Hi Everyone!! I’m excited to be back again this month to share my first memory keeping project using Evelin T Design stamps! This is a spread in my Traveler’s Notebook using the Good Tidings to You stamp set.
I knew I wanted to include hearts, and I thought the adorable bear and bunny would be a perfect accent to my spread. I first stamped and colored them with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.
Then I stamped ‘peace love joy’ from the same stamp set onto white cardstock using black ink and die cut hearts from the cardstock. Next, I cut a circle heart from my Silhouette and backed some of the hearts with leftover pieces from the stamped cardstock, and then adhered my stamped die cut hearts to fill in. I balanced the colors by using softer colors with the bold red from the circle heart and the bold black and white from the stamped die cut hearts.
I absolutely love the look of stamping and die cutting these hearts as well as backing the hearts from the Silhouette cut file. Gives such an amazing look to your project! I placed my photo first, and then finished by adding more hearts and embellishments. To not take away from the design, I added my journaling to vellum and stapled near the top.
Thank you so much for letting me share this memory keeping project with you from my traveler’s notebook using the Good Tidings to You stamp set! Happy creating!!
Hello Everyone!! I’m so excited to be a part of the Evelin T Designs team sharing my first project with you today using the Good Tidings to You and Coffee Art stamp sets. To introduce myself to everyone, I have been scrapbooking since about 2007. My main focus is on memory keeping and scrapbooking, but since 2007, I have always been creative with cards and all papercrafting. I will be sharing some of my memory keeping here using Evelin’s stamps, but for today, I have some Chinese New Year envelopes to share!
I started by stamping and heat embossing onto my envelopes (cut from Silhouette) using the leaf design from the Coffee Art stamp set. As I created the envelopes, I kept the theme, Chinese New Year, in mind as far as bright colors and bringing in shine with the embossing. The repetitive pattern of the embossed leaf also created both texture and pattern with that beautiful shine. I used a soft rose gold embossing powder. As I stamped the leaf design, I rotated it alternating that pattern all the way down each row.
For my focal point of my envelope, I used the cute little mouse from the Good Tidings stamp set! He actually inspired these envelopes! Keeping with the shine from the heat embossing, I embossed him in gold on red cardstock. Then I foam adhered him to the center of another die cut piece of cardstock.
I created two envelopes in the hot pink and one in lavender, using the alternating colors for the die cuts in the center. My daughter chose the lavender envelope.
I will fill these long envelopes with a rat bookmark I crocheted. The year of the rat is my daughter’s year and is also ten years since we became a Chinese Adoptive Family. So wanted something fun she could keep and perfect with her Warriors books about cats! Will also fill hers with a gift card or money and a Starbucks gift card. Starbucks usually has gift cards to celebrate for the CNY.
Thank you so much for letting me share my first project here with you! Don’t put those holiday themed stamps away, they can be used all year long!
Hi Everyone! This is my last post as a guest here on the Evelin T Designs blog. Thank you so much Evelin for having me and to everyone for letting share! The holidays are coming quickly. I thought of a background using the Fun in the Snow stamp set with watercolors that is not only fun and whimsical but quick to mass produce! And if you have a little extra time to get creative with your holiday cards, I’ll share another card using the same stamp set. I also have a video to share how these cards came together at the end of this post.
I love the playfulness of the Fun in the Snow stamp set. Each one of these images shows personality and movement. Perfect for a background. I created a background with the adorable and silly penguins and the beautiful bear gracefully skating along. All I did was stamp several card panels with Staz On ink, then added messy watercoloring on top of them. I created four cards using different cardstock panels under each one before adding to my card base. You can change the look of them by using different cardstock colors. To finish them, I added some Nuvo Drops.
For this next card, I did not use a card panel. This is a single layered card base, except for the silver cardstock die cut frame I adhered around it. Before adhering that though, I stamped this silly penguin in black ink. Then created a mask for him to create a wintery swirl to go along with the motion of him gliding along the ice.
You can see more on the video how this came together. I placed the mask over the penguin, then used Nuvo Drops and Glitter to create swirls using a popsicle stick. Lifted the mask after it dried a bit, and colored the penguin with pencils.
For the sentiment, I stamped the floral images from the stamp set to peek under my die cut silver frame to bring attention to my stamped sentiment at the top. I finished this cutie with gems and sequins.
This card was not complicated to make, but definitely has a few more steps with the masking, coloring and the die cut frame, but still simple enough you could mass produce a set to give out for the holidays. Thank you so much again Evelin for having me and to everyone for letting me share! You can watch the video below to see how these came together or watch it in HD on my YouTube Channel here.
Hello Everyone! Thankful to be back again here on the Evelin T Designs blog sharing two cards using the Good Tidings To You stamp set. Both of these cards use the same pattern paper in two different ways, and both of the images were colored with pencils before I had my cards in mind.
Pulling from the green scarf on this adorable snowy fellow, I used a dark green and an aqua green cardstock for my card panels. To help my snowy friend stand out a little more, I layered him on top of a die cut pattern paper circle in a pale green with white dots.
