Lifesavers and Quarantine

Hey friends! I am fresh off a home quarantine, and I have to say I put my isolation time to good use. I made a ton of cards. Including this box of cards!

That right there is 55 cards. I plan to use these to help keep the morale up at work in the near future. Would you like to see more?

I had a wild hair one night and dug through my stash of stamps looking for something medical related. I found the Kindred Stamps Lifesavers stamp set and stamped out a pile of images to be colored. The next day, I colored and fussy cut them all.

I have done this before, and I still have gobs of images colored and fuzzy cut just waiting for a project. But I really want to stop stashing that work and start putting it right onto a project!

So, I found the Heffy Doodle Zap Attack stencil in my stash, and got to work ink blending with Hero Arts Reactive Inks on some really, really retired Stampin' Up! cards stocks. Like, retired-before-2010 retired. Yes, I have a "well curated" craft room! I also used some Hero Arts and Papertrey Ink cardstock that is still available- go me!!

This particular card has Key Lime Fizz and Pool Party ink on Soft Stone cardstock. After ink blending through the stencil, and before removing the stencil, I spritzed it with some Pearlized water (Perfect Pearls pigment powder in Perfect Pearl added to water in a spray bottle). I promptly removed the stencil and set each panel to the side to dry. Remember, I made 55 of these!

This is the inside of this card. It got a little stencil and ink blending too.

This one reverses the Key Lime Fizz and Pool Party.

That sentiment is White heat embossed and die cut with a stitched rectangle die from the Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card Pop Up dies.

This one is Blue Hawaii and Grape Slush inks.

Same blue and purple here, but reversed.

Back to Key Lime Fizz and Pool Party here.

This is the Papertrey Ink Vintage Jadeite cardstock with Key Lime Fizz and Pool Party. I really like that combo, huh!

By this time, my arms were getting sore, and I found some spritzers with Stampin Up! Fresh Fig reinkers and water mixed already. And a Sea Foam shimmer spray from a My Monthly Hero kit. Sure sped things up!

Instead of spritzing the inside of these, I did use a blender brush. Safer from warping this way.

And this one uses Stampin Up! Berry Burst reinker and water in a spritzer and the Sea Foam shimmer spray.

That's all of them! I hope I made enough 😉

Some of the supplies listed below are affiliate links, some are not. If you use an affiliate link here to make a purchase, I may get a small compensation. I only use things that I love, and do not create paid posts.

Stamps:
Kindred Stamps Lifesavers: https://www.kindredstamps.com/products/life-saver

Dies:
Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card Pop Up dies: http://shrsl.com/269l6

Everything Else:
Heffy Doodle Zap Attack stencil: http://shrsl.com/269lc
Versafine Onyx Black ink pad: http://shrsl.com/24gv2
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad: http://shrsl.com/24gus
Versamark ink pad: http://shrsl.com/24gsr
Hero Arts Reactive ink pads and refills: http://shrsl.com/269lf, http://shrsl.com/269lh
Distress Oxide ink pads and refills: http://shrsl.com/24gdb
Color coded Blender Brushes, set of 5: https://amzn.to/2WhcmIM
Copic Markers: http://shrsl.com/24gts
Soft Stone cardstock 50 ct: http://shrsl.com/269m1
Vintage Jadeite cardstock 50 ct: http://shrsl.com/269mx
Katz Coaster Blanks: http://estore.katzamericas.com/category/Blank-Coasters