Stampotique Guest Designer - Birds and Bees Card

It's my last week as one of the Stampotique guest designers and I had such a great month! Thank you so much to Stampotique for offering me this spot. It's been a while since I've had time to be creative and this was the perfect reason to get inky. I had a wonderful time! And just a little FYI before I post my final project. I know it's been ages since I've posted on my blog. Almost two years ago I accepted a full-time offer for work and that has made it nearly impossible for me to find the time to create. On top of that, our family is moving yet again (it's a good thing!!) and my entire craft room is packed and will remain packed for a few months. Please feel free to follow me on Instagram (kim.schofield.12) where I'll be sharing sneak peeks into what's going on with us along with a lot of cat photos! :-) I'll be back to crafting and posting as soon as I can!!

On to today's project, which is supposed to feature birds and bees...but my card features butterflies and a place where you'd find birds and bees...that works, right?

I started my card by creating a background using Distress Oxide inks and water. I used a blending tool to apply the color and then spritzed on some water to create some fun texture.

I then used the Thinking of You stamp and Hickory Smoke Distress Ink to repeatably stamp the sentiment over the entire background, making sure to alter the location of the image so it wasn't in a straight line.

My pretty floral image was stamped on Neenah Solor White cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I did add some shimmer to the butterfly wings, but it's tough to see in photos. I ended up not using the sentiment I colored, but using the Love one instead, which was heat embossed on black cardstock using white embossing powders.

I fussy cut the floral image and popped it up on white cardstock for a little dimension. My main image was added to the card front with the sentiment and a few gems.

Thanks again for following along this month and thanks to Stampotique for asking me to be a guest designer. I had a blast! Happy crafting!

Products:

-Springtime stamp

-Where There is Love stamp

-Salutations 2 stamp

-Distress Ink

-Blending Tool

Stampotique Guest Designer - All About Pets Card

Happy Meow Day, friends! (I'm not sure that's an actual holiday...but it should be!) I'm back for week three of my Stampotique guest designer spot and am excited that we're continuing last week's theme of All About Pets. One cat is good, but it's not as fabulous as 50 cats! And while I don't have a video for you today, I am going to share step-by-step photos of today's card, which is super simple to create and includes a fun technique. So let's go!

I'm starting out with my Mini Misti, Neenah Solar White cardstock, Post-in Note tape, and Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink in my all time favorite color, Watering Can. While you don't need to have a Misti for this technique it is helpful. You will also want to use Archival Inks if you intend to watercolor as this ink is water proof. Lastly, the Stampotique stamps are wood mounted stamps, which would normally be impossible to use with a Misti. However, you can remove the red rubber from the blocks and simply use double sided tape to hold them on your stamping block. Easy peasy!

I started by stamping one row of cats and them stamping a second time (without re-inking) on to the Post-It Note tape. Next, I fussy cut out the row of cats, use the mask to cover the first row of cats, and re-stamp the next row of stamps. Notice that I only masked off the heads of the cats because that's all I needed.

Once you're done, you have an entire card full of cats!! I did trim down this piece of cardstock a bit so that there wasn't as much white space around the edges. Now to get working on my focal point image.

I stamped another row of cats on a second piece of cardstock, and used Distress Inks to watercolor one cat image. (I am using watercolor paper for this project!) To use Distress Inks for watercoloring, simple smoosh some ink from the ink pad onto a non-stick craft sheet and use a water brush to pick up the color. I'm a big fan of the water brushes with the water in the barrel, makes coloring super simple.

I fussy cut out the cat, die cut a large circle out of gray cardstock, and repeatably stamped the Purfect sentiment on the circle. I also stamped this hysterical sentiment on white cardstock and individually cut out the words.

To finish my card, I added a 2" piece of vellum to the cat card background, which was mounted to a dark gray card base. I then attached the circle, cat, and sentiment using foam tape. A few sparkly gems added the finishing touch to this sassy kitty card. (And my cat is painted like our cat, Sasha.) Super fun project, I hope you enjoyed! Happy Crafting!

Products:

-Kitty Squad stamp (how great is that stamp name!)

-Phrase Cube

-Salutations 2 stamp

-Distress Inks

-Water Brush

-Watercolor Cardstock

-Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink

-Wendy Vecchi Perfect Adhesive

-Vellum

Stampbotique Guest Designer - Art Journal Layout

Hello friends and welcome to this week's project! I'm so excited to be a guest designer for Stampotique for the month of February. During this month, I will be posting a project every week so be sure to check back next week! Each week Stampotique includes a theme or challenge for their posts and this week it was to use cardboard in your project. I opted to create an art journal layout using products from Dina Wakley and Stampotique. And to make these super easy, I have a step-by-step video for you to watch to see how this project came together. Product links below the video. Thanks so much to Stampotique for the opportunity to use their lovely stamps for this month! Happy crafting!

Products:

-Take Your Time Stamp

-Where There is Love Stamp

-Dina Wakley Art Journal

-Dina Wakley Paints

-Dina Wakley Stencils

-Brushes - The brushes are still available!

-Wendy Vecchi Perfect Adhesive

You're So Amazing

Happy Monday!  Wow...I can't believe it's already Monday again!  Is it just me or do the weeks fly by at an accelerated pace once one is...cough...cough...over 30? :-)  This girl could really use a four day weekend each week.  Yeah...that's it...work for three days, have four days off!  New work week! LOL!

Today I'm excited to share that I'm the guest designer for the Splitcoast CAS team!  Today's challenge was to create a white card with a white layer.  I confess that I had a bunch of ideas for this challenge, and even created a different card, but then this idea popped into my head and I opted to give my idea a try!  I only added a plain white layer on top of my white card base and punched each corner so I could add tiny rhinestones.  Then I went crazy with my Martha Stewart butterfly punch.  I actually just grabbed a few scraps and started punching!  Once I had my a good pile of butterflies I started laying them out on my card.  I figured out how I wanted them on the card before I started attaching with glue dots.  Then I added this sweet sentiment from Paper Smooches (love Kim's fonts!) 

And that, my friends, is my CAS card for today!  Hop on over to the forum and play along with today's challenge.  The team has created some amazing cards!!

Much Love

Guess what? I'm the guest designer over on the Splitcoast CAS message board this morning! You can check out the entire post, and all of the lovely cards, here. I'm very excited about my little guest spot! Love that CAS group!

My card was definitely clean and simple! (Well it was simple after I spent about an hour staring at my cardstock! LOL!) I actually had an entirely different design in mind when I started. (Isn't it fun to see how some of your card designs evolve from your original thoughts?)

This card features stamped and die cut hearts, all in a nice little pile (thanks to lots of foam tape!) The hearts were cut with the Heart Die Set from Sweet 'n Sassy. Before I cut out the hearts, I used a text background stamp from SU! and Spun Sugar Distress Ink to stamp on a piece of cardstock. After the hearts were cut, I selected three that I liked and used foam tape, in different thickness (the big heart is taped flat, the medium heart is attached with 1/16" thick foam tape, and the small heart is attached with 1/8" thick foam tape). Then I added a tiny white button, from Papertreyink, tied with white and pink twine, from Sweet 'n Sassy. The tiny sentiment is from the Rose Collage stamp set, also from Sweet 'n Sassy.

Enjoy and be sure to check out all of the great artwork on the CAS board today...and join in the challenge!!