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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When Life Gives You Lemons

I have always loved the phrase, "When live gives you lemons, make lemonade!" I also love the combination of yellow and black. 

Stamps used from I Brake for Stamps:

Lemons and Phrase Set (ibrakeforstamps.com)

Other supplies:
Watercolors Yellows and Greens
Watercolor Paper
Water brush
Parchment paper
Stazon Ink
Stamp platform
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Vintage Photo
Die cut butterfly
AAll & Create Square die #41
Nuvo Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen
Enamel dots

Cardstock: Yellow, black, and white
Dimensional Foam/Glue
Sticky Dots

Paint watercolor paper with blobs of yellow and green. 

Stamp image on copy paper to create a mask.  Lightly sprintz the watercolor paper with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Vintage Photo

With Stazon Ink stamp lemons on parchment paper and fussy cut.  Using Sticky Dots adhere the stamped parchment to the area of the watercolor paper that was masked.

Stamp sentiment on white cardstock and mount on black cardstock.

Die cut black lacy mat using the AAll & Create Square die #41.  Adhere the black lacy mat to the card base. 

Die cut the watercolor paper with stamped lemons using the matching AAll & Create Square die. With dimensional foam attach the lemons to the black lacey mat.

Adhere sentiment with dimensional foam.

Apply Nuvo Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen to the butterfly die cut from black cardstock. Add three enamel dots to the body of the butterfly. 

Randomly add enamel dots to the card. 

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Watercolored Card

 Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog! I am glad you are here. Today's card technique is about watercoloring. Do you like to watercolor? I watercolor occasionally depending on my crafting mood and depending on the image I will color. 

I used the Mr. G & Words Stamp set on my card. This image is very easy to color with any coloring medium. I stamped the giraffe on a watercolor paper using a watercolor friendly ink. I colored the image with bold, vibrant watercolors. I added a wash of blue watercolor for the background of the giraffe.

For the sentiment, I used my a stamp positioner to break down the sentiment into four lines so it will fit in the open white space next to the watercolored portion of the panel. 

I applied watercolor to each word using the same colors I used on the giraffe. 

I could have made this into a CAS card but I decided to trim off the edges and matte this panel with a light blue cardstock. 

I hope this card inspires you. If you end up creating a project inspired by this, please don't forget to share it on our FB fan page which is linked below. We can't wait to see your creation. 

Also, please visit my blog, Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts, for card details.

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Art Journal, Nature's Wonder...

  Hi Creative Fans!

Today I have incorporated stamps and a stencil with a digital image in one of my art journals!

Your stamps don't always have to be the "main" focal point - I love to use them to "enhance" the main image and add interest to my page - same with the stencil!

The main image is a digital file printed on tissue paper, adhered to my page and coloured with watercolours. I added some acrylic paint to fill around the image on the edges.

I stamped one of the gothic flowers with embossing ink and embossed with fine white embossing powder at the bottom of the page. I used white paint through the honeycomb stencil to cover the digital image sides and top.

To finish off I added a little bit of gold and the letters "Wonder".

Love how this turned out!

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Gothic Garden Flowers Stamps by Miss Rach

Honeybee Honeycomb Stencil by Miss Rach

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I Brake for Christmas Tree Collage!

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well with their holiday preparations! I have a card to share that is either good for mass-producing, or for a last minute card.  This card was quick to make because I stamped on watercolor paper and just quickly added color with my pan watercolor set.  This really is a FAST way to add color.  

This affordable quarter sheet set has two choices for an outside sentiment and a great inside-of-the-card sentiment too!  

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Heidi @MyLittleStampingBlog

I Brake for Birthday Flowers!

Hello from designer, Heidi!  I used this stamp a couple weeks ago with an artsy stamping technique, but wanted to use it again to show the pretty detail of the stamp.

First, I used watercolors to created a background.  This time, I used mixed media paper.  I die cut the paper, then stamped the floral silhouette in black ink.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set, available in the I Brake for Stamps store: Half Sheet 138B.

Thanks for your visit today, and happy stamping!!

I Brake for Weddings!

Hello from design team member, Heidi!  Since Valentine’s Day just passed, I decided to make a wedding card when all these Love stamps are already out.  I always like to have a Wedding card in the stash.

I first stamped the heart stamp on watercolor paper and heat embossed it with White Detail Embossing powder.  I then used pink watercolor paint over top in a very loose wash.  I die cut out the panel.  Then, I stamped and colored the bells.  I used alcohol markers and some glitter pens to accent the ribbon and the design on the bell.  I popped this up on the card with foam tape.

These stamp are all part of the Wedding Sheet stamp set, available at the I Brake for Stamps store.  I think that this could be altered very easily to be an Anniversary or Valentine card.

I hope you have a great day and have time for stamping today!

*** Heidi ***

I Brake For...Sympathy Cards

Greetings, gentle Sunday readers. Sympathy cards are never easy cards to create or to make, they are even less easy to give. My extended family has recently suffered one loss and another part of that family is getting ready to experience another. While making cards with the express intent to be sympathy cards isn't a fun concept, you can work on a beautiful project and turn it into a sympathy card at almost the last minute, this is what I did with this card.

