Wintery Christmas Card

 

Dreaming of a white, or pink, Christmas!  

 

Hi.  Just a quick post today with a link to my post on the Technique Junkies blog.  I have this card posted there today.  You can find it on the TJ blog HERE, with full directions, stamps, and inside of card. 

 

I hope you are enjoying your holiday preparations.   Thanksgiving here was quiet, just hubby and myself, with our furry loveball, Bella.  Fingers are crossed that we can be with the kids for Christmas, but, we are prepared for the possibility of that not being possible, due to restrictions and safety concerns.  We would rather miss one holiday season together to be able to be together for the rest of our live's worth.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope you will check out my post on the Technique Junkies blog HERE.  Details and my discount code are in the post.

Wishing you happy, healthy, and safe holiday traditions. 

Blessings,

 

Impression Obsession Old Is New Day - Eucalyptus Branch Hugs

 

 

Hello friends.  It's time for another Old Is New day at Impression Obsession, a day to use some of the older stamps in the line.

 

I am featuring a CAS card today.  This is out of my comfort zone, as I love embellishing and layering, and lots of texture.  But, every once in a while I stretch myself with a CAS challenge. 

 

IO Stamps/Dies Links:

Eucalyptus Branch 2  F20885

Sending Hugs A13739

Small Tags DIE965-Y

Eucalyptus Branch 1 C20884 (inside)

 

On watercolor paper, in my Misti, I stamped the Eucalyptus Branch with antique linen distress ink.  I used Kuretake Gansai watercolor paints to paint the image.  I painted in layers, building up color as I went from leaf to leaf.  When it was dry, I added some spatters.

I stamped the Sending Hugs verse onto a tag I had cut from the Small Tags die, and added it with some twine around the card.  I attached this panel to a soft heather panel, then onto an ivory A2 card front.

 

Inside, I stamped the Eucalyptus Branch 1 with weathered wood distress ink.

 

 

 

 

That's it.  Clean and simple.  Easy-peasy.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I appreciate your comments.

 

 

 

 I am adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes

Time Out Challenge - Quick (easy, quick to make)

 

Blessings,

Eucalyptus Branch 2  F20885

Sending Hugs A13739

Small Tags DIE965-Y

Eucalyptus Branch 1 C20884

Penny Black Christmas Poinsettia Card

 

Greetings, and happy Saturday.  Today is the midway point of the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  The theme this month is Anything Goes, with optional Bingo.  

 

For my card today, I chose a couple of much older Penny Black stamps from my stash.

 

With the holly swirl stamp, I colored the stamp with distress inks, and stamped it onto a cream card stock panel.  I repeated this inking and stamping all the way around the cardstock, creating a holly border

 

For the main image, I inked the poinsettia stamp, and stamped it onto a piece of vellum.  I added some spatters of distress ink, and the verse.

 

I attached the vellum to the holly panel with brads, and outlined the holly panel with my gold leafing pen.

 

I attached the panel to a red card front.

 

That's it.  I just love the Penny Black brush stamps.  They make it easy to create pretty cards that look watercolored.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will join us at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  We would love to see what you create! 

Blessings,

Watercolor With Leaf Cluster

 

It's a very windy Sunday morning here in upstate New York.  We are preparing for a wind storm later today.  Good day to be indoors with my creative supplies.

 

I am popping in with a card that I have on the Technique Junkies blog today.  I used a real leaf cluster that I had found on my walk earlier.  Full directions and my techniques are on the TJ blog post HERE.

I hope you have a creative day.  Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Blessings,

 

Happy Thanksgiving Watercolor Pumpkin

Greetings!  Welcome to the Impression Obsession Challenge, where the theme is 'Give Thanks!'  I love Thanksgiving, and this pumpkin from the fall/winter release is so pretty.

Impression Obsession stamps links:

Fall Pumpkin G20891

Happy Thanksgiving D17301

How I made my card:

• I stamped the Fall Pumpkin onto bristol card stock, and painted it with Gansai Tambi watercolors.
• I added some colored pencil highlights and shading with my Polychromos colored pencils.
• I cut the image with a circle die, and added it to an eggplant A2 card front with foam tape, adding a string and bow.
• I stamped, layered and added the Happy Thanksgiving verse.  

