Watercolor Stamping With Distress Markers + Video

How are you Mother's Day cards coming along?  In today's video I show you some easy techniques to make a vintage floral card for the special mom in your life.

This card started as a card for the current StampNation challenge to focus on the corners of our card.  I made a card for that challenge and then made 2 more panels that turned into different cards.  Here's a sneak peek of the StampNation Challenge card.

StampNation members Clicky to see the challenge and how the rest of the team was inspired.  

If you want to learn more about StampNation Clicky to see a quick video.

The technique is an easy one to learn.  I made a video for you so you can create your own panel and see where the inspiration leads you.

https://youtu.be/B9CTsnhVzf0

Tomorrow I will show you another card using a completely different layout using this stamping technique.   This card doesn't just have to be for more.  Change out the sentiment and you will have a feminine thank you, get well, thinking of you, friend, or sympathy card.  I love cards that are versatile like that!

Stamps: Water Blooms (Verve); Love Deepens (Verve)
Ink: Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, + Picked Raspberry & Mowed Lawn for the video (Distress Markers); Versamark; Gold Shimmer Spritz
Paper: Marshmallow (Bazzil)
Accesories: Princess Gold Embossing Powder (Ranger)

Mama Elephant Clear Stamps, Water Blooms

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Marshmallow, 25 pk

Ranger Embossing Powder, Princess Gold

Ranger Distress Marker, Worn Lipstick

Ranger Distress Marker, Shabby Shutters

Ranger Distress Marker Set of 12 w/ Tube

Mother's Day Shape

This card is the one I'll be sending to my mom.  It may look rather simple, but it took me a long time to figure out.  I had a practice sheet out playing with colors and layout.

You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find the right shade of purple for my lilacs, but it was.  Thank goodness for the MISTI, because at least the stamping part was easy.  

It's been a very long time since I pulled out my ovals, but it seemed appropriate for a Mother's Day card, and it fits the CASology theme perfectly. 

The finishing touch was to tuck in a doily between the ovals and add glossy accents to the vase to make it look like water in the glass.  How are you coming on your Mother's Day cards?  I have a couple more cards to show you this week, so come back if you need some inspiration.

Stamps: Coming Up Roses (Wplus9); Love Deepens (Verve)

Ink: Berrylicious (My Favorite Things); Blackberry Bliss, Blushing Bride, Pistachio Pudding, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi (Stampin' UP!); Plum Pudding (PaperTreyInk); Soft Blossoms (Hero Arts); Vesamark; Wink of Stella

Paper: Soft Sky, Whisper White (SU)

Accessories: Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder (Ranger); Oval Framelits (Stampin' UP!); MISTI

WPlus9 Design Studio Clear Stamps, Coming Up Roses

Hero Arts Shadow Ink, Soft Blossom

Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Tip Marker, Clear

Ranger Embossing Powder, Liquid Platinum

SAB Begins

Sale-A-Bration starts today!   If you don't know what SAB is, it's the biggest event of the year for Stampin' UP!  For every $50 in orders you get to chose a SAB item for FREE!

On my card today I have used two of the SAB items available, Banner Punch and Sweet Sorbet DSP.   I also paired it with the speech bubble from Essentials Wooden Elements.

My inspiration for today's card comes from the fabulous Seize the Sketch Challenge.

STS#12

What is your favorite SAB item? If you haven't seen the SAB catalog Clicky to check it out now.

Creative Blessings,
Heather North

Card Recipe
Stamps: Love Deepens (Verve), A Dozen Thoughts (SU)
Paper: Sweet Sorbet (SAB), Pool Party, Whisper White
Accessories: Banner Punch (SAB), Baker's Twine (Pretty Pink Posh), Essentials Wooden Elements (SU)

Friend Sister

Do you have friends that you are so close to that you feel they are like sisters?  I wasn't blessed with an actual sister but I have many friend sisters. Today's StampNation challenge is all about making cards for family.

Inspiration for this card came from the new Fusion Card Challenge.  As you can see I was inspired by the orange, blue, white and brown colors in the picture as well as the design of the sketch.  It was fun to play with a challenge that gave both sketch and picture.

