Got a quickie for you today. Kindred Stamps is releasing a companion digital stamp set to the Scranton PA set, and I got to play with it!
I did some ink blending withe Kindred Stamps Zebra stencil and Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple, and Dusty Concord inks. Yes, there really is Candied Apple is there, I needed something to create a red-purple.
I also added some Clear Wink of Stella in the light areas.
I Copic colored this lady. I wish I had written down the colors I used.
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Hello friends! Today I am using two sets from Kindred Stamps to make some vibrant and masculine birthday cards using watercolor as a main component. Watercolor and I are old friends 😁
This first card is made using the Day of the Deadstamp set with this adorable boy and his dog. I was going for a night scene with a marigold bridge.
The background here was all inked on one panel of watercolor paper in
Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch, and Wild Honey Distress Inks. It was
then liberally spritzed with Pearlized water and dried with my heat
tool.
The floral embossing is a die from the Hero Arts April 2018 kit, and I used a silicone mat and the embossing sandwich.
Then I used a stitched edge die to cut the two colors apart. The yellow is popped up with my favorite dimension method, some coasters! They are thinner than most foam dimensionals, you can use whatever adhesive you have handy, it die cuts like a dream, and it is 100% recyclable! And cheap. OK, off that soapbox. 😊
The sentiment is gold heat embossed on white cardstock that is spritzed with Pearlized water also.
Copics were used to color the boy and the dog. I actually used the same colors for the boy's hair and the dog's fur!
Inside, I stamped a couple of the banners, then just a little water, watercolored the banners with the same inks as the cardfront. I used #110 white cardstock for the cardbase, so it could handle it.
I also used a Sakura Stardust Jelly Roll pen to add some sparkle to the banners.
For my second card, I am using the Electrifying! stamp set. I wanted to focus on the car this time.
I started the background with a panel of watercolor paper (140lb
Canson XL) cut to 4"x5¼". I sponged on Grey Granite ink and spritzed
with water, then dried with my heat tool.
After
treating the panel with my anti-static embossing buddy, I stamped the
cars in Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear heat embossed them.
Then
it was time to watercolor those cars! Yes, right over the top of the
color in the background. I used Coastal Cabana, Poppy Parade, and
Blueberry Bushel inks squeezed into the ink pad lids and picked up with a
wet watercolor brush.
I used Black Soot Distress Ink to color the tires. It only takes a smidge of that ink, by the way!
The chrome is all painted with Pewter Perfect Pearls. I added a
smidge of the Perfect Pearls to a palette and added a double portion of
water to create a paint. Then I just used my watercolor brush to paint
it on.
I made a very short video showing the shimmer here:
It is Kindred Stamps Release week, and there is so much awesomeness to share!! I was lucky enough to get to play with Science Geeks. These are my people. I am such a nerd!
As soon as I got this set, I had to color the ladies. They are totally outnumbered, but they can certainly hold their own! 😉
The fellas were just as fun to color. Copics are now my preferred coloring medium for these types of images. And the more I use them, the faster I get at picking out colors!
Since I already had this super-nerd colored and cut out, this card came together in a flash. I used the Spaceship Panels stencil with some light grey ink on light grey paper. Stamped the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black ink. Popped super-nerd up in the center, and done!
And that sentiment! So clever. All my nerdy friends will love it too.
This time it is the Swirls stencil that gets to play. I inked the Soft Granite ink first, then rotated the stencil and used Balmy Blue and Highland Heather inks.
The panel was spritzed with Pearlized water and dried with my heat tool. I stitched around the edge with my sewing machine. Then stamped and clear heat embossed the sentiment on some light grey cardstock, and adhered to the front of the card.
I had to do a card with all those brilliant ladies. The background is embossed with an embossing folder from my stash. And the ladies are standing on a piece of white cardstock sponged in Poppy Parade and Flirty Flamingo, then spritzed with Pearlized water and dried with my heat tool.
I am rather pleased with the coloring of the hair on these. Still a skill I am working on!
That's all I have right now. But check this out:
The entire Kindred Stamps January release will be available Friday, January 25th at 8am PST/11am EST. Be sure to check out the Kindred Stamps blog
on Friday for the full product release as well as the complete line up
of all the Kindred Stamps Design Team projects from release week! If
you visit and comment on all of the designers' blogs this week, you
could win $15 in Kindred Stamps shop credit! So join the Fan Club and release event, show the design team some love, and get ready to empty those wallets this Friday!
Florals are not really my go-to stamp sets, but sometimes they are just what is needed. And being in the middle of a frigid Minnesota, it is nice to think of flowers. Valentine's Day is approaching too. So, Forever Lovely is a welcome change of season!
There is, of course, a coordinating die set with some really awesome features that work just as well without the stamps.
If you are new to the Stamp Review Crew, we are a group of Stampin' Up! demos from around the world, and we chose a different stamp set to feature every first and third Monday of the month.
If you are following along in order, then you have just arrived from Lauren Alarid's blog. Stunning!
I got inspired this time! I am so glad that the ideas were flowing for once, as I have been struggling a little lately.
This is a quickly stamped patterned background is soft colors, Lemon Lime Twist and Powder Pink. It was really easy to line up the greenery stamp around the stamped flowers. Even if you are off a little bit, they still look great!
There are a bunch of die cut flowers and greenery here. I also took the floral corner detail die and cut once, then flipped it and cut again to create a little rectangle. It was surprisingly easy too!
Inside got floral borders top and bottom with a sentiment from the same set.
Next up is some Buffalo Check with watercolor. Lovely Lipstick and Powder Pink this time. And the Lovely Lipstick foil cardstock (a SAB item) gets to play as the heart behind the sentiment.
All kinds of dies used, and I will link them all below. As I always say, use it if you've got it!
There is vellum behind the floral peek through dies. ANd Copper heat embossed sentiment on sponged and spritzed die cut banner.
I wanted spatters on the inside, but I wanted them controlled. So I dug through my stamps adn found some in the Magical Mermaid and the Timeless Textures sets.
The sentiment is from another SAB set, Part of My Story.
Last up is a fun square card. I used a wreath builder template to create the radiating rainbow of hearts.
The center heart is sponged in Poppy Parade and Mango Melody, then die cut. Then the sentiment wast white heat embossed, and a vellum heat was adhered behind it. I also used layers of die cut coasters to add dimension behind the hearts.
Sentiment and more hearts, all from the Forever Lovely stamp set.
There we have it! All of my cards were created in one 2 hour session 😁
Next up is Jay Soriano with his amazingly creative mind!
