Hello! Kimberly Crawford here and I am thrilled to be celebrating World Card Making Day with you! One of my favorite card-making tools are stamps! They are so versatile. By using a few different techniques, one stamp can create unique looks. Today I am going to share with you three techniques using one background stamp!
Coloring with Marker:
To create the soft background on this card, I began by coloring directly onto my stamped image with Distress Markers. I started with the leaves, first coloring with the lighter green, then adding darker green, directly over the top. Using the side of the marker brush tip helps color the surface of the stamp quickly. The flowers were colored with two tones as well, starting again with the lighter tone.
Once the image was entirely covered with color, a small amount of water was spritzed on the surface of the stamp. Hold the mist bottle farther away from the stamp for a crisper image, and bring it close for a more watered-down appearance.
Supplies: Stamp-Carta Bella (Victorian Floral Stamp), MFT Stamps cardstock (Poppy Red, Orange Zest, Vellum), MFT Stamps Die-namics (Thanks & Hello), Pretty Pink Posh Sequins (Clear 4mm), Distress Markers (Ripe Persimmon, Candied Apple, Moved Lawn, Twisted Citron), Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (EZ Runner Permanent, EZ Runner Permanent Dots)
Stamping and Foiling:
For this card, the stamp was covered in Reactive Paint, a paint formulated to be used with foil. It was applied with a foam brush until the stamp was evenly covered. Then the image was stamped onto a piece of card stock. Foil was applied to the surface, color side up.
Then the foil and cardstock were placed inside a plastic carrier sheet and passed through a foiling machine. Once complete, the foil was removed and the gorgeous, shiny image was left behind!
Supplies: Stamp-Carta Bella (Victorian Floral Stamp), Echo Park Patterned Paper (I Love Family 6×6 pad), MFT Stamps cardstock (Kraft, Chocolate Brown, Brushed Gold, Vellum), MFT Stamps Die-namics (Thanks & Hello), Pretty Pink Posh Sequins (Gold 4mm), Paint (Heidi Swapp Minc Reactive Paint, Foil (Heidi Swapp Minc Gold), Foiling Machine (Heidi Swapp Minc Mini), Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (EZ Runner Permanent, EZ Runner Permanent Dots)
Coloring the Stamped Image:
After stamping the image in grey ink, the open spots in the image were colored in with colored pencil. The unique color for the leaves was the perfect color for the card base.
Bonus idea: On the card base for this card, the same background image was stamped, using watermark ink, bringing out a subtle and coordinating pattern.
Supplies: Stamp-Carta Bella (Victorian Floral Stamp, MFT Stamps cardstock (Lush Lagoon, Tangy Orange, Vellum), MFT Stamps Die-namics (Thanks & Hello), Pretty Pink Posh Sequins (Clear 4mm), Prismacolor pencils, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (EZ Runner Permanent, EZ Runner Permanent Dots)
Have fun creating unique looks with the same stamp today! Happy World Card Making Day!" ~ Kim Crawford
2:00 pm Special Guest – Close To My Heart
We always say when the Close To My Heart catalogue lands in the office, all work stops for awhile as we look at all the newest stamps jump off the page and we want to start creating immediately. If you've not seen the latest Idea Book, you can see it here! And you may want to look at it as our friends at Close To My Heart would love to offer one lucky SCT reader today the chance to win their favourite stamp and die set from their Holiday Expressions Idea Book!
Be sure to let us know in the comment below which are your favourite and we'll randomly select one lucky winner to receive their choice. Be sure to leave your comment by October 8th! Good luck!
Next at 4:00 pm It's time to celebrate birthdays!
All are such beautiful cards! Great idea to use our stamps multiple ways!! Thanks for the inspiration and will try this!!
I love those!!!
Love the all-over designs of this background stamp. Coloring is so much fun!
More great inspiration and card ideas! Thanks so much!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! LOVELOVELOVE the foil card!! It makes my heart smile! Great prize package this time around too!! Fingers crossed!
I love the versatility of stamps! You could have a couple of really great stamp sets and make a ton of different cards just depending on how you use them! These are a fabulous example of that!
Thank you to CTMH for sponsoring this hour! I loved the new holiday catalogue and I have 2 favorites…Autumn Wishes and Woodland Critters! I’d be happy with either of those as I don’t have a lot of autumn/fall stamps!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Beautiful cards like the December flower set
Loving all of the wonderful card ideas.
