Hey Pumpkin!

I'm back this week with a tall card using a set from our new Boho Fall release.  I used printed papers from a couple of pads to construct a barn-yard scene with weathered wood and a rusty tin roof as a background for some lovely pumpkins.  

Coloring these is so easy and fun!  Two or three Copic colors for high-and-low-lights and they look nice and plump and round!  You don't really even have to blend the colors very much if you don't want to.  

I used a Tim Holtz woodgrain stencil to give a little texture to the fishtail banner signs, and even stamped some wee ants on the garden dirt!

And here's the inside, a CAS spattered background with a stamped sentiment.  

I know you'll love these beautiful sets and the way they work so well together!  Be sure to visit the Stamp Simply blog to see more ideas for using them from my design team mates!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Boho Pumpkins Bundle
• wee ants from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Peony
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Craft Consortium Beach Hut 6x6
• Kaisercraft Under the Gum Leaves - 6.5x6.5
• Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Woodgrain
• Twill ribbon
• Memento inks
• Copic markers
• distress inks/distress oxide inks (stencil and splatters)
• white acrylic paint (splatters)
• button from stash

Hello Dear Friend

Hello dear friends!  :)  I'm here with a very CAS card that was actually made while spending Zoom time with my dear spinning friends (from the Jenkins group on Ravelry)!  I usually spin too while we chat, but I really needed to stamp and so I made two cards while listening to the conversation.  This is a really quick and easy card anyway, but wow!  How time flies when you're having fun!  It felt like it only took 5 minutes!  

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut the black honeycomb, glued it directly to the card front, and then colored the openings with a gradient of yellow hues of Copic markers.  Even with heavier card stock for a base, the markers bled through so...

...this was a quick, cute, fun, and easy solution!  This paper just screams Summer and those tiny bees are so darling!  I love it!  Of course I have a thing for bees because my name, Deborah, means bee in Hebrew and Greek.   🐝   ❤️

A flat, no-frills card is perfect for mailing, but I thought it would be fun to have a dressed up version so I added a black twill bow, some "dripping honey" beads, and a layered button to mimic the black and yellow of those wee bee bodies.  So this is probably quite literally a 10 minute card!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Peony Bundle
• Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Mixed Media #1
• Echo Park My Favorite Spring 6x6
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black
• Copic markers

Add-ons

• May Arts Vintage Sampler - On Fire with Orange & Yellow
• May Arts 5/8" Twill - 10 Yard Bundle - Black
• gold cord
• buttons from stash

New Release Stamp Sets!

Hello friends!  Have you seen the newest stamp sets released by Stamp Simply?  They are SO beautiful and so simply, absolutely elegant!  

My card is a traditional card with a transparent window that allows that lovely peony on the inside to show through against a background of dark green.  It would have been quite easy to make into a shaker card if I'd only had the right "sprinkles" for the job!  (I need to replenish my stash!).

The window opening is cut with the die that coordinates with the Vintage Seed Packet stamp, and the Vintage Peony set has a coordinating die as well.  That made this a really fast and easy project.  

When opened, the entire flower is revealed along with a label and greeting with still enough remaining white space for a note and signature.  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Peony Bundle
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Vintage Seed Packet Bundle
• craft-consortium-ink-drops-organic-6x6
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Espresso Truffle (stamped off)
• May Arts 1/4" Variegated Silk - 54 yard spools - Pink/Champagne
• May Arts Baker's Twine - 110 Yard Spool - Kraft
• Tea dye distress ink
• Copic markers
• button from stash

Happy Independence Day!

 

Hello everyone, and Happy Independence Day to my American friends!  I hope you are enjoying a safe, happy holiday!  

I'm here with another project using a few stamps from the sets of our Patriotic series!  I had so much fun making this one and I think it really captures the spirit of the typical 4th of July celebration!  

It all started with our new patriotic background stamp, an older 4th of July stamp and a sheet of designer paper printed with pinwheels.  I stamped the 4th of July stamp in gold ink and then placed a "mask" over it to stamp the patriotic background over the top in black.  The background was then colored with Copic markers.   

