Stamp Off Sealed with Love Notes

It's another day on Stamp Off Island.

Island occupants include Buffy, Susan and Jackie,

surviving on paper, stamps and ink!

Today's challenge is kind of obvious.  It's a Love/Heart You

event, just in time for Valentines day.  

It doesn't have to be a lovey/dovey card,

just one that expresses love.  We could use more

of that nowadays! 

 I enjoy stamping dates with several friends,

including the amazing Mary Brown (aka stampercamper). 

I made this card during one of our play dates.   It even

looks a bit like a "Mary card"!  Must have been

the atmosphere.

The products that I used,

the Sealed with Love set and coordinating Love Notes

Framelits Dies,  are found on pages 14-15 of 

the Occasions catalog.  I like the texture of the "grilled" heart,

that works so well as a backdrop. The DSP comes from the 

Neutrals Designer Series Paper stack on page 174

of the regular catalog.

I hope that you enjoyed this corner of the Stamp Off Island,

and invite you to continue the tour with

Susan and Buffy.

CCMC443 Lift Me Up

If you follow my blog, you know that I sometimes

join the challenges at Create with Connie & Mary.

I enjoy their samples, subscription and challenges,

especially sketch challenges like this one (CCMC443).

I took a few liberties with the sketch, but followed it

loosely.  When you're talking about balloons and clouds,

you have to pile them on!

I used the Lift Me Up set and coordinating Up & Away

Thinlits Dies (p 10) to scatter images.   The DSP strip comes from

the Neutrals pack on page 174.  I wanted just a bit of

bling, so added retired black glimmer paper. 

Beautiful You Jump Rope

Again with my fav set Beautiful You on page 24.  

I stamped Stazon ink on Crumb Cake card stock.

The image was colored with Melon Mambo, White 

Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry Watercolor Pencils.

I felt like she "wanted" a scarf or something to twirl, so

I added a piece of black baker's twine.  It looks a bit like

a jump rope, but that's the way it went.  The sentiment

was cut out with a Stitched Shapes Framelits die.

Stamp Off Watercolor Balloon Adventures

Happy Stamp Off Friday with Buffy, Susan and Jackie.

I hope that you are enjoying your first week of February!!

 Today we are doing a Watercolor Challenge.  Since

SU has introduced the new Watercolor Pencils, we have

lots of options for this challenge.

I did not, however,  use the new Stampin' Up!

Watercolor pencils.  I am drawn to cards with stamped 

images that are spritzed with water, 
so that the color drifts randomly.   I decided that I needed to do more than admire these samples, and make one of my own. 

In this example, I stamped
the balloons from Balloon Adventures (p 5) on to watercolor 
paper, using Melon Mambo and Pacific Point ink.  
I stamped the strings and then spritzed with water
several times.  I found that I had to have a napkin ready,
when the images started to spread too much.  
I also took a paint brush, loaded with water and 
Melon Mambo ink, and flicked speckles across the images.
I let this card layer dry overnight. 

I like the fonts that come with this set, because they have a
feeling of wild enthusiasm. The black ink looked good against the 
two bright colors, so that's what I went with.   After adding
a couple of enamel dots, I called it done.  You'll notice
that this set coordinates/bundles with the Balloon
Pop-Up Thinlits Dies.  I have both the set and dies,
 but in this example,
I did not add any die cut components.

Now please click on over to see what Buffy and Susan
are doing with their watercoloring.  Although Susan is our
resident rebel, I suspect she will present some kind of
watercolor component on her card.  Either way, since
I love both Buffy and Susan, they know that they can
have their way with this challenge!

Lift Me Up and Away Note

This is hands down one of my favorite new Occasions

Mini products; the Lift Me Up stamp set with

Up and Away Thinlits Dies (Bundled, saves you 10%).

 The ability to layer different colors behind this framelit

makes for a spectacular look.  In addition, you have 2 other

balloons, to enable production of a lovely variety of

floating hot air balloons!!

There are several Textured Impressions Embossing Folders

that coordinate well with the balloons.   They include the

Festive folder (used above), or the Seaside folder, both

on page 195 of the annual catalog.  However, you can opt

to fly your hot air balloons through a forest (Woodland

folder) or hover over Large Polka Dots.  It all works!

For more information, check out this wonderful

video from Stampin' Up!

 

Beautiful You Stamped Negative Card 2

This is another Beautiful You card (Occasions page 24), 

using the same technique as I posted this past Friday.

I created a negative mask for the umbrella,

and a separate one for the dress, so that I could

stamp them with different patterns/stamps.

Both the dress and the umbrella were stamped with

stamps from the Awesomely Artistic set on page 144,

of the regular catalog.  The splotches stamp was

perfect as a means to create raindrops on the umbrella.

I used the Stitched Shapes Framelits for the focal image,

and embossed  the card base with the 

Boho Chic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.