More Distress Oxide Reinker Salad Spun Beauty

My favorite color combo of Distress Oxide reinkers that I spun in my salad spinner for this background is Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry and Peacock Feathers. I chose those colors for both this card and the next one from my newest video here. The stamps on the card above are from a set at Stamplorations from Dee's Artsy Impressions called "Beautiful You." The card below features water droplet stamps from Designs by Ryn and an "awesome" die from Tonic Studios.

This is another stamped card I made with a salad spun background for the new video. I chose Tumbled Glass, Scattered Straw and Orange Marmalade Distress Oxide reinkers, a sentiment die from Karen Burniston and a cool Baseball in Motion stamp from Technique Junkies. 

To see many more cards and how easy it is to create these awesome backgrounds, be sure to watch the new video here. I hope my cards inspire you to give this technique and the products shared a try!

I am entering the first card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

We Can Do This Seahorse Encouragement Card

I had fun making this encouragement card and started by stamping the school of fish with a stamp by Designs by Ryn on a square blue background, then applied Nuvo Boatyard Blue Expanding Mousse through a Prima stencil. I heated the Expanding Mousse with a heat gun which makes it raised and bubbly for great texture. I stamped a few extra fish, cut them out and attached them with pop dots so they were raised above the rest. "We can do this" is a stamp from Gina K. Designs and was layered on a blue rectangle before attaching. 

The seahorse is a Sizzix Tim Holtz die cut out of chipboard and covered with Seth Apter Deep Sea Embossing Powder and some Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing powder which I melted with a heat gun. While it was still molten, I stamped with a Rubber Stamper Geometric Swirl Stamp for awesome texture and added a pearl for his eye. The completed card front was attached to a square dark blue card base.

I am entering this card in the May Take It Make It Challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine. 

Come Rain or Shine- More Likely Snow:(

The challenge this week at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is "Come Rain or Shine" and I am sharing this card with some of my favorite raindrops from Designs by Ryn. But here in central Wisconsin, we are expecting a major snow storm with up to a dozen inches of heavy snow. We had gotten rid of all our snow and today I saw my first robin, but Spring is going to be delayed a bit more now:(

I started this card by stamping the Designs by Ryn water droplets along with a rainy day couple and rain lines stamps by Local King Rubber Stamps on water color paper. Then I sprinkled on a couple shades of blue Brusho Coloured Crystals and spritzed with water to release the gorgeous colors. I highlighted the water droplets with a white gel pen.  I layered the completed piece on white and then onto a black card base.

I am entering this card in the March challenge at Designs by Ryn as well as the SSS Wednesday challenge.

Believe in Who You Are

I love the sentiment on this card from Dylusions and made it the focus on this card on a background created with blue Brushos on yupo paper. I also stamped waterdrops from Designs by Ryn and highlighted them with white enamel accents. The colorful porpoise was created with a stamp from Door County Rubber Stamps and brushos on regular watercolor paper.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Crafting From the Heart, Simon Says Stamp,  and Love to Scrap! 

July/August Issue of Through the Craftroom Door Available Now!

The new July/August 2015 issue of Through The Craft Room Door magazine is available for your viewing pleasure in the "Subscribers Only Area" of the TTCRD website.  It is loaded with over 180 pages of paper craft tutorials, tons of inspiration and projects you can create.  Plus free digis, and two articles by me – one comparing Bisters, Brusho and Color Burst powders and one about Send a Smile 4 Kids. Come check it out! If you do not currently subscribe to the magazine you will need to go to the top of the page and click on the Subscription/Renewals tab. I highly recommend everyone get a subscription to this great on line magazine!

In my article comparing the three colored powders, I included sample cards featuring each of the colored crystals. The card above is one of the cards shown in the article. It features Brusho Coloured Crystals and some beautiful stamps by Designs by Ryn.

I am entering this card in the July Customer Creation Challenge at Designs by Ryn and the Anything Goes challenge at Simply Papercraft.

Live Well Laugh Often Love Much

The sentiment on this card is one of my favorites of all time. I decided to frame the sentiment (stamp by Northwoods) with a feather opening created with a QuicKutz die. To see what I did with the feather I cut out, come back tomorrow. I started with a piece of watercolor paper that I sprinkled on sandstone and olive green Brusho Colour Crystals and spritzed with a gold spray from Heidi Swapp. Then I stamped the leaves from Designs by Ryn in black ink. I die cut the feather opening and stamped the "Live Well" in the feather frame. I added a couple gems to complete the card.

I am entering this card in the "Take a Stamp" challenge at Craft Stamper Magazine and the Anything Goes challenge at 613 Avenue Create.

Bokeh Going Dotty Thank You Card

One of my favorite ways of going dotty on my cards is to create a colorful Brusho background on watercolor paper, then sponge white pigment ink through a stencil of different sized circles for a Bokeh look. After the pigment ink was dry, I stamped Designs By Ryn's water droplets all over the piece and highlighted them with white enamel accents. I layered the piece on a navy blue card and added a die cut "thank you" circle from Impression Obsession.

I am entering this card in the "Going Dotty" challenge at Simon Says Stamp and the July challenge at Designs by Ryn. I am also entering the card into the Take It Make It challenge for July at Craft Stamper Magazine.

