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This is the last of the 'stamp on watercolor paper' panels that I did. This asian collage stamp comes with the border wroung it so I used that as the cut mark. Blended colors in all of the areas and used distress ink around the sides.
The background is a teal with a subtle print. I used work stickers to create my own phrase.
Ddd
This collage stamp colors up well although the colors muddled a bit in the bloom. I used some light tan to add a drop-shadow as well and tore the edges all around. These edges were inked with Distress and mounted on a dotted background paper.
I staped the greeting on purple and banded with green before mounting to the card front.
Ddd
Another of my favorite stamp images... I tore the image to soften it and used distress ink over the whole surface.
The first I colored with pink flowers and used a pink lace background. The text is stamped on pink and bordered with brown.
On the other one I made purple flowers and used a ulti-colored dot background. I stamped the greeting on shimmery paper and bordered in purple.
So soft.
Ddd
Oh what a cozy card this one turned out to be!
I used a teddy bear stamp and did some shading to give him some dimension. In my stash I had this plaid background that matched the coloring I had put into his paws. Pinks for the heart and bow cobined with the blue background makes this a uni-sex card.
I pulled in more blue with the diecut text.
Ddd
With this set of cards I added another technique I had not tried before. In this you lay the diecut on the image and lightly mark where the image extends beyond the cutting edge. A craft knife is used to trim along the image up to that mark and then those portions are lifted on TOP of the die with the rest of the image under the die. Through the machine it goes and then all those extension areas are fully trimmed.
The first impression is one of those too-light ones. I mounted it on a green with a subtle pattern and added a die-cut greeting.
I used the same image and diecut technique, changed up the coloring a bit, and mounted to a text-print background. This one got a stamped sentiment on paper that matches the flowers.
Like the technique of cutting but need to use some better-stamped images to make it really work.
Ddd
On with the stamping on watercolor paper...
This birdfeeder stamp is very detailed and does not stamp well on this type of paper. I resisted the urge to touch it up with fine-line marker as that so often goes horribly wrong. I settled for soft coloring and edge distressing.
First is a mounting on a leafy green print that draws attention to the leafy part of the image. I added a gold peel-off greeting at the bottom.
This one stamped a little better. I chose a dotted background with fine text for this one. Check out the greeting! I hacked apart some peel-off phrases to construct this alternate.
Oh, rats! I realized that the glare of the camera obscures part of it. It actually says Happy Birdday.
Ddd
I decided to start a series of cards using stamping on watercolor paper and watercoloring the images with Distress Marker ink and an aquabrush.
So now that I've given away the whole process in one sentance we'll jump right in to the first two cards. For today's cards I used the image of colored bottles on a window sill with flowers. I've always thought this image looked best in watercolor. On both of them I used Old Paper Distress Ink on the edges for some dimension.
Both use the exact same coloring so the difference is all in the mounting and embellishment. On the first one I used a green chevron print background and added a clear sticker for the sentiment.
The next one uses a soft floral background and, again, a clear sentiment sticker - this time without a border.
Love this!
Ddd
I liked the way the rose stamping turned out yesterday so I decided to have another go at it with a different stamp. This thanks daisy stamp is from the same set as the love rose. I had three other daisy stamps in different sizes that complemented it and I stamped them all in full-strength ink on a minimally patterned paper. I used a variety of green, gold and brown Distress Markers for coloring. Each daisy, except the central feature bloom, got a punched daisy mounted in the center and a dot of pearl pen. I stamped a greeting on green cardstock, trimmed it out and mounted it on foam tape.
I rounded the corners, backed with black, rounded those corners, and added a folded card base (with rounded corners)
Ddd
Here's a little bit of romance in a card. I set out to follow an idea from the Penny Black blog on using the 'frame' portion of a die cut. I started with the central stamp that has the wording embedded in it. I stamped it on a background with tiny script and then stamped all around it with other rose stamps but did those as second generation impressions.
