Samples

Stamps used: 191FR

Stamp 191FR onto cardstock.

Liquid mask image.

Splatter Liquid masking fluid around image.

Let dry according to directions. I recommend a good hour or two.

Brayer background color in. We used Kaleidecolors Desert Heat pad.

Remove Liquid Masking Fluid. Color in your image using watercolored pencils.

Layer with accenting cardstock.

This ATC trading card was made by my good friend, Donna Gritzuk.

She is quite an artist and my inspiration when it comes to new designs and stamping techniques.

She used 243GR - Mae Bug and someone else's (sorry I don't know whose it is - hatbox and then she went to town creating this fabulous small sized card for her ATC trading group.

Who doesn't want to say "TA DA" when you finish a card that you love?

127FR - Ta DA is my favorite bug witch of all time.

I love to stamp her on top of just about anything.

Paper mask her. Using a large circle punch, punch out a circle on Post-It note paper and brayer through it.

Lightly brayer the background in the same colors and then using our 569DR - Polka dot stamp, stamp in the same rainbow pad over the entire background.

Remove her mask and color her in.

Who needs "Black Magic" when you can make your own magic in any color of the rainbow you want!

It's a scary thought, but there is always a pile of laundry awaiting me.

The trick is to smile about those large piles of laundry and go eat a "snickers" bar before heading off to your stamping corner!

We used 126FR - Tipper (you know, as in Tipper Gore) and stamped her and our 803DR- Witches Brew inside a border I made with my computer...way cool, huh?

Using that same circle punch and the technique in the previous sample, brayer in the green moon.

I also used my "terrible" handwriting to write in "Laundry" across the moon and stamped and old, retired bat on either side of the lettering.

Inside the card, I wrote "is my life....now there's a scary thought!"

Color it all in and have another chocolate bar...after all, it's Halloween!

A little "Credence Clear Water" in the background and I feel like I can stamp anything!

Stamp our 814GR-Full Moon Risin" stamp and paper mask over it.

Section out a rectangular area of your cardstock and using that same circle punch, do a positive/negative thingee with your brayer inside the rectangle with your favorite rainbow pads.

Stamp 308CR-Large Fuzzbuggitt on top of the rectangle.

Stamp 719BR-Happy Halloween on top of some orange cardstock layered over some black cardstock.

Layer the entire card on top of your favorite halloween colored papers and you are good to scare!

Stamp 123ER- Boy Z Bug on your ATC cardstock.

Color him in with whatever you like to color with. We chose watercolored pencil for this one.

Now, take any bold image star stamp and go crazy around him.

Layer the card up and you are good to go!

Stamping in circles is something that I love to do. Kind of like running in circles which is something else I do very well.

It can change your whole outlook on a stamp and life if you try something out of the ordinary.

Only one stamp, 588ER- Flutterbee was used to create this card.

Layer, embellish, and sit in wonder. After all, isn't that why we create?

...Especially when your boobs are higher than your waist. Maybe we shouldn't talk about that.....

Anyways, this card is getting alot of attention at our shows and I thought you might like to see it.

Stamp 186ER-Maestro and then muliples of our 581BR-Star stamp around the edges of the card. Stamp a few extras of those stars on another piece of cardstock.

Color them all in with your Copic markers or colored pencils.

Chalk in the blue/lavendar background.

Add some "pop-dots for height and top those off with the extra "stars" for added dimension.

Stamp the saying inside or out on your card -

the stamp we used was 7111ER-Boobs stamp.

Oops...don't forget to add a little glitter glue here and there about the card on the stars...what gal doesn't like to sparkle a little!

Now, I ask, do you dare send it to your sister or a friend with a good sense of humor?