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Stamped Sunshine: Create a Coastal Summer Card with VersaFine Clair

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello crafty friends. It’s Ceal, here.  Today I am sharing a beachy card using some summer colors. When I think beach, I think lighthouses because the beach we go to has one on it.

Skill level: Intermediate to advanced
Time: An hour or more

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need a beach themed stamp, stencil and dies. Several colors of inks. Post-it notes or masking paper and a fine liner pen.

Step 1:

Die cut the postage stamp panel. This must be cut first with this particular set because you line up the stitched lines.

Step 2:

Place the stencil over the panel, lining up the stitched part, I circled it so you could see what I am referencing. Mask off other areas of the card so you don’t get ink on it. Ink blend green ink for the grass.  Remove and clean the stencil

Step 3:

Mask off the grass and ink blend blue for the ocean. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 4:

Mask off the ocean. Ink blend brown for the sand, remove and clean the stencil.

Step 5:

Mask off the bottom portion of the stencil. Ink blend Yellow for the sun rays. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 6:

Ink blend red for the lighthouse. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 7:

Be sure to mask off portions of the card that may get inky. Place the stencil down where the sun is in the white space that was left after blending the sunrays. Ink blend orange in the circle and also at the base of the sunrays. Remove and clean the stencil.

Step 8: (optional)

This step s totally optional but I like the way it grounds the lighthouse. Place stencil back over the lighthouse and use a fine liner pen to trace the stripes.

Step 9:

Stamp the greeting in blue and the 25 cents in black.  Not pictured in this photo but you will need to die cut the flower and add it to the corner as shown in the finished card.

Craft Supplies:

Imagine Products

VersaFine Clair:
Strawberry, Summertime, Cheerful, Grass Green, Blue Belle, Bali Blue, Sand Dune and Nocturne

Other products

Seaside Post Stamp set – Concord & 9th
Seaside Stencil – Concord & 9th
Seaside dies – Concord & 9th
Fine Liner Pen

Have an Unbelievable Big Foot Birthday Card

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello crafty friends!, It’s Ceal, here. Today I am going to show you how to create this “Unbelievable” Big Foot birthday card using some VersaFine Clair inks.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 30 to 45 minutes

Directions:

Gather your supplies, you will need a masculine stamp set and several colors of blue inks along with a green, brown and black. You will also need a white gel pen.

Step 1:
Using a sponge dauber or ink blending tool, blend green ink across the bottom of a white panel cut 4 x 5.25. Next starting with the lightest blue blend a circle in the middle of the panel working your way out, then use the medium blue and the darkest blue last around the outside of the panel.

Step 2:
Stamp the tree tops in green, the trunk in brown and the sentiment in black on the panel.

Step 3:
Stamp the bigfoot (sasquatch) in black. I stamped the sentiment when I stamped the trees, but you could actually stamp both the sentiment and bigfoot here since they are both in black.

VersaFine Clair Nocturne is the absolute best back. The bigfoot was only stamped once, and he covers the background perfectly.

Step 5:
Use a white gel pen to add some stars to the night sky and then adhere this panel on the card base.

Supplies:

Imagine products:

• VersaFine Clair – Bali Blue, Blue Belle, Medieval Blue, Twilight, Pinecone, Spruce and Nocturne

Other products:

• Classic Crest Solar White card base – Neenah
• Unbelievably Bigfoot – This Calls for Confetti/Simon Says Stamp
• White gel pen – Gelly Roll

Cute Valentines Day Card

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello crafty friends!
It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a Clean & Simple Valentines card.

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Time: 30 to 45 Minutes

Directions:
Gather you supplies. You will need a stencil, valentines stamp, pink or any color ink, markers and black ink.

Step 1:
Stamp your image with black ink ,I used Memento Tuxedo Black.

Step 2:
Color the image with markers and then cut out with coordinating die.

Step 3:
Place a white panel cut to 4.25 x 5.5 down on a grip mat or other sticky surface. Lay stencil over it and add color with a sponge or blending brush starting in the center and gradually getting lighter toward the edge.

Step 4:
Add the panel to a card base and stamp the sentiment using VersaFine Clair Nocturne. Add foam tape to op up the image.

