A Little of This and That

The cards were very easy to make and the inspiration came from Pinterest.  The lace stamp is from a clear set (2011) by Pink Paislee, "Butterfly garden.  Hero Arts inks  Pale Tomato, Soft blossom and Tide Pool, favorites of mine.  The sentiment and butterfly are also from Hero Arts. These boxes were made using a Sizzix large die by Eileen Hull called "flower pocket".  Stamped the inside of the boxes and covered them using  Pink Paislees clear set stamp  collection called "butterfly garden, 2011.  Filled with tea packets and box of mints or  tea packets and beautiful packaged soap. I love the way they came out.  A perfect Mother's Day gift or for any other occasion.

Playing with a very old stamp set by Hero Arts.  I think it may have been one of my very first set of stamps, 15+ years ago.  I used water color paper and my water brushed markers by Marvy and Tombow.  I used some water to pull in the color to give a water color look to some of the cards. I also used other colored makers to color in some of the cat images yellow.  I used embossing folders and some heat embossing also.  These were boxed up and given to my favorite Veterinarian.

Here are a few cards that I made using Papertrey Ink stamp and die set called "Brushed Blooms" I hope to continue to make more cards from this beautiful set. I used various inks by Hero Arts and Memento. The pretty pattern paper is a paper pad by StampinUp called "All Abloom".  I added a panel of vellum over the pattern paper and added the flowers.  It gave it and nice look to the cards.  The birthday sentiment is a Hero Arts wood block stamp I purchased at my local Jo-ann's store.

Using one of my favorite stamps by Hero Arts .   I was playing with my Prisma colored pencils (a very hard media for me to use, but I am working on it). I stamped out the hydrangea image onto Strathmore Bristol smooth surface paper.   The ink I used was Versafine "onyx black ". Using a Micron black pen to add a hand drawn border.  I added gold dots to the card and also to the flower centers, Uni-ball gel impact gold pen. The life is beautiful, by Papertrey Ink .  Butterfly sticker.

My challenge was to use this old Studio-G dollar stamp. I have this clear stamp for a very long time and I wanted to see how many ways to use it in my latest round of card making for masculine birthday cards. I had a little difficultly at first.  With some Pinterest and YouTube inspiration here is what I cam up with.  I went through my stamps to see what other sentiments and images that would go well with the hot air ballon stamp.   I did stamp out the hot air balloon on different papers along with ink colors to see what I thought look good. With some help from Pinterest for color combinations. All the stamped sentiments on the above cards came from different clear set by Papertrey Ink. I stamped the hot air ballon stamp in Versamark ink and heat embossed it using Rangers white embossing powder. I took a very old template by All Night Media to create the clouds using a blending tool.  Supplies used: Bazzill card-stock in "candy ...