Happy Birthday...

My husband keeps reminding me that I need to make more birthday cards.  I was completely out the last time he raided my card stash for birthdays.  So I'll be making a few of those for the upcoming days. 


It gave me the perfect opportunity to try out some stamps that just arrived from a new stamp company, Uniko Studio.  Never heard of them?  Doesn't surprise me, they are VERY new, have 2 stamp sets available right now, and just released a digital designer paper pack.  Check out their store here, and their blog here.


They are located in the UK, but I had quick shipping and the best service so far.


Today's card uses the flower stamp that is repeated in three different sizes, and in some of the clock faces of the Time stamp set.  (BTW, this little flower coordinates with the filigree border die from papertrey so beautifully.  I cannot wait to pair those up on a card or layout!)

The stamps are from Time (Uniko Studio).  Inks are from papertrey ink (hawaiian shores, simply chartreuse, aqua mist, and spring moss) and memento (tuxedo black).  The ribbon and cardstock are hawaiian shores from papertrey.  The white daisy cardstock and bling brad are from close to my heart. 


I love these stamps and can't wait to use more of them!  I also can't wait to see what else Uniko Studio puts out in the months ahead!!


Thanks for visiting,
Cindy

Random Card

I have to admit, this card was just a random desire on my part to use my Waltzingmouse Stamps Free Spirit set. 




The green ink is clover meadow from Close to My Heart. The cardstock, remaining ink, and "you're" stamp are from Papertrey Ink. The background, skater dude, and "awesome" stamp are from Waltzingmouse Stamps. After inking the background stamp with summer sunrise, orange zest, pure poppy, and clover meadow inks, I spritzed the ink with water to get the colors to run a bit.


I'm rather happy with the way it turned out.  I think I need to a pink/purple color scheme for a female version.  That could be interesting.

 Thanks for visiting!
Cindy

Make a wish

Today's card was a birthday card for a friend recently.  It also features the ghost masking technique from a recent Make It Monday.







Everything from this card is from Papertrey Ink.


Thanks for visiting!
Cindy

Back!

Well I'm back!  We'll see how long I manage this time around.  Today I have a couple of cards using a dimensional banner which was featured in a recent Make It Monday.


The paper is from Dreamin' paper pack, the colonial white cardstock for the banner, and the background stamps (Intrinsic Backgrounds D1335) are from Close to My Heart. The summer sunrise cardstock, ink (enchanted evening and summer sunrise), and sentiment stamps are from Papertrey Ink.  The bling is orange from KaiserCrafts.


Hope you are having a wonderful month and I should be back again tomorrow!


Thanks for visiting,
Cindy

Make It Monday #15 Part II

Okay I couldn't resist. I'm having so much fun with the spray mists! And later this week I might even have a scrapbook page or two using them as well. :)
For this card I did something a little different. Instead of spraying the background I sprayed the stamped image keeping the olive green (Close To My Heart) toward the bottom with the leaves and the sweet blush (Papertrey Ink) and plum pudding (Papertrey Ink) up toward the top by the flowers. I stamped the larkspur from Year of Flowers: Larkspur (Papertrey Ink) on watercolor paper with archival black ink (Close To My Heart). Heat set the ink, then sprayed the mists. I took a waterpen and added a little plum pudding to the flowers to darken them up a little. Then I mounted the panel on plum pudding cardstock, inked the edges with fresh snow ink and mounted it on the card front. I also rounded all the corners. That's it. I kept trying to add something more to the card and decided the main panel was visually interesting enough.

It's really hard to get a good picture of the sheen on this card, so the colors in this photo are really funky, but the sparkles are there to show you how the main panel just shines.

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Make It Monday #15

Papertrey Ink has released a new Make It Monday video and it's make your own spray mist. I love doing this!

I chose to get a head start on my Christmas cards this year. The base is Enchanted Evening cardstock spritzed with a mist of water, alcohol, enchanted evening reinker and CTMH pearl create-a-shade paint to give it that shimmery backing. I also used shimmer silver cardstock and ribbon from Papertrey Ink. I stamped the snowflake (from Papertrey's snowflake serenade stamps set) and happy holidays (from holiday button bits stamp set) with versamark ink, added silver embossing powder and heat embossed. Easy peasy.

Here's a closer look to see the shimmery background:

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Make It Monday at Papertrey

I thought I would jump back in by doing this week's Make It Monday over at Papertrey Ink. It was so much fun playing with the embossing plates and dies.

So here is my card:



The cardstock is Sweet Blush and White (Papertrey Ink), Grey Wool (Close to my Heart). The ink is Grey Wool and Hollyhock (Close to my heart). And the ribbon is hollyhock (Close to My Heart). Stamps are from Mat Stack #3 (Papertrey Ink) and Bon Appetit (Close to My Heart). The embossing folder is from Cuttlebug and the frame is the Mat Stack 3 die from Papertrey Ink. I also used a shimmer mist made from Close to My Heart's pearl create a shade paint and a mixture of rubbing alcohol and water on the sweet blush cardstock. Doesn't show well in the photo but gives a very nice shimmer to the cardstock.

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