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Let’s Make a Pantone Peach Fuzz Colored Card

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By Anna Escalada York

In today’s blog post, I will show you how to incorporate sprays and markers to change or
enhance the color of colored cardstock to help you stretch your supplies.

Skill: Advanced
Time: 2 hours

Directions:

Step 1:
Color a piece of teal or green patterned paper with green markers–College Ivy Memento marker
and Emerald Fabrico marker.

Step 2:
Die cut the colored patterned paper to form the leaves of the flower die cut.
Optional step: Spray the colored patterned paper with Sparkle Shimmer Spray.

Step 3:
Spray a die cut panel of watercolor paper with Angel Pink and Cantaloupe Fireworks! Sprays.
After it dried, I sprayed both sprays again. This combination of the two colors almost achieved
the peach fuzz color.

Step 4:
Using a piece of peach cardstock, die cut the small flowers for the floral die cut three times.

Step 5:
Stamp Pink Shimmer Delicata ink onto the flowers using a stamp. (On the card, you can see a
little shine on the flowers, but it ins’t visible in pictures.)

Step 6:
Add Pink Shimmer and Gold Glitz Delicata Ink onto parts of a large background stamp. Make
sure to leave parts of the stamp uninked (such as the lower left corner of the stamp).
Optional step: Add holographic embossing powder onto the stamped image.

Step 7:
Use Tangelo and Morocco Memento markers to color a smaller stamp and repeatedly stamp
card base to add texture.

Step 8:
Die cut the main sentiment out of more of the peach colored cardstock and the shadow die out
of some peach patterned paper. Spray the sentiment with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer spray and
the shadow paper with Cantaloupe and Angel Pink Fireworks! sprays. After the sprays dry, glue
the two layers together.

Step 9:
Glue the floral die cut pieces together.

Step 10:
Create the matte layer of the card by die cutting a piece of orange patterned paper and then
spraying it with more of the Cantaloupe and Angel Pink Fireworks! Sprays and Sparkle Sheer
Shimmer spray to mute the bold orange color.

Step 11:
Glue the floral die cut and the sentiment onto the upper card base. Trim off the right edge of the
sentiment so that it doesn’t overhang the upper card panel. Then glue the matte (orange) panel
behind the upper panel.

Step 12:
Stamp the sub sentiments with by coloring them again with more Morocco Memento marker.
(The sub sentiments came in 3 parts “I am,” “you are” and “going through this.” Since the last
sentiment wouldn’t fit on the card without a little help, I performed “stamp surgery” where the
stamp was cut before stamping to create two smaller stamps. If you are uncomfortable with this,
you can mask part of the stamp and stamp the sentiment a couple of times if you are trying to
create something similar.)

Step 13:
Glue the card panel onto an A2-sized white card base and then glue a few rhinestones around
the flowers and the sentiment.

Art Supplies

Imagine:

Other:

  • Simon Says Stamp – die cuts – Fine Foxglove
  • Simon Says Stamp -stamp- Document It
  • Honey Bee Stamps – stamp – With Sympathy
  • Honey Bee Stamps – die cuts – With Sympathy
  • HAI Supply – gem embellishments – Crystalline Grapefruit
  • My Colors Cardstock – paper – Peach
  • Echo Park – paper – Easter Tweetings
  • Embossing powder in my stash
  • Patterned paper (orange and teal) in my stash
  • Watercolor paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Stamp Layering with VersaMagic Ink Pads

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By Jessica Lin

VersaMagic is one of my all time favorite ink pads. The pastel, muted tones create a nice range of colors, and some look great together for stamp layering. Today I’ll be sharing some ink combos I used for stamping the layered floral images from the All Things Fabulous set.

Skill Level: Intermediate

Time: 45 minutes

Step 1
Stamp the flower images with VersaMagic Pink Petunia, Perfect Plumeria, and Eggplant ink pads. I start with stamping the base layer with the lightest shade (Pink Petunia in this case), and work towards the darker tones. When layering the stamps, I find that aligning the center white spots is the easiest. After stamping, die cut the images with Fabulous Florals dies.