Those cute little pinwheels (pictured below on the inside of the card) gave me the idea to make one to adorn the card front.  It's made from a die-cut square of paper, snipped from each corner to just shy of center.  The corners are folded toward the center point and held through all the layers with a star brad from "very deep stash!"  I tied some pretty ribbon and gold cord to a toothpick and then adhered the pinwheel to the top.  It is so cute and sparkly!  (However, because it is adhered with a glue dot in this instance, it no longer turns.)  The sheer ribbon and wispy streamers definitely give it a sparkler/fireworks kind of vibe.  (Do you remember having those sheer plastic pinwheels to play with when you were little?!)

Here's the inside, with the addition of a star and sentiment.  

Stay safe as you celebrate (be careful on the water or the road, or with those fireworks!) and remember as you celebrate that our freedom is not free!  God bless America!

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Background
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Old Glory
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Sentiments
• Echo Park Let Freedom Ring 6x6
• Spellbinders Classic Square Dies-Small (for pinwheel)
• May Arts 1.5" Sheer Glitter Dots - 30 yard spool - Gold
• Copic markers
• gold distress oxide ink 
• thin gold metallic cord
• a very old tiny star brad! 
• a toothpick

Liberty

 

Hello, friends!  Back with another patriotic card using one of our newest stamp sets from our patriotic series.  This one is quick and easy, with gorgeous designer papers, several taps with some stamps (all from one set!) and a few cranks through the die-cutting machine.

That bell is such a powerful symbol, don't you think?!  

I am so glad that it's now part of our patriotic series at Stamp Simply!      

Here's the inside.  Again, clean and simple.

I'm so thankful to live in these United States, so grateful for the sacrifices made by those who fought for (and those who continue to fight for) our freedom, for the wisdom of the authors of our constitution and for the determination of those who continue to uphold it.  God bless America!   

Lots to celebrate!  ❤️ 

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Liberty Bell Bundle
• Echo Park Stars & Stripes Forever 6x6
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Spellbinders Stars Five

America the Beautiful

 

Hello y'all!  

We have been watching Olympic trials all week so we have really been feeling all the patriotic vibes as our country's team is being chosen and the flags are waving all around!  There'll be Tour de France (and Tour de Fleece!) starting toward the end of June, then July 4th's Independence Day celebrations, and then the Olympics will begin on July 26 in Paris!  Lots to look forward to!  I'll be praying for the safety and success of all our athletes, along with continuing prayers for our country, its leaders and all of those who serve.

I'm really loving this new Patriotic Background and have enjoyed shuffling through my Stamp Simply sets to see how this stamp or that one would work with it.  Today I'm pairing it with the praying hands from our new-ish Pray Without Ceasing bundle and a couple of sentiments from one of our older patriotic sets, Patriotic Sentiments.  

For the inside, the sentiment is stamped on a fish tail banner, embellished with a heart-shaped button from stash.

I've got the melodies "Oh beautiful for spacious skies" and "Proud to be an American" floating through my head now, and I hope you do too!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Background
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Pray Without Ceasing Stamp Die Bundle
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Sentiments
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• May Arts 3/4" Ivory Canvas - 30 Yard Spool - Plain
• Petaloo Botanica Baby Blooms - Red
• May Arts Baker's Twine - 110 Yard Spool - Kraft
• button from stash

More New Stamps!

 

It's no secret that I love making patriotic cards, so I was really thrilled when we at Stamp Simply added several new stamp sets to our already awesome patriotic line!  Don't you just love this background stamp?!  It works great on its own, and it is equally amazing for layering with other stamps as well!

For today's card I stamped the background on white card stock and colored it with Copic markers. I stamped the top and bottom of the stamp on scraps of kraft card stock and layered those on top, adding the sentiment stamp onto that bottom panel. A few pieces of patriotic designer paper and some die cut stars and voila`!  This is a 4.25 x 8.5 inch tall card that fits into a business size envelope.

I used our gorgeous new Liberty Bell stamp set for the inside.  I absolutely love how these sets all work so well together.  They have lovely detail without being overwhelming to color, and the coordinating dies make them so easy to use. 

