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Hello and happy STAMPtember everyone! Can you believe that we have rolled around to another one?! I'm participating in a blog celebration (or party) put on by
Simon Says Stamp to celebrate this yearly event. This isn't a blog hop per se, but a large gathering of lots of crafters sharing tons of inspiration. You can start at the beginning by heading to the
Simon Says Stamp blog. And since this a party you have to have prizes and surprises, right?! Well check out the banner for your opportunity to get a free stamp set for a $100 order using the code! The are other codes and offers to be found so make sure you check out the whole blog party! I have two cards and a set of tags to share with you today that I made using the beautiful Prismatic Snowflakes. You can find the
new release here. I also used the Holiday Snowflake Tag die set, as well as sentiments from the Frozen Fractals stamp set and Stained Glass Greetings stamp and die set.
First up is a set of tags that I made with the two largest snowflakes from the Prismatic Snowflakes set along with the Holiday Snowflake Tag die set. I stamped the snowflakes on white cardstock with VersaMark watermark ink and then heat embossed them using pewter embossing powder. The smaller snowflakes were then inked with Speckled Egg and Tumbled Glass distress oxide inks and the larger snowflakes with Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean distress oxide inks. I trimmed out the snowflakes and layered them on tags that I die cut from white cardstock and Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass cardstock. I also die cut the snowflake from the tag set from Memory Box glitter cardstock that has a light blue tint to it. Those were layered on the tags and the snowflakes layered on tope. I finished off each tag with different embellishments. Large jewels from Pretty Pink Posh for one set of tags and small snowflake sequins and Pretty Pink Posh jewels for the other. Love how they turned out!
The next project is a card that was inspired by some of the beautiful cards that the super talented
Yana Smakula creates! She is so good at creating dramatic backgrounds using stamps and then filling in the spaces with jewels or sequins. I'm not so great at creating background with stamps, but was able to pull this one off because there are so many snowflakes in the set making it easy to arrange the background. I simply placed the largest snowflake in the center then around additional snowflakes around the top and partway down the sides. I stamped the images with VersaMark watermark ink, then flipped my cardstock panel around, removed the large center snowflake, left the others in place and stamped. I applied gold embossing powder (from WOW Embossing) and heat set. Once that was done I used Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot distress inks to darken the edges of my dark blue panel leaving the center uninked. The panel was then trimmed down slightly with a rectangle die. I stamped the word peace from the Stained Glass Greeting set on vellum with watermark ink, applied gold embossing powder and heat set. This was then wrapped around the panel and secured in the back. I stamped the sentiment (also from Stained Glass Greetings) on the same dark blue cardstock with watermark ink and heat set with gold embossing powder. This was trimmed down and popped up on the vellum strip. Then I filled in most of the gaps using some pretty gold pearls that I had left over from making Christmas cards with my Glimmer and a Spellbinders card kit. I absolutely love how this card turned out!
The last card was something that I just decided to do well... at the last minute. Originally I was only going to do the card and tags, but was enjoying making things with the stamp set and just couldn't stop! I used a sentiment from the Frozen Fractals stamp set and one of the dies from the Christmas Foliage die set. I stamped the large snowflake on vellum with watermark ink and then heat embossed with a sparkly white embossing powder from WOW Embossing. The snowflake was then trimmed out and a large Pretty Pink Posh Jewel added to the center. I then die cut the leafy sprig from some of the same Memory Box glitter cardstock I used on the tags. I die cut a panel of Sea Glass cardstock and arranged my snowflake and the leafy sprigs on the front. I didn't adhere everything down at that point as I still needed to stamp the sentiment. I placed the sentiment where I wanted it, removed everything and then stamped it using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink. Everything was then glued in place and the panel adhered to a white cardstock base. I finished off the design with additional jewels.
Thanks for stopping by and happy STAMPtember!
Hello! Hope you are having a good weekend. It is Labor Day weekend here in the US so that means a three day weekend for many people. We don't have any plans other than to maybe hit a couple of local antique stores. My youngest loves to go antiquing! I have three cards to share so I will get right to them. First up is a card for CAS(E) this Sketch. When I saw the sketch it made me think of one of the Spellbinders card kits that I have (one from January 2020) and some of the die cut pieces in that kit. I used some gold glitter leaves, a die cut word and a butterfly from those pieces to create my card. The die cut pieces usually some in a set of two so I adhered the two together to give the piece a little more heft. I also adhered the two butterflies together, but that is so I could lift up the top set of wings. I die cut some white cardstock with a rectangle die and then layered on the gold leaves and the die cut word. I positioned the butterfly below the word and then adhered the panel to a light gray cardstock base.
