Category: Paperartsy – stamps

Hot Picks, Old Paper, Waffle flower, Waffleflower

Rainbow distress resist #2

Catherine

Yesterday I shared the first card I made using two focal points I had created inspired by these cards I watched Amy create on YouTube.

Now it’s the turn of the second card. This time I went to town with colourful stamping on some cardstock to create my own background paper. I used the same colour distress inks but sometimes stamped them off so lots of different shades. I also added in the Hickory Smoke too for a subtle grey.

I mat this panel on to block cardstock. I then used some of the same black and created a panel I ran through the big shot with the Old paper embossing folder. I then used the shimmer paint and brayered it over the texture so just pick up a bit of the shimmer on the raised elements. I placed this onto the panel to be a contrast for the focal element to sit on.

I then created the sentiment using the Waffleflower stamps and dies and die cut it a few times to stack up. I love the white sentiment on black.

I finished off with the blue gems in different colours and sizes to add that bit of bling!

Pleased with how both cards ended up – and it was fun to try a different technique for creating a rainbow with a difference … still want to have a go at a floral image like Amy did but for now this was fun to do and good to make me move away from Altenew florals if only for a short while!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Hot Picks, Masks/Stencils, Ribbons, Waffle flower, Waffleflower

Rainbow distress resist

Catherine

The cards I will share today and tomorrow I made because I was inspired by these cards that Amy R made using an interesting way of getting the rainbow effect. I didn’t however choose to go floral as I had been maybe overdoing it with flower cards recently and so went stash shopping in my older stash and found a Paperartsy stamp I thought would work well for giving it a go!

I heat embossed the tiled image using white embossing onto mixed media cardstock. I did it twice because why not!

Then I ink blended using Fossilised amber, picked raspberry, mermaid lagoon and then used a water brush and the inks smooshed on the glass mat to colour them in. The technique of blending first makes the blending more organic and less structured to create the rainbow colours … although on one of my panels I did blend in stripes rather than patches just to make them different.

Once embossed and coloured I then trimmed them down and edged them with the Hickory smoke to create a subtle border.

Then I had to decide what to do with them.

Amy had gone for a grey stencilled background for her flowers so I decided to go grey for the first one but used a stencil to create the squares. I then stamped some of the other stamps in the same set to create a grungy background. I added some splattered Hickory Smoke and Black Soot too… and then grabbed some sparkly black paint and splattered that too! After all it isn’t an Amy card without some splatter!

I decided to add a birthday sentiment on this and stamped and die cut the Waffleflower one from my newer stash and added a scrap of black ribbon behind it to add a bit of texture.

I then hunted through the gems to find three different coloured ones (my gem stash is rather depleted and needs replenishing soon so had little choice) and added those!

That was card 1.

Will share how I finished card 2 tomorrow for you.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

PS thank you Amy for the inspiration!

Altenew, Art Alchemy paints, Distress oxide ink, Ribbons, Sara Naumann, Waffle flower, Waffleflower

UK stampers forum tag swap

Catherine

I decided to join in with the UK stampers forum swap again this month as I made a background as an experiment and wasn’t entirely sure what to do with it … so a tag was made.

I am still going through my stash and trying to get rid of things I don’t use and this Paperartsy stamp set is one I like a lot but never really use now I don’t really do art journalling stuff … so I decided to have a play with the stamps and see if I could make something with them before I listed them for sale.

I took some black cardstock and stamped the stamps using white pigment ink and then went over them with the distress oxides in different colours. This gave a colourful but subtle colour to the whole piece.

Then I sorted through my Art Alchemy paints and did lots of splattering. Unfortunately these paints were quite dry so I had to water them down to reactivate a little and then have had to accept defeat on these and get rid! Such a shame but it’s my fault for not using them more often.

Once the paint was dry I trimmed down the panel into a tag shape and had to decide how to finish off … well of course my stamp set of the moment (Altenew Splendid Bouquet) begged to be used … this time with white embossing the stamp image and then blending using the mix of white pigment and distress oxides.

I die cut it out twice to stack it and give it some strength as I knew it would hang over the edge. I also spritzed it with water to activate the oxides a little.

I added the sentiment from Waffleflower again stacked up for dimension with the thread sandwiched between the sentiment and the image and then added some white card Candi for embellishment.

I added some glossy accents to the stamen on the flowers too.

I chose three bits of blue and green ribbon from the stash to add to the top of the tag and then decided it needed something to finish off … white posca doodled outline did the job perfectly!

I do still really like these stamps but they have gone for sale as unlikely to use them often. I do still have a strip of the background left so will have to do something with that soon and share it … but for now it’s still sat on the desk awaiting inspiration to strike!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Darcy, Expressions in Ink, Masks/Stencils, Playful Alphabet, Waffle flower

Another 18th birthday card

Catherine

I made a separate card for Hannah for us to send (the one I shared yesterday was for Maya to send to her friend).

I decided to go with a big cake and greens and blues for this card so it doesn’t coordinate with the other one but I went with the mojo at the time of making.

I used the waffle flower stencils and dies for the cake. I then made a panel with the stars stencil for the background.

I also added a strip of the marble dsp to coordinate.

I also added the silver numbers and the sentiment embossed in silver.

Hope Hannah had a lovely birthday yesterday.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Christmas to remember, Darcy, Painted Christmas, Ribbons

Festive Friday

Catherine

Posting early today as I’ve got the day off work and am not running around like crazy for a change and instead thought I would get some blog posts written, starting with this! Feel like the last few weeks have been a whirlwind and so it’s nice to take it slow for a change.

I still had some scraps of paper on my desk from the projects at the beginning of the month using patterned papers so decided to use them up.

I teamed the papers with the crumb cake cardstock panels and then some darker Kraft coloured card for the mounts of the sentiments and the stamped trees.