Supplies:

Imagine Products:
• Memento -Tuxedo Black
• VersaFine Clair -Nocturne and Charming Pink
• Memento Markers -Toffee Crunch, Desert Sand, Gray Flannel, Dandelion, Lulu Lavender, Rose Bud and Summer sky
• Sponge Dauber
• On Point Glue

Other products:

• 120 and 80lb Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Cardstock
• MISTI 2.0 -My Sweet Petunia
• Cupid Clarence Stamp Set  -The Rabbit Hole Designs
• Cupid Clarence die -The Rabbit Hole Designs
• Heart Stencil -The Rabbit Hole Designs (retired)

Let’s Make a Happy New Year’s Card

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By Ceil Pritchett

Hello crafty friends!
It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a New Year’s card with yo.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 45 mins

Directions: Gather your supplies. You will need an embossing folder, two different colors of dark ink, metallic ink, shimmer spray, number dies, and glitter paper.

Step 1:
Blend the two dark inks together on a panel cut to 4x 5.25 to give the appearance of a night sky.

Step 2:
Run the blended panel through the die cutting machine with a 3D embossing folder.

Step 3:
Rub a metallic ink pad over the raised areas of the panel.

Step 4:
Spray a shimmer spray over the panel to give it more sparkle.

Step 5:
Cut the number 2 and 5 out of glitter paper.

Step 6:
Add number to the panel and adhere the panel to the card base. Stamp the sentiment on panel.

Supplies:

Imagine products:

VersaFine Clair – Medieval Blue, Twilight
Delicata – Silvery Shimmer
Sheer Shimmer Spritz – Silver
On Point Glue

Other products:

Fireworks embossing folder – Altenew
Fancy Die Number 2 – Hero Arts
Fancy Die Number 5 – Hero Arts
Happy New Year Stamp – Taylored Expressions
Glitter paper – Altenew

Faux Stained Glass Christmas Card

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By Ceil Pritchett

Hello Crafty Friends!
It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing how I made this faux stained-glass Christmas Card.

Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 30 Minutes

Directions:


Gather your supplies. You will three inks, Pink, Yellow and Blue. A blending tool, a silhouette die along with black, white and gold cardstock.

Step 1:
Cut the nativity die out of black cardstock, the backer out of white and the star out of the gold cardstock.

Step 2:
On the backer using a sponge or other blending tool, blend the blue around the outer edge of the panel and the pink and yellow inside the blue.

Step 3:
Line up the nativity over the backer and adhere it down with On Point glue. As you can see in the photo above, I use the corner of the MISTI to help me line things up.

Step 4:
Add the window to the card base.

Supplies:

Imagine Products:
• VersaFine Clair – Charming Pink, Cheerful and Warm Breeze
• On Point Glue
• Sponge Daubers

Other Products:
Misti 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia
Nativity Die – Stampendous
White Cardstock – CutCardStock
Black Cardstock – Hero Arts
Gold foil cardstock – Erin Lee Creative

Adorable Snowman Card Using Blackout Embossing Technique

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By Ceil Pritchett

Hi crafty friends!
It’s Ceal. I am back with a card using the Black Out Technique but I used blue ink instead.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 30 to 45 Minutes

Directions:

Gather your supplies. You will need 3 softer inks and 1 dark ink. A snowflake 3D embossing folder, a snowman stamp set and coordinating dies.

Step 1:
Using the three lighter colors randomly add them to a white panel cut to A2 size.

Step 2:
Place the blended panel inside of the 3D embossing folder and run through the die cutting machine.

Step 3:
Using the darker ink, rub across the entire embossed panel.

Step 4:
Stamp, color and cut out the snowman image along with some diecut snowflakes. Places the pieces on the embossed panel and add to the card base.

Supplies:

Imagine Products:

VersaFine Clair -Lilac Bloom, Very Peri, Bali Blue, Medieval Blue, Nocturne
Memento Marker – Tangelo, Teal Zeal, Gray Flannel
On Point Glue

Other Products:

Mr. Frostie stamp set – Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz
Mr. Frostie coordinating dies
Snowflake 3D embossing folder – Simon Says Stamp
Neenah Solar White cardstock – CutCardStock