Distress markers ere used to color the images. Then I diecut the image as well as two butterflies from its background scraps. These all got Distress ink to tone the edges and I stamped the large Love word.
I diecut and embossed the center of a pink lace print cardstock and mounted it with foam tape on a folded card base. Then I inset the stamped panel down inside it and mounted the two butterflies.
I rounded the corners to soften the look and then added some 'cotton candy' Stickles to be butterfly bodies.
Ddd
This stamp is designed to be two Cardinals but we don't have those in Oregon and I needed to make an Oregon card. So I changed the coloring and made them Stellar Jays. On the stamp they just kinda hang there in space so I grabbed a pine stamp on a cube and stamped it a bunch of times to fill the lower area.
This is all colored with watercolor markers and then I also colored the background. I used a labels die to cut out the diamond shape and trimmed out a slightly larger shape to frame it in yellow.
I added with foam tape to a plaid background along with a green grosgrain ribbon. The text was diecut and glued over another diecut shape which is popped up on foam tape. I added a single yellow rhinestone.
A yellow folded card base echoes the colors in other parts of the card.
Ddd
I wanted to create a stamped card with a fall theme and relating to Oregon in some way. I pulled out a couple of my hand-carved stamps to make this little scene.
Why is this Oregon? Well, we have plenty of these little bandits in our back yard. We call them out of the brush and when they come we toss marshmallows to them (also the heels of bread and bowls of table scraps). Our favorite thing is when the Mommas bring their kits out to play on the lawn.
Anyway... I stamped the raccoon with black and then colored over it with a tan distress marker and cut it out. I stamped the fish on grey and colored it with three distress markers before cutting it out. For assembly I stamped the trees on a blue scrapbook paper. I tore a hill along the top of a grass print scrapbook paper and tore a lower arc as well. The lower arc was filled with a water print paper. These were all layered and the raccoon and fish added in their places.
I used distress markers to blotch fall colors in the trees, sketched ripples on the water and banded the two sides with dotted papers.
Ddd
For a swap on the subject of 'clocks' I stamped on patterned blue paper with 4 clock face stamps and used the stamps of hand to 'set' them to all different times. I spritzed three shimmer sprays in random areas and this made the base.
I took apart an old wrist watch and used Diamond Glaze to adhere the tiny gears to the centers of the clock faces. Glue dots adhere the actual clock face to the card front. This as well as two of the stamped clocks got Diamond Glaze to make them shiny.
I stamped an appropriate sentiment on patterned paper and cut a flag end on the left before adhering to the card.
Ddd
I couldn't resist the pun!
I swap one-on-one every month with another Oregon lady using stamps and Oregon themes. This month I wanted to use some of my hand-carved stamps and decided to create a little scene of things you might find at the beach. I haven't been to the coast for a couple of years and I miss it, but this made me feel right at home.
I used watercolor paper and stamped in black. I added more detail around the base of the lighthouse to extend the ground off to both sides more. I used Distress markers to color on an acrylic block and then picked up colors with an aquabrush for painting on the images. After I dried it with a heat gun I laid on the chevron stencil and sprayed with blue glimmer mist.
Then the pun occured to me and I added it with letter stickers.
Ddd
So how do you make it snow in August? With stamping!
I started with a white cardstock and masked off the bottom. I stamped the weeds with Versamark and then with black right below that. I embossed with clear powder. Then I tore a paper for the back hill and sponged blue distress ink onto the sky. I removed that mask and added another for the lower hill and sponged it from the bottom up. That mask was removed and the foreground was sponged from the bottom mask which was then removed. The sentiment was stamped last.
I trimmed the panel, bordered with black and placed on a white card base.
I made two of these - using different blues:
What a neat effect and so easy to do.
Ddd
I saw some Spring trees created this way and thought I'd use the same method to make Fall trees.
I used a circle punch to create a round mask. Then I held it over tan cardstock and sponged three orange circles using different inks from Whispers. Over these I stamped a tree image with black ink. For one of them I used a tree with leaves but I prefered the leafless version so I used that on the other 5 cards.