 

I hope you are inspired to play along in this Give Thanks challenge.  We have so much to be thankful for!

 

You can find more inspiration from the other designer's.  Their blog posts are listed HERE.   

 

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today.  

 

Blessings,

 

Penny Black Fall Card

 

Hello, and welcome to my blog post today.

It's the first Saturday of the month, and that

means it's time for the 

Penny Black Saturday Challenge!

The theme this month is Bingo.  See this post for 

details and to enter your card. 

 

How I made my card:

• 
  I used my Misti to stamp the PB Allegro image onto bristol card stock.  I used fall colors of distress inks, adding the colors with mini ink pads to different areas of the image until it looked the way I wanted.
  
  
• I used some PB older stamps to add interest to the background.
• For the background color, I applied Faber Castell soft pastels with a cotton ball.
• I cut with a stitched die cut, and layered it onto an A2 card front.

These PB stamps are all older ones from my stash.  I love the brush stamps, and have several of the oldies.

I hope you will join us for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  You never know, you just may win a prize!

Thanks for stopping in today.  

Blessings,

 

Watercolor Holly Card - Impression Obsession Old Is New Day

It's Old Is New Day at Impression Obsession, 

a day for us to use our older stamps and show them some inky love.  

This Watercolor Holly just fit my mood today. 

 I wanted to play with inks and water, and there it was!

IO Stamps Links:

Watercolor Holly H13171

Simple Joys D13929 

Celebrate His Love F20865

 

And here's how I made my card:

• On recycled bristol card stock, I used my Misti to stamp the
  
  
  Watercolor Holly image.  I used light green for the first stamping.
• I added various colors of distress ink, using the minis for this, spritzing lightly with water between stampings.  I repeated several times, until I had the look I was going for.
  
• With a wet paintbrush, I added some of the same colors around the background.
• When it was bone dry, I used a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen to outline some of the areas on the image.  I did this one section at a time, so it wouldn't dry, then added gold embossing powder and heated to add the gold highlights.
• I made some dots with the pen, and embossed them.
• I gold embossed the Simple Joys verse.
• INSIDE:  I lightly stamped portions of the Celebrate His Love image, then stamped the  verse with gold pigment ink.

 

Inside

 

I hope you will find some time to show some of your older stamps some love today.  If you would like some more inspiration, you can find links to the other designer's blogs here. 

 

I appreciate your visit to my blog, and thank you for your lovely comments.

 

Blessings,

 

Woodland Wonders Card With Polychromos

                         Greetings.  This image is part of the  

Technique Junkies November 2020 Stamp Release.  

You can see my post with two more cards from yesterday's release 

on my previous blog post HERE, with links to the other 

designer's blogs for some inspiration from their projects.

 

TJ Stamps Links:

Woodland Wonders S878

Proverbs S403

 

I have this card posted on the Technique Junkies blog today.  I have added the details for how I created it here on my blog:

• On natural card stock, I stamped the Woodland Wonders  image with Rich Cocoa Memento ink.  I trimmed the panel up to the image borders, and used Polychromos colored pencils to color the images within.
• On a scrap piece of card stock, I created a tag die cut, using a die from this Small Tags DIE set.  I distressed the tag with green and brown distress inks. 
• I stamped the verse from the Proverbs set with the same brown ink, and attached the tag to twine, which I wrapped around the panel and secured with a button tied with a bow. 
• I attached the panel to a brown A2 card front.

 

I hope you like my card, and are inspired by this release.  

Don't forget to use my code, TJ10Lynda, for an additional 10% off your Technique Junkies purchase.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  I appreciate your visits and your inspiring comments.  

 

Blessings,

 

Technique Junkies November 2020 Release and Blog Hop

 Greetings!  Welcome to my post for the  

Technique Junkies November 2020 Release!  

We have some fabulous new stamps for your creative card 

making and other projects this month!  

