Frilly Flowers Notecard

 Hello from design team member, Heidi.  Today, I could use your help. I don’t know what this flower stamp is.  I have a feeling I should know, but I don’t.  I am pretty sure it isn’t an orange flower, but I really wanted it to be orange, and that is the power of stamping, you can really do as you please. 

I stamped three flowers and colored them with alcohol markers. I fussy cut them out, but I really didn’t feel I needed to be too careful with it.  I then added a bunch of glitter glue to the flower.  It looks so pretty when it dries down on the orange.  

I did a simple arrangement for the flowers over an oval die cut and then added a sentiment strip and die cut butterfly to ground the card together.  The background is a gelli print I had in my stash.  It as made with an embossing folder for the design.

This flower stamp is so affordable and so pretty!  

It is called Flower on Stem at the Blank Page Muse shop.

The sentiment was taken from a large sentiment set called Everyday Phrases, and this one is at the I Brake for Stamps shop.

If you know the flower, or think you might, please comment!  It is one of the things that drives me nuts!

Thanks for visiting today!

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Musical Penguin Quick Share!

 Hello everyone! I’d like to do a quick share of this card I made for the Split Coast Stampers Free for All Challenge this week, which is a music theme.  I used this super cute penguin from Pink and Main Freezin Season, and paired that with a music background from Blank Page Muse.  I think it turned out cute!

The backgrounds are a gelli print and then one made with an embossing folder (stamping on an inked background with water). Basically all this stuff was out on my desk still so I threw it together.  

Hope you are having a nice weekend!

Petals and Flowers

 I love this stamp set with what my mom would call the “pieces-parts” of flowers.  They are so fun to mix and match.  I have to tell you, I sat down to make a spring garden-style card, but what I ended up making was a sortof rich fall color medallion!  Oh well, that is how creativity seems to work!

My background was made with distress oxide inks for the base shade, and then I pulled a print from my gelli plate over an old stencil.  

Over top, I stamped directly with the large flower outline, and then used foam tape to built up the flower center.  I kindof went crazy with the glitter glue in gold and iridescent glitters.  I don’t use glitter often but I do like glitter glue since it stays put!

The stamps can be found in the Blank Page Muse or I Brake for Stamps stores.  I will link them below.

Petals and Flowers designed by Michelle Fray Cummings

Sentiment is from Florals Sheet in the IBFS store.

You can use my affiliate code BPMHeidi to save 15% at both stores!

You can also find more inspiration at the links below:

The Blank Page Muse- https://blankpagemuse.com/

FB Fan Page- https://www.facebook.com/groups/blankpagemuse/

Instagram Shop- https://www.instagram.com/blankpagemuse/

Instagram Blog- https://www.instagram.com/blankpagemuseblog/

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Learn to Trust

 Hello everyone.  

Hey, I should tell you, the number “one” and “exclamation point” button on my keyboard is broken.  It makes it hard to write a blog as usual, but I am getting by because I really don’t want to spend money on it right away.  (I think it shorted out last week when I spilt a little milk on it.)

Anyhow, than you very much for all your recent kind comments. I had a chance to make a quick card yesterday, during the storm, and here it is.

I used a previously-made gelli print background.  I believe this was mostly Distress Paints, spread around with some cardboard that I cut a decorative edge with some of those old, patterned scrapbook scissors.  The stamp is Our Daily Bread Designs, an old one, that was gifted to me by a stamping friend.  The saying is a nice reminder.

I did add some glitter glue to the frame part of the stamp, I think you may be able to see it in this close up shot.

I hope you are doing well, and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Reindeer and Birds Christmas Cards

 Hello!  If you are here, I want to thank you for the time you are taking!  This is such a busy time.  We are back to virtual school temporarily for the surge and that really takes a lot of time, energy and mostly patience.  I don’t fault anyone for this extra burden, it is what it is, and I am confident the kids will catch back up and be more resilient.  

