Hello! I can share part of what I’ve been up to at last! YAY! Click the picture and take a look. Starlitstudio has the NEW collection in stock.
Holler if you have any questions! Thanks for stopping by today!
Neat and Tangled Merry Bear Birthday Card…
Look at this adorable little snowman! It’s family birthday time again and our youngest grandson is turning two tomorrow! Where does the time go?!
I wanted to play in the NBUS challenge with the option of color pencil on kraft. I love how this almost looks like wood!
I stamped with the MISTI, colored with pencil, then went back and using the MISTI again, I left the stamps where they were, inked with black pigment embossing ink, stamped them and heat embossed them with black powder.
So many times when you color with pencils you lose the strong black line. We used to do this years ago when Stampa Rosa had the House Mouse stamps. We would stamp them their stamp positioner, color them with Tombow markers and then come back and emboss them over the top of the marker coloring. Amazing the difference.
Next time I am going to color the image right in the MISTI without moving the card-stock. There was enough ‘user error’ this time that I had to stamp the bear a few times and ended up with a thicker black line then the stamp really has. grrr Still cute though!
Hopefully we’ll get some snow for his birthday! haha It’s been a weird, rainy Winter for Iowa. Not used to dark and dreary. It’s usually bright with snow! I’m sure we’ll get those Winters again.
Linking up to Darnell’s NBUS Challenge #8 – optional theme ‘use color pencils on kraft’
Thanks for stopping by! See you again soon and I’ll have a special announcement soon too!
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Printworks Collection 2016 LE Snowman, Little Rascals…
Could this pair be any cuter? The ‘snow play‘ sentiment fits the image to a ‘t’! This is the NEW 2016 Limited Edition Snowman from Printworks Collection. Part of their latest release which includes more snowmen and wonderful Winter/Snow sentiments. You just can’t get any cuter than Annette’s super cute snowmen!
I stamped the snowflake stamp in the background on Strathmore 140# Mixed Media Card-stock with Versamark ink and heat embossed them with white embossing powder.
Distress ink pads and the ink blending tools blend wonderfully on this Mixed Media card-stock. I blended over the embossed snowflakes with a couple different blues and spattered some blue ink and then white with a paintbrush.
I painted/colored the snowman and pup with a combination of Zig Clean Color Brush Markers and Distress Inks. Stamped on watercolor paper with Ranger Archival Black ink and cut out by hand.
The snow border is a new poppystamps die, Dotted Curve.
Wow, the last few weeks…where did they go?! I’ve been making cards, just can’t show them! waaahhh In the meantime, my camera just up and quit one morning! Did you hear me scream? A new camera was not on my radar! If you know me, you know I like to research and develop so to speak. lol
Yes, I lost sleep! Thanks to a generous husband, a very knowledgeable friend and a great salesman at the camera store I have a new camera and now if the sun would just shine…. hehe I’ll figure it out! I have to! lol
Tomorrow is our area stamp club so I’m going to escape from home for a few hours. I am probably the only person that still hasn’t taken their Christmas tree down. I knew it wasn’t a good idea to get a fake tree! Quit laughing at me! haha I’ve been very busy! lol
I’ve missed coming here and chatting through comments. I always appreciate hearing from you and thank you so much to those that sent me Christmas cards! I LOVED them all!
I’ll be back!
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NEW poppystamps dies…
Hi everyone! Anybody else here feel like they’ve been on a roller coaster ride the last few weeks? Let me off I say! lol
Playing around with some of the new release from Poppystamps! Here I’ve used the Ring Collage die cut in kraft and layered over a watercolored panel.
I die cut the largest die from the new Eyelet Stitches dies on the top and bottom of the panel. On the Memory Box Pool A2 card base I die cut the X border from the new Delicate Stitches dies.
I edged the kraft panel with Gathered Twigs Distress ink and the ink blending tool and the pool card base with Tumbled Glass Distress ink and the ink blending tool.
The sentiment is from the new poppystamps Grateful Heart stamp set, inked with Versamark and embossed with Gold embossing powder.
I die cut the Heart String from Strathmore Mixed Media 140# stock after inking it with Worn Lipstick and Picked Raspberry Distress inks and the ink blending tool and spattering with Gold spray ink.
You’ll find most of the supplies I used on my card at Starlitstudio.net.
Thank you all for visiting my blog today! Happy Stamping New Year to us! May we get lots of cards made! hehe
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Avery Elle Kitsch Christmas birthday card…
Hi everyone! Just stopping in to share a birthday card for our grandson Bryant. I just had to use this adorable Avery Elle Christmas Kitsch stamp and die set! Soooooo CUTE! So fun to color.
I made an ink blended sky with Distress inks and stamped the three snowflakes from the set with Delicata Silver ink. I added a few Pretty Pink Posh 3mm Sparkling Clear sequins. I love these tiny ones!
The Memory Box Fresh Pine Landscape die is the background piece die cut in white card-stock.
I used the poppystamps Delicate Holly Frame die adhered to the scene with mounting squares under the solid holly leaves.
The deer are colored with Copic Sketch Markers, the E30 series. Copic Opaque White painted on the eyes and the spots.
I hope you’re having a nice relaxed Christmas prep week! Tim went to turn on the oven Saturday and the element in the oven went bad. ugh. So all of a sudden we were stove shopping…or he was! lol Poor guy. He even went and picked one up by himself! It’s really nice! I will enjoy heating up my cocoa with it! lol
I was busy making gift tags! hoho I have a picture over on instagram but haven’t taken a picture with the camera yet. They’re cute if you want to see… ugh…more deer! WHAT?! They are fun though…the Printworks antlers and googly eyes and a big red nose ‘Cool Yule’ kind of tag on kraft! yes! Link to my IG page is over in the sidebar.
ok – I’ll shut up and get back to work! Thanks so much for visiting and enjoy some cocoa with me next! (I wish)
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