Carrie Stamps

Rainbow Glimmer Unicorn Card

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This card is packed with fun things!  It starts out with a Gel Press Background, then I throw in a Glimmer Hot Foil layer over that!  And I have some Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker coloring on the Magical Unicorn stamp set.  Pretty sure I can not go wrong with all these great things!

Check it out for yourself, in this video.

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Let's take a closer look at today's card.

This card started with the rainbow background, created by brayering 3 liquid colors onto the Gel Press.  The three colors I used are; Candy Apple, Lemon Drop and Cool Pool.  When you brayer these, they blend together and create the orange and green. Once the colors are blended you lay a piece of card stock on top and press gently onto that Gel Press. Peel it up to reveal your one of a kind print.

Then I took that print and added a layer of hot foil!  I used my new favorite Glimmer Hot Foil plate, Scattered Dots. Having the gold dots over the top of the rainbow background it what makes this card so special.

The coloring was lots of fun. I really enjoy coloring with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers on Bristol Smooth paper. They blend so nice!  Arteza markers are very similar and I use those too, just as I did in today's video. I have linked both sets of markers for you below, as well as all the other products I used to make today's card.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think I should to with the five backgrounds I made in the video.

 

 

 

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Liquid Color and a Stencil

The story behind todays card makes me smile. It all started at my Gel Press class, with some play. My friend Kimberly who was learning the Gel Press for the first time wanted to try using Liquid Color and Stencils on the Gel Press. Class was nearing it's end and much paper had already been using pulling prints with Acrylic paints, but we gave it a go. With print making you just have to play around, and some of the things you will not love and others will make you giddy. And the later is what happened with Kimberly!  

Now check out this print made using Liquid Color and a Stencil on my Gel Press. 

I LOVE this saying. What a perfect card to lift the spirits of someone who maybe facing big changes in their life. Change is hard but there is still a way to shine.  And sometimes the best way to do that is to PLAY, just like Kimberly did. Play and find that joy and share it, because it is contagious!  I had a blast making these prints. What do you think?  Maybe it's time to sit at the craft desk and just play! 

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Find out more about the Gel Press HERE. 

Rainbow Shaving Cream Swap

Hello Stamping Friends, coming to you today with Part 2 of the Bestie Swaptacular! 

Today Georgie and I are sharing our cards made with the goodies that I selected and sent her. 

I sent a piece of background paper that I made using shaving cream, buttons and a nice long piece of Lemon Drop Satin Ribbon. 

First up I will share what I made. 

The swirls in the shaving cream made me think of ice-cream.  And I had just ordered the Sweet Life stamp set and was anxious to play with it. 

I really enjoyed coloring in my image with Color Burst Pencils.  I love taking multiple shades of one color and getting that shaded look on my images. 

I did not stop there, I actually decorated the inside of the card.  Not something I do very often, but I working on it.  

First let's talk about the little ice-cream on a stick that I made out of Pearler Beads.  It is a craft my daughters like to do and I was making some cute things with my daughter the other night and I asked her if I could make an ice-cream cone to match my card.  So we came up with this. She ironed it for me and hot glued it to the stick. 

Second, this card obviously needed a place to put a gift card, which is what the bow at the bottom of the card is for, you slide a gift card behind it. I think a Baskin Robbins card would do nicely. 

I am sharing the video on how I made the Rainbow Shaving Cream backgrounds for you below. After you watch it make sure you click over and subscribe to my YouTube Channel. 

 

Now I want you to brace yourself for Georgie's card that she made with the Rainbow Shaving Cream background that I sent her.  It is so very clever! 

It's seriously amazing, a rainbow Christmas card, WOW, it's really fun! And I love how she added the Rainbow Drops, the colored gems!  Which you can get in a discounted bundle until 9/23/18, check it out HERE. Be sure to click over to her blog and catch the making of this card video, she did a cool thing with her ribbon. 

Below I have listed all the products I have used to make my card, click on any image to view it in my online store.  

 

 

* all card stock and ink pads are 20% off until 9/30/18

 

 

Thank you for taking time out of your day to stop and check out my creations. I hope you are inspired. I'd love to hear from you feel free to leave a comment or question below. 

Wipe Stripes

I have a cool technique for you today!  I was playing around with my Liquid Colors trying to do something else, which is where all new ideas come from I think, and then I was wiping my liquid color soaked baby wipe on my card stock to make stripes. 

I have used my baby wipes with Liquid color before, to clean it up off a clear block and then have used that wipe by pouncing it on my card stock to make a cool background.  This time I had put the Liquid Color on the wipe on purpose hoping to make a temporary stamp pad for the image in black on this card. But it did not come out how I wanted.  I did not want to waste my baby wipe creation so I wiped it on a scrap of paper.  I love it enough to  put it on my card. 

The other fun thing I did with this card was to have it open at the top. 

Okay, your turn, pull out some baby wipes and some ink and play!  

Here's all the things I used to make this card: 

 

Thank you for stopping by and letting me share my love of paper crafting with you!