halloween. I am sharing a tag today; I masked to the spooky cemetery. This technique can be used for cards too. 

Stamp from Blank Page Muse
The Cemetery Crypt can be purchased as a single stamp or as a part of a full stamp set.

Cemetery Crypt Cross Halloween Rubber Stamp

Can also be found in the Halloween Takes Flight Rubber Stamp Set


Other Supplies
Aall & Create Tag Die #30
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Dusty Concord, Squeezed Lemon and Carved Pumpkin
Stazon On Jet Black
Stamping Platform
Gems
Ribbon

 

Die cut the white and black layers of the tag. Stamp image on paper and fussy cut.

Stamp the image with StazOn ink on the white die cut tag.  I like to use a stamp platform when stamping.  

Cover the stamped image with the mask.  With Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Dusty Concord, Squeezed Lemon and Carved Pumpkin

Lift the mask off and lightly ink the moon with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Squeezed Lemonade. Leaving the cross and crypt black and white.   

Mount the inked tag on the base black tag. Add die cut paper hole enforcements, adhere to the front and back of the card. Tie festive ribbons onto the tag. Finally, add a few gems for a bit of bling.  

Your tag is ready for any Halloween gift bag, host gift or add it to the front of a card. 

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Thinking About You

Hello, stamping friends. Welcome by the blog again and thanks for joining me, Karen Letchworth, as I share another FUN card that I created using some of the FAB stamps from Blank Page Muse!  The card I'm sharing today uses primarily rubber stamps.  You can really stretch your money by purchasing the rubber version of a stamp.  You can still use rubber stamps in your Misti, and they're just a really great value. Of course, if you're strictly an acrylic stamp person, Blank Page Muse has that as well.  These FAB stores always offer you the option of acrylic or rubber; so your options are wide open.

I stamped the DARLING Bird w/Small Butterflies (rubber) two times and fussy cut those as well.  I attached them all to my growing card base.  Can you see the GORGEOUS swirls, words and butterflies inside this bird?  GORGEOUS!!!  The final layer is the sentiment (Thinking of You) which is found in the Special Day Stamps - Birthday Hugs Stamp Set by Pam Bray (acrylic). 

You can read more about my card by visiting my blog, My Cup Runneth Over.  In the meantime, don't forget to visit us here often for lots of great inspiration.  We're always happy to have you stop by and visit.

Blessings,

Karen

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