Fall Inky Card

 Happy Saturday Stampers! This is Michelle from the Design Team with a new card share. Lately, I've been making lots of Fall cards with inky backgrounds. I want to share one with you today. So here it is.

I had a lot of fun making this card and I got a little messy too! To start, I cut an A2 card base from white cardstock. Then I cut a 4x5.25 inch card panel from white cardstock. Next, I picked out 3 colors of Distress oxide inks. I used a brown, a yellow, and an orange. I inked up my mat and spritzed with water. Then I smooshed my card panel onto the ink. I did a few layers using my heat tool in between smooshing to layer the ink and get this effect. Once it was dry I layered the Leaf Branch Stencil on top and inked a green Distress Oxide ink over the stencil. Once that was dry, I added some ink splatters. I stamped the leaf, bird and sentiment from the Happy Scarecrow Stamp and die set. I used foam tape to secure them to the card panel. 

Let's take a look at the items I used.

Thank you for visiting with me today! I hope you have time to get inky and crafty this weekend!

Quick and Easy Birthday Card

 Happy Saturday Stampers! This is Michelle from East Bay Stamp Chick with a card share for you. You know we are celebrating Sweet 'n Sassy's 14th birthday this month, so I have a birthday card for you. This card is so easy too.

This card has a simple stencil and ink background. I used the new Vintage Doily on a panel that measures 3.75x5 inches. Just simple ink over the stencil background, quick and easy. I cut a panel to go underneath that is 4x5.25 inches in a blue. The packages are simply colored with alcohol ink markers. I didn't do any shading or use more than 1 color at a time. The packages are from the Birthday Borders stamp set. Lastly, that cute cupcake and the sentiments are from the new Joyful Day stamp set. Again , I did very simple coloring. I added a ribbon and sequins from my stash. So easy and fun!

Here's a look at what I used.

You can never have too many birthday cards ready to go. I hope you get a chance to spend some time crafting this weekend! Thanks for stopping by! 

Easy Blooming Anemones Card

 Happy Saturday Stampers!

Michelle here from East Bay Stamp Chick. I have another card share for you.

I love the new Blooming Anemones Stamp set but didn't have the time to do all the coloring so, I added color with ink blending. Quick and easy!

Ink blending is a quick and easy way to add color without having to color each petal or detail. I started the card with a white piece of cardstock measuring 4x5.25. I used distress oxides. I started at the top with Twisted Citron, then Cracked Pistachio. Next I used Salvaged Patina and then finally Peacock Feathers at the bottom.  

After the ink blending. I embossed the large floral from the set with white embossing powder. The sentiment is in white embossing powder as well and is from the Love Wordfetti set. The Friend die is a new die in the shop and I used a brushed silver metallic paper to die cut it from. Both the black strip and the word friend are popped up on foam squares. I also popped up the entire panel on foam squares before mounting it to my cared base.

Here's a closer look at the sets I used.

Thanks so much for visiting today! I hope you have a chance to get crafty this weekend!

  

New Sale at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

 Happy Saturday Stampers! It's Michelle here from East Bay Stamp Chick.

We have a new sale at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps 25% off all stamp set designed by Nina B.

To celebrate the sale I made a new card featuring the Nina B stamp sets Thrill of Hope and Mason Jar Bouquet.

Thrill of Hope is traditionally a Christmas set but I though by adding the sentiment from the Mason Jar Bouquet set it made it more usable anytime. To make this card, I used a panel from one of my gel press prints. I love the gel press because every time you get something different. I though this piece was perfect for a night sky. I heat embossed the images with white embossing powder. I actually made a mistake and that is why the sentiment is on a navy piece of cardstock. I had originally heat embossed it right on the card in white. but I messed it up! So I had to add it on the navy cardstock to cover my mistake. I added a few sequins for shimmer and it's done. A very easy card!

Here's a look at the sets I used.

I hope you find some time this weekend to get crafty! Thank you for visiting and spending time with me today! 

Big Bold Butterfly

 Hi Stampers!

This is Michelle from East Bay Stamp Chick with a card share.

Today's card features a big, bold butterfly from the new stamp set Garden Whimsy.

This butterfly is so fun to color. I love all the bold colors. I used alcohol ink markers to color it. The sentiment is also from the same set. For the background I used the new Delightfully Delicate stencil. Here's a closer look at them.

I added some sequins and heat embossed the sentiment and the card is done. So easy!

I hope you have some fun crafting this weekend!

Floral Fun

 Happy Saturday Stampers!

This is Michelle here from East Bay Stamp Chick with another card share. The February release has been packed full of great stamp sets! Today I am featuring one of the smaller sets from the release, The Floral Background.

The Floral Background is the stamp of the month for February. It's free when you spend $60 or you can purchase it for $11.95.

To make my card, all you need to do is apply different colors of ink to a white card panel. You don't have to blend the colors just get the ink on the paper. Then I stamped on the card panel with an embossing ink. I used gold embossing powder and heat set it. To make the background around the flowers black, I colored it in with a black alcohol ink marker. I die cut a heart from vellum and embossed the sentiment, hello, from the True Beauty stamp set. I added a few sequins to finish the card.

I hope you have some time this weekend to get crafty! Don't forget to share with us what you make!

Encouraging Peonies

 Happy Saturday Stampers!

Michelle here today from East Bay Stamp Chick with some quick and easy cards. I love floral cards and one of my favorite things to do is to stamp the same image multiple times and then color each card panel in different colors or styles. I love to see how the same image looks so different in different colors.

So I stamped and heat embossed in white embossing powder the same image 3 times on watercolor paper. I used the Encouraging Peonies Stamp set.

I absolutely love this stamp set. It is one of my favorites! And it's in the Overstock Sale right now, so it's 20% off!!

To create the faux watercolor look, I used a watercolor powder. There are lots of brands out there. The one I used is called Brushos. Any brand will work. Once you have stamped the image with an embossing ink and heat set an embossing powder you are ready to sprinkle the watercolor powders on your paper. Make sure you use a heavy weight paper like watercolor paper for this. After you sprinkle the powder, then mist your paper with water. I use a small spray bottle from the cosmetic department in Target. Mist as much or as little water onto the paper as you want and watch the powders mix and come alive. Every time you do this it will be different. Here are close ups of each card.

I dried each panel with a heat tool. Then I ran the edge of the paper over my embossing ink pad and applied gold embossing powder on all the edges and heat set the embossing powder. Then I stamped my sentiment on each panel. I mounted each panel on fun foam and then adhered them to my A2 size card bases. Lastly, I added a few sequins.

Which color combination is your favorite? Let us know! Have a great weekend and I hope you have some time to get crafty!