Stretch Your Stamp Class Last Takeaway

Hi All!

Sharing another card I made with my learning from SYS Online Card Class. I simply adored the card made by Yana Smakula, from guest faculty using paper smooches stamps and masking.

Here it is,

I did some masking as taught by Yana. Loved the colors on the Kraft paper. I so wanted to try embossed die cutting which is trending now a days. After all the stamping, I cut "Hello" sentiment using cutting dies. After that I cut 5-7 "hello" die cut using black cardstock, stacked and glues all the die cuts together keeping the stamped die cut at the top. This will give you a sturdy chipboard shaped "Hello" die cut.

See, how thick it is.. I deliberately used black cardstock so that the diecut pops out a little.

I hope you guys liked it.

Supplies used :

1. Stamps : Paper Smooches Botanical 2
2. Dies : Avery Elle Hello Die
3. Inks : PTI Smoking Shadow, Raspberry Fizz, Scarlet Jewel and Enchanted Evening Ink Cubes
4. Cardstock : PTI black and Kraft Card stock.

Challenges Entered :

1. Paper Smooches - Anything Goes (Ends 23rd Aug)

2. Penny Black All Sorts  - Anything Goes (Ends 3rd September)
3. Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes (Ends 3rd September)
4. Brown sugar challenge. - Let's get Krafty

Thanks for Stopping by and have a great day!

- Priya 

Papertrey Ink - Sweet Life

Alright Peeps,

I am super exicted to share this card of mine. I was finally able to lay my hands on PTI stuff and oh boy! I am completely blown away by the quality of their inks, stamps, CS, designs... in short everything! Even the packing was done so neatly and with lots of love and care.. I have to confess, the PTI CS is of the top most quality as compared to the other brand I have worked with during my entire crafting journey.. 3 years!

Check out my first card I made with PTI stamp and die set - Sweet Life. It's such a versatile stamp with such b'ful roses. This is suitable for beginners as well as stampers who has already mastered the stamping techniques. One can choose the level of stamping from single level to three level. I went with 2 level stamping. I stamped roses in the shade of pink. Then with darker shade, I stamped the rose shadow stamp with darker color.. and the final impression is so b'ful.. isn't it?

Challenges entered :

1. Penny black at all sorts - Anything Goes - (ends 3rd Sept.)

2. Sir stamp alot challenge - Anything Goes  - (ends 3rd Sept.)

3. Kraft Zone - CAS - (ends 30th Aug)

4. simonsaysstampblog - Anything Goes (Monday challenge)

Supplies Used :

1. Card Stock :Neenah White, PTI Classic Kraft

2. Stamps and Dies : PTI Sweet Life

3. Inks : PTI Hibiscus Burst, Scarlet Jewel Cube, Simply Chartreuse 

4. Enamel dots from my stash

This is it for today. Have a great day!

Love,

Priya

Stretch Your Stamps - Word Search Technique

Hi All!

Today I am sharing another card I made after learning new techniques called "Word Search" at Stretch your stamps. This is a fantastic way to use your alphabet stamps. Have a look.

 Firstly, stamp your main sentiment and then align random alpha stamps on your acrylic block in a row. and then stamp it around the main sentiment. Stamp press or stamping block with gird lines comes very handy to align the stamps correctly with the main sentiment.

I gave another twist to the technique. Since the sentiment starts with 'you', I stamped the alphabet 'U' separately with red colored ink. 

Easy peasy! I love this Milo ABC stamp set from Lawn Fawn. Font is classy and neat. Another gr8 thing with this stamp set is that it usually has 2-4 stamp of each character so that you don't run out of alphas while stamping your sentiment. 

Challenges entered :
1. Kraft Zone - CAS - (ends 30th Aug)
2. simonsaysstampblog - Anything Goes (Monday challenge)

I hope you guys will like it. Please leave some feedback.. :)

Love,

Priya

Faux Watercoloring - Bricked Backgroud

Hi All,

Quickly sharing another card I made as a homework at OCC - Stretch Your Stamps. I used the same water coloring on reverse background technique but this time created a bricked background instead of tiled one.

Have a look :

Here is the watercolor paper before I started creating bricks out of it. Brick size is 1.25 x .5 inches. After cutting out, I distressed each brick piece with Frayed Burlap distress ink. It was quite difficult to keep all the pieces of paper together so keep intact the stamp design. It was like a jigsaw puzzle! :D

Here is the list of supplies I used :

1. Cardstock : Neenah Solar white 110 lbs
2. Stamps : Justrite Cling Background - Rose Garden, Paper Smooches Bold Buzzwords

3. Distress Inks, Prima Flowers and Kaisercraft Rhinestone crystals

Have a great day!

Priya