Butterfly Reflections, Ink

Hey, crafty friends! If you're stopping by cause you just can't resist a good floral card, then you and I will be besties. :) I don't really know the meaning of seasonal florals. Well, I do, but I break all the rules of seasons. When it's 20 degrees outside, I WILL be creating summer and spring florals because that what makes me happy. And if there's anything I've learned about cardmaking, it's that you should create what inspires you! If you've stayed with me through that long Public Service Announcement, then you've given me another reason to be your best friend. On to today's card! Although this card may look complex, it was actually pretty easy to put together. I stamped images from an Altenew set in multiple ink combinations and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I set them aside and then created the background. I cut and scored a 4.25 x 5.5 inch card base from dark gray cardstock and then trimmed down an additi...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!  It's Jacquie here on this Christmas Day sharing a holiday Thank you card.   This will likely be a thank you I send for a Christmas gift, I wanted it to have a seasonal winter feel to it, so I used Concord and 9th's Perfect Plaid stamp .  I simply stamped it in black ink on red card stock to create that fun buffalo check.  I trimmed it down for this card and used it as a backdrop.  The flowers and greeting are from a new Altenew layering set called Flower Arrangement .  I am in love with that font...isn't it gorgeous?  I did mostly second generation stamping to lighten up the flowers and make them more subtle.  I used the  coordinating die set  to cut them out and make a cute arrangement on my plaid panel. I also added a little berry accent stamping with one of my all time favorite sets  Altenew Beautiful Day. I finished it off by stamping the greeting and adding so...

Hey all,   Jacquie here today with a card that was inspired by a beautiful floral arrangement I saw while I was out shopping recently. The floral arrangement was of some really lovely flowers, using a pumpkin as it's vase.  I have had this Sunny Studio Pretty Pumpkin set for awhile now and knew they were going to serve as my vase.  I inked up the 3 layered pumpkins using the Warm and Cozy Mini Ink Cube set from Altenew.  I also inked up the pumpkin leaves using a few colors from the Tropical Forest Mini Ink Cube Set from Altenew.  If you have not tried Altenew inks before, you need to...they are totally my favorite for layering! I used some small floral images from several different sets.  The small roses are from the new WPlus9 Rose Builder set and the other florals are from WPlus9 Summer Florals 2 .  I used more layering inks from Altnew - Sea Shore Mini Inks ,   Pocketful of Sunshine Mini Inks  and the most fabul...

Hello and welcome back!   Kari  here with you to share a "yummy" card featuring the  Two Scoops  stamp set from Sunny Studio!  I had this idea in my head that I wanted to some how add chocolate to my ice cream cone to make it appear as if it had been dipped in chocolate!!   To do this, I stamped the layers of my cone as it was intended with the two layers to create a "dimensional" cone.  I used both  Doe Ink  for my lightest layer, and  Walnut Ink  for my darker layer.  Then it was time to add the look of my cone dipped in chocolate, so I reversed the cone image ( it doesn't matter which one you use) and I partially inked up the stamp you would normally mount to your block or stamp positioner with a very dark brown ink - in this case I used Espresso Truffle Memento Luxe ink as it was my darkest brown I own.  I didn't care that it was a pigment ink.  You can quickly dry it with your heat tool to speed up the dr...

Happy Saturday! One of the most unfair things in the world is how Mother's Day seems to literally creep up on me every.single.year. Considering how much my own mother means to me and how underappreciated moms are in general, I'd say it's pretty much criminal to let the day get shoved to the dark corners of our minds. My sweet sister seems to come through for all of us every year and always manages to think of something so appropriate and wonderful for us to do for Mom. This year she had a little help from my brother in law, which was extra special! If I'm needing to create something beautiful enough to give to a mother, the stamp set of choice is clearly the WPlus9 Freehand Florals stamp set .  I think I own almost every floral set that Dawn has produced. They are so lovely and so easy to customize for any type of project! I stamped my blue floral images on white cardstock using Hero Arts Bold Summer Sky hybrid ink . Because blue was the primary color, I wan...