Butterfly Reflections, Ink

Hi Hi from koala friends and me!
Alix here coming back to say hi to all crafty friends! Today I am showing your a shaker card I made using Pretty Pink Posh Koala Friends Stamp set with some other great products.
I started off Copic coloring all stamped images from  Pretty Pink Posh Koala Friends Stamp set , Darling Dragonflies Stamp set (for grass), and Bunny Friends Stamp set (for foliage). Once they are colored and used coordinating dies to cut them out. (Koala Friends, Darling Dragonflies, and Bunny Friends )

To create the background, I ink blended with Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink in Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio and a little bit Gathered Twigs at the bottom onto a piece of Tim Holtz Distress watercolor paper. Then I mixed Cracked Pistachio ink with water and splattered it over the background by tapping my watercolor brush handle. When everything is dried, I stamped sentiment Hi from Pretty Pink Posh Everyday Greetings stamp set using Memento ink in Tuxedo Black, I also added…

Hello, hello! 
Erica back on the BRI blog today for a quick guest design post. I’ve been quite sad to see lots of negativity in our lovely crafting community recently, I’ve both been exposed to it myself and seen my friends get completely unnecessary negative comments on their posts. I have never really understood the need to always, always speak/write your mind. Especially when it so much easier to just scroll on by. Well, with that in mind, I’ve got two encouragement cards for you today because the world needs more kindness, love and support for each other. 



Now, it’s no surprise I’ve been a little bit extra obsessed with Altenew recently, having been to a workshop in the U.K. last weekend. And yes, it’s entirely possible I’ll be harping on about that for years..! At the workshop, along with a fabulous goodie bag, I was lucky enough to win a raffle prize that had the gorgeous Layered Floral Cover Die A AND the B plate in it so I just had to use them for these cards. They have been on …

Good morning, everyone, Amy Copeland here with a bright and happy retirement card featuring products from Sunny Studio Stamps and my go-to favorite, Lawn Fawn.  :) I have worked for a spine surgeon for the past five years as a surgery scheduler/administrative assistant.  His last clinic day is tomorrow and he is retiring.  My mom has actually worked for him for the past 12 years, first as his radiologic technologist and then, in later years, his scribe for Epic (our computer program).  She is also retiring as of tomorrow.  I made this card for her for all of us to sign in the office and we took up a collection for a gift for her.  I started this card by using the largest Stitched Rectangle Stackable die by Lawn Fawn to cut a panel from smooth white cardstock.  You can't really see it in the photo, but I used the Cloud Stencil by MFT stamps and my Mini Ink Blending Tool to put a really light layer of light blue ink (Distress Ink--Tumbled Glass) down onto the panel.  I then used my…

Happy Wednesday! Lindsay here on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink blog today with a card using some of the newer products from WPlus9 to make a summery, tropical birthday card. 

I started off this card by stamping the background stamp from the Tropic Fever Stamp Set using Versafine Onyx Black Ink onto Neenah Solar White 80# card stock. I first treated the card stock with an anti-static powder tool as the plan was to emboss the background as I'm going for an ultra-shiny card design today. So after stamping the background I used Brutus Monroe Icicle Embossing Powder all over the image and heat set it. I then cut down to card base to 4" by 5.25" to leave a border around the edge which I backed with black card stock cut to A2 size.

For the main image, I used WPlus9 Hibiscus Bouquet, stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink as it's a Copic Marker safe ink. I colored the images using R24, R29, R39 for the red hibiscus, Y13, Y15, Y17 for the yellow hibiscus, G05, G07, G09 for t…

Hello, friends...Heather here to share another scrapbook layout with you..... The pictures are of  my daughter during one of our treasured trips to the park.  It really wasn't an incredibly eventful day, but these are the moments I enjoy documenting the most...everyday life!  I love how the outdoor elements of the Doodlebug Designs "Hello" collection work with this kind of theme and thought it would fun to create a scene using dies and a stencil.  It was so easy to do with these products! I started with a piece of white cardstock, Distress Oxide Broken China Ink, Distress Ink blender tool, & the My Favorite Things Cloud stencil. With this stencil, it is so easy to create fun fluffy clouds....load up your blending tool and swipe on the ink from the stencil to the paper...you want to use swiping motions in order to get smooth and gradient color.  What is great about this stencil is the four different sides so you can create so many layers and combinations of clouds. 
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