Hello Friend Raindrop Card

I love playing with the water droplets stamps from Designs by Ryn and this card was the result of an idea that came to me one night. I keep a pen and paper by my bedside for ideas that pop into my head before falling asleep. I stamped the raindrops with several colors of blue ink and highlighted most of them with white enamel accents. I die cut 4 colorful umbrellas out of polka dotted dp using a new die from Memory Box. Then I die cut the top again and popped the second layer up with pop dots. "Hello Friend" is a die from Spellbinders and I cut it out with the blue polka dotted dp. I added a gem to dot the i.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at Simon Says Stamp and Craft Your Passion.

Cute Raindrops Card

Today I am sharing another card I made with the water droplets stamp from Designs by Ryn. I stamped the water (rain) drops on a polka dot dp from Close to my Heart with black ink and highlighted the drops with white enamel accents from Ranger. The umbrella, rainboots and flowers are outline stickers from Elizabeth Crafts which I attached to sticky two sided paper from Sookang, sprinkled with white fine glitter, then colored with bright Copics. I added a white die cut "hi" from Paper Smooches and dotted the i with a white gem.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp and the "cute with a sentiment" challenge at Aud Sentiments.

Raindrops on Roses and...

The water drop stamps by Designs by Ryn are among my favorite things right now and I designed some more cards recently with them. I created a soft rose with a stencil I made out of acetate with a Penny Black rose die. I attached the stencil to water color paper with temporary tape, and then pulled in pink, red and green shades with baby wipes and gelatos. I colored Ryn's water droplets stamps with Faded Jeans Distress Markers, spritzed with water and stamped. Next I added some clear gems to each water drop. I printed the words, cut out and attached.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at 613 Avenue Create and the May Customer Challenge at Designs by Ryn. 

Playing with Ryn's Water Drops

I am designing cards for a Take 5 article in an upcoming Scrap and Stamp Arts featuring Designs by Ryn's water drop stamps. So far I have three cards done I really like and this is one of them. I like layering vellum on top of a card with stamping on three layers that you can see through. I used three different sizes of water drops and three different tones of blue ink and printed a beautiful sentiment on the top layer of vellum. I rounded the corners and covered up the adhesive on each of the three layers of vellum with a strip of washi tape.

I am entering this card in the "Add a Sentiment" challenge at Loves Rubberstamps and the May customer challenge at Designs by Ryn.

More New Stamp Companies to Share!

Once in a while I see a stamp on a blog or on Pinterest and absolutely have to have it. That happened with these waterdrops from Designs by Ryn and the shatter glass I featured on this blogpost  from Local King Rubber Stamp. Of course when I see one stamp I love, I have to search the whole website to find some more to order too:) At Local King I found a set called Walkin' in the Rain that I could not resist. I punched some hexagons out of a blue patterned paper, and stamped the lady with an umbrella and the raindrops. I stamped Ryn's water drops in blue in on a white cardbase and highlighted them with enamel accents from Inkssentials. I attached the hexagon pieces with a little white between them and then attached the die cut Thinking of You (Penny Black.) I am loving these new stamps especially the water droplets from Designs by Ryn, and will be posting more cards with them soon.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenges at 613 Avenue Create and Scribble and Scrap and the May challenge at Designs by Ryn.

Water Droplets and Another Brusho Technique

I am loving my new water droplets stamp from Designs by Ryn and trying new techniques using Brusho Crystal Colors (or Bisters or Color Burst.) I watched this video and decided to try blowing the colors across the page. I have heard you can get similar results blowing through a straw, but I used Tim Holtz's Distress Marker Spritzer as was shown in the video and was pleased with the fun background it creates. Basically to do this look, create a puddle of water and mix in the color crystals, then blow the liquid and the colored water creates the lines shown. Then I stamped with Ryn's beautiful leaves and water droplets and layered on to a navy blue card base.

I tried it again with different shades of blue Brushos, then stamped first and second generations of the water droplets. I stamped a fish from Repeat Impressions onto a glossy Brusho piece and cut it out. The sentiment stamp is also from Repeat Impressions.

I am entering these cards in the Make Your Own Background at Simon Says Stamp and the April challenge at Designs by Ryn.

New Discoveries to Share

Can I just say I LOVE this card?! I was inspired by this beautiful card  and some new stamps I had to have from a new stamp company I just discovered. The water drops on this card is a gorgeous stamp from a company in Canada called Designs by Ryn.  She has a whole sheet of different water drops in unmounted rubber and also individual stamps on cushion.In addition to the unique water drops stamps, there are many other artistic and beautiful stamps. Of course I wanted many many of her other stamps too, and will be ordering again soon.

I also discovered a new website called Live Love Cards where new tutorial videos and cards are posted often and there is a whole library of great ideas available for only $2.50 per month. I have not had time to totally explore all the videos, but for less than the cost of a cup of coffee per month, I have joined and recommend you check it out. The challenge this month at Live Love Cards is rainbows and when I saw that, I knew I had to make a card with rainbow colors in the water drops and the background. I stamped the raindrops on a white strip and colored them in the ROYGBIV colors using watercolor pencils. The background was created with the same colors in order using Brusho Crystal Colours sprinkled on watercolor paper and spritzed with water. I printed the sentiment on vellum and attached with glue dots covered up with yellow candy dots. I added some white enamel accents to the dots on the water drops which really makes them pop.

I am entering this card in the April challenge at Designs by Ryn, the April Rainbow challenge at Live Love Cards and the Make Your Own Background at Simon Says Stamp.