I heat embossed, with gold embossing powder, the Butterfly Background stamp from I Brake For Stamps. Then I colored the butterflies and surrounding paper with Zig Real Clean Color Brush Markers. This was a fun and very rewarding project to work on, it went rather quickly and the results were incredibly beautiful.

I didn't have any intention, when I started working on this project, to turn it into a sympathy card. However, once I was finished with it I kept looking at it and realized that this might be a cheerful thing to send to someone who needs cheering up. I kept thinking about the family members that I would be needing to send sympathy cards too.

I was fortunate that I found the colored paper in my stash that matched the butterflies and background, I assure you that this hadn't been planned, I wish I HAD planned it! Then I went searching through my stash for a sympathy sentiment. I also heat embossed this, using the same gold embossing powder. For a final touch, I added a bit of gold embroidery thread. I hope that the result is that this card sends a beautiful smile to a loved ones face through their time of heartache.

This is just one stamp example of the many that would make perfect sympathy cards found at the I Brake For Stamps page. There are some incredibly LOVELY stamps you could use to brighten up a loved one's day!

I hope I have inspired you, and that you find something that helps loved ones through their more difficult times.

I Brake For...Cats

Happy Sunday!

I've got a super cute card for you! I needed a birthday card for my aunt who loves cats. Sometimes I just search random words in the I Brake For Stamps search engine to see what it gives me, I'm always surprised by the extensive library. I was searching cats one day when I found the perfect stamp for my Aunt's card! 

There is a rubber sheet (maybe it is a half sheet) that contains three stamps. You can't buy the stamps individually, but all 3 stamps are REALLY great and worth having. I'm talking about the Cats and Buildings sheet. There are two stamps of BEAUTIFUL buildings lined up and one of a bunch of cats. I super loved these cats at first sight and I HAD to acquire them! Today's card is using those cats, I can't wait to use the two building stamps!

For this card, I stamped the image using StazOn and colored it using Zig Real Clean Color Brush Markers. I then found a speech bubble die in my stash and cut it through the painted panel AND through a layer of fun foam at the same time. Doing this ensured that the decorative edge of the speech bubble aligned perfectly with the foam that I used to give this card a touch of dimension. I then colored the paper with my Zigs.

I found a FABULOUS sentiment in my stash, even though it doesn't reference a birthday I can still either stamp a "Happy Birthday" or just write it in my message on the inside. I stamped this message in black ink and then again in Versamark to emboss it in clear embossing powder. Then I colored the inside of the letters with one of the colors I'd used in the cats.

At this point, I glued the speech bubble to the fun foam using Tombow glue. The fun foam was still much larger than the painted panel, only the decorative edge had been cut down. I fussy cut the other three sides and also fussy cut any extra hanging out amongst the scallops.

Using my tape runner I taped the cat part to my card base and using my Tombow glue I glued the sentiment part to my card base. And then I was done!

I just love how clean and beautiful this card looks!

This was a really fun and easy card to work on, I got such a giggle painting the cats because their expressions are all so different! I really suggest searching random terms in the I Brake For Stamps search engine, it is such a fun thing to do. You'll find really inspiring stamps to add to your card, and to your stash!

I Brake For...More Flowers!

It seems as if we've been posting a lot of flowers here on the I Brake For Stamps blog! What can I say, Summer has hit! I'm coming to you today with yet another card with flowers on it. ;) I used the Large Floral Border stamp set to create this bright, fun card!



I started by stamping my image onto Tim Holtz water color paper with Versamark Watermark ink, then I sprinkled some gold embossing powder and heated it up. Using various Zig Clean Clear Watercolor Markers I painted the image.

I LOVED how the light was reflecting on the water.

Once I had painted my whole image I cut out a masking of the stamped image and splattered gold paint on my card. This step SHOULD have been done after the sentiment was finished, but I wasn't thinking ahead. Because of that, I had to be careful of spreading this gold paint when I highlighted my sentiment with more paint.

My sentiment was one I rifled through my stash to find. It is from a stamp company that is no longer in business, but the sentiment worked perfectly for this card! I had gold embossed this as well, but it needed to pop out a touch from my card panel. To achieve this, I used some of the same Zig Markers to outline the main sentiment portion. I used the lighter pink and gently brushed it over the smaller portion of the sentiment. The result is subtle, yet it helps just enough.

This was a quick and easy card to produce, and it was extremely emotionally fulfilling. I can not wait to send this to someone, I think it would really brighten their day!!! There are SO MANY "flower" stamps on the I Brake For Stamps site! Some are incredibly detailed and others are elegantly simple. Beginner artists as well as extremely experienced will find something wonderful to delight their day!

Thank you for reading, I hope I have inspired you!

I Brake For...Castles!

Hello, my darlings!