 

You can find the news stamps right HERE!  

All of these new stamps are an amazing 15% off through November 8th.

And if you find some that you just must have in your collection, 

be sure to use my code, TJ10Lynda, when you check out 

for a 10% discount off your entire order!  

That's on top of the 15% for the release stamps!  

So, enjoy the inspiration by our amazing design team!

 You can find links to their respective blogs listed below.

 

I have two very different cards to share with you today.  Card 1:

TJ Stamps Links:

Birch Tree Border SD1056

Woodland Wonders S878

How I made my card:

• On a white card stock panel, I used distress inks and brush applicators to add ink for the sky, along with paper I had cut into hill shapes for masks to create the snow banks with the same applicators and ink.
• I stamped the Birch Tree Border, colored the trees with Polychromos colored pencils, and fussy-cut them.  I adhered them to the panel.
• I stamped and colored the deer and bunny from the Woodland Wonders background stamp, colored them, fussy cut them, and added them to the panel.
• I cut the Peace die from card stock that I had blended with the same colors as the sky, and added it.
• I added the panel to a white A2 card front to finish.

 

Card 2:

IO Stamps Links:

Coffee Stains S887

Love, Laughter and Coffee SD1054

 

How I made my card:

• On a pale pink A2 card front, I stamped the Coffee Stains image with coffee Ranger Archival ink.
• I stamped part of the Love, Laughter and Coffee verse on pink card stock, and the other on another piece, using the coffee archival ink.  I did this in my Misti to get a darker color by stamping it three times each.
• I used heart dies from my stash to cut the verses into heart shapes, and added them to the card with foam tape to give added dimension.
• I added some Nuvo Rosewater Jewel Drops for added texture and embellishment.

And that, my friends, is that.  

 

I hope you are inspired by my cards.  Don't forget to grab my code, TJ10Lynda, for your discount.

 

And here is the list of participating designers.  Be sure to check out their blogs for more fabulous ideas and inspiration:

 

TJ Blog (pat-nancy)

Lynda (me)

Patti

Holly

Beth‎

Pat

Beverly

Judy

Ro

Shirley

Ceal

Thanks for visiting my blog today!  I will feature another card with stamps from this release tomorrow.

Blessings,

Warm Winter Wishes Card With Slimline Stamp

 

Hello there.  It's a lovely late fall day here.  The sun is shining, and trees have lost much of their brilliance, with their leaves cascading like so many tiny brilliant parachutes.  There's a certain melancholy about days like today, and it is beckoning me out for a long walk along our river trail.  That's where I'm heading right after I post this.

 

So, on to my card.  I used two of the Impression Obsession new slimline release stamps, and two older IO dies.

 

IO Stamps/Dies Links:

Snowy Night Slimline 3235-LG

Winter Greetings Slimline 3237-LG (verse)

Deer Trio DIE080-N

Fir Trees DIE084-V 

 

And here's how I made it:

• Using my Misti, on bristol card stock, I stamped the Snowy Night Slimline, using distress inks and blending the colors as I stamped.  I stamped it at least four or five times to achieve the density I wanted. 
• I tore some strips of white card stock to create the snowy hills in the foreground and background, and attached them to the Snowy Night panel.
• I used the Deer Trio dies to cut the deer, then added them to the hills, placing them as I desired.
• 
  I used the Fir Trees dies to cut the fir trees, and added them along side the deer and under the hills I had created, overlapping them as I added them to the composition.
• I stamped the warm winter wishes verse from the Winter Greetings Slimline set with blue ink to match the sky background.
• I used a paint brush with some watered down Tombow glue to paint highlights on the trees, hills, and snowflakes, and added crystal glitter
  over it.
• When the glue was dry, I added the panel to a white card front.  It is not a typical slimline size card, but it is a larger card, and I needed the length of the slimline stamps to be able to create the scene long enough to fit.

I hope I have inspired you to try some of these new slimline stamps in the Impression Obsession line.  You can find all of them at the IO store HERE.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

Impression Obsession Old Is New - Sunflower

 It's time for us to show some of our older stamps some inky love.  

