Flower Card

Hello and Happy Monday!

Today's card was inspired by a tag that Laura Bassen made on Day 6 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 using outline stamps.

To make sure that the ink of my stamped flower would not smudge when making the Distress Ink background, I first inked the flower with Versamark and then with Hero Arts Navy ink before I stamped and clear embossed it.
This worked perfectly, as I would not have been able to heat emboss the Hero Arts ink by itself.

For the background I used Milled Lavender and Bundled Sage Distress Ink. I also sprayed some of this fantastic mist for a lovely shine. The shine doesn't show up very well in the pictures, but it is lovely in real life.

To finish off the card, I added a navy blue mat around the stamped panel.

The color scheme was inspired by Color Throwdown #306 (CTD306). I think these colors look really pretty together, and it's a combination that I would not have thought of myself.

Thank you so much for visiting! :-)

Love,
Tone

Challenges: Color Throwdown #306 (CTD306),  Addicted to Stamps & More #109: CAS 

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Retro Birthday Card

Hi!

On Day 8 of  Stretch Your Stamps 2, Nichol Magouirk made a card using graphic stamps that inspired me to finally ink up this great stamp set from Papertrey Ink.

This card was a bit of a challenge for me. I always love the cards that other people make with graphic stamps, but somehow I don't tend to choose these stamps myself when I sit down to make a card.

If I would make this card again, I would probably change out the light yellow color. I still think the card looks cute as it is in real life, but you can barely see the yellow outline shapes in the picture.

I stamped all the shapes in three summery colors of Hero Arts shadow inks (Mint Julep, Passion Flower and Soft Yellow). The Hero Arts inks are by far my favorite inks! I stamped the birthday with Versamark Ink and heat embossed using this amazing embossing powder.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Hugs,
Tone

Challenges: Simon Monday Challenge: Anything Goes, Simon Wednesday Challenge: Summer, Addicted to CAS: # 45 Geometric, Cure For The Monday Blues Challenge #27 (colors on the vases), One-Layer Simplicity Challenge #8: Shades of Summer (Shades of Summer #5)

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Birthday card

Hi all,

I hope you are enjoying your weekend! I certainly am! :-) It's been a while since my last post now. That's because I got a new job not so long ago and our social calendar has been packed. But this weekend we're just relaxing at home. :-)

Today I would like to share a card I made for my dad's birthday last month. I used lots of stamping, embossing and masking, because I wanted it to look like I had used different strips of patterned paper.

I started by masking off the three strips where I was going to do the embossing one by one, and colored them in with Distress Inks. Then I stamped the two images from Delicate Leaf Clusters in the spaces between. Lastly, I clear embossed the sentiment, colored with Distress Ink and adhered it to the card with pop dots.

I had lots of fun with all the stamping, and I'm very happy with the way it turned out! :-)

Supplies
Stamps: Hero Arts S5216 Grid Pattern, CL477 Delicate Leaf Clusters, CL479 Dictionary Greeting, S5507 Envelope Pattern, CL340 Birthday Sayings
Ink: Versamark, Distress Ink Broken China, Faded Jeans Frayed Burlap, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint
Other: Clear Embossing Powder, Pop Dots
 

Get Well Soon

A friend of mine came to me and said: I've looked everywhere, but I can't find a card that I like. Could you make a card for me? Well, of course! :-) A friend of hers had hurt himself, so she wanted to send him a get well card. His favorite color is green, he's arty, an actor and he reads stories for kids. It took a while before everything fell into place, but this is what I came up with. My friend loved it. :-)

The background was created by stamping the Friend Definition and the Envelope Pattern in Pumice Stone Distress Ink. Then the Flourish Branch was clear embossed, and the text stamp from Mix and Match Elements white embossed. I also distressed the edges with Pumice Stone. Lastly, I stamped the sentiment on a scrap piece of paper, rounded two corners and attached with pop dots.

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts CG125 Friend Definition, CL266 Mix and Match Elements, AR135 Flourish Branch, AR130 Handwritten Sentiments, S5507 Envelope Pattern
Ink: VersaMark, Versafine, Distress Ink Pumice Stone
Other: Corner rounder, Pop dots, Clear and white embossing powder

Baby card

Hi there,

When I'm making baby cards, I like to take inspiration from the announcement card. I thought it was so funny when we received this card (the right one), because I thought a lot of Hero Arts stamps were very similar to the images on it. So, I made the card on the left, and you can see a lot of similar flowers on the two cards. :-)

I also scanned and cut out the little heart with the name and lady bug and added it to the card with pop dots. I made a mistake when stamping the flower all the way to the right, so I stamped it again, cut it out and popped it up too. Since I now had two elements popped, I had to add one more, so one little heart is also popped up.

This card was a lot of fun to make with all the stamping, and I would probably not have made a card like this without the inspiration from the announcement card.

Supplies
Stamps: Hero Arts CL160 Heart to Heart, CL311 Valentine Flourishes, AR118 Baby Girl, AR180 Floral Thanks, CL157 Many Hearts, Stampendous SSC1002 Dotty Daisy
Ink: Colorbox 
Other: Pop dots
  

Leaves

Good morning,

I hope you are doing well today!

This card was for my father-in-law who just turned 70. It's always a bit tricky to make cards for men, but leaves and green fits well, I think.

I started by stamping the leaves randomly on a pieces of green card stock with Versamarkand and clear embossed. The Friend Definition is stamped in Vintage Photo Distress Ink, with some of the ink removed in some places. The same ink is also around the edges. The green piece was then attached to a white card.
The sentiment is stamped on the same green card stock in Versamark and white embossed. The edges are distressed with Vintage Photo before I matted on white card stock and then attached it to the card with dimensional adhesive.

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts AR128 Hello with Flowers, CL151 Share Laughter, CL139 Birthday Messages, CG125 Friend Definition, Panduro
Ink: Versamark, Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Other: Clear and white embossing powder, Pop dots

Quick Christmas card

This Christmas card was super quick and easy to make. Still, I really like how it turned out. I stamped the tree and the greeting in Versamark and heat embossed in white on dark green card stock.

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts Border & Holly CL235, Flourish Tree AR148
Ink: Versamark
Other: White embossing powder