I cut down the panel and tied a piece of scrappers floss around the panel. This was glued onto a orang-y brown folded card base and I stamped a sentiment on the bottom band of color.
Here is a full view of one:
And here is a look at the whole set of 6 cards:
That was so easy I may make some for the other seasons.
Ddd
This may be as close to a one-layer card as I can make myself do! I decided to do some seasonal cards and started with fall. I started with a white cardstock and masked off the top and bottom. Then I used four different orange distress inks to blend a band of color. I stamped three leaf stamps a couple of times using a light brown distress ink and then removed the masks. I stamped the leaves again in black across the whole surface of the card. I stamped in some filler branches as well. I trimmed the panel, banded it in a golden brown and added three brads along the color line and a stamped sentiment. Then the panel was placed on a white folded card base.
I made two of these:
Ddd
The first set was done by masking a piece of kraft cardstock with circle openings and stamping the background stamp with white pigment ink. I heat set the ink and then used colored pencils to color over the white inked portions. I also traced the outlines of the open areas in colors appropriate for each area of the design. I Used a Prismacolor blender pencil to smooth out the coloring. I used a plain and scalloped spellbinders die to make decorative frames from patterned paper, trimmed out the panel and backed it with another patterned paper and a colored card base. The sentiment was stamped on kraft paper, trimmed, and backed with patterned paper. The first one is done in pastels.
This one in the same style was colored with metallic colored pencils.
I next used the other reverse stamp with white Staz-On ink on transparency. I did two of these as well. I cut a scalloped oval in patterned paper and mounted the transparency to the back. On a folded card base I mounted a contrasting color and then placed the aperture panel on it with foam tape. I placed a silver sentiment sticker in the middle of the transparency and added three paper flowers with silver nail head centers along the bottom of the opening.
The first is a birthday card.
And the next is a generic 'hello' card.
Back to the first stamp. I stamped this on text print designer paper with light-toned chalk ink. The first was trimmed out and placed on a Cuttlebug embossed white background along with two designer paper strips. I tied a sheer ribbon at the bottom and added a green card base and silver sentiment sticker.
Then I used a single strip behind the next one and tied the ribbon vertically. Both the designer paper and the stamped panel were backed with brown to match the card base.
The next one got a horizontal treatment to show more of the embossed background. I backed it with two designer paper strips and let the stamped panel, with rounded corners, runn off the left edge. The ribbon goes over the top this time and I used a gold sentiment sticker. I picked up one of the colors in the designer paper by using a dark blue card base.
Now, get out your sunglasses because it's going to get BRIGHT in here.
This time I stamped on white cardstock with Versamark ink and embossed in black. Then I colored in the image with blended watercolor markers. I trimmed the panel and cut an orange backing with a nestabilities die. This is cut on the two ends separately and the sides trimmed to meet. Then I stamped and embossed in black a border element at the top and bottom. The feature panel is mounted to the orange backer and both are adhered to a striped designer paper over a yellow card base. I stamped the sentiment on yellow and trimmed it out before mounting on foam tape.
And, that's it... class dismissed.
Ddd
For day 10 we made use of border stamps. For the first card I used a zig-zag border and inked it up with a series of chalk inks and stamped myself a little rainbow. I did this directly on a colored card front and added one border at the top as well. I stamped a sentiment on a bright yellow square and diecut it with a scalloped nestability. I popped it up on foam tape and then added a dashed black line around it.
Another lesson was on stamping a border with an open image and doing a loose watercolor wash over it. I stamped a short border three times to stretch across a white card. I used marker inks for the 'paint' in the watercolor. When it was dry I trimmed it down and used a scalloped border punch on each edge. I used a larger scallop border punch on some yellow dotted paper and layered them. I placed them on a black and white designer paper and trimmed the whole thing. Then I bordered it with black and mounted on a white card base.
