TP roll hearts galore

Hi there peeps! 

I was very inspired by a card Tiffany S. made recently and it actually moved me to hit my craft room and play.

Just grab some inks or watercolors, some water and a TP roll! First blue like Tiffany's, then neon rainbow.

The Stamp Market heart and hey dies, Tim Holtz words, SSS love phrases and you die,

mirror cardstock, embossing powder, Rico neon watercolors,

Provo Crafts thanks die, washi

That's it. Thanks for looking.   

and still more milestone cards

Needed a 50th wedding anniversary card. Happened to know what the bride's outfit was going to look like so I modeled their card on it using a wonderful stamp set, Beautiful Blooms Builder from The Stamp Market and some Altenew inks ...

And I needed a 60th birthday card so did some gold heat embossing with Stamplorations Healing Herbs stamp on pretty patterned papers and voila!

 

Thanks for coming by today. 

golden stamptober

Yep you read that right. I missed Stamptember when it was live but I'm here to share three makes with the Circle Sayings stamp set from Simon Says Stamp Stamptember release in what at least in Germany is a golden October. 

Well they had me at circles. Geometric makes me happy. 

Here's the first.

SSS Circle Sayings stamp

MFT Dienamics circle die

 inks, white embossing powder, pearls

But add an organic touch and my new Pigment Craft luscious autumn colors... be still my happy heart. Look what happens when you use the reverse of the stamp to get those organic circles. A fall birthday card for a guy.

SSS Circle Sayings stamp

Pigment Craft inks

clear embossing powder and washi tape

So I'd been watching some scrapbooking videos and saw this one from Shimelle.  Do you ever try to transfer a scrapbooking layout to a card? I loved her approach to stacks of PP. I gave it a try and topped my stack with a circle die cut, inked and heat embossed with a Circle Sayings sentiment.

SSS Circle Sayings stamp

The Stamp Market Framed Floral stamp

patterned paper, white embossing powder, Pigment Craft Eucalyptus ink

Quite the different approaches. Do you have a favorite? Thanks for coming by. I'm enjoying being back playing with my supplies. I'm hooking up at the SSS Wednesday Challenge where it's about Washi and also the Stamptember Gallery where you can get your fill of Autumn card inspiration!

forgotten but not gone (2)

I've got a few cards to share this month that seem to have been forgotten in my photo file. Oops.

Let's continue with pink, shall we? "Hello"I think I made this for a publication call way back when. I like the use of the repetitive negative die cut on the right. And can you say "brad"?!!!

Mama Elephant Hello stamp

Papertrey Ink Hello die

cloth brad, sequins

And hey. I can't rememeber what this one was for either :) Test driving some new product I think. Along with using up some scraps. Love the preppy pink and green combo. Takes me right back to my college days ;)

circle and triangle dies

The Stamp Market Hey die

floral stamp

glitter gold washi

Happy weekend!  

cas is the best

I love to do techniques and lots of times techniques lead to fancier or more loaded cards. But something about the combination of delightful images, a touch of color, a touch of black and plenty of white - gets me every time.

I have had this set from Joann's for a while and finally took a look at it when looking for a birthday sentiment. I saw those little images and decided to make a card with them. Pulled out some The Stamp Market fun ink colors and Voila!

I'm playing at:

ATSAM - Any Occasion

Seize the Birthday - Optional topping Create a Scene

STAMPlorations inspiration #304

Welcome to another Tuesday inspiration posts from the STAMPlorations inspiration team girls. 

Remember this tissue box? Rescued from the trash to inspire my cards this month...

Here's my next idea to add color to B/W stamping...

Blossom Sprays #2 stamp

 Broken Glass stencil

Thanks Word die

clear embossing paste

Stamp Market inks

Know how sometime a card's gotta happen quick? Well, this one doesn't ;)

But it's so cool! Add color a different way this time. Stamp the floral images. Apply clear embossing paste through a geometric stencil. Let dry (thus, not quick). Add ink over the dried paste which creates the geometric pattern of color. End up with cool shine over the still-white areas surrounded by a geometric pattern of ombre color. Fun, eh?

You could win yourself a $15 prize code to the store by leaving a comment on this month's inspiration posts! Check out today's post over at STAMPlorations. And if I ever inspire you to order something from the store, I'd really appreciate it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA discount code for an additional 20% off your order - at no extra cost to you, just with perks for me ;)

Thanks mucho for visiting today. Have a happy day!

I'm visiting Simon Says Stamp Wednesday where it's about Make Your Own Background and We Love Chocolate Baroque where it's about For Ladies and Girls.

 

having the right stencil helps

Have you ever picked up an item and thrown it in your shopping cart without knowing when or how you were going to use it? Silly me, you're a crafter, of course you have! Well I picked up a pack of geometric animal stencils at my local dollar store a while back.

Meet Mrs Bunny.

Action Deutschland stencil

Stamp Market inks

Papertrey Ink Easter stamp

gold embossing powder

SUPER easy. But having "the right" stencil helps too I guess.