For my aqua card panel, I used a dotted stencil with white ink to create a subtle snowy look, then stamped the snowflakes from the same stamp set with the same white ink first, then stamped again in an aqua ink a few times. I love the softer look this gives stamped images. You can see the effects of that even more with my stamped sentiment, ‘ Peace Love Joy’ where parts of the black ink are softer in the areas where it is over the white inked background. To add to the sentiment and my snowy friend being in winter bliss, I adhered a leafy white circle die cut around him. I finished him with Nuvo drops and gems.
My next card uses the negative leftover piece of pattern paper I used for the circle die cut under my snowy friend on the first card. For this card, I layered it with more pattern paper, in a contrasting color.
For the sentiment, I stamped and heat embossed in gold onto vellum layered under the circle. To help the sentiment stand out from the plaid pattern paper, I punched a circle from a dark cardstock to layer under it. Then just foam adhered my sweet cuddly friends and added a few Nuvo drops to finish. That vellum adds such a nice soft look to this wintery card as well as a perfect spot for the beautiful sentiment.
Two cards using the same pattern paper and images colored before I had any idea how I would use them. Love how inspiration comes from pre-stamped and colored images, and leftover pieces of pattern papers. Hope this gives you some creative ways to use your stamped images. Will be back for one last guest post later this month, sharing more holiday card ideas with a video!
Hello Everyone! So thankful to be here with you all and especially my talented friend, Evelin! I’ve met Evelin in California at the CHA shows and have been on teams with her before. I always knew she would succeed with her amazing talent! My main love is memory keeping, but I do love to make cards and do mixed media. I dabble in a little of everything. But before I actually make anything, I really enjoy tinkering and playing with product and then see where the creativity goes. So for today’s post, I will share some of that tinkering with a Traveler’s Notebook I created inspired by the products.
The Coffee Art stamp set really had me inspired to create this Traveler’s Notebook to document small happy moments. I started by measuring, trimming and then stamping some of the images using black ink onto grey cardstock. For the inside pages I used a Strathmore Sketch Paper Pad. The reason for this paper, is I wanted the pages to be thin. I can then either create on top of the pages, or my favorite is to work off the page, and then adhere my creation on top. Will share more of that in a bit. I also have a video showing how the inside pages came together, you can find at the end of this post.
For my first inside page, I wanted something there but very simple. So I used a stencil and inks to create a blended ombre look, then stamped some of the leaf images from All Hallow’s Cuteness and Coffee Art in shades of green ink. I finished it with a chipboard piece in the center.
Now for my first full page spread in my album, I was inspired by the Coffee Art stamp set again to use with this photo, which happens to have a coffee cup 😉
Because my inside pages are thin, I could see the ink from the first inside page showing through. To Fix this, I either adhere two pages together, but in this case, I wanted to work off-the page first and then adhere to the TN page. I first started by stamping the leaves from the All Hallow’s Cuteness stamp set, then used a ruler to draw lines. I used this to type my journaling.
I stamped and colored a good bit before creating this project. The little toadstools I stamped and watercolored from the All Hallow’s Cuteness were the perfect touch to this woodsy, whimsical memory. To add a little more texture, I used a light green ink to stamp the circle heart image from the Coffee Art stamp set. I finished that page with washi tape, die cuts and puffy stickers.
For the right side, I wanted to show more of the cup images, so I created a repetitive pattern on a separate piece of the same paper. Then stamped in the ‘Hallo There!’ sentiment from the same stamp set. I am choosing the green and the orange inks to complement my photo, the colored images and die cuts I used on the left.
I finished this side with another die cut which covered up an imperfect stamped image I did (oops), and then finished with enamel dots. The die cut also helps to balance with the left side. Then I adhered both of these pages onto the inside pages of my album.
The sentiment ‘coffee + you = happiness’ inspired me to document me and my daughter at Starbucks with her new phone, taking and sharing her first selfie photo for my next spread in my TN album. I also kind of love the bear and the snowman marshmallow images from the Coffee Art stamp set. The bear went perfectly with my daughter’s fuzzy headband too 😉
I worked directly on the pages of the album to ink a starburst that repeats the image in the top left from the photo. I wanted the sentiment to be the focal in between the stamped images.
I typed and then detail cut and stitched labels together to add my journaling.
For my last page to share today in this Traveler’s Notebook, I created a Halloween page. I had lots of the Halloween images stamped and colored as well. I used a cut file from Citrus Twist Kits that went perfectly with my photo but also great little spots for those adorable, little images from the It’s Boo-Tastic! and All Hallow’s Cuteness stamp sets.
All of the images here were colored with watercolors, except the three jack-o-lanterns. I love how well the mixed together to create a fun cluster with the stamped ‘Happy Halloween’ right in between them.
I used foam alpha stickers and enamel dots to finish this spread.
I did not have a plan for each one of these pages. But I love how the inspiration comes as you stamp and color. Hope this inspires you to try your stamped images in your memory keeping or gives you some ideas for your next card! I will be back in November to share cards as a guest again here with Evelin T Designs!
I do have a video showing how these pages came together. You can watch it in HD on my YouTube Channel here or below. Thank you so much for letting me share and guest!
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