I Brake For Stamps: November 2024

Friday, November 29, 2024

Christmas WIshes

It is not too late to start your Christmas cards! Even if you don't send Christmas cards this is an easy technique to make a lot of cards in a short amount of time. You can do this technique with any stamps.

Stamp from Blank Page Muse

Santa on Sled with Reindeer Art Silhouette Style RubberStamp

Stamp from I Brake for Stamps

Bold Christmas Wishes

Other Supplies:

Watercolor paper

Dinkles Powder - Pine

Silicone mat

Versafine Black Ink

Embossing Powder Clear

Heat Tool

Wide tip gold Sharpie

Stamp images on watercolor paper with black Versafine ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

On a silicone mat sprinkle Dinkles powder, spritz with water to dissolve the powder. With image face down place the watercolor paper in the water on the silicone mat.

When the watercolor has dried, edge with wide tip gold pen. Mat on black cardstock.

May you have a great time creating your holiday cards.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Give Thanks

Hi, friends! It's design team member Walter on the blog today with a beautiful card celebrating Thanksgiving. The Harvest Moon stamp from I Brake for Stamps creates such a beautiful scene. I used lots of earth tones set against the night sky and a golden full moon in my design. I can smell the fall leaves and feel the cool, crisp air when I look at this image!

Here's what I used to create it:

Harvest Moon Red Rubber Stamp
A2 Kraft card base
Vintage Newspaper Clipping Paper
4"x5.25" piece of Cream cardstock
Embossing ink
Gold embossing powder
Colored pencils
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Scorched Timber
Piece of twine
Two mini clothes pins
Label Maker

Here's how I made it:

Added grunge to Kraft card use using Scorched Timber ink and ran the ink pad around the card edges.

Tied piece of twine around the top inside of the card base; used a blending brush to add some grunge with Scorched Timber ink.

Placed mini clothes pins onto twine.
Adhered Vintage Newspaper Clipping paper to the card base.
Stamped image onto Cream card panel with embossing ink, dusted with gold embossing powder, and heat set it.
Colored the image with colored pencils.

Used a blending brush to add grunge to the card panel with Tea Dye ink.

Added grunge to the sides of the card panel with Vintage Photo ink.
Adhered card panel to base with double sided foam tape, ensuring the top of the panel is inserted into mouths of clothes pins.
Created sentiment with label maker and adhered it to the card.

I love the rustic and vintage look & feel of this card. It makes me want to put a turkey into the oven to roast right now!

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today! See you again soon.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Autumn Treasures

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here today.

Today I am using some amazing products from Blank Page Muse and I Brake for Stamps.

I Brake for Stamps: Pretty Pumpkin

Blank Page Muse Stamps: Guardian of Autumn

Blank Page Muse Stencil: Pebbled Path

Score a 5" x 6" card 1/2" around the front panel.

Use gray ink with the Pebbled Path stencil.

Cut a 3" x 10" panel and score in half for the front of the card.

Use the same Pebbled Path stencil on the front panel.

On the flap, add a torn strip of paper across the bottom.

Using a mask, stamp the phrase on white cardstock and mat with orange cardstock.

Add a 3" x 5" panel within the scored lines on the inside of the card.

Create an envelope and slip a gift card inside.

Stamp a phrase on the envelope and adhere to the card base.

Stamp the image and color with Copic Markers, then fussy cut.

Add the image to an oval and adhere to the card front.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph

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Sunday, November 10, 2024

Autumn Park Silhouette

Hi, friends!

It's design team member Walter on the blog today. By now you've heard me say several times how much I love creating vintage themed cards. Today's creation is another example of this. I fell in love with the IBFS Silhouette Stamp Set as soon as I saw it. One of the larger stamps in the set is this beautiful scene set in a park. I decided to use it in a monochromatic palette to make it look older and thought it would be really fun to have a burlap frame around it. The result is a beautifully nostalgic scene that may be used for so many different occasions. Let's jump into my creative process.

Here's what I used to make it:

Silhouettes #1 from I Brake for Stamps
Special Day Clear Stamp Set from Blank Page Muse (sentiment)
A2 card base
A2 sized piece of burlap paper
A2 card panel
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Scorched Timber, Lost Shadow
Delicata Golden Glitz Metallic Pigment Ink
Brutus Monroe Tea Stain Spray, Vignette Vintage Mist, Ice Gey Vintage Mist
Pearl gems

Here's how I made it:

Ink blended the card panel with Lost Shadow ink.

Stamped the image onto card panel with black ink.
Stamped the woman on bicycle just below the image to make it look like a path used for walking and riding.

Ink blended some Vintage Photo and Scorched Timber along the path to darken it.
Used an oval die to cut the center out of the burlap panel.

Used a brown alcohol marker to darken the inside rim of the burlap panel.

Spritzed the card panel and burlap panel with Tean Stain, Vignette Mist, and Ice Grey Mist and let them dry.

Used craft glue to adhere the burlap panel over the card panel.
Ran the Scorched Timber ink pad along the combined panel.
Attached card panel to card base using double sided tape.
Stamped the sentiment onto the card in Scorched Timber and the stamped it again with Golden Glitz ink.
Attached pearl gems to the corners.

I really love this scene so much! It has such a nostalgic feeling to me. This is one card that I may end up framing and using as a decoration!

Thanks for spending some time reminiscing with me today! See you again soon.

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Day of the Dead Blog Hop

Hello and Happy Halloween Gentle Stampers!

Today we have an assortment of treats to share. The season, the magic, the color... the remembrance, enjoy these days. We hope you enjoy and may be inspired by our colorful crafts.

Hop along using the links with each project and share a little comment treat of encouragement for each of our creative stampers!