The stamped trees are from a Paperartsy Darcy set and I think they are so cute!

I stamped in memento and then watercoloured with the different green inks.

I kept the layouts similar but not the same and for each I chose a different way of embellishing.

I think this second one is my favourite with the gold thread and the gold enamel gem.

Simple to put together and a cute pair of cards for the stash completed!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Digital stamps, Paperartsy - stamps, Whale of a time

DT: addicted to stamps and more – Birthdays #463

Catherine

Hello! Welcome to my blog!

I decided to make up a very different type of card for this Addicted to stamps and more design team challenge from what I have been making recently.

I grabbed the digital image I’ve had printed for a while and coloured it using my promarkers.

I then rummaged round in the stash and found these nautical themed dsp and made the background up from them with little pops of the lime green as mats. Then I added the sentiment and some lime card Candi as embellishment.

The card itself is using Mango Melody … so more bright and zingy for the cherry card!

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Distress oxide ink, Emma Godfrey, Frosted Frames, Sheena Douglass Embossing Folders, Stitched framelits

Festive Friday

Catherine

This is a slight cheat for this weeks festive Friday as I actually made it on Christmas Day whilst watching Amy (Prarie Paper and Inks) and her ‘unpaid intern’ craft together (it’s fun and worth a watch – as are all her videos!) and so it inspired me to grab similar supplies and have fun!

I used some mixed media cardstock and embossed it with the snowflake embossing folder. I then did ink blending with distress oxides in pinks and purples. I then did lots and lots of splatter using my shimmer watercolours in silver, purple and pink.

I did a slightly larger panel than ended up on the front but cut a piece off at this point to make it work with the shape of this card and I stuck that on the inside of the card.

I then chose a shimmer vellum and die cut the circle for grounding the sentiment. I already had this sentiment embossed on my desk so I trimmed it down and added some strips of card stock behind to slightly raise it and added the two snowflakes to the back before adhering it to the circle. This helped me choose where to add glue to the back of the circle as I didn’t want it to show through the vellum so only added glue where the snowflakes and sentiment were on the other side.

I had die cut lots of little snowflakes out of white and a few out of thinner cardstock I had inked in the same colours so that I had both white and inked snowflakes and made a ‘drift’ of snowflakes both down the card blank and the inked and embossed panel.

I glued the panel down and then added snowflakes inside too.

(Sorry the inside lights made this very yellow!)

On the front I also added some purple enamel accents … I originally looked for the stickles in purple but seems I must have run out so enamel accents used instead.

All in all a fun card to make and even more fun watching Amy and Chris crafting whilst I made it. Thanks for the inspiration Amy.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Biggest Wish, Design Team, Digital stamps, Hot Picks, Promarkers, Letraset, Whale of a time

DT: Creative Knockouts – Celebrations

Catherine

Hello! My first design team contribution of the year is this card I made for Creative Knockouts using the image Funny little turtle from Streamside studios.

I found the Whale of a Time papers in the stash to go with the theme and coloured the image using my promarkers.

As I will likely be using this for one of my great nephews birthdays in a few months time I kept the right hand side free for adding the number for his age nearer the time.

I also kept the embellishment simple with just some Card Candi and wink of Stella on the balloon and the hat for the little turtle ! 🐢

The sentiment I added the embossed strip as well as the larger happy from Biggest Wish.

Love how this came together and isn’t he just the cutest guy?

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Design Team, Digital stamps, Emma Godfrey, Promarkers, Letraset

DT: Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Birthday challenge

Catherine

Hello! Another day, another DT contribution.

Todays is for Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes Birthday challenge and I had a fun card I made with a LARGE printed digital stamp.

I had printed this onto quite a thin paper and coloured it with promarkers including a nice shadow outline.

I decided to cut round the image to give it a white halo and then stick directly onto a mix of patterned papers. I particularly love the dotty one with all those cool colours. So as I had coloured the girl in a mix of bright colours this worked fab. I grabbed some Sweet Sorbet cardstock and made my cardblank and then thought it would be good to do the peep of the paper at the edges by curling it back and this created both some dimension and interest.

I added a sentiment in bright pink and then some enamel dots to add to the “dottyness”.

Inside I just added a strip of the paper… but look at the dimension to the front of the card … you can really see it on this photo.

What doesn’t quite show on the photo is that I added wink of Stella to the flowers in her hair and the bow on her top… so in real life they are quite shimmery.

Super cute image and pleased that even though it took up most of the card front I was able to make a card this size using the image.

I am doing well in my using up stash I’ve got challenge I set myself for 2023 … and really enjoying playing with stash I had forgotten about and lay around unused for years.

Happy crafting!

Catherine

Artistic, Beautiful Brocade, Distress oxide ink, Dylusions paints, Emma Godfrey, Gelli Plate, piercing templates, Playful Alphabet, Ribbons

Bright and cheery anniversary card

Catherine

Hello all! Thanks for popping by my blog. I have a large card I made which has lots of bright cheeriness along with the beautiful Artistic floral cluster die.

Now there is quite a lot going on with this card. Firstly a pre-made gelli plate background for the patterned paper on the left and then a sprayed piece of cardstock I embossed in the debossing on the right.

There is a lot of Kraft cardstock layers and then the lovely Artistic die cut flower section that I stacked up a couple of times to give strength and then cut round to give it a white frame (this is my main grumble for this diecut – it didn’t come with a frame die cut!)

I added some pierced holes as a border on the Kraft middle panel and then that gorgeous yellow ribbon and the sequins to add more texture.

The sentiment is a mix of die cut letters (again stacked for dimension) and the Paperartsy sentiment which I embossed to pick up the gold from the embossed debossing panel.

All in all, lots going on and I really like the final card.

Happy crafting!

Catherine