FCC1

Can you see the little bit of shimmer on the embossed layer?  That came by running my Illuminate Glimmer Ink pad over the embossed die cut.

Now all I have to do is decide which of my sister friends this card is going to.   hmmmm.... who likes orange and blue?  

Creative Blessings,

Heather North

Stamps: Love Deepens (Verve), Postage Collection (Hostess)

Ink: Peach Parfait, Soft Sky
Paper: Sweet Sorbet DSP (SU), Early Espresso, Peach Parfait, Soft Sky, Whisper White

Misc: Subtles Candy Dots (SU), Jewelry Tag Punch, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Circle Framelits, Deco Label Framelits, Pretty Prints Embossing Folder

God Chose You...

Yesterday got away from me.  Do you ever have days like that?  Honestly, I have almost a dozen cards to show you already made, but I need the time at the computer to edit them and write up blog posts.  On the bright side I got to see many friends I haven't seen since before Christmas, and that is more important than time at the computer.

Thankfully I still have time to enter this card into this week's Mojo Monday contest.  Did you know they are even giving away prizes for this week's challenge?  They only do that once a month.  In celebration of that I used my only Verve stamp set.  I love my Verve stamp set and need to buy more.   Their fonts are so pretty and "scrolly".  If only I had an unlimited budget.  Someday I will get paid to creative, if only in free product.  ;)  Perhaps I will win this week and get to buy some more Verve stamps!  A girl can dream, can't she?

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The background of my card was created by stamping my new Hardwood stamp (SU) with white craft ink onto a Marina Mist card base.  Next I used a strip of Watercolor Wonder DSP and matted it with black.  That really helped make the card pop.  The focal panel was matted with black as well.

The little pop of Crisp Cantaloupe under my main image was stamped with a branch of leaves from Peaceful Petals (SU) using versamark.  It just looked too plain on this card before I added that simple stamping. Peaceful Petals was also what I used on my main image.  The blue flowers were colored with my new Christmas Copics.  I used SU markers for the stems and flower centers. Obviously I need more Copics.  ;)

Even though I knew I wanted to use the Verve stamp set for my Grandma's card I wasn't sure how to get it on my card without distracting too much with the image. In the end I embossed it in white on Vellum Cardstock and then used my neglected eyelets and some Calypso Coral Baker's Twine to tie it all together and get it stuck to my card.  It ended up being an element I really liked.

You may notice the inside is stamped with the same greeting as the outside. I did that because my Grandma has a hard time seeing and I wanted to be sure she knew what it said.   The inside is decorated with strips I cut off of the panel on the front of the card.

Creative Blessings,
Heather North

Card Supplies
Stamps: Hardwood (SU), Love Deepens (Verve), Peaceful Petals (SU)
Paper: Crisp Cantaloupe, Marina Mist, Basic Black, Watercolor Wonder DSP, White (Artist paper bought from my local art shop)
Ink: Copics- B93, B95, B97, Stampin' UP!- Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi, Versamark, Memento- Tuxedo Black
Misc: Calypso Coral Baker's Twine (SU), Eyelets (Unkown), White Embossing Powder (SU)

Daughter Love

Making cards for charities like Operation Write Home gives all of us a chance to uses stamps that we might not be able to otherwise.  For example, the sentiment below that comes from a beautiful verve set.  I don't have a daughter, so I have no chance to use this stamp unless I make a card for somebody else to give to his/her daughter.

The inspiration for this card came from the Philippines photo at StampNation for World Card Making Day.  While I was looking at this photo the thing that struck me was the obvious love between a mother and her daughter.

The tag was made by sponging white cardstock with Coastal Cabana ink.  Next I stamped the sentiment in Coastal Cabana.  It was too light, as I really wanted the sentiment to be the focal point, so I stamped again in black staz-on which gave it a shadow look that I love!  The sentiment was then cut out using one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits.

The top panel is embossed.  Each ribbon was wrapped around the card front and adhered to the back, then I used a glue dot to adhere the bow to the Calypso Coral ribbon.

