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 and Happy Monday! It’s Amy here with a cozy winter card. Have you seen the sweet Warm Winter Wishes set?
I teamed those sweet critters with some super vintage Basic Grey pattern paper that became my overall color palette. My favorites are of course, the coffee drinking buddies.
I kept a large portion of my design white so that the dark pattern wouldn’t take over the card. I love plaid so this pattern is calling my name.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a fantastic week!
Hello! Heather Hoffman here this morning with a card that I had SOOO much fun making! It was one of those cards that you picture and want to try, and love so much when it comes out like you were picturing in your head – so great when that happens! I combined two different stamp sets – Good Tidings to You and Warm Winter Wishes to create this little one layer scene!
As I was looking at my stamp sets, it occurred to me that the little birdie from Warm Winter Wishes would look super cute on the snowman from Good Tidings to You – so I did a bit of masking to add the birdie on the snowman.
Since I was already in the mode of masking by now, I went ahead and added a mask over both images, a circle mask around the entire scene, masked off a line along the bottom, then did some ink blending, finishing off with lots of white paint splatters for snow.
I let the paint dry, then stamped my sentiment along the bottom and added a bit of coloring with my Copic markers. One particularly fun touch is the bit of shadow added under the snowman with Warm Gray markers – I love how it makes the scene feel like it is a little more dimensional even with only one layer!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!!!
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!
It’s Evelin here today and I will be sharing my process video creating this card from our All is Calm set. This set features a single large stamp (with accompanying sentiments) that is so much fun to color. It is truly an art therapy piece!
I stamped the image using a light brown ink pad that I had from ages ago and then watercoloring it and used colored pencils to add depth and details.
For this card, I used cold pressed watercolor paper which is why you can see more textures on the colored image. Cold pressed watercolor papers are slightly textured by nature which is great for watercolors because it is more absorbent but creates a more textured finish when layered with colored pencils. Unlike smoother papers in which colored pencils can go on more smoothly.
So, depending on the style and feel of the card you want to create, you can choose different types of paper to try as well 🙂
I even used gold Stickles to add some ‘bling’ to the Christmas lights on the tree. Does anyone still use Stickles? haha… Most of the times, I just use what I already have in my stash, so I hope that it inspires you to ‘shop’ your stash before creating your cards too.
You can watch the video HERE on our YouTube channel.
Happy Friday, everyone! It’s Evelin here today with a very special post. We are super excited to join the Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Evelin T Designs is also proud to be a Super Sponsor for this Hop. You can link up your newly created coffee, tea and or cocoa projects for a chance to win many prizes, including a $25 Gift Certificate from us! This Hop will run from Friday, Nov 1st – Friday, Nov 8th. Make sure to stop by the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog to find out all the details on how to win prizes.
Here is the card that I created for this Hop. I used the 3 little critters from our Warm Winter Wishes stamp set and did the no line coloring technique on them. I am kind of enjoying doing no line coloring currently. I like how it produces a softer image after I am done coloring as compared to stamping the image with black ink 🙂 I also have a short process video of how this card came to be and you can watch it HERE on our YouTube channel. In the video, I shared about the paper I used to stamp for no line coloring and how I like it. I hope that you like this card that I made for this Hop and enjoyed the video as well.
This is the stamp set used to create this Shaker and No Line Coloring card:
On this eve of Halloween, I’m featuring It’s BOO-tastic!. I loved creating this masked one-layer card with these adorably spooky images. I started by stamping the images and creating masks for them. I stamped the pumpkins first on watercolour cardstock, placed the mask to protect it and stamped the rest of the images.
After stamping all of the images, I left their masks in place, cut a hill from masking paper and sponged the background with distress inks. Then I splattered the background with water and two distress spray stains. Then I removed the masks and used distress inks to watercolour the images.
If you are celebrating, I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween, whether you’re trick-or-treating with your kids or having a party in your home or elsewhere.
The Alpha Blocks stamp set is great to use on any card. Just make your own sentiment and color whatever color you like. It is almost Halloween so I created this Happy Halloween card. Not spooky at all just cuteness with this adorable images… right?
I created a simple watercolor background and colored the images with Copic sketch markers. I also thought it would be cute to add some more stars so I used some Teeny Star dies. The stamp set does come with some stars too if you don’t have a die of stars. I wanted to use glitter paper that is why I went with the die.
Hello! Kelly here with a card idea that you can completely customize for what you need!
One of my favorite little critters from Evelin’s winter stamp sets is this adorable ice skating bear from Fun in the Snow. The way his arms are open wide, and his proud expression, makes it seem like he is showing off his skating abilities. When this set was released, I created a card with the heart doodle by the bear’s skate to make it look like he had just finished skating a little heart in the ice. As we were creating that card, I had an idea that I could really make it look like he had just finished skating whatever design or word I wanted. So that’s what I did here!
I sketched out my “noel” greeting in pencil first, and then went over it with a felt-tipped pen. I think this would be a cute idea for customizing a card with a person’s name, the city they just moved to, or even their favorite sports team (use the team colors in the bear’s scarf!) So many different possibilities!
The “ice” is made from smooshing ink onto a stamping block, adding a few drops of water, and then placing the cardstock in the ink. It’s always a surprise what you get!
The “from OUR home to YOURS” sentiment is from All is Calm and could really be used on any holiday card you create.
Only a few days until Halloween, and then the holidays will really seem like they are just around the corner. Hope you’re collecting lots of ideas these past few weeks. I know I am!
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!