Awesome cards and
great ways to make
them using the same
stamp! I am loving
the Joy To You and
Me stamp set. Also
the Cricut City
Sidewalks Digital
Collection set.
Carla from Utah
A,, three cards are beautiful! Love seeing multiple uses for the same stamp. CTMH always has such a,axing products. My favs right now are Charming Cascades stamp and Hello and Thanks thin cuts.
I like the Joy to You and Me stamp of the mini houses – so cute. I love miniatures.
What!? How interesting, I’ve got to try this.
Kim’s cards are SO pretty! I love seeing them done in 3 different ways, all are simply beautiful! I appreciate this awesome inspiration and look forward to trying these, especially the foil technique with that special paint! SO cool!!!
My favorite CTMH stamp and die set from their new holiday catalog is WOODLAND WISHES!!! It’s just delightful and I see many fun hours being spent with this super sweet holiday set!!!
Thank you!!!
Oh my goodness, I love this, especially the first card. Going to give this a try now
Thanks for the technic tips! Great cards!
Ooh, so pretty, and I *almost* feel like I could make them too. Thank you!
These cards that Kimberly has created using Close To My Heart stamps are beautiful and they all look different even though she used the same stamps. What a wonderful way to get the most out of stamps. Thank you.
Terrific tips and tricks. Lovely cards.
Kim’s cards are all fabulous! I love all three techniques.
Thank you to CTMH for their generosity of a fabulous prize! I love Blessed Beyond Measure, but if it’s no longer available (says only from Sep 1-30), I would choose Woodland Wishes. :-)
Thanks for sharing the great inspiration and giveaway!
Love the different ideas for stamping. So many things you can do with one stamp!
My favorite stamp sets of CTMH are “Hello Winter ” and “A Child is Born.” I love their stamps and paper!
Fabulous cards! Thanks for the inspiration.
Love these techniques. I have never done and foiling but would love to!
That foiling technique is calling to me. Very shiny.
I would love to get the Woodland Wishes Thin Cuts Bundle. I love the stamp set. Thank you so much for the offer.
Same card so many ways love it! Woodland wishes is my fav from the holiday expressions line. Thank you!
Great thanks cards. Love seeing different ways to use one stamp.
Great card inspiration. I like the holiday tag stamps in the catalog.
I am loving the foil stamping technique. Thanks for the trick.
The foiling technique was very interesting and new to me used in this way. I loved the September gratitude and blessings, would be nice to win.
Great coloring techniques-the card is amazing! My favorite new stamp and die from close to my heart is cozy Christmas.
Woodland Wishes is my favorite stamp and die set!
All the cards are very pretty!
Wonderful variety of cards! My favorite set is Thankful for You.
Wow! I really enjoyed looking at the Close to my Heart catalog! I’d never seen one before and it is just brimming with so many great things! Sadly I really liked the stamps listed as September only products. But I also loved some of the products for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is hard to pick just one but the sentiments in both of those were super nice.
The foil card is so eye catching.
My favourite stamp set from the holiday catalog is the Woodland Wishes. Thanks for the chance to win!
It´s always inspiring to see different ways to use stamps.
Love the Hymns of Praise set!!! Love the cards, they are just lovely. Happy WCM Day!
Love all these cards, so clever. Great collection by CTMH too.
I love the cards. I love the Thankful for you
thincuts bundle.
Love the way you used the stamps! Very creative. Can’t wait to try it
Delightful cards! Love seeing all of these ideas!! So many wonderful sets!
Love all the cards . The foil one looks a little intimidating to do , for me , but definitely gonna try out . Awesome cards Kim !!
beautiful cards, i just made 4 Christmas ones using your thanks card as inspiration :)
Thank you for the wonderful ideas to maximize the use of a stamp set! as i was scrolling through the idea book, i fell in love with Cozy Christmas set!
Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Love color combo ideas
All three techniques made beautiful cards! Cozy Christmas is my favorite from CTMH.
Oooh gorgeous cards, love the different looks! Cosy Christmas is my fave from the holiday expressions line :)
Beautiful cards, Kimberly.
My favorite new CTMH stamp and die set is Thankful for You. Love the swans. Thanks CTMH for the prize chance.
Awesome techniques! Thanks for sharing!
I make thank you cards all the time – I really like the showing one stamp three different ways. I am going to have to try some of these techniques. Also I love CTMH!
Beautiful cards! Great ideas for using my stamps!