What stamps sets do you have that have an element you want to use but don't have anyone to send it to?  Will it work for a charity card?  There are children's charities like Ronald McDonald house and children's hospitals, there are cancer centers, wounded veterans, OWH, nursing homes and many other people who could probably use them.  It feels good to give to someone you know will appreciate it. 

Plus, I now have an excuse to buy some little girl and little boy stamps even though my kids are too old for them.  ;)

Creative Blessings,
Heather North
Stamps: Love Deepens (Verve)
Ink: Coastal Cabana, Smoky Slate, Black Staz-On
Paper: Coastal Cabana, Eastern Elegance DSP, Smoky Slate, Whisper White
Accessories: Apothecary Accents Framelits, Calypso Coral Ruffled Ribbon, Coastal Cabana Stretch Ribbon, InColor Brad, Finial Press Embossing Folder



Eastern Elegance DSP



Ribbon




Apothecary Accents



HB KK

Happy Birthday to my friend and fellow SN design team member, Kristie Goulet.  Kristie is one of the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet.  She's always on top of the trends and on top of sending out cards too.  That is why when I found out today was her birthday I really wanted to make a card and get it sent out in today's mail.

If you've never seen Kristie's Kreations before, be sure to check out her blog.  She has a clean, trendy style with a bit of fun thrown in.  I decided to CASE one of her cards and make it my own with some Washi Tape.  Here is the card that inspired me.

Kristie Goulet

The inside of my card to her is decorated as well.  I stamped the sentiment, then put a strip of Washi Tape under it before punching it out with the Decorative Label punch.  Then I layered that punch with an Island Indigo Artisan Label Punch.  

After I mailed out the card and picked up the kids from school I made a couple more Washi Tape cards and even filmed a video.  :)  Hopefully I will have that video edited and up soon for you.  It really is a quick and fun card to make.  

Happy Birthday Kristie!  I hope all your birthday wishes come true!!!  Thanks for your friendship and inspiration.

Creative Blessings,

Heather North

Stamps: Bring on the Cake, Love Deepens(Verve)
Paper: Island Indigo, Whisper White

Ink: Island Indigo

Misc.: Gingham Garden Washi Tape, Basic Rhinestones, Artisan Label Punch, Decorative Label Punch

Artisan Label Punch

Gingham Garden Washi Tape

Mom's Day

Mother's Day is just around the corner.  Unfortunately both my mom and mother in law live over 600 miles away so we won't be seeing them on Mother's Day.  I had to send out both of their cards early in hopes they will get them by Friday.   Below is the card I made for my mom.

My inspiration came from Dawn Griffith.  She made a card very similar to this, and I loved her color combo.  I didn't have the same stamp set she used and I don't have any Sahara Sand re-inker, so I improvised and came up with my own version.

The inside is stamped with the sentiments from Wonderful Mother (retiring).   The sentiment on the front is from a Verve set I won. :)   I loved this card so much that I made a second one for my friend.

Here is the inside of her card.  The clear stamps make it so easy to place your words together.   I changed "Mother" to "Friend" for her card.

Did you know that you don't just have to send a card to your own mom?  You can send it to any special woman in your life who has mothered you or is a great mom to her own kids.  For that matter you can send it to a nurturing dad.  :)  Consider giving a card to someone who has lost their mother or child, especially those who have passed away in the past year.  It means a lot to know that somebody cares about their pain.

For many of us Mother's Day can be difficult.  Those who do not have a mother or child to spend this special day with are hit the hardest.  My heart goes out to you.  I pray you have some fond memories to hold you close.   I feel blessed that even though I won't be with my mom on Mother's Day I will be able to call her and tell her "I love you".

Creative Blessings,
Heather North


Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Wonderful Mother, Love Deepens (Verve Stamp)
Paper: Basic Black, Wisteria Wonder, Very Vanilla
Re-Inkers: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder
Misc: Aqua Painter



Wonderful Mother
Retiring - WSL




Serene Silhouettes



Color Spritzer Tool
WSL - Retiring



Aqua Painter