Inspiration came from two places. I watched Channin P. ink up some layering stencils in a video and it got me thinking how I could incorporate gradient inking on normal stencils. Then I saw the Perfectly CAS challenge - use 1/3 of the card + stencil - and off I went.

I'm joining in at Perfectly CAS - Stencil

STAMPlorations inspiration #303

Welcome to another Tuesday inspiration posts from the STAMPlorations inspiration team girls. 

Remember this tissue box? Rescued from the trash to inspire my cards this month...

Here's my next idea to add color to B/W stamping...

 Blossom Sprays #2 stamp

 Bloom Silhouettes stencil

Stamp Market inks

Know how sometimes it's gotta happen quick? Like, the card needs to be in the mail yesterday? No coloring possible. Here's another easy idea, though I admit it takes a little bit longer than my two previous ideas. 

Add color by inking through a stencil. I chose a wispy floral stencil and my pink, yellow, chartreuse colors again. Stamp over the dried cardbase with a floral flourish. Add a stacked white die cut sentiment

You could win yourself a $15 prize code to the store by leaving a comment on this month's inspiration posts! Check out today's post over at STAMPlorations. And if I ever inspire you to order something from the store, I'd really appreciate it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA discount code for an additional 20% off your order - at no extra cost to you, just with perks for me ;)

Thanks mucho for visiting today. Have a happy day!

I'm joining the Feminine - For Ladies or Girls challenge at Chocolate Baroque. Also Anything Goes at Creative Friday. And at Perfectly CAS - Stencil (though I may technically be wrong since I've not completely followed the 1/3 rule).

STAMPlorations inspiration #302

Welcome to a new Tuesday inspiration posts from the STAMPlorations inspiration team girls. 

Remember this tissue box? Rescued from the trash to inspire my cards this month...

Meet my next project to illustrate easy ways to add color to B/W stamping.

 Bloom Sketches stamp

 Layered Snowman stamp

Stamp Market inks

Know how sometimes it's gotta happen quick? Like, the card needs to be in the mail yesterday? No coloring possible. Here's another easy idea. I took it up one notch by heat embossing the black stamping.

Stamp some color using the reverse of a larger stamp (I used the great organic ovals of a snowman) and then do the black stamping over it. And this time I did stamp outline blooms all over the card like my inspiration tissue box ;)

I'm feeling a need to put sentiments in unexpected places lately. Hope you likey.

Note: My bad. It appears this stamp set is only available as a digital stamp now. But you'd get a similar look with The Birds and Blooms or Pocket Blooms.

You could win yourself a $15 prize code to the store by leaving a comment on this month's inspiration posts! Check out today's post over at STAMPlorations. And if I ever inspire you to order something from the store, I'd really appreciate it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA discount code for an additional 20% off your order - at no extra cost to you, just with perks for me ;)

Thanks mucho for visiting today. Have a happy day!

I'm visiting the gals over at The Flower Challenge.

STAMPlorations inspiration #301

Welcome to a new year and a new "hundreds" of Tuesday inspiration posts from the STAMPlorations inspiration team girls. (Not sure if there's actually a word for 100 of something. We just hit 300 inspiration posts, now we head to 400. What would you call that???)

As I was taking out the paper trash I spied this tissue box.

Talk about finding inspiration in the most unexpected places! Meet my theme for this month's inspiration projects - B/W stamping.

 Big Dreamer stamp

 Layered Snowman stamp

Stamp Market inks

Know how sometimes it's gotta happen quick? Like, the card needs to be in the mail yesterday? No coloring possible. Well here's an easy idea.

Stamp some color using the reverse of a larger stamp (I used the great organic ovals of a snowman) and then do the black stamping over it. I really had the intentions of stamping outline blooms all over the card using Big Dreamer. But I placed the sentiment and those cute butterflies first and loved it as it was. Just added the trail for movement and put the blooms back in the package :) 

Super CAS. Hope you likey.

You could win yourself a $15 prize code to the store by leaving a comment on this month's inspiration posts! Check out today's post over at STAMPlorations. And if I ever inspire you to order something from the store, I'd really appreciate it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA discount code for an additional 20% off your order - at no extra cost to you, just with perks for me ;)

Appreciate your visit. Here's to a happy 2021!

when you're swatching your new catherine pooler inks... part 5

So the other day I finally got around to swatching my new Spa Collection inks from Catherine Pooler. And I had some time on my hands so I had a play...

Meet the last four cards to emerge from this playtime! I totally CASEd Lisa S. and her plays with this Hexagon Hello stamp set from The Stamp Market and the sentiment from Beautiful Blooms.

First in navy blue with copper accents.

Then in colors inspired by The Stamp Market.

Then in horizontal form with black accents and a copper embossed sentiment.

And finally, I had to use that woodgrain hex too. Paired it in purple with a gold embossed With Love and a die cut Folk Heart.

