Sea Turtle watercolored

The stamparatus is being dropped by Stampin' Up due to an unfortunate reason and I will miss it terribly- I have played with Gel plates but one of the techniques I have enjoyed is dabbing the ink pad directly to the stamparatus plates  (because they are dye ink, it does not stain the plates) in several different colors- spray with a fine water mist, put down the watercolor cardstock and mist it again, and you get this beautiful color that is different each time. 

Here I used bermuda bay  granny apple green and tahitian 

let dry before using or use heat gun to speed up the proces.. 

 

Stamp the turtles in pool party, bermuda bay and Evening Evergreen. the starfish are stamped with calypso coral and Cajun coral. 

The sentiment is from waves of Inspiration set.

stamped the coral looking thing on top of the watercolor paper in Shaded Spruce . mount the turtles with dimensionals as shown.  

I stamped the turtle back with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder to add some glaze look to the shell (hard to see but pretty cool looking) 

enjoy!

Lynda

Sweetest cherries

 

This was one of the cards from March Stampin' with Lynda. Base card is white thick cardstock.  place 2 strips of green stripe DSP from Flowers and more DSP.  use a thin strip of Shaded Spruce to add an accent stripe.  A white cardstock was embossed with basics EF embossint folder  to add some texture behind the cherries.  The cherries were punched out with real red, the stems from soft suede, the leaves from green apple green, Old Olive and Shaded Spruce- stamped with the leaf veins . the sweet was embossed with white embossing powder and diecut and the birthday wishes heat embossed with white embossing powder and fussy cut out. they were mounted with dimensionals. 

These were some extra cards I made- used the stamparatus to stamp the words on the insde- with the ability to move the lid every inch increments it stamps in perfect intervals.  

For a single layer card stamp the sentiment and one cherry and leaf stamp another cherry and leaf on a scrap and pucnh it out and mount it on for a simple one layer card using the same set. 

try stamping a darker cherry or a Rainer cherry using more yellow orange colors.

Pinkfresh class

 

I just wanted to share with you some cards I made during an on line class I took with Pinkfresh  that my sister  signed me up as a gift.  She takes my monthly Stmpin' with Lynda Classes  and it was really fun to follow someone else's ideas instead of having to come up with something on my own- the mushroom stencils were so adorable.

I am going ot have to make some more to give away!

  

Learned some watercoloring technique that was fun.

The stickers were super fun but the cards felt flat and I had to add some texture with some Stampin Up embossing folders.  really love the Ombre glittery dots

this card above was supposed to be the scrap used to diecut the flowers but I thought it was so pretty I used it make a one layer card- used the thin nail Gold Self-Adhesive Tape Line Strips to make a line of gold around the card base that adds that little sparkle that I love. 

Used the leftover around the center diecut and used it as a stencil with a blender brush to make the soft background. I didn't have any of their colors so I used the Stampin' Up ones instead and it was still gorgeous.

Motto for the year: borrowed from Marisa- Shop your Stash!

use what you have!

Share a milkshake gatefold explosion card

cards base is coastal cabana 5 1/2x 8 1/2 scored 2 1/8 on both sides to make a gatefold card.

-sweet talk DSP for the strawberry ice cream scoop

crumbcake was used with the cone die for the waffle cones

expresso ink and real red for the chocolate scoop and cherry  and diecut using the Share the Milkshake dies

I guess I should have added a sentiment tag on the front but I forgot to take a new picture with it

explosion mechanism is 4x8 inches scored at  2 and 6 inches along the 8 inch side -

you can get 4 pieces out of a 12x 12 DSP - 

make a mark at 4 inch and fold diagonals from each corner to make 2 X score marks. 

it is glued down in the back behind the diamond shape and each side  flush with the opening on either side as shown below

here i used Dandy Designs DSP (from sale-a-bration)

stamp hearts with polished pink inkpad and sentiment in black.

Such as simple fold but it makes such a cute impact I think I will make more of these cards using different stampset.  Try it for yourself.

 

Sweet Citrus cards

This set is so gorgeous- love the texture on the citrus that makes it so realistic.

The stamps are easy- do the outside first then stamp the inside - you can use 2 different colors to make the rind a different color than the peel.  it has a matching embossing folder and diecut that fits right inside the folder so it is done in one easy step. 

I made the mistake of diecutting it first and trying to fit it and it was a bit of a disaster. diecutting it all together makes it SOOO easy!

the ink for the Grapefruit was pale papaya and Flirty flamingo 

the leaves were inked in Granny Apple Green.

the white piece is from Salloped contours dies and the DSP is from Dandy Designs DSP

This just used the white basecard, piece of daffodil delight cut with the stitched rectangles and a white piece  embossed with the folder (forgeous on tis own as you can see).

same colors for the grapefruit  and I put the extra pieces on the inside.