I chose this Sunflower In Bloom, since sunflowers are our 

Feature Category thorough the rest of this month.  

And, this stamp, along with other sunflower images, 

are 25% off until October 31st.  

You can find all the sale stamps HERE. 

 

IO Stamps links: 

Sunflower In Bloom K16256

French Text Cover-A-Card CC151

Get Well Wishes B3702

Rectangles 2 Frames DIE291-WW

Strength C13542

Flora and Fauna CL1025

 

 

How I made it:

• I stamped the Sunflower In Bloom image with antique linen distress ink, using my Misti.
  
  
  
• I painted the flower lightly with Kuretake Gansai watercolor for the first layer, then let it dry.
• With my Polychromos colored pencils, I finished coloring the image, adding shading and highlights.
• I used Faber Castell soft pastels to add color to the background with a makeup square, then stamped French Text background stamp lightly here and there.
• I added the Get Well Wishes verse with foam tape.  
• I placed the image into the die cut frame, and attached the whole shebang to a card front.
• INSIDE:  I stamped the Strength verse, and a flower from the Flora and Fauna  clear set.

Inside

That's my Old Is New card today, I hope it inspired you to play with some of your older stamps and supplies.  And don't forget to check out the sunflower category of stamps on sale at the IO store through 10/31.

 

For more Old Is New inspiration, please visit the other designer's blogs.  You can find their links HERE.

 

Thanks for visiting!

 

Blessings,

One More Slimline Card

I hope you have enjoyed the Impression Obsession Slimline release hop, and found some inspiration on the design team's cards.  These stamps are so amazing.  They make it easy to create quick and easy scenes.  We have been having so much fun creating with them.  

 

IO Stamps/Die Links:

Tree Line Layers 3227-LG

Norway Spruce 3234-LG

Peace DIE234-M

Someone Cares D13888

 

How I made it:

• On a card stock panel, using my Misti, I stamped two parts of the Tree Line Layers images with dark gray ink, to give them the appearance of being in the distance, and a bit muted because of the sunset.
• Without reinking the images, I stamped them upside down under the hills I had created to get a faint reflection.
  
• With stencil brushes, I brushed on wild honey and tumbled glass distress inks, building up intensity slowly for smooth blending.
• I used similar color pencils to create ripples for the water.
• In the foreground, I stamped the top of the Norway Spruce, to make the scene appear further back as though looking into it. 
• I cut the Peace DIE from white card stock, and added it.
• INSIDE:  I stamped the scene as for the front, then added the Someone Cares verse.

Inside

Don't forget to comment here and the other designer's blogs for a chance to win a $25 IO gift certificate!  You have until November 2nd to comment.  You can find the other's blogs HERE.

 

Thanks for visiting.  I appreciate your comments.

 

Blessings,

 

Embossed Winter Wonderland Card

You're right, it's not winter, yet.  In fact, in our little part of the world, we are enjoying the crisp fall breezes and abundant rich colors in our trees.  But, winter is coming, and along with it comes Christmas.  So, I've been busy creating Christmas cards for the releases for my design team projects.  This is one of my favorites.

Technique Junkies stamps:

Oh Christmas Tree Set of 4 SS127

Fir Forest S806

 

How I made it:

• On a white smooth bristol panel, I used distress ink and ink applicators to create a background, starting dark along the edges, and graduating to a pale white moon effect in the center.  I added some white pigment ink to this center so that it would give the white haze around the 'moon.'
• I white embossed the Fir Forest, and tore some white card stock and added it to create snowy hills.
• Some spatters of white acrylic paint created the snow.
• I white embossed the verse from the Oh Christmas Tree Set onto vellum, and attached it.  I attached the panel to a white A2 card front.

I have another card on the Technique Junkies blog today with the same fir forest row of trees.  You can check it out HERE.

 

Would you like 10% off at the Technique Junkies store?  Just use my code, TJ10Lynda at the checkout and your entire order will be discounted 10%.

 

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I look forward to your comments. 

 

Blessings,