The next card is for two challenges: Freshly Made Sketches and Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash - fall/halloween ( I went with fall). I recently got a set of watercolors from Altenew, the 12 piece set and decided to try them out with stamps and dies from the RC Stained Glass Butterflies and Fall Foliage stamp and die sets. I also used some of the metallic Altenew watercolors on the leaves. I stamped everything with VersaFine CLAIR Acorn ink and then colored them. I went more muted on the leaves and tried to go brighter on the butterfly. I linked up three of the maple leaves together and then adhered them to my off white cardstock panel. The butterfly was adhered with foam dimensionals. Hopefully you can see the sketch in my arrangement. I stamped the sentiment from Fall Foliage on vellum with VersaMark watermark ink, applied gold embossing powder from WOW! and heat set it. I trimmed the strip down and then wrapped the strip around the panel and secured it in the back. 
Final card is for Color Throwdown. I used a single flower from the MFT Rose Garden stamp set and did some ink blending with distress oxide inks in Salty Ocean and Peeled Paint using the MFT Rectangle Extraordinaire stencil. I die cut the flower, put tape on the back of the negative space, inserted the flower back in and then stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the image using Copic markers in the same colors as the last time I colored an MFT floral image... purple! The ink blended panel was die cut with a rectangle die and then I adhered the flower using foam tape. I stamped the sentiment from a different MFT stamp set on vellum with VersaMark, applied black embossing powder (from WOW) and heat set it. I trimmed out a strip and then wrapped it around the panel and secured it in the back with adhesive. The panel was adhered to a kraft cardstock base. Going to add this one to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of Stamp It.
Hello and happy STAMPtember everyone! Can you believe that we have rolled around to another one?! I'm participating in a blog celebration (or party) put on by Simon Says Stamp to celebrate this yearly event. This isn't a blog hop per se, but a large gathering of lots of crafters sharing tons of inspiration. You can start at the beginning by heading to the Simon Says Stamp blog. And since this a party you have to have prizes and surprises, right?! Well check out the banner for your opportunity to get a free stamp set for a $100 order using the code! The are other codes and offers to be found so make sure you check out the whole blog party! I have two cards and a set of tags to share with you today that I made using the beautiful Prismatic Snowflakes. You can find the new release here. I also used the Holiday Snowflake Tag die set, as well as sentiments from the Frozen Fractals stamp set and Stained Glass Greetings stamp and die set. 
First up is a set of tags that I made with the two largest snowflakes from the Prismatic Snowflakes set along with the Holiday Snowflake Tag die set. I stamped the snowflakes on white cardstock with VersaMark watermark ink and then heat embossed them using pewter embossing powder. The smaller snowflakes were then inked with Speckled Egg and Tumbled Glass distress oxide inks and the larger snowflakes with Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean distress oxide inks. I trimmed out the snowflakes and layered them on tags that I die cut from white cardstock and Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass cardstock. I also die cut the snowflake from the tag set from Memory Box glitter cardstock that has a light blue tint to it. Those were layered on the tags and the snowflakes layered on tope. I finished off each tag with different embellishments. Large jewels from Pretty Pink Posh for one set of tags and small snowflake sequins and Pretty Pink Posh jewels for the other. Love how they turned out!
The next project is a card that was inspired by some of the beautiful cards that the super talented Yana Smakula creates! She is so good at creating dramatic backgrounds using stamps and then filling in the spaces with jewels or sequins. I'm not so great at creating background with stamps, but was able to pull this one off because there are so many snowflakes in the set making it easy to arrange the background. I simply placed the largest snowflake in the center then around additional snowflakes around the top and partway down the sides. I stamped the images with VersaMark watermark ink, then flipped my cardstock panel around, removed the large center snowflake, left the others in place and stamped. I applied gold embossing powder (from WOW Embossing) and heat set. Once that was done I used Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot distress inks to darken the edges of my dark blue panel leaving the center uninked. The panel was then trimmed down slightly with a rectangle die. I stamped the word peace from the Stained Glass Greeting set on vellum with watermark ink, applied gold embossing powder and heat set. This was then wrapped around the panel and secured in the back. I stamped the sentiment (also from Stained Glass Greetings) on the same dark blue cardstock with watermark ink and heat set with gold embossing powder. This was trimmed down and popped up on the vellum strip. Then I filled in most of the gaps using some pretty gold pearls that I had left over from making Christmas cards with my Glimmer and a Spellbinders card kit. I absolutely love how this card turned out!
The last card was something that I just decided to do well... at the last minute. Originally I was only going to do the card and tags, but was enjoying making things with the stamp set and just couldn't stop! I used a sentiment from the Frozen Fractals stamp set and one of the dies from the Christmas Foliage die set. I stamped the large snowflake on vellum with watermark ink and then heat embossed with a sparkly white embossing powder from WOW Embossing. The snowflake was then trimmed out and a large Pretty Pink Posh Jewel added to the center. I then die cut the leafy sprig from some of the same Memory Box glitter cardstock I used on the tags. I die cut a panel of Sea Glass cardstock and arranged my snowflake and the leafy sprigs on the front. I didn't adhere everything down at that point as I still needed to stamp the sentiment. I placed the sentiment where I wanted it, removed everything and then stamped it using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink. Everything was then glued in place and the panel adhered to a white cardstock base. I finished off the design with additional jewels.