I did this a couple of times again with a leaf border stamp. In both cases I bordered the piece and placed on a printed paper background. I also tied scrappers floss around both. On the first one I also stamped a sentiment on an open area of the background paper.
Then I did one with a solid background paper and no sentiment.
Finally, I stamped a border of Japanese lanterns. I twisted two satin cords and attached then along the top of the lanterns. I used Krylon gold paint pen to border the top and bottom and added it to a background of origami paper. I added a faux cookie fortune and a white paper flower with a rhinestone center before placing on a yellow folded card base.
The next idea for us to try was using several borders together and embossing them with white on patterned papers. These are die cut into shapes for card embellishments. For this first one I cut two embossed pieces into ornaments. I used a Krylon gold paint pen to border both of them as well as the background paper. I cut caps out of gold paper and attached them. Then I created loops from scrappers floss and attached them. The upper ornament is glued directly to the background and the lower one is popped up on foam tape. I added sticker sentiments to both ornaments and sticker waste as hangers. This is mounted to a green card base.
Then I turned the rest of the embossed border peices into butterflies and butterfly halves. This one is different from the rest of them in that I used only a partial covering of designer papers over a white card base. I gave both of the butterfly halves black bodies of card scrap, drew in antenna and feet and added black rhinestones for heads. I stamped the sentiment directly on the card base.
I have two butterfly diecuts and I used both for this card. On top of the black bodies I added pearl strips. Love this background paper.
I used striped paper for these butterflies and really like how they came out! For these bodies I wrapped scrappers floss around twice and tied at the head for antenna.
These butterflies, also striped, are treated in the same way as the last. I also forgot to say that all the butterflies are glued to the background at the body and the wings are popped up on foam dots.
More bodies tied with string. The upper butterfly is actually two layers. All of these butterfly parts are banded with gold Krylon paint marker as is the border of the background paper.
Love the background paper on this one, love the dotted butterflies, love the gold paint borders.
For this one I used two half butterflies and gave them pearl bodies.They looked too random hanging out there so I drew in branches for them to sit on. Those were too stark so I stamped blossoms on them. This one got a green card base to go with the butterflies.
I picked the sentiment when I started the series and saw no reason to skip to something else.
Ready for day 11? I am!
Ddd
First, I created two color blocked cards using the same images. I used the Xyron to apply adhesive to the whole 1/4 card panel. Then I attached 4 strips of colored cardstock. Over these I stamped the images with Versamark and embossed in white. The panel was then trimmed and mounted to a white card front. The last step was applying various Stickles to the cupcake icings (which you cannot see at all in the photos).
The next technique is to make the image look like it was hand drawn. I used watercolor paper and stamped the poppy five times with a very light chalk ink. Then I traced over the lines with a distress marker. I also drew in the stems with distress marker. When this was all dry I used distress inks (markers and ink pads) as watercolor paint and colored the image. This is about 5 layers of color. After trimming the panel I bordered it with green and placed on a colored card base. I stamped the sentiment on coral card and trimmed, bordered and mounted on foam tape. I tied emboidery floss through buttons and trimmed and frayed the ends. These are attached to the flower centers with glue dots.
The next card is stamped on kraft cardstock with Versamark ink and embossed in white. I colored all the images with watercolor markers and buffed the ink off the white embossing. I drew stems with green marker and bordered them with white gel pen. The panel was trimmed, bordered with white and mounted to an orange card base. I stamped a sentiment on a white strip,trimmed, bordered and mounted to the card front. (This one was a featured student card selected by the instructors from the gallery)
I'm not too fond of the next one. It is stamped on kraft cardstock and colored with colored pencils. The panel was trimmed and bordered in black. I mounted to orange cardstock and added a stamped sentiment strip. I glued on tiny side borders and added tiny buttons to the flower centers (my favorite part).