Anyhow, I did have a little time to finish up these two Christmas cards.  I had stamped, colored and cut out a bunch of images from Elizabeth Crafts Reindeer and Birds set previously and I have almost used them all now.

The first card I just love because the reindeer looks so funny and I love this plaid paper from Modascrap.  I added some stamped holly and red rhinestones to finish it off. (I am REALLY low on red rhinestones and need to remember to buy more!)

The second card uses another of my gelli plate prints.  I used some die cut snow hills. You can’t see it but I used my Sakura glitter pen to add sparkle to the edges of the hills.  The sentiment is Power Poppy.

Thank you for visiting! I should have some time later tonight and tomorrow to look at what you have been sharing on your blogs! Have a great day!

Christmas Cards with Gelli Plate Prints

 Hello again!  I decided to use another of my gelli plate backgrounds for Christmas cards. I am definitely behind my goal still, so if anything looks remotely Christmassy, I need to use it for Christmas!

It is SO dreary and rainy here today, so my photo setup by a window wouldn’t work, so these photos are a little off, but the best I could do today.  How is the weather for you?  

I used some stamps from Elizabeth Crafts that I colored with pencils and die cut.  I also added some glitter glue to stamps and the hill, but I’m not sure you can see it in the photo.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Gelli Plate!

 Hello everyone!  Last week, on zoom, my craft group got together and April from Stampwilly Designs taught us some techniques using our gelli plates.  I have to say, this was a little tricky and I wasn’t sure about my results at first, but the next day when I looked through them, I wanted to keep almost all of the prints to use for cards!  

I wanted to find some bold, but pretty stamps to use over top.  The stamps in the I Brake for Stamps Old and New set were perfect for this!

Thanks for visiting and keep on stamping!

Gelli Plate with Background Stamps

Hello everyone! I hope you are doing well today!

I would like to show you the results of a simple stamping technique using a gelli plate.  I will first just tell you my process. I applied Distress Oxide ink in a few colors of pink and orange to a gelli plate. I used a brayer, just to even out the ink.  

Then, I pressed this large background (5x7 inches) stamp over the gelli plate and removed it.  I made a print of what was left on the gelli plate (center), and then also stamped what remained on the stamp to make another print (right).

This is really fun and fast to do!  The gelli plate not only allows you to make two prints with every stamp, but it also adds a lot of texture you wouldn’t get if you just stamped the traditional way. I also like how you can stamp easily with multiple colors of ink.

So, I made a bunch of prints and then made several cards out of them.  Some of the prints I didn’t like as well, so I either cut them down and used the area I liked.  Or, I stamped flowers over the print and cut them out like it was patterned paper. 

The background stamp I used is Huge Floral Background, but you could use any of the great background stamps the I Brake for Stamps carries. The sentiments all came from Inspirational Plate #2.  The flowers are from Floral Half Sheet. (As always, save 10% off your entire order at I Brake for Stamps using my code SAVE10HEIDI.)

I really enjoyed trying something new.  Have you tried any new techniques lately?  

A Cool Drink - Stamping on the Gelli Plate

I have a couple cards made with Just for Fun’s Cool Drink stamp and with a background made with a gel press and stamps. 

I am pretty new to the gel press (or gelli plate) but I found this stamping technique easy.  The backgrounds not only work for patterned paper, but since you are printing them with paint, they also have a nice texture.  

First the background.  I brayered craft paint onto my gelli plate, and then I used the citrus slice stamp to pick up the paint.  I stamped the paint off onto another piece of paper, and then repeated until I had filled the gel press with this negative image.  Then I placed a piece of cardstock over the gelli plate and rubbed all over to transfer the paint.  

Then I stamped and colored the Cool Drink stamp. I used Wink of Stella to add glitter over the glass. The two sentiments I used are A Vacation Is... and Happy Birthday from Sentiments 1 Unmounted Sheet.

Now I am in the mood for some lemonade, how about you?

I would love to enter SimonSaysStamp’s Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes!