Graduating from Halloween! (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have a card to share today using this month's Halloween stamps, but in a way that shows how they be used for a purpose other than Halloween.

I have created a clean and simple graduation card using one of the book images and the starburst on a diamond die cut to represent a mortar board. I added a tassel underneath from the Baroque Eggs stamp set. I coloured the images with pencils. I coloured the centres of the starburst image with a gold Wink of Stella pen for a bit of sparkle. I added a flourish in the corners of the card from the Butterfly Daisy Collage stamp set, and finally stamped a sentiment from the Loving Sentiments stamp set onto a small tag.

Keep checking back throughout the month for more great inspiration from my Design team mates. Thanks for stopping by, Judith xx

Sea creatures on Kraft paper! (posted by Maria)

Hello stamping lovers,

Between shopping, making cards and parcels, I have managed to make some more samples with my favourite Steampunk Sea World and Steampunk Funk Fish stamp sets.

I made the card, on kraft paper, or better on the reverse of a piece of scrapbook paper, it is the same as kraft paper but I liked the colour better. I stamped my sea creatures and the lamps and bubbles from the Punky flowers stamp sheet with Versafine ink, waited till the ink was dry and then used pencils with a lot of pigments to colour these images. I took a white gelly pen for the white accents. Afterwards I took my Wink of Stella golden glitter marker and coloured all over the pencil colours to give everything a golden shine. I took a stamp from the Texture fragments stamp set, and with Versamark and white embossing powder, I created the bubbles background at the borders.
With some embossing enamel powder- shabby white I made the white accents in the background.
For my second project, I made a milk carton that I had seen on other blogs which I thought was such a beautiful package, that I looked at You-tube and found how to make it. I first coloured the card stock as before and then made this package, wouldn't it make a gorgeous present?

I really hope you enjoyed your weekend, and hope you still have the time to make some cards and boxes as Christmas presents, have a lot of fun, and a joyful, happy Christmas to all of you!

Greetings
Maria

Brusho under the Sea! (posted by Maria)

Hello everybody ,

I hope you are doing well, and I hope you can enjoy your card making during these busy days!
I have made some more underwater world samples with the gorgeous Steampunk Funk Fish and Steampunk Sea World stamp sets for you , and I really hope you like them. Today have I used some Brusho, such a fun, and very easy product, these cards are really made in 10 minutes, so if you don't have a lot of time, use Brusho!

I coloured the creatures with some Brusho too, and  for the golden accents I used a Wink of Stella glitter marker in gold. The golden circles I made with some golden acrylic paint and the cover of an embossing powder box! The small golden border I made with some Versamark and golden embossing powder.

I really had a lot of fun with these stamp sets and Brusho, I hope you do too!

Hugs,
Maria

Under the sea! (posted by Maria)

 Ahoy!

Hello everyone, as you can see these stamps were really made for me! I love them, they are really fun to play with. Your imagination can take over now, nothing to think about, just go with the flow, and create a fantastic underwater world, just enjoy!

 

These three samples are made with my precious dylusions. I took some white smooth paper, made it wet by spraying with some water, and took the colours of the sea (from my imagination!). I held the paper straight up, so that the colours could flow and make their own design, it was fun to do and to see how beautiful my papers became.

Then I took the beautiful new stamps sets from the Chocolate Baroque Steampunk Funk Fish and Steampunk Sea World stamp sets and started to make my own seaworld! I also took some stamps from the Punky Flower stamp set. For the bubbles and lights I used some glossy accents. The fish and creatures I stamped on a paper that was already coloured with dylusions, cut them out and with some 3D foam I placed them in place. For the gold and silver colours I've used Wink of Stella glitter marker gold and silver.

I hope you like these gorgeous stamps, they really are fun to play with. I really enjoyed making projects with these stamp sets, and I hope you do too!

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy!

Maria