Catherine Pooler Spa inks

I'm very satisfied with the colors and also the coverage of my new inks. What do you think of the Catherin Pooler inks? How about the colors in the Spa collection? Do they speak to you or do you prefer the bright and beautiful ones? Thanks for looking.

I'm taking my first card to Addicted To Stamps June - Man/Boy.
I'm taking my third card over to Craft Stamper TIMI for June and  to Inkspirational Fashion Photo.

I'm taking my fourth card over to ATSAM - CAS

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journal journey - dylusional

Howdy and happy Monday, peeps! I'm back again with another page of my newly started art journal (check out the link if you want the back story)!!!

As I mentioned in that post, as the creative journey would have it, I opened my prepped "journal" up  at a double orange spread, loving the swirly effect I'd created, and wondering how the heck I'd done it. That sparked an idea for my first page about not remembering how I'd prepped the orange pages!

I was thinking Dylusions cuz I think I'd used the spray ink for the BG. And you might have caught in my social media that I had the honor of shaking Dyan Reaveley's hand last month at Creativeworld in Frankfurt (as in I just walked up to her - she was on her way to grab some lunch - and said "May I shake your hand?" to which she responded "Yes. Why?" to which I responded "Cuz you're my girl crush, I love to watch your videos" at which point we continued to chat about her time at Creativation in Phoenix and her soon-to-be-born grandson...) Still cannot how believe how cool that was!

So... Why not create my second art journal page as an ode to Dyan and a way to remember that encounter?

 Dylusions spray ink

Dylusions Around the Edge stamp

MFT Bold alpha die

The Stamp Market Hexagon Hello stamp

STAMPlorations soon-to-be-released Bloomdala Bliss stamp

STAMPlorations Oh My Stars mini stencil

Studio Calico gold star rub ons

Sharpies

white acrylic paint

white paint pen

Stamped some of Dyan's border stamps. Actually the page had that outline of a heart (with some texture paste waste I suppose?!?) on it already so I made a mask and stamped multiple images from a soon-to-be-released STAMPlorations set into the heart. Used a Sharpie to doodle the "dyan" in the heart and for the journaling and die cuts for the "ode 2". Used gold CS for "ode" to pick up on the texture paste  and then later added some gold star rub ons too.

Though I'd started with the blank orange page, I had to add some Bubblegum Pink down the right side cuz that's my fave Dylusions color. Stamped some white acrylic paint circles. I nearly squealed later when I realized there were 7 and the word "dylusional" which had come into my mind had 7 letters! How perfect!

Upper left I also stenciled some cascading white stars and stamped some black ones.

I chose three sentiments that support my love for Dyan and her free spirit and stamped them in random spots - thank you, welcome the unexpected and the best... good energy is contagious!

I'm gonna say it again, peeps... it is SO MUCH FUN to just go with the flow! Start with an idea, any idea, and then just let it lead you.

Do you have a favorite art journal/mixed media artist? I'd love to hear who.

I'm hooking up at:
More Mixed Media Challenge - AG Feb
STAMPlorations Mixed Media Challenge - Use a Stencil
We Love 2 Create - AG Mixed Media
Creative Artiste - AG Mixed Media
Craft Stamper - Take it Make it February

another twofer fer the flower challenge

Remember this card? It's Ericka's DT card for the current Flower Challenge where the theme is 

It knocked my socks off so I'd already pulled stuff out of my Mt NBUS and made two cards. Today I'm posting two more.

I went back into my pile and looked for flowers. I found a The Stamp Market flower stamp set with matching dies and although it took me forever with layered stamping and then die cutting, this happened. BTW, those leaves are gray...

   Cover plate die from Action Deutschland

The Stamp Market Beautiful Blooms stamp and die

Inkystamp Alles im Rahmen stamp

Altenew inks

And because I had also stamped a couple extra blooms, I turned them into another card using the whimsical Charming stamp from Penny Black. Yay for making multiples!

 Penny Black Charming stamp

The Stamp Market Beautiful Blooms stamp and die

Inkystamp Alles im Rahmen stamp

Altenew inks

Hope you liked this twofer too ;)

I'm heading over to:
Casology - Bouquet

Happy Little Stampers - AG with Dies February

Papercraft Challenge - Something New (my die and stamp!)
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes with option of tags
Penny Black Saturday - AG with flower option

i scream for rainbow ice cream (who wouldn't?)

Maybe you saw yesterday's card?

So in the Icecream for You set that DD just brought back from MI for me, there was also this sentiment about ice cream and rainbows. Nuff said.

And CAS(e) this Sketch has this fun sketch.

So this happened...

 The Stamp Market Icecream for You stamp

Altenew Inks

Did you catch the bit of doily wrapped around the cone? And the heat embossed sprinkles? I used sponge daubers to apply ink to the stamp to get that softer look.

I'm joining these challenges too:
AAA Cards - Rainbow

Addicted to CAS - Summertime

Addicted to Stamps and More - AG

House of Cards - Popsicle/Food