This card makes me think of a long-ago trip to Philadelphia and Washington DC when we visited lots of the famous landmarks that commemorate the birth of our nation and the wisdom of our founding fathers.  I feel so blessed to live in the United States.  We will proudly fly our flag to celebrate Flag Day tomorrow and gratefully celebrate American freedom every single day of the year!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Patriotic Background
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Liberty Bell Bundle
• Echo Park Stars & Stripes Forever 6x6
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Patriotic Stars & Stripes (Old Glory)
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black
• brick red distress oxide ink
• Copic markers

Another new stamp set!

 

Hi y'all!  

Today's project features another of our newest Stamp Simply sets, the Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald bundle.  

The designer paper I chose for this card's background is  reminiscent of rusty metal, while the center section is meant to allude to dark foggy skies and deep icy waters.  The ship was stamped on ivory card stock, die-cut with a coordinating die, and colored with Copic markers.  I colored the edges of the cut-out to match the paper underneath so that they blend and recede.  

You might recognize this sentiment from Gordon Lightfoot's song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.  I was a junior in high school when the ship sank on November 10, 1975.  Gordon Lightfoot recorded his tribute song during December of that same year, which dramatically raised awareness of the accident.

While this stamp set includes the image and verse that pay tribute to the 29 men who perished in that terrible accident, it also contains sentiments of leadership, strength, direction and hope.  It's a great set for making masculine cards like this one.  

 

Here is the inside of my card using another sentiment from the Great Lakes freighter set...so up to this point, the card uses only stamps from this new set.   

However...I couldn't resist a little extra embellishing!  Here it is with the addition of a helm wheel from one of our other sets, the lighthouse set He Stilled the Storm.  I love how these Michigan-themed sets mix-n-match so well together.  

A closer look...

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Great Lakes Freighter - The Edmund Fitzgerald Bundle
• Craft Consortium Metal Textures 6x6
• May Arts Baker's Twine - 110 Yard Spool - Kraft
• Copic markers
• button from stash
• optional helm wheel from Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - He Stilled the Storm Bundle

You Crossed My Mind!

Hello everyone!  I'm here with a project featuring another new Stamp Simply stamp set!  Presenting the Mackinac Bridge bundle, part of our Great Lakes series and another lovely addition to our Michigan-themed stamp sets.  

If you've been here for a while you more than likely remember that my husband is a "Yooper" from the Upper Peninsula (the U-P, hence Yooper) of Michigan.  If you're driving from the lower peninsula (the mitten part) to the UP, it's the Mackinac bridge that one must cross to get there.  

Considering all that, it's no surprise that my card for today is a very CAS/masculine version that would be appropriate for either my husband or my father-in-law, and it's completely flat for mailing too. It's a classic card using a scalloped circle (punched from a scrap of copy paper) and sponging to "mask" in clouds for the sky, and Copic markers for the bridge and surroundings.    

I used our fishtail banner die and a tiny farmhouse signage heart die to embellish the sentiment, replacing the heart cut from the banner with one cut from a scrap of red card stock.  

The same tiny farmhouse signage heart is repeated on the inside.  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Mackinac Bridge Bundle
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Farmhouse Signage (tiny heart die)
• Copic markers

Eucalyptus Silhouettes!

 

Hello again friends!  Back today with a project using another brand new stamp set from Stamp Simply, Eucalyptus Silhouettes!  I used various distress oxide inks to stamp the leaves, die-cut them with their coordinating dies, and then tapped/dragged them over silver and copper Delicata metallic ink pads to add lots of shine and sparkle.  They're so pretty IRL!

In addition to those graceful leaves, this set has beautiful scriptures and sayings in swirly fonts that are simply gorgeous!  

So I used one passage on the front, stamped directly onto a square die cut from that gorgeous Ink Drops paper,  

and another one stamped directly onto the paper inside.  Added a soft, sheer bow!  It really doesn't get much easier than that!  

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Eucalyptus Silhouettes Bundle
• Craft Consortium Ink Drops Rose 6x6
• Distress oxide inks
• Delicata Non-Tarnishing Ink Pad - Silvery Shimmer
• Delicata Non-Tarnishing Ink Pad - Celestial Copper
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Squares SM
• Kaisercraft Self-Adhesive Round Pearls - Pearl
• May Arts 1" Sheer - 100 Yard Spool - White