Step 2
Stamp leafy images onto the white card panel. I created 2 versions with different colored leaves. The version shown here is stamped with Aloe Vera (an all time favorite color of mine) but I decided to break out of my comfort zone and opted for the version using Aquatic Splash instead.

Step 3
Stamp the sentiment using Brilliance Starlite Silver ink pad. The shimmery effect is stunning against the dark cardstock! If you are looking for a silver ink pad, I highly recommend Starlite Silver.

Step 4
It’s time to embellish the card. This delicate lace die is to die for! It adds a feminine touch to the card and can be very versatile in my opinion. This die fits in the Mini Stampin’ Cut and Emboss machine as well! I’ve been enjoying the mini machine for die cutting flowers and smaller elements. Then I cut the lace die cut in half and adhere them on the top and bottom behind the white card panel.

I hope you like this floral card! The muted colors from the VersaMagic ink pads are just so pretty together. I hope you’ll try them out with layering stamps.

Craft Supplies

Imagine Supplies:

Other Supplies:

Make A Fun Happy Bird-Day Card

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By Kathi Rerek

Let’s make a cheerfully bright and fun birthday card with a stamp, two stencils, and lots of ink!

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 1.5 hour

Step 1:
Use magnets to secure a  piece of white Bristol paper to the base of a stamping platform.

Use Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink to stamp the bird stamp from the “I’m Fine”  image twice — once onto the image panel and once onto repositionable sticker paper. Heat set the stamped image panel.

Step 2:
Fussy-cut the sticker paper version and place it onto the image panel as a mask.

Step 3:
Use low-tack tape to secure the Sunshine Small Stencil onto the stencil so that the “sun” is over the bird’s face. Use a Sponge Dauber to apply Love Letters Memento ink over the mask and masked image onto the image panel (3A).

Use a separate Sponge Dauber for each color to apply Tangelo, Dandelion, Bamboo Leaves, Bahama Blue, Danube Blue, Lilac Posies, and Grape Jelly Memento inks in rainbow order (ROYGBIV) counter-clockwise over the stencil onto the image panel (3B). Not all stenciling is shown. Remove stencil.

Step 4:
Use low-tack tape to secure the Confetti Stencil over the image panel. Use a Sponge Dauber to apply Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink over the stencil and masked image onto the top left and bottom right of the image panel (3A).

Use a separate Sponge Dauber to apply Golden Glitz Delicata ink over the stencil and masked image onto the top right and bottom left of the image panel (3B).

Remove the stencil and heat set the image panel. Set aside.

Step 5:
Secure a piece of black cardstock to the base of a stamping platform. Place the “You’re the best” sentiment from the Whatcha Saying? Clear Stamp Set, the “Happy Birthday”, “Celebrate”, and “Happy Birthday” sentiments from the Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Sets facedown on the black cardstock.

Press the platform’s lid onto the back of the stamps, lift the platform, ink the stamps with the VersaMark Dazzle ink, and stamp. Remove the black panel from the stamping platform.

Step 6:
Sprinkle White MBoss Powder onto the stamped sentiments, slide the the excess powder back into the bag, and heat set the sentiment.

Step 7:
Use cutting dies to die-cut the sentiments. Trim the left side of the “celebrate” flag and the right side of the “happy birthday” flag. Use Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink to edge the trimmed sides. Heat set the ink. Put the sentiment die-cuts aside.

Step 8:
Use watercolor markers to color the bird’s eyes and beak. Use a white gel pen to add highlights to the eyes and beak. (No photo, sorry!)

Step 9:
Trim the image panel to 3.75” x 5”. Use a Sponge Dauber to edge the top left and bottom right with Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink (9A).

Use a separate Sponge Dauber to edge the top right and bottom left with Golden Glitz Delicata ink (9B).

Step 10:
Use Tear It! Tape to adhere the image panel to a black panel cut to 4” x 5.25” and to adhere the matted image panel to a white A2 card.

