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Tim Holtz – Spooky Halloween card
Hi guys!! Today I am sharing one of my all time favorite Halloween card. I absolutely LOVE the end result. I used the monster reunion stamp set from Stampers Anonymous. I absolutely love this kind of artwork, and it makes me go out of my comfort zone since I am used to have cute critters on my cards. For this project, I started by cutting a watercolor cardstock panel 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. I used Canson XL watercolor cardstock. After that, I used hickory smoke, black soot and cracked pistachio in distress oxide sprays to add color to my panel. As always, I spray a first time all of…
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Trinity Stamps – Best place to be
Hi guys! Today I am sharing a card with the cute gnomes from Trinity Stamps Best place to be stamp set. As I’ve already said, I love gnomes, and I think that this is one of my favorite, they are just so adorable! I wanted to make a little scene with these gnomes, so a slimline card was perfect for that. I make my slimline cards to be 8 1/2 by 3 1/2. I started by stamping the images on Strathmore marker paper with memento tuxedo black ink. For the copics I used: For the boy: B05; BG05; BG01; C2; C1; C0; YG09; G02; YG41; N2; N5; N7; E000; E02;…
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Trinity Stamps – A flower gnome
Hi guys!! I am so excited to share with you my first project as a Trinity Stamps ambassador. For my first projet, I had to use one of their gnomes. I you didn’t know, I love gnomes and Trinity stamps makes a lot of really gorgeous sets with gnomes. I want them all! But for today, I am using the gnomes on the Hello there stamps set. I started by stamping the images with memento rich cocoa ink on Neenah classic crest 80lb paper. I colored the images with my polychromos pencils. I learned to love the grainy look that a colored pencil give. I added some texture to the…
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MFT – Bears and Bees
Hi guys! Today I am sharing another card using the We Beelong stamp set from MFT . I wanted to make a card for someone who just had a baby and I thought that the bears where the perfect match. I started my card by die cutting a panel with the Stitched rectangles stacklets die from TE from Bristol smooth cardstock . This cardstock is fabulous for ink blending. Then I used Antique Linen distress oxide to ink blend my background. After that I die cut brown cardstock and the panel with the hexagons pops die. Since I don’t own any gold cardstock, I embossed a sheet of paper with my gold…
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Spellbinders – Layered Blooms
Hi guys! So today I am sharing a different style of card for me with the Simply perfect layered blooms from Spellbinders. I must say, I fell in love with this die and I think that it is a really versatile one and a must have. Flowers is not always my thing, but this die set is just perfect. This card took me a long time to make, but I had so much fun making it! I started this card by cutting a white cardstock with the Hero Arts nesting rectangle dies. I used one of the bigger of and one inside to make a frame. Then, I embossed my…
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My Favorite Things – You keep me afloat
Hi guys! I am sharing a father’s day card using the stamp set You keep me afloat from MFT. I was inspired by Koren Wiskman video using this stamp set. She used her polychromos pencils to color the images, and it made me want to use my pencils. I mostly use them to add shadows on my copic or watercolor images. She made me want to embrace the look of the pencil and I must say, I am in LOVE with how my rabbit turned out. Beware, I am hooked now and all of the cards that I made this week were with my pencils. To start this card, I inked…
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Simon Says Stamp – Slimline card and birds
Hi guys, today I have another project with the Sring birds stamp set from SSS. I LOVE this stamp set and I cannot get enough of it. With this card, I wanted to practice my no line watercoloring with distress inks. Since I wanted ALL of the birds in the set, I had to make a slimline card (3 1/2 by 8 1/2). I use my mini distress inks to colour the birds. First, I stamped them with Antique Linen distress ink. For the birds, I used speckled egg, tumbled glass and salty ocean. For the branch, I used walnut stain, old paper and peeled paint. I used the bitty…
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MFT – High-Flying Adventure
Hi guys, today I am sharing a card with the stamp set high-flying adventure from My favorite things. I was asked to make a card for someone who liked to go on trips and thought that this set was perfect. I have had a hard time creating lately, but this card is turned out pretty nice. Since the inspiration was Santorini, because the receiver love this place, I wanted to use colors that made it feel like the planes are in Greece. For the stamps, I colored them with copic markers: For the orange/reddish plane: E02; R02; R14; C1; C2 For the blue plane: B00; B12; B14 ; C1; C2…
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Simon Says Stamps – No line watercolour of spring birds
Hi guys, today I am sharing a card that took me a while to make, but I am in love with the results. After watching a lot of Debby Hughes videos, I wanted to try no line water coloring. I tried a while ago, but never really like the results, but when I received these birds, I thought it would fun to try with this stamp set. For no line colouring, I used distress ink antique linen and I stamped the birds and the branches from SSS Spring birds stamp set on Canson XL watercolour paper. I die cut, with the same paper the bitty birdhouse from SSS. For the watercolour,…
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Colorado Craft Company – Mother’s day card
Hi guys, I wanted to share with you a project that I almost did not finish, but now that I look at my card, I love it! I started by stamping the cute bunnies from Anita Jeram illustrations, that comes in the stamp set Lots of Love by Colorado Craft Company. I used Canson XL watercolor paper and Versafine Clair Acorn ink, which is waterproof. I wanted to make a cute scene with these bunnies, using my Prima watercolor Woodlands collection (my most used set recently), but things went wrong really fast. The only thing I could salvage was the bunnies and I decided to cut them and used…
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