More simple is this spotlight card. I stamped the image multiple times on white cardstock. I also stamped the parts of the image on printed cardstock and trimmed them out. These are mounted on foam tape. I stamped a sentiment on colored cardstock and tied it to the panel. I bordered the panel with printed cardstock and added to a folded card base.
For the next card I stamped all the images on pieces of dot textured cardstock with Versamark and embossed in gold. I also used the same technique to add the pine bough to the background. Each of the bells, clappers and bows were trimmed out and mounted using glue dots while trapping the ends of scrappers floss under the ends. After trimming the panel I added to a purple card base.
For this card I stamped the cups and mugs on various patterned papers using Versamark ink and embossed in white. All were trimmed out and I used a craft knife to cut a slit at the rim. I stacked them together and mounted to a patterned paper. This panel was trimmed out and layered on a brown card. The sentiment was emossed in white on patterned paper, trimmed, bordered and mounted on foam tape. I added three white paper flowers and placed brown rhinestones in their centers.
The last card was so much fun to make. I first stamped every image on masking paper and trimmed them out to create masks. Then, on watercolor paper, I started stamping with the foreground elements. The bicycle was stamped then masked, next was the left house which was masked and the tree stamped. I stamped the second house and moved the mask to it before stamping the picket fence. The fence was masked and I stamped the tree andright cloud. Then the kite was stamped, masked and the left cloud was added. The third house was added last. I drew in the two pieces of wire fences. All of the masks were then removed and I set to painting. This was done by using the ink of distress markers colored on an acrylic block for the base coats and drawing with the distress markers for details. When it was all dry I trimmed it only slightly so it makes a larger card. I bordered it in black and placed on a pastel card base. The sentiment was stamped on printed cardstock, trimmed and adhered to the road.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this card!
Ddd
Our first lesson was using a smallish label as a supporting element for a larger sentiment. I used the label in a pretty straitforward way by stamping on white cardstock with black ink. I used distress ink to tone it darker in the center. I trimmed this panel down and rounded the corners. then I used a black Spica glitter pen to darken the thickest lines and give them some shine. I layered the panel over the green stripes and added a gold and a dot strip to each side while mounting to the card base. I bordered a long sentiment strip with gold and added it to the card front by gluing at the ends and popping the middle on foam tape. I added three dragonflies punched from a paint strip and made dots of Liquid Pearl at the ends of the sentiment strip.
The next suggestion was to make the label seem larger by stamping the top and bottom separately. I did this on white cardstock and tinted the edges with distress ink. Then I cut it out with a nestabilities die by cutting the top and the bottom separately. I attached this panel to the green dotted cardstock and used corner scissors to trim it. This was placed on a white card base and those corners were rounded. On coral cardstock I stamped a sentiment with versamark and embossed it in white. I cut a gold frame using two nestabilities dies and mounted it on the coral piece. These were popped up on foam tape. I added gold nail head stickers to the scrolls on the stamped label.
I switched to the other label for these next two. I stamped a floral spray with versamark on a tan cardstock and embossed in clear just to give a tone on tone background. I trimmed and bordered this panel and mounted to a white card base. I stamped the label on white cardstock with black ink, trimmed and tinted the edges with distress ink. I stamped the sentiment on the label with chalk ink and mounted to the card front with foam tape. Three pearls added to each side of the spray are the finishing touch.
For this card I used the label to create a background by stamping repeatedly on white cardstock with red chalk ink. Then I colored with a red marker on an acrylic block and used that ink to watercolor the labels. When it was dry I stamped the script image with light brown chalk ink, trimmed the panel, bordered it with black and mounted it to a white card base. The layers were then all tinted with distress ink. I stamped the label on white cardstock with black ink and watercolored it as well. Then I stamped the sentiment in black and trimmed the label. I backed it in black and popped it up on foam tape. I used a Cuttlebug die to cut black scroll elements and glued them in place. Three black rhinestones are set in the scroll ends and two pink rhinestones grace the top and bottom of the label.
I think I am definitely learning in this class.
Ddd
