This little garden stamp from Impression Obsession can easily by lined up to make an entire garden if you are looking for a wider image. In this card we have used it as a single stamp and die cut it to a fancy shape. When you are trying to frame a die cut and the border created when you use the next size up is too heavy, you can always use the same size and cut it in half creating a side shadow both left and right.  To create the embossed image on the white layer we used six nesting dies ridge side down to the card and we used a tan embossing mat.  Refer to Jennifer McGuire's Youtube video. Click Here.
The "Get Well Soon" die from Impression Obsession is a lovely size to fit into most of your card designs. We coloured the flowers with Tombow markers and added some glitter for effect. The finishing touches are tiny butterfly stickers from Starform

This is a fun technique card. We used the new Distress Oxide Inks in Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean, Cracked Pistachio and Wilted Violet. Using a finger dauber we added areas of colour on the underneath layer. When you cut your die, you will save the waste piece to fit back into the puzzle. This protects all the excess colouring from showing through. White emboss the Magenta Wildflowers on a bright blue layer and add this layer to the right of the card. 

Daisy Delight

We have a lovely blue sky, warm summer day outside which brings to mind summer flowers.  Leane Creatief  is the manufacturer of this sweet die set and matching embossing folder. In the card sample we have embossed the front of the card with the daisy embossing folder.  There is a strip of printed paper just wider than the white raised panel.  The flourish die is from Cheery Lynn Designs ($13.95), and I consider it a staple in my die assortment.  The daises have been die cut from white and distressed with picked raspberry.  Don't forget to die cut an extra daisy to decorate your inside verse panel.

June 29, 2017

There is something very magical about this lovely foil embossed Penny Black background paper. The Tim Holtz flowers were inked with Wendy Vecchi's mini archival pads and stamped directly to the paper. I choice the archival inks because these oil based dies remain more vibrant on the printed paper than the markers would.  The flowers will appear as if they are under the gold foil script.  To continue, I die cut some of the wild flowers from the set shown out of white cardstock and used Tombow markers to colour.  The final touches were a bit of chunky clear glitter on the die cut flower heads and a "Happy Birthday" sticker from Starform.

June 22, 2017

Although there have been a number of dragonfly dies previous to this one, I love the size and shape of this new die from Impression Obsession.  The background paper is double sided from Magenta. We added Stick-It tape to the top of white card stock before we cut the dragonfly.  Once cut, you can peel off the backing and simply dip the dragonfly into the Seahorse glitter from WOW. The rounded rectangle pierced label is from a set of nesting dies from Nellie.  I think you'll have a lot of fun with tape and glitter technique.  It lends itself to so many varied die cuts; there are no limits.  This technique makes for quick and snazzy cards.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

I know it's been a while, but we're going to get back at it.  Things have been going very well at the store; at times too well. When you own a small business, wearing so many different hats can allow for time restraints.  We are presently working a new web page and hope to have that up and running soon. Also, check out our facebook posts at stampart london.

The die set featured is a fun grouping of flowers, stems and a mason jar from Ken Oliver.  Using your Ken Oliver Color Bursts or Magenta's Nuances, you are going to add bright colours to your water colour paper. This colourful background allows for great colour combinations when you die-cut the flower heads.  In this card sample, the white layer has been lifted with foam tape to create a shaker opening in the mason jar.  There is a piece of acetate attached behind the mason jar cut out to hold the glitter, sequins or micro-beads.  If you find that the die-cut stems are too difficult to work with, you might want to just stamp some stem lines in your mason jar instead.

Sizzix has a new product called Paper Leather Sheets. You can use this product to emboss, stamp on, add shape to die cuts and stitch. In the project below, we've used the leather paper as a book-binding. The grey leather paper was embossed with Tailored embossing folder from Tim Holtz. The folder gave us our 1 inch cuts and a centre line to follow for folding. Each page in the book was made by die-cutting Sizzix tag die 660280. The pockets were made by scoring each tag at 2 1/2 inches from the bottom and folding up and gluing the pocket.

All of the papers used for the book came from Sizzix paper pad Fox Tales.

Each of the pockets holds a small note which is folded to 3 x 5 inches. The front and back cover were also cut with the tag dies out of a heavier mat board. The bottom 2 and 1/2 inches was cut off of each heavy tag to match up with the pages. The front and back cover were covered inside by another tag, and outside with printed paper.

Some of the papers are printed in black and white, so you can colour them yourself! Consider this your adult colouring book!