Hi, all! It's time for a new release from i-crafter! The rest of the design team and I have put together a blog hop to share lots of inspiration using the April release!
I just LOVE the Rose Heart die! It looks like a gorgeous stained glass rose! I decided to do a bit of die cut inlay with multiple colors of cardstock to play up the stained glass effect. I die cut the Rose Heart die from two colors of red cardstock and the leaves from two colors of green cardstock. I also cut the dies from white cardstock to have a white outline. I simply used liquid glue to puzzle piece the die cut pieces in place.
I needed a big bold sentiment, so I grabbed the Haley Alphabet stamp set from a previous release and stamped the letters to form the word "hello" with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I glued the leaves flat onto the card and popped up the Rose Heart with foam tape. This card needed a little - or a lot! - of bling, so I added some white iridescent gems all over my card.
There are so many fun techniques you can do with the Rose Heart die! I hope this gives you some inspiration! And remember to hop through the rest of the blogs for even more inspiration with the April release from i-crafter!
I only intended to make one card using strips of paper, but I had so much left over that I made three cards! And I still have a bunch of scraps left over! What's even better is that I made all three cards from the individual backgrounds that I made. I love finding ways to use backgrounds creatively.
I have found that when I'm using "wet mediums" it's best to apply more of the product over the stencil than you think you'll need and use the Stencil Pal to spread an even layer and add the excess back into the jar. This helps in getting even coverage. I do want to mention that I absolutely do not waste the extra product. I had a viewer mention that they feel it's a waste to spread extra product over a stencil, so I added a few little tips to my video showing how I conserve my precious Glitz Glitter Gels and Deco Foil Transfer Gels!
While my four backgrounds were drying I stamped my cute peeps using Rina K Designs Neon Electro-Pop Inks. I used the My Kind of Peep stamp set from Simon Says Stamp. I realized after I completed my cards that this stamp set is retired, but there are plenty of Easter Peep stamp sets on the market. Use what you have! I wanted to have ombre style peeps, so I used the whole rainbow of Rina K Designs Neon Electro-Pop Inks! I stamped the Peeps with the lightest ink color once, then re-inked with the next color of the rainbow - but only part of the Peep and stamped again. And then I inked just the bottom portion of the Peep with the darkest color of Neon Electro-Pop Ink and stamped a third time. This stamp set comes with an outline for each Peep, so I stamped that with a crisp black ink. And boom! Rainbow, ombre, NEON PEEPS!
I took all four backgrounds and trimmed them down into 1/2" strips. And yes .... I held my breath the whole time! Haha! I love to do this "paper weaving" technique and I thought it would be especially fun to do it on an Easter card since it makes the background look like a basket! And it's a great way to incorporate a BUNCH of color into a background. I placed 6 strips of the stenciled backgrounds vertically onto my table. I didn't follow rainbow color order. Instead I alternated the types of background strips between Neon Glitz and Neon Enamel. Then I used another background strip and placed it horizontally on top of the vertical strips. I moved the horizontal strip so that it was "weaving" going over one vertical strip and under the next - and over and under and over and under. It's much easier to see in the video! I repeated this process with 5 additional strips of the background pieces until I had a whole background piece. I found it was easiest to use little bits of iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive along the way to keep my strips in place.
I had so many strips left over that I decided to show you some simpler backgrounds. I placed a few strips horizontally on a piece of cardstock and used Gina K Designs White Foam Squares to pop them up onto my card. I also created a third background with vertical strips which I glued down with iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive.
I added little families of the Neon Electro-Pop Peeps and sentiment strips with Gina K Designs White Foam Squares. That finishes all three cards! I hope they give you some bright, neon, Easter inspiration! See you soon!
Hi, there! I have another card using the Swan Tunnel Base die set from i-crafter. I'm again using it in a different way - kind of an inbetween simple and the way it is supposed to be used!
The Swan Tunnel Base die set has a bunch of dies to create a swan lake scene. I took the largest die that creates the front of the card - it looks like a longish rectangle with score lines on each side - and die cut it from white cardstock. I centered the swan die in the middle of my card front and cut out the swan. I used masking tape to mask off the swan and added a bit of gray ink so that there's a bit of difference in the swan and the rest of the card front for dimension. I die cut the cattails and the tall grass from separate pieces of white cardstock and inked them with brown and green inks.
I lined up the grass pieces behind the swan and glued the layers together. I took a piece of 4.25 inch square watercolor paper and added blue and purple inks to the background and flicked on specks of water for texture. I folded the foreground piece on the score lines and glued the bottom "foot" to the inked background. This creates a 3D card! So fun! And it folds flat so it will fit into a regular A2 envelope!
I added some purple ink to a piece of cardstock and then die cut the letters to form the word "hello" with the Haley Alphabet Outline die set from the inked piece. I glued them to the top of the card so that they would overhang into the swan scene. That's it! See you soon!
