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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Birthday Cards with the Bouncing Brayer Technique!

Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well!

I have two cards to share today that both use an easy technique my friend taught me called Bouncing Brayer. All you do is ink up your brayer (I used a kaleidocolor inkpad here, but any dye ink will work fine) and then you bounce in along your glossy cardstock until you like the way it looks.

For backgrounds like this, I often like to stamp simply over top. I chose some great stamps from the I Brake for Stamps line and stamped right over top using Archival ink. I think they both turned out great! I chose to make these both birthday cards as I completely depleted my supply by giving all mine to a local charity.

Here are links to the stamps I used. Please use my affiliate code BPMHeidi to save 15%!

By the Sea Rubber Sheet

Half Sheet 138B

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Sunday, February 6, 2022

Gnome Valentine

Hello everyone. I hope you are staying warm! It has been a cold winter here!

Hey, I am wondering what challenges everyone is interested in nowadays. I have been doing so little crafting lately that I am out of the loop. I am totally back now so please drop me a comment if you want to recommend a Cardmaking challenge!

Onto my card, I am trying to work through a number of NBUS items. I probably purchased more stuff during the pandemic than I used. One of them was this SUPER cute gnomie image from Stampendous. I decided to color it some sortof vintage shades, which I think works well for Gnomes.

I fussy cut this image out and put it over the die cut and stenciled background. I just recently purchased these from Honey Bee. I hadn’t ever used anything from them but I was really happy with my purchase and have more to share in the future.

Supplies:

Stampendous Gnome Love, Honey Bee Stamps Quilted A2 Cover plate, Honey Bee Quilted Hearts Stencil, Distress Oxide ink, Spectrum Noir markers.

Thank you for visiting!

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Easy Tri-Fold with Bouncing Brayer Technique

Hello everyone! I hope your February is going well! We are expecting some icy weather tomorrow. However, this card is all Spring!

This is a card my friend April taught our online stamping group. It is a fancy fold, and I have to admit that I almost never never never make these. I don’t know why I assume that they are going to be too hard, but this one, you will see, is so easy!

The backgrounds were made with the Bouncing Brayer technique. You ink up your brayer with dye inks and then just bounce it along your glossy cardstock. Just repeat till you get the look you like.

The stamps are Stampendous Hummingbird Hello and Birthday Wish, colored with pencils.

In the above photo, I think you can see how you just take off one quarter of a full sheet of cardstock, and the others fold over each other for the Tri-fold.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Musical Gifts!

I have a cute design today that mixes stamps from the Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps stores. I had music teachers in mind when I made this, but I think the sentiment can be used for a special musician at church, or any child who is practicing hard.

You can’t beat the cuteness of the I Brake for Stamps Mostly Mice stamp set. I adore all the images. I first stamped the images on patterned paper and also a piece of white cardstock. I colored the white with colored pencils and then fussy cut them carefully. I had to color the little tail and the violin bow on the patterned paper, but the rest is the white paper pieced over top.

I then used a sentiment from the Blank Page Muse Fall Rubber Stamp set by Pam Bray Designs. Love love love this unique sentiment!

(As a aside, I was stunned how different the patterned paper looked over different backgrounds!)

If you like these stamps you can use my affiliate code, BPMHeidi for 15% off both the Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps shops!

I hope you enjoyed this card as much as I enjoyed making it! Have a wonderful day!

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Saturday, January 8, 2022

Dragonfly with Faux Mixed Media background

Hello stamping friends! I don’t know about you, but I tend to hoard beautiful patterned papers, but I am trying to reform myself!

Today I have a card design that uses a lot of patterned paper to give the look of mixed media, without the work. I used Pam Bray’s Cyan Consortium papers. Basically, I used a lot of scraps cut off from making A2 card fronts. I then just glued them together in a card base and sponged tan ink around the edge. I cut an oval die from another card scrap.

I simply heat embossed the lovely dragonfly stamp from the Fall Rubber Stamp set, also by Pam Bray, over a very light green vellum. On the inside, I stamped the same dragonfly in light tan ink, and stamped the sentiment over top.

I hope you are inspired to use more patterned paper! Have a wonderful day!

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Friday, December 24, 2021

Christmas Morning

I have a little Christmas morning scene to share with you today.

I masked off the building in this scene and then sponged a wintery sky using Distress Oxide inks in Shaded Lilac, Tumbled Glass and Spun Sugar. I sprayed the background with water to get texture. I then added some depth to the black stamped lines by adding some black marker on some of the trees. This makes some trees appear more toward the foreground and some more in the background.

I colored the buildings with markers and then added plenty of glitter glue to depict the snow. I also added some white gel pen snowflakes.

This stamp is part of the I Brake for Stamps line. It is called Small Christmas Sheet and includes other super sweet images in the set.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Vintage Look Distress Christmas Card

I was in the mood to use some distress inks so I decided on making a vintage-look distressed Christmas card. I really love the soft, muted tones. The backgrounds were sponged and then I spritzed water on the backgrounds to remove ink. And I dried the panels and repeated the process until I loved the look. The colors I used were Bundled Sage, Speckled Egg, Tea Dye and Antique Linen.