Use Use Tear It! Tape to adhere the sentiments to finish the card.

Imagine Crafts Supplies:

Other Supplies:

  • Bristol Paper by Strathmore
  • Raven Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
  • Avalanche Cardstock by Bazzill Basics
  • I’m Fine Clear Stamp Set by Funky Fossil Designs
  • Classic Sentiments Clear Stamp Set by Hefty Doodle
  • Whatcha Saying? Clear Stamp Set by Hefty Doodle
  • Sunshine Small Stencil by Darkroom Door
  • Confetti Stencil by Newton’s Nook Designs
  • Sentiment Banner Die Set – Honey Bee Designs
  • Whatcha Saying? Die Set by Heffy Doodle
  • Emerald, Leaf Green, Light Green, Yellow, Brilliant Yellow, and Butterscotch Le Plume II Markers by Marvy/Uchida
  • Repositionable Sticker Paper by Avery
  • Curved Craft Scissors by Fiskar’s
  • Low-tack Tape
  • Stamping Platform by Tonic Studios
  • Misti Stamping Platform by My Sweet Petunia

Using Inks to Enhance Die Cuts and Patterned Paper

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By Alison Heikkila

Hello! It’s Alison Heikkila. Let’s play with Memento Inks today! I have a bunch of fun ways you can use them to enhance your die cuts. Plus, I’ll explain some ways to use patterned paper with die cuts and inks as well. You can use any dies you have for these techniques, so I encourage you to experiment and play!

*Some affiliate links are used in this post. That means that if you shop through these links, I may receive a small compensation, at no cost to you. For more information, please see my Affiliates page, where I also have some coupon codes.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time to Complete: 60-75 minutes

Supplies:
Imagine:
Memento Ink: Angel Pink
Memento Ink: Sweet Plum
Memento Ink: Northern Pine
Memento Ink: Nautical Blue
Memento Ink: Olive Grove
Memento Ink: Cottage Ivy
Memento Ink: London Fog
Memento Ink: Rhubarb Stalk
Memento Ink Refill: Angel Pink
VersaFine Clair Ink: Rain Forest
On Point Glue
Sponge Daubers

Other:
Spellbinders: The Botanical Solarium
Spellbinders: Sending Sunshine Sentiment Stamps
Carta Bella: Gather at Home Paper Pad
Kaisercraft: Greenhouse Paper Pad
Assorted Blending Brushes
Watercolor Brush
White Cardstock

Small dies like this can be a little fiddly, but it’s so fun to alter them with color and paper. I hope you enjoy trying some of these ideas! Thanks so much for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!

Let’s Make a Cute “Hoppy” Easter Card

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By Ceal Pritchett

Hello crafty friends,

It’s Ceal, here. Today I am sharing an Easter card with you. With Valentines Day behind us, the next holiday I send out cards for is Easter.

Here are supplies I used.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 1 hour

Directions:

Step 1:
Using the layering stencil and Brilliance inks, ink blend the panel to create a background.
Look how shiny it is!

Step 2
Stamp and color the image (bunny) using VersaFine Clair Nocturne and fussy cut it out with the coordinating die.

Step 3
Stamp the sentiment “Easter” with VersaColor in Rose then fussy cut it out or use coordinating die.

Step 4
Stamp the sentiment “Hoppy” with VersaFine Clair Nocturne and fussy cut it out into a small rectangle.

Step 5
Attach the image to the card front using foam for dimension.

Step 6
Attach the sentiment to the card front using On Point Glue.

Craft Supplies
Imagine:
VersaFine Clair – Nocturne
VersaColor – Pink
Brilliance – Pearlescent Orchid
Brilliance – Pearlescent Purple – No Longer Available
Brilliance – Pearlescent Lavender
Brilliance – Pearlescent Sky Blue
Sponge Daubers
On Point Glue

Other:
Misti 2.0
Neenah 110lb Solar White card base
Neenah 80lb Solar White
Hero Arts Pitch Black cardstock
OLO Markers

Happy Spring Card

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By Helen Gullett

Hello hello hello! Today, I wanna share with you how to make this Happy Spring card using Imagine Crafts products, stamps, die cuts, and coloring medium. I found Spring inspiration on Pinterest to create this clean-and-simple style with some layers. You can make this card with any sentiment or vocal images based on the theme or season.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 30 – 45 minutes

Direction:

Step 1
Cut a piece of 8.5” x 11” white cardstock with a paper trimmer. One half you use it to make an A4 card base (5.5’ x 4.25’) by scoring in the middle of the cardstock.