I love the little card soldiers in the Painting the Roses stamp set! And they pair PERFECTLY with the Pick a Card stencil! I wanted to have a two toned background with a punch, so I decided to do some simple masking! I sprayed the back of the stencil with Pixie Spray and tacked it onto a piece of cardstock. I used 1/2" Purple Tape to mask off the diamonds and hearts. This was super easy because they were in diagonal patterns! I used a blending tool and blended on some Black Soot Distress Oxide ink to the spades and clubs.
Once I was done blending ink onto my card I wiped the excess ink off the stencil with a microfiber cloth and removed the Purple Tape, but I left the stencil in place. I used the Purple Tape once again to mask off the clubs and spades and used a Stencil Pal to spread some Red Velvet Glitz Glitter Gel to give some sparkle, shine, and texture to the hearts and diamonds. I'm left with such a fun background!
I set my background aside to dry and I stamped out a bunch of images from the Painting the Roses stamp set. I can't tell you enough how much I love this stamp set! Seriously love love love!
Once my background was dry I added my images to the card using a mix of liquid adhesive and foam adhesive for dimension. I stamped a sentiment from the Painting the Roses stamp set with red ink and trimmed it into a banner. I coated all of the images with some Liquid Pixie Dust for shimmer!
I hope you've enjoyed these projects using the new release from Miss Ink Stamps! And I want to give a HUGE thank you to Miss Ink Stamps for having me as a guest designer! I'll see you all soon!
Hi! The new Bobalicious stamp set from Kindred Stamps is so fantastic! Boba tea is super cute (and fun to say! Haha!) I decided to make them rainbow ... because everything is better with rainbows! This fun stamp set will be released on March 27th as part of the Kindred Stamps monthly release!
This card makes me so happy! But it's really easy to make! A little stamping, a little coloring, a little masking, and a little stenciling! I stamped the boba tea image from the Bobalicious stamp set across the center of my card with a MISTI for even spacing and colored them with Spectrum Noir Triblend Markers. I also stamped and colored the adorable girl image and a sentiment under the line of boba teas.
I realized something was missing in the background, so I cut masks for the boba teas from masking paper and covered them up. I placed the Heart and Dots stencil over my card and blended on some pistachio/lime colored ink over the background. It was like magic peeling back the masks from the teas! I'm in love with this background!
Since the whole background is one layer I decided to pop up the girl with foam squares for dimension. I added a healthy layer of Liquid Pixie Dust to the boba teas and the girl's outfit and covered the boba teas with Glossy Accents. Now they're sparkly and shiny and all things yummy!! I hope you love this Bobalicious rainbow card! You can find it in the Kindred Stamps store on March 27th!
I started by creating my striped background. I love using iCraft Easy Tear Tape to create backgrounds because there's no drying time! I'm an impatient crafter, so double sided adhesives are my best friends! I used 1/2" iCraft Easy Tear Tape and added stripes to my card base at 3/4" increments. I left the adhesive backing in place and inked the stripes between the tape lines. I did this before adding the Flock Transfer Sheets so that if I made a mistake and got ink where I didn't want it I could just wipe it off of the backer sheets instead of having it permanently on my Flocked stripes. I did a direct to paper technique - just used one of the flat edges of the Orange Glow Electro-Pop Ink to swipe some yummy Orange Glow ink onto my card between the iCraft Easy Tear Tape stripes.
Hello! I'm am absolutely beyond excited to be guest designing for the new release from Miss Ink Stamps! I love this company and I LOVE this release! My sneak peek today uses the Wonderland Wisdom stamp set and the Rabbit Hole stencil and they will be available TOMORROW Saturday the 28th at 8am!
The Wonderland Wisdom stamp set is a larger 4x8 stamp set that is packed FULL of all of our favorite sayings from Wonderland! This is definitely a staple sentiment set. It goes with everything in this release!
I wanted to show you that you can make the Wonderland Wisdom stamp set the focal point of a card. And as soon as I saw the smiling cat image I knew I wanted to use it! He's my favorite character! I started with a card base ( which I eventually cut down to 4.25" square ) and die cut a stitched circle from the top left corner. I made sure to open the card base before die cutting so that I only cut through the front of the card and not the back of the card. I chose a circle die that would leave a stitched detail on the negative portion of the die cut ( the card base ), but you could use any circle die you have.
I opened up the card and blended some ink onto the card base using three colors of pink ink - Soft Kisses, Fandango, and Tickled Pink. I kept the lighter ink towards the circle die cut and the darker ink towards the outer edges. I took the Rabbit Hole Stencil and sprayed the back of it with Pixie Spray and positioned the center point of the swirl over the die cut circle. I used the same three colors of ink to blend over the stencil, but I used a heavier hand so that the stenciled portions would be darker than the blended background.
I opened the card and blended some Banana Creme Pie Hybrid Ink onto the inside of the card where the circle die peeks through. And that completes the ink blended portion of this card. Whew! I stamped the smiling face from the Wonderland Wisdom stamp set through the center of the die cut circle on the inside of the card and colored in the nose with a bit of a pink marker.
I stamped and white heat embossed my sentiment from the Wonderland Wisdom stamp set and added some clear bubbles to finish my card. Thanks for joining me! And be sure to check out the Miss Ink Stamps site TOMORROW at 8am for the full release!
