Scrappy Tails Baby Card Crazy hop

I don't know about you but I love getting more out of my supplies.  A fellow Scrappy Tails Crafts design team member came up with an awesome idea.  Using non baby themed stamps to make a baby card!  The Sweet Bear stamp set is just perfect for a baby card!

I took a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and stamped the bear all over using a light gray dye ink.  I then took the trio of hearts and stamped those to fill in the areas between the bears.  I did some dirty masking using scraps of paper.  No need to get fancy!

Then I grabbed a paint brush, water and some Distress Oxide inks.  Milled Lavender, Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot.

Next I stamped several bear masks.  I cut them all out and placed them on the colored panel.  Then I took a blender and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.  I used a very gentle hand to add color over the entire panel.  Once I was happy with the coverage, I peeled off all of the masks.  There was a tiny area that I chose not to fussy cut out of the mask.  I grabbed a BG000 marker and colored it in.  It is a great match to Tumbled Glass.  

I cut the panel down using a scalloped rectangle die.  I added foam tape to the back and added it to a top fold, A2 sized gray card base.  Next I grabbed Crystal Stickles.  I added the Stickles to all of the big hearts.  I also chose to add glossy accents to that cute bear nose.

While those pieces were drying, I grabbed the dies that spelled love from the Flower Vase Pop Up die set.  I cut the letters out four times from the same gray cardstock as the base.  I even remembered to add Stick It adhesive to the cardstock before I cut the letters out.  This made it so much easier to glue all of the layers together.

I added the letters in a jaunty layout.  I thought this made it look more whimsical.  I also dabbed on some Frost Shimmer stix to add a little more sparkle.  That's it!  One super cute baby card complete.

The good news is that my card is part of a hop.  Some of us have videos and some of us have blog posts to share.  I hope you'll join in on all the fun.  And a little added bonus - if you comment on every blog post & video along the hop, you'll be entered into the chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Scrappy Tails Crafts store!  Your next stop is Teresea Plunkett right HERE.

Inspired to shop right now?  You can get 10% off in the Scrappy Tails Crafts store if you use the code STCBLOG10.

Toodles!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

Compensated affliate links may be used - I may receive a small commission at no additional charge to you should you make a purchase using my link.

Teflon bone folder Shop at: EH	Scattered Straw Distress Oxide Shop at: SBC	Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Shop at: SBC	Black Soot Distress Oxide Shop at: SBC | EH
Frost Sheer Shimmer Stix Shop at: SBC | EH	Scalloped Rectange dies - Lawn Fawn Shop at: SBC	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Tonic Studios-Retractable Craft Pick Shop at: SBC | EH
Mini Ink Blending Tool Shop at: SBC | EH	Stick It Adhesive sheets Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Distress Oxide-Hickory Smoke Shop at: SBC | EH
Therm O Web Masking Magic Sheets Shop at: SBC	Distress Oxide - Tumbled Glass Shop at: SBC	Crystal Stickles Shop at: SBC	Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper Shop at: EH
Copic Marker BG000 Shop at: EH	Bundled Sage - Distress Oxide Shop at: SBC | EH	Silver Brush Black Velvet Round 4 Shop at: EH	Replacement blending foam - Ranger Shop at: EH
Sweet Bear dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Sweet Bear -Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT	Flower Vase Pop Up dies - Scrappy Tails Crafts Shop at: SCT

Same digital stamp three ways

 Welcome back to my blog!  Today I'm over on the Stamplorations blog as a guest Digital Wednesday designer!  I have three different projects that all use images from the Spring Blooms and Mugs digital stamp set.  This set has 6 amazing images and a bonus sheet of tags!  

Let me tell you how much I LOVE the flexibility that using digital stamps gives you.  Just about instant gratification after purchase.  There are TONS available and you can size it as tiny or as large as you like!  The possibilities are quite endless.   Here are the three cards I made.

My first card features the mug image with the lillies.  Yep, it's a floral image inside of coffee cup but don't let that stop you from using it in different ways.  I made the image quite large.  Big enough that I can cut a card panel and you won't even know it was inside a coffee cup!  I printed it outonto Bristol smooth cardstock.  I wanted vibrant color so I grabbed Zig Clean Color real brush markers and a water brush.  Here it is after I colored it up.

