Watercolor Night Sky

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Happy Ink Designs6 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Reach For The Stars

We are showcasing our very own Simon Says Stamp Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $25 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

I had so much fun making this card this week. I love doing night sky scenes because they turn out so different each time. I started out on a piece of Arches Cold Press Water Color paper. I cut it to a little over 8.5″ x 3.5″ so that I could tape it down to my cutting board. I used my Mijello Mission Gold Water Color Palette to create this beautiful night sky.

Once my background was dry, I stamped the star images from the Seeing Stars stamp set by Simon Says Stamp and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I also heat embossed the sentiment on a strip of black card stock.

I set my background aside and colored my adorable little bears image from the Bear Hugs stamp set by Mama Elephant with Copic markers. I used the Grassy Edges wafter die by SSS and some black card stock to cut out my grass. I wanted my bears popped up a bit so I used Thin Black Foam Squares on the back of my bears as well as on the grass.

I decided to put a little Vellum behind my sentiment to make it pop a bit more. I used one of the border dies from the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders 3 set to cut the vellum and I used the Sentiment Labels die by SSS to cut out the sentiment strip. I added a banner end with my scissors, but the die does come with a separate die to add the banner edge. I added a few of those black foam squares to the back of the sentiment and placed it on top of the vellum.

To finish off my card, I used some Fog Card Stock on the inside and stamped a few of the images from the same Seeing Stars stamp set in clear ink.

So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!

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Kid Friendly Cards

July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Happy Ink Designs3 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

For a Child

We are showcasing Honey Bee Stamps Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

I had a hard time getting going on this week’s challenge. I realized I haven’t purchased any character or animal stamps in quite some time and that’s what I was hoping to use. The ones I do have are quite outdated so I decided to go with color. Color is always good for a child’s card. Once I got the color down, I just happened to have a couple of pups laying next to me on my desk. They were already put together so I added them to my card as well. The nice thing about these cards is you can give them to a child as well as an adult. With or without the pups. I love the Circle Doodle Background stamp that I used, it’s very versatile. Take that and throw some color over the top and you got yourself a nice start to a great looking card!!

I started out by heat embossing my background image in white embossing powder. Then I used several distress oxide inks and ink blended a nice rainbow of color. I used Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet.

I die cut the Painted Happy Birthday die by Simon Says Stamp in black three times for each card to give it some dimension. I used the HB sentiment for all 3 of my cards because I’m rather low on my Birthday card stash. These would be great with many other sentiments too. After I cut out three of my sentiments, I glued them together with my Tonic Precision Glue Pen. The glue pen is perfect for word dies like this. I decided it needed a little sparkle so I went over it with my Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen. To give it a finishing touch, I went over the Happy Birthday with some Tonic Crystal Glaze.

I used the Drifting Stitches Border die by SSS to give it a cute little whimsical feel and finished it off with a couple Nuvo drops in Ebony.

I LOVE these colors that I used so much that I decided to make two more backgrounds only this time I used only 3 colors on each. I used Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey and Squeezed Lemonade for the second background.

I did the sentiment the same way as before, but I used a different border die for this one. I used Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Scallop Borders die. This is when I noticed that I had two adorable pups staring at me from the side of my desk as if to say, “Pick me! Pick me!” How could I resist??

For my final card, I ink blended Twisted Citron, Peacock Feathers and Wilted Violet.

I attached my sentiment to a piece of Neenah Solar White 110 lb. card stock that I cut down using the Drifting Stitches Border die.

I added my second Little Critter, Boston Terrier die to my final card and finished the look off with a few Nuvo drops in Ebony.

And here’s just a few more pictures.

So now it’s YOUR turn. Happy Crafting!!

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My First Slider Card

July 8, 2020July 7, 2020 Happy Ink Designs3 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Moving Parts

We are showcasing Lawn Fawn Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

I have my first ever slider card to share with you this week!! While I know some people are probably thinking, “Slider card? That’s old news.” But for me, it is not. I don’t really know why I’ve never done one before. I’m sure a little intimidation had something to do with it. But I thought this was the perfect challenge to give it a try!!

How CUTE is this little whale??? I used several stamp sets and dies from Lawn Fawn to create this card. I won’t explain step by step what I did, I have a video posted above if you’d like to see how I made it, but I’ll list the products that I used. The whale is from the Get Well Before ‘N Afters stamp set. The fish are from Fintastic Friends and Keep On Swimming stamp sets. The clouds and sun are from my stash, but Lawn Fawn has almost the same clouds, they’re called Simple Puffy Cloud Frames die and a comparable sun is in the Spring Showers die set.

I used the Simple Wavy Borders die along with the Sandy Beach Accents die for the little wave accents. The sand was created with the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders die and the word “Thanks” was created using Simon Says Stamp’s Rounded Alphabet Small wafer die. And of course, the slider is from the Slide On Over die. I used Lawn Fawn’s Large and Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables die. I used the largest stitched rectangle out of both sets.

For the inside, I used Lawn Fawn’s Critters in the Sea.

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Thinking of You

July 1, 2020June 30, 2020 Happy Ink Designs4 Comments

Hello crafty friends!! Please join me for a new challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. This week the challenge is

Bright and Cheerful

We are showcasing Pink and Main Products this week. If you have any of these products, we’d love to see them used, but it’s certainly not a requirement to join the challenge.

As always, the generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $50 voucher to one randomly selected winner to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store. You can enter 5 times which means you can make 5 different projects following this week’s prompt and have 5 chances to win a shopping spree!! Sounds like a win/win to me!! I’ve linked all of the supplies that I used at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

I’m so excited to be re-joining my fellow team members for this week’s challenge. I can’t believe it’s been 6 months since I was last able to make a card!! Well, I’m here and I’m ready to share my projects with you.

I used the Thinking of You Always stamp set by Pink and Main for both of my cards and I colored both with my Copic markers. Then I used Finetec Mica Pearlescent Watercolor paint to splatter some gold magic around. I cut my front panel down with the largest of Lawn Fawn’s Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables die . It measures 3.75″ x 5″. I added some craft foam to my front panel and attached it to a Lavender background. I attached everything to a top folding card base.