Make a circus scene in distress oxide inks

Make a circus scene in distress oxide inks

by | Mar 18, 2020 | Simply Stamping

A little treat for my inky friends: today I make a scene with dies and distress oxide inks!

Supplies for this project are linked at the end of this post. Compensated affiliate links may be used at no cost to you.

Be sure to read til the end to find out why this card came to be! But in the meantime, the video is all about using distress oxide inks and dies with blending brushes to create a sweet nighttime scen.

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A bunch of this is in the release this month – elephants and the cage – but the waves (upside down) and constellation background aren’t. And then there’s that white pen. Everywhere. LOl.

SUPPLIES

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New class, Mom’s project, and other updates

New class, Mom’s project, and other updates

by | Aug 10, 2019 | Simply Stamping

It’s been what feels like a really awful week…just one week ago was one mass shooting in El Paso, followed by another in Dayton. Heartbreaking.

The rest of my week has been crazy-busy getting ready for VBS, and working on a project for my Mom, and yeesh. All that in the midst of a heat wave that had the studio cookin’ – and not with just creativity! lol.

However – I decided to jump in and finish up a new class I’ve been working on for a few weeks, and maybe that’ll give us all something creative and meditative to work on in hard times – a way to zone out, pray, and create, all at once!

Whimsical Patterns Class

I’ve been asked to do more classes for the Whimsical Sketchers – and I thought doing patterns on black would be tremendous fun! I picked up a pad of Fabriano Black Black that totally inspired me. 🙂 It’s a class perfectly appropriate for beginners – and if you have black cardstock and a white pen you like, you have all you need to get started. PLUS – it’s on sale for a week! Here’s a quick video preview (watch on YT here.)

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Mom’s Project!

My Mom asked me recently for some help – she ended up teaching cards to a few ladies in her art group where she lives. The facility loved them so much they asked if the group would make a bunch of Christmas cards for a fundraiser! Since Mom got rid of most of her stamping stuff when moving over the last few years, she asked for a little help – a “few images” that she could use with the ladies to create some cards.

And uh….yeah. This happened. Hahahaha! (Yes, click. Go see my craziness.)

IGTV vs YT plans

The linked video above is “IGTV” – instagram’s effort at fighting off YouTube, I think? It’s been available for a while, but I heard from Aaron over at Arkon that IG is promoting video more than stills, and IGTV even more than video posted on a profile. I wasn’t sure of that until I posted two IGTV videos in the last week and watched views blow up. Frankly, more people are watching those than my YT videos! Egads. (I don’t know, does that mean people want more short speed videos instead of full tutorials, LOL)

That does NOT mean I’m going to abandon YT for IGTV. Yes, IGTV can be 10 minutes so I guess I could fit a regular tutorial there – but honestly I don’t like the vertical format for anything other than a quickie. To make art I like having the full screen to make things nice and big.

However, since IGTV has more people actually watching what I create, I’ll be doing some experiments with it. I hope that on days when I create a fine art video inspired by a stamp set, that I can try to do a speed video with the stamp set on IGTV – I don’t plan to do voiceovers for those, but at least show more coloring over there.

It’ll take a little while to implement all this, as I still have things in the queue that weren’t shot to accomodate a vertical format. (I have to do special things to make that work.) But you’ll start to see it more.

Not on Instagram?

I’m not trying to get folks to go sign up for IG. I totall get not wanting to have yet another social media to keep up with! But the thing I like is that I can post my IGTV videos there and non-instagrammers can still view them. I can’t embed them here, but will link to them when I have one. You can always go to the IGTV channel tab on my profile anytime to watch them – without being logged in you can’t comment, but you can still see!

Clean and simple cards

Clean and simple cards

by | Dec 9, 2018 | Simply Stamping

Quick video today with some new Ellen Hutson products – mostly I just wanted to film a video to test out my new lights. So happy to finally kick the old ones to the curb!

Video

Watch the video below or click HERE to see it on YT.

Gameboard card

Tic Tac Toe die and Confetti Kisses make a fun gameboard to send an interactive card…think about other dies that could be used for game pieces too! The envelope die isn’t new but was perfect to hold the game pieces.

High Five

Sentiment lover? High Five is a fun one! It has a couple different sentiment themes and I chose blowing kisses and the cute thought balloon. (Check out Ardyth’s birdies with it, OMG!) I embossed the white sentiment and then added clear embossing to the hearts. Bonus tip – I recently got some Catherine Pooler nks (Rockin Red and Midnight- and it made stamping the thought bubble a once-and-done effort! I wondered why folks were so excited about them. 🙂 I usually don’t worry much about inks since I’m mostly about coloring, but these are great especially for solid stamps!

Hands and Hang On

Hang On is another sentiment set – and I had to use love you this much. I made my own “sleeves” and cut the cardstock width down so the card would fit inside an envelope.

Letterboard

I have a real-life letterboard, and was tickled to see I could make cards with one now! There’s a set of letters that comes with the board, then also 3 other die sets – larger alphas, and 2 script words sets. The light bulb is from the recent anniversary giveaway set – just tossed on a little watercolor. For anything like these tiny letters, be sure to put Stick It Adhesive  on the back before diecutting, that way your letters come out as stickers!

Lights

And last but not least the new lights! Mine had stood me in good stead for over a decade and finally sputtered to a halt – so I ordered these from B&H. I got two of the Dracast lights (links in the supply list) along with two tripod stands and two pins (these go inside the Dracast to receive the screw from the stand.)

Supplies

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Interactive Carousel Horse Card

Interactive Carousel Horse Card

by | Sep 24, 2018 | Simply Stamping

When I saw this carousel stamp set I knew it had to move and make a Moving Carousel Horse Card out of it. Up and down, up and down, like it did when I was a little girl and loved going around the carousel! It took me a while to figure out; but it works! Not a dramatic bit of movement but it’s still fun.

Video

Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.

Look at all the pretty little pearlescent details!

Supplies

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