Hannah from Fanciful Spaces here! Last week I brought you a beautiful mermaid, and this week I'm bringing you a castle! Can you tell that my mind lives in a constant state of fantasy? The really awesome thing about this is that I Brake For Stamps has SO MANY fantasy stamps to choose from, Della makes it incredibly easy to continue living in my fantasy world.

Believe it or not, but I prefer to color with Copic markers. I have shared a few cards, here, that were colored with Copics, and one that was in colored pencil, however, I find myself drawn to painting with the stamps available at I Brake For Stamps. Most of the stamps that I have chosen to share from I Brake For Stamps just LOVE to be painted!!!

I stamped this image, using StazOn black ink, onto watercolor paper, I then painted it using Zig Clean Color Markers. It was so much fun to watch this image come alive! Using a straight edge, I tore off a portion of the painted layer to reveal a rough edge on my paper. I colored this rough edge with some brown ink that I had. This layer was adhered to some Neenah Desert Sand card stock, whose one edge was embossed with gold embossing.

It was after I had adhered these two layers together that I felt my card needed something more. I dug through my stamps and found a sentiment that worked PERFECTLY. I embossed this with more gold embossing powder, being careful not to ruin the adhesive or the card. Finally, I matted this onto a Neenah Solar White card base in 110lb.

The result is a castle straight out of my fantasies! If you are wanting this stamp, it is the Large Castle stamp, there is an incredible amount of detail in it! Thank you for reading my post, it is my sincerest desire to have inspired you to create!

I Brake for...Mermaids

Here it is! Last week I promised you a mermaid card and I get to share it with you today! Oh boy, is the detail on this stamp lovely! One of the wonderful things about rubber stamps is that they can be much more detailed than their clear counterparts. For images like this one all that detail just adds to the splendor.

I'm trying to learn how to embrace patterned paper, it is never my go-to, but I wanted a little something added to this card that wasn't a frame. I had already painted this beautiful creature and the bubbles around her when I discovered the most perfect patterned paper to accent her surroundings. I blue mermaid among pink bubbles. Hey, mermaids are fantasy, so bubbles can be pink in that fantasy! ;)

I didn't care for the joint, where my watercolor paper met with the patterned paper, fortunately, I had several washi choices to choose from. I chose a sparkly pink and sparkly silver washi which helped bring out the sparkle in this Mermaid's tail.

I had painted her with Zig Real Brush Markers, after having stamped her in StazOn black ink. To make her just a smidge more magical I added some pearl cobalt blue, from my Kuretake "Pearl Colors" set just to her tail. The result is a lovely card that I think any woman would love to receive.

I hope you enjoyed my card! I LOVED coloring it! There are SO MANY fabulous fantasy cards at I Brake for Stamps that I am positive you'll find one that will transport you to your own little fantasy world! If you are looking for exactly this stamp, her name is Mareisha, she's on page 2 if you search Mermaids!

I Brake For Framed Flowers

Hi, Jamie Martin here with you today sharing a friendship card made with Sending Smiles and Funky Cone Flower.  When buying a stamp, keep in mind you don't always have to use all of the stamped image.  The Funky Cone Flower stamp has a pretty swirl background around the flower, but today I'm only using the flower. You can see a card I made HERE that used all of the stamped image.

Here is how my card was made;
1.  Stamp Funky Cone Flower on watercolor paper with Onyx Black VersaFine ink, heat set and color only the flower with Staedtler colored pencils. Cut out the flower only and set aside.
2.  The background panel was made by scribbling different colors of Gelatos on watercolor paper and it was then rubbed with a baby wipe to blend. Once dry, I rubbed Mowed Lawn Distress Ink on my craft mat and picked it up with a wet paint brush and flicked water drops on the panel and let it dry.
3.  Stamp Sending Smiles at the top of the panel with Onyx Black VersaFine ink.
4.  I diecut a frame from black glitter paper and glued it to the panel with Art Glitter glue.
5.  The Funky Cone Flower was popped up over the frame with foam squares.
6.  Black Dot Sparklers were randomly place on the panel.
7.  The panel was layered onto a larger black panel and glued to a white card with Zip Dry Glue.

I hope I have inspired you to look at your stamps differently and to Stamp This!

I Brake For Winter Trees

Hi Everybody and Happy New Year!

Regina here and this is my first post of the year.  Seems like watercolor and watercolor powders are all the rage now so I made a card using the Bister watercolor powders.  You can purchase these from I Brake For Stamps and they are very affordable to try at $1.65 each.  You can buy all the colors at that price!  


I used a stamp from I Brake For Stamps called Winter Tree.  I love scenery cards because they can be used for just about any occasion and for male or female recipients.  I used Blue Bister Powder on this card and spread it with a paint brush.  I love how there are flecks of browns and different color blues. I then stamped the trees with Versafine Onyx Black Ink while it was wet.  

There is no right or wrong with watercolor.  Play with it and have fun!  You can create such a masterpiece with Bister. 

Did I inspire you to use Bister watercolor powders?  I have more fun with these powders and they are very quick to use.  I only used one color for this card and look how pretty it turned out.  Try mixing two or three and see how beautiful it is! 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Regina - Design Team Member