Next I went in with some fine tip markers and added in more details on the flowers and leaves.  Just a bit of extra detail adds so much.  I cut it out down to an A2 sized card panel and adhered it to a top fold card base.  For the sentiment I grabbed one of the Sending Hugs sticker from the Just Everyday Greetings clear sticker pack.  I added it to some white cardstock and cut it down to the size I wanted.  I added foam tape to the back and added it to the card.  For the final detail I added some Pale Periwinkle Nuvo Jewel drops.

My second card features another one of the mug images.  This one has roses.  I totally wanted to figure out how to use the image on a slimline card.  I sized the image down to be fairly small and printed it three times onto the same Bristol smooth cardstock I used in the first card. I grabbed Picked Raspberry and Broken China Distress Inks.  I also grabbed some blending brushes and got to work.  I did one of the mugs in Picked Raspberry, one in Broken China and the third one was a blend of the two.  Did you know this makes an absolutely lovely purple shade? 

I apologize but I didn't snap any in progress photos for this card but it's all pretty simple techniques.  I set the colored panels aside to work on the background.  I cut a piece of watercolor paper down to a slightly larger piece than the slimline stencil I used.  Did you know that Stamplorations has a full line of amazing stencils???  Today I'm using the Half Circles slimline stencil.  Again I used the same two distress inks.  I blended them vertically so they would meet in the middle to make the purple shade.  I spritzed the whole panel with water and shimmer spray.  Back to the mugs.  I cut them out with circle dies and used the same dies to create circle frames out of watercolor paper.  I wanted to make sure my whites all matched.  I staggered them out on the slimline panel.  I made sure that they would hang over the edge.  It gives it a more cohesive look and I just trimmed off the extra.  This panel was then glued to the card base.  Again I reached for sticker sentiments.  The set I used this time is Just Caffeinate.  As before, I added it to some white cardstock and cut it down. 

For my final project I used one of the floral frames.

I printed the image out three times onto Neenah 80lb cardstock.  I used Copic markers to color in the images.  For the flowers I used W5, RV29, RV13 and RV11. The flower centers are T9, T7, T5 and T3.  The shadows were done with W3, W1, W0 and the colorless blender.  For the panel that was going to be the bottom layer, I only colored the two outer flowers in full detail.  The 3 middle flowers I just went over with a quick layer of RV11.  The next panel I only colored in the next two flowers and the final panel I only colored the large center flower.  Then I got to work with my detail scissors coloring out the three flowers.

I went ahead and added my shadows to the base flower panel.  I used foam tape for the next two flowers and added them to the base panel.  The large center flower I added two layers of foam tape and stuck it down.  I did give all of the petals a bit of a curl before adhering them down.  For the final piece I grabbed another sticker sentiment from the Just Everyday Greetings clear sticker pack.

I really hope you liked my first trio of projects for Stamplorations.  Stamplorations has graciously provided my with a discount code that I can share with all of you! STAMPGIRLKRISTINA will get you 20% off in the Stamplorations store!

See you soon!

~Kristina

Supplies used:

Compensated affliate links may be used - I may receive a small commission at no additional charge to you should you make a purchase using my link.

Nesting Circle dies - Waffle Flower Shop at: SBC | EH	A2 Layers dies - Waffle Flower Shop at: SBC | EH	Pale Periwinkle Nuvo Jewel drops Shop at: SBC | EH	Bright Yellow 62 Zig Clean Color Real brush marker Shop at: EH
Lilac 83 Zig Clean Color real brush marker Shop at: EH	Deep Green 44 Zig Clean Color real brush marker Shop at: EH	Dark Oatmeal 66 Zig Clean Color real brush marker Shop at: EH	Broken China Distress ink Shop at: SBC | EH
Ranger distress sprayer Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker RV29 Shop at: EH	Neenah Solar White Shop at: SBC | EH	Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH
Mini Ink Blending Tool Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Canson Watercolor paper Shop at: EH	Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper Shop at: EH
Copic Marker Colorless Blender Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T9 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker T7 Shop at: EH	May Green 47 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker Shop at: EH
Deep Violet 84 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush Shop at: SBC | EH	Copic Marker T5 Shop at: EH	Catherine Pooler Blending brushes Shop at: SBC | EH
Copic Marker W0 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker W3 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker W5 Shop at: EH	Sparkle Shimmer Mist Shop at: EH
Copic Marker RV11 Shop at: EH	Copic Marker RV13 Shop at: EH	8.5 inch Tonic Guillotine Cutter Shop at: EH	Picked Raspberry Distress Ink - mini Shop at: SBC | EH
Cutter Bee Scissors - EK Success Shop at: SBC	Copic Marker T3 Shop at: EH