And for the other half, use it for stamping elements and sentiments. You can to cut out the shapes with the matching dies, if needed.

Step 2
For my card, I cut out the shapes with the matching dies first.

Arrange the shape dies on the white cardstock and secure them with washi tape or removable tape to keep in place while cutting.

I keep both negative and positive die cuts. This will make the next step stamping images easier.

Step 3
Put the positive and negative die cuts on the stamping tool. Secure them with the magnet.
Arrange the clear stamp on top of each matching cut out, make sure it is well positioned.
Put the sentiment you want to stamp at the extra space, if they fit.

Step 4
Pick up the stamps with the stamping tool lid and ink the stamps with the Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad. If it is needed, you can re-stamp them. Clean the stamps with Staz-On All Purpose Cleaner.

I like to stamp several images and sentiments at one go, then I can pick and choose what to use on this project, and save others for the next project.

Cut the sentiment with scissors, or you can cut it with any label die you have in stash. I simply just cut it out with scissors to make a sentiment label or cut around the sentiment.

Step 5
After stampin, you can pick and choose which images and sentiment to use now.

Color the images with your favorite coloring medium. Since we use Memento Ink for stamping, the best coloring medium will be alcohol markers and pencil colors. I used alcohol markers to color the nest and bird.

Step 6
Cut out a light blue cardstock into 5.25” x 4” for the first base mat.

Stamp it with a background stamp of your choice lightly with the VersaColor Turquoise.

To get a lighter stamped image for the background, you can use second generation stamping technique: stamp it the first time on a scrap paper and then stamp it for the second time on the cardstock.

Step 7
Next, cut out a piece of off-white cardstock (or white) into 4.75” x 3.5” for the second background mat.
Using a distressed tool or scissors to add the distress look on each edge of the cardstock.
Add the VersaMagic Jumbo Java ink on the edges using the sponge dauber.

Step 8
It’s time to put the card together.
Using a distressed tool or scissors to add the distress look around the background mat.

Add some of the Tear It! Tape on the back of the background mat and add it to the card base. Firmly press it down.

Step 9
Wrap some of the burlap twine around the second background mat and tie up a bow. Add a dab of permanent glue using the On Point Glue to secure the bow in place on the card.
Add some of the Tear It! Tape on the back of the background mat, add it to the card, and press it firmly to make sure it adheres well, especially around the twine.

Step 10
Add some of the Tear It! Tape on a piece of fun foam to make your own 3D foam tape.
Add the foam tape on the back of each element and sentiment and add each of them to the card.
Add some glue using On Point Glue under the overlapping element and sentiment.

Step 11
To add some extra sparkle to the card, use a flat brush to add some of the Sheer Shimmer Spray – Sparkle. This spray gives some sparkle to this card for sure!!!

Dry the splatters with a craft heat gun.

Here’s the close up look of the finish card. You can add extra gems or embellishments to the card or you can just leave it as it is.

May this card give you hope for the new season coming soon! Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today. Have a wonderful day!

Craft Supplies

Imagine Crafts:

Others:

  • Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamp – Spring Hope Stamp Set
  • Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamp – Spring Hope Die Set
  • Neenah Classic Crest White Cardstock 110lb
  • Close To My Heart colored cardstock (blue and off-white)
  • Burlap twine ribbon
  • Fiskar paper trimmer
  • Gemini Junior die cutting machine
  • MISTI stamping tool
  • Acrylic stamping block
  • Paper distresser tool
  • Micro-tip scissors
  • White thin fun foam
  • Flat paint brush