CardMaker Magazine and Clearsnap blog hop

I don't need any excuse to play with inks and stamps and making cards, etc. but a blog hop using some wonderful Clearsnap products makes playing even more fun.  The blog team for CardMaker Magazine and for Clearsnap are joining in to show off specifically the ColorBox Fluid Chalk stamp pads.  I have loved these inks for years.  The results are so beautiful and interesting and I created two very different cards to try to show off what they inks are about.  You should be coming here from Kim's blog.

 One of my absolute favorite ways to use the Chalk inks is to add color to my surface.  The resulting look and feel is like velvet.  I stamped the flowers and leaves first using some Altenew stamps. I used a white ColorBox pigment stamp pad to stamp the images and then use white embossing powder.  The pigment inks stay wet long enough to add the embossing powder.  Once the images are heat embossed, I then took the Chalk stamp pad in the color Cheeky and rubbed it directly over the entire surface of my paper.  It covers so nicely.  The embossed lines of the images resist the ink.  I added in a little bit of color to portions of the flower and leaves with a Copic marker just to add dimension in the colors.  

 I then used a stencil that I placed on my pink card front.  I used the white Chalk stamp pad and added that ink directly over the stencil.  I loved the soft design that resulted.  

I also wanted to show how these inks stamp, especially with a solid image.  I did use a watercolor paper.  You would get a different result from a smooth finish paper.  I again used a set of stamps from Altenew.  First of all I stamped the outline image of the flower randomly around my card front.  I used a simple black Clearsnap for that.  I used the Splash color ink for the solid flower image and then used the Chive color for the leaves.  I added a little contrast of color by rubbing the Cheeky color pad directly along the edges of my card front.  These pads are just perfect for this and I liked adding that surprise of color.  

I did accent the middles of each flower with some Glossy Accents and the black tag with the white words was stamped with the ColorBox white pigment pad and embossed with Clearsnap white embossing powder on black cardstock.  

From here complete the hop by stopping by the Clearsnap blog to see what they are up to plus there are prizes to be won.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

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Reverse Confetti stamps and CardMaker Magazine blog hop

I sure hope you hopping along and taking in the fun creations that both the Reverse Confetti stamps team and the CardMaker Magazine blog team have created for this joint hop.  You have probably come here to my blog from Lisa's Blog.  

 I picked the Tie-rific stamp set along with the matching die set to create with and I'm going to share two cards created with that set.  I was excited to get a masculine set of stamps since I always find that theme to be a challenge.  I also got the Topped Off Tag die set.  The background for my card was created with Distress Stain.  I used the blue and the orange ink to help set the color combination I wanted to use.  

 Here is a close up of the tie and the word "dad" that I used.  The tie is stamped first and then cut with the matching die and the word "dad" is cut twice from cardstock.  

 I wanted to use a completely different color combination for my second card.  That helps show that the stamps and dies can be versatile.  The background was created with a Clearsnap stencil and a chalk stamp pad from Clearsnap.  

The word "dad" is cut out of the black pocket and then cut again from the kraft colored cardstock and then the word is inlaid in the cut out words.  I created a simple handkerchief to insert in the pocket.

From here, hop on over to Leigh's blog to continue the fun.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CardMaker Blog Hop - American Crafts

The CardMaker blog team is showcasing an amazing collection of papers, stickers and other papercraft goodies from the Amy Tangerine Better Together collection from American Crafts. 

You should have come here from Pamela's Blog.

 I really wanted to use every single piece of the patterned papers in this collection.  I just love how they work together.  For my card I used five different pieces of the papers.  

 This collection comes with a package of foam words and I used the "hooray" word for my card.  One of my favorite things are really intense black letters and words. The flowers are from the rub on collection.  

 Here's a little close up of my little variety of patterns.

 Given that I loved this collection so much I just had to also put together a layout using the products.  Again they are patterns that were just created to be used together.  

 I cut out some of the flowers from the one piece of paper.

The words are also from the collection of foam words.  The black makes such a stand out statement.

From here hop on over to Dawn's blog.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CardMaker Magazine and Faber Castell blog hop

Its an exciting time, the Cardmaker blog team is hosting a blog hop featuring some great supplies from Faber-Castell.  Sometime during the hop, stop by the Faber-Castell blog since they are giving away some good stuff. 

 The featured products from Faber-Castell was a Paper Flower kit that included Gelatos.  It was fun to sit down, pull out everything in the kit and to just play. 

 I had used Gelatos before but I wanted to really see what they could do so I enjoyed spending some time doing just that.  I ended up with several pieces that I know I will use on cards in the future but for this hop and for my card I settled on this great background.  Gelatos are in a small, shape similar to a lip stick.  They react to water so I scribbled some colors on my watercolor paper and then used water to spread them around.  I also used those same Gelatos to add color to the various layers of flowers that I used.  

The kit includes a number of flower shapes, almost all white and cut from a few different types of paper.  The different papers take these inks differently so that was a neat part of the playing process.  I used quite a bit of water on my background so the inks did run and of course, those runs became a big part of my finished card.

Please continue the hop by going on over the Lisa Silvers blog.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CardMaker Magazine and May Arts Blog Hop

The CardMaker Magazine blog team and May Arts Ribbon team are combining to host a blog hop.  It's a great way to share some fun cards and to feature all of the fun that is involved with May Arts ribbons.  If you are following the hop,  you might have come here from Latrice Murphy's blog.

Find all of the details on either the CardMaker Magazine blog or the May Arts Ribbon blog because there are prizes to be won.

 I started out with a simple background by embossing a design with a Lil' Inker cover up die into a piece of watercolor paper.  

 Next, to let a couple of the ribbons shine that I was given to play with, I tied a bow that included the pink ribbon and the cute white lace ribbon.  The sentiment is a die from Lawn Fawn cut from red glitter paper.  

 I just had to create another card because I completely fell in love with this banner ribbon.  Let me tell you this stuff is genius.  It is SELF ADHESIVE!!!! In no time at all you have it attached to your card or project.  

The background is another embossed piece by using a dot embossing folder.  It is finished off with some snowflake dies, the biggest one is from Simon Says Stamp.  

From my blog hop on over to Lori Williams blog.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CardMaker Magazine - Flower Soft blog hop

Hope you are having fun on this great blog hop. You should have arrived here from Krista's blog.

If you are just starting at my blog, you can catch up by starting at the CardMaker blog or the Flower Soft blog.

 The theme is cards with animals so I went straight to my Cricut machine and pulled out my Create a Critter cartridge. 

 I wanted to make sure I used some Flower Soft on my card too, so I added some Ultra Fine green Flower Soft to the leaves on my little vine.  The flowers here are punched.

I also added some of the same Flower Soft to my cut grass pieces.

From here, hop on over to Kimberly's blog for more inspiration and the next step in the hop.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)