Make the most of your stamps!

While this is a stamp from the lovely Christmas collection, I thought it would be perfect for an autumn card. I love to find other purposes for stamps and embellishments than what they were originally meant for.
So take a look around in your stash! Can you convert some Christmas stamps into a motif for a regular card? Give it a try!

I’ve used: The Rachelle Anne Miller stamp “Cuddling”, autumn stamp from Papirloftet, papers from My Mind’s Eye, Basic Grey and Love Elsie, Nestabilities, bling and flowers from Prima, an old music sheet (with the perfect title!), lace and some string.

Peace on Earth

I used for this card a sketch that can be found at the Friday Sketcher blog. Since the sketch asked for a more horizontal image i was more than happy to use one of the cute Christmas Rachelle Anne Miller stamps! I used my Copic Air Compressor to color in the background with B 000 Copic marker and the ground in several light browns.. this way i did not had to bother to mask the moose.

If you like to see more of my cards please come and vistit me over on Pretty Pressings! Thank you and a have a wonderful weekend. ~ Claudia Rosa ~

Stamp: STAMPAVIE Rachelle Anne Miller Designs
Embellishments: Making Memories, Michaels: stars bling, Stampin up ribbon
CS / DP: Stampin up (Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Whisper White)

Sweet Dolli

I love to watercolor the Sarah Kay images! I heat embossed the image first with black detail embossing powder and than colored the image with Stampin up reinkers in. On the bottom of the horizontal patterned paper i used a Martha Stewart punch that embosses and punches at the same time - i think the pattern looks nice with the corner die cuts from the Cuttlebug.
Stamps: Sarah Kay from STAMPAVIE

Spring Blossoms

Here I am again with a blooming Sarah Kay card. It’s one of the new images called “Spring Blossoms” which soon will be released. I really like this one and had to use it before I will start with my Christmas cards now!

stamps: Sarah Kay “Spring Blossoms” by Stampavie, Sentiment by Stampin’ Up!
inkpads: Memories Black, SU Olive
papers: Stampin’ Up!
accessories: Ribbon, Lace, Silk Flower, Paper Flowers, Brads, Martha Stuart Doily Lace Punch, Fastenator, White Schimmerz
pencils: Albrecht Dürer Watercolor Pencils, White Gel Pen, Olive Pen

Best Friends Forever

What do you think about Christmas cards in untypically colours? I thought it would be fun to use the gaudy Christmas papers from Papermania and one of the new Sarah Kay images that soon will be released. I hope you’l like it.

stamps: Sarah Kay “Best Friends Forever” by Stampavie, Sentiment by me
inkpads: Memories Black, Ancient Page Chocolate
papers: Color Core CS, Papermania Patterned Paper
accessories: Ribbon, Paper Flowers, Brads, Gemstones, QuicKutz Mistletoe and Scalloped Photo Corners
pencils: Albrecht Dürer Watercolor Pencils, White Gel Pen

Merry Christmas card colouring

Hi

Here’s a card project I made to show you how I color stamps using distress inks. You can find a detailed photo sequence on my card making blog :

http://sandrinevachon.canalblog.com/

Lily Magic Fairy

This card was made with the sketch from A Spoon full of Sugar Challenge Blog. I was excited to use another Rachelle Anne Miller image. This is Lily Magic Fairy, isn’t she pretty. Love that ladybug! I colored with my Copics, and then high lighted with White Gel pen. Of course her wings are then stickled, they had to have some bling. ;0)

For my card I used an American Crafts card base, pattern paper is DCWV matted with a light purple and inked the edges of everything. My dots to follow the sketch are Doodlebug brads, they have sparkle too. For the bands on both sides, I stacked two ribbons, first a light purple satin, then a polk-a-dot green. The sentiment is a ticket stamp from Autumn Leaves, stamped in purple on a scrap of the purple card stock then used Fiskar’s scissors for the torn edges.

This was a different card, for me, all the straight lines, no swirls, flourishes or flowers. That is the fun in joining in on Challenge Blogs - to step outside of our box! Hope you enjoyed it!

HUGS

MichelleO

my prince charming

The Rachelle Anne Miller animal images are just darling…I love them!  Here I used the image called My Prince Charming to decorate a little gift box.  And I paired it with two of the flower images from the Dream Flowers backgrounds to stamp some coordinating tissue paper in pink and green. 

The box is a wedding favor box that I picked up in a pack at the Dollar Tree store a few years ago.  The entire image was painted with Shimmerz paints and really sparkles in person.  I also painted the Prima flowers….you can see a bit of the Shimmer in the photo if you click on it to get a larger view.

stamps- My Prince Charming and Dream Flowers by Stampavie

ink- Black, Celery, Regal

accessories- wedding favor box, tissue paper, Shimmerz paint, ribbon, waterbrush, Primas 

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Crazy Prize Giveaway Results!

Hi everyone!

The winner of last week’s Giveaway wasn’t easy to choose, in fact how to choose the winner ?  But I’ve decided to go for the entry from Moni in Germany who wins the prize kit.  The competition was to see how crazy you could be, and I have to admit taking a picture of her card with a big, beautiful-eyed cow was nuts lol !

As a bonus, I’m going to offer to every entrant their choice of clear stamp from any of our existing collections.

Thanks for having entered !

Moni’s entry

Rachelle Ann Miller - Kianel

Hello everybody!!!
Here is a card with the fabulous stamps from the Rachel Ann Miller’s collection.
Aren’t those absolutely adorable???

Love from France, Kianel.