Scenic beauty with Stampscapes

Scenic beauty with Stampscapes

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello friends !!

Today after so so long I m here again with my new creation. These days i m more enjoying my outstation workshops...so totally packed.  
Firstly, wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Its time to bid a  good bye to year gone and welcome the new year. Its time to rock and roll with friends and family !! Wish them joy and special wishes with our handmade Scenic Cards.

DIE CUTS N MORE recently introduced Stampscape Rubber Stamps in India.These stamps are made with deeply etched natural red rubber which is the most durable and gives the best impressions. You can create your own landscapes using individual, interchageable elements from natre. Also, you can combine them to style seamless scenes of cascading waterfalls,intimate quite pools of crystal clear water.breathtaking panoramic views,vally floors where the lupine and poppy grow wild,pristine lakes where the fish are practically jumping to be caught,and sumtouous snsets in golden hues. 

This is my very first try with these stamps. I was totally confused while buying as I was tempted badly with its huge variety  of landscapes, mountains, waterfalls, sky scenes, cloud bars, trees, branches, people, animal images. It was really fun using these stamps and i was amazed to see such detailed images and the end product was just.....WOW!!

 When I was googling down the tutorials of using Stampscape stamps I found a blog named Silverwolf Cards and found a wonderful starting up tutorial. Shaz Brooks idea of stamping images on tranparency with black stazon was great help in building up all scenes.Various Stampscape tutorials are also available on you-tube channel. 

You can add colour by using a Colorbox Stylus tool,or cut & dry foam.

You can stamp your image onto card that you have coloured first, either by sponging, brayering, stippling or spraying. I am not going to give directions for these, rather I will again point you to the Stampscapes site, where you will find dozens of video and pictorial 'How-To's', all done far better than I could. You will also find a number of videos on You-Tube.

Here is what I came up with...Hope you like it. 

Stamps used...

Country Chapel Set 215G

Country Chapel Sm 309 E

Tree Cluster 244E and 266 D

Rocky Peaks 188F

Reeds Lg 068D

Strolling 160A

White Gel pen for highlighting 

Snow Marker Pen 

Glossy Accent 

Clear Rock Candy Glitter

Sentiments from Justrite Chrismas Greetings stamp set. 

Stamps used...

Country Chapel Set 215G

Country Chapel Sm 309 E

Tree Cluster 244E and 266 D

Stampscapes 18B "Nature sheet #4"

Stamps used...

Country Chapel Set 215G

Country Chapel Sm 309 E

Tree Cluster 244E and 266 D

Moon and clouds ............

Snow Marker Pen 

Glossy Accent 

Clear Rock Candy Glitter

Sentiments from Justrite Chrismas Greetings stamp set.

Stamps used...

Country Chapel Set 215G

Country Chapel Sm 309 E

Tree Cluster 244E and 266 D

Rocky Peaks 188F

Reeds Lg 068D

Strolling 160A

Spooky branch sm from The light and the Sea set 

Grass sledge...........

White Gel pen for highlighting 

Stamps used....

Lake Side Cove Small Set

Lake Side Cove Sm 148E

Pines and rocks sm 267E

Loons w/Reflection 262 A

Cloud with moon 105E

Solo Canoeist 159 A

White Gel pen 

In my first four cards I tried mixing and matching the stamps with stamps from different stamp sets to show you how we can create variations. I m still working on few more sets of Stampscape stamps. Will try to share soon :) 

The supplies for the above cards are bought from the fabulous crafts store DIE CUTS AND MORE. This is a wonderful craft destination for all craft addicts as it has the best brands from the crafts world and also a wide selection of each category.

Dry embossing using kitchen foil

Dry embossing using kitchen foil

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello lovely ladies...

Rajni,here from Passionately Curious. Today, I'm here after a short break. Hope you all enjoyed playing along our challenges and discount sales going on the Craft Shop. 

Our current challenge demands wet or dry embossing on your projects. Today I'm here to inspire you all with dry embossing using various embossing folders with kitchen foil.
Yessss....you heard it correctly.....I'm talking about regular kitchen foil only. You can also use various craft foils but I preferred using the same as it was already with me.  As kitchen foil is non porous, I have used alcohol inks to give different tones. Few crafters says alcohol inks are difficult to handle. But I must say everything is difficult when we try for the first time, It took more then 1 hour when I started with my first piece but with second,third and fourth it became so easier and hardly took half the time i spent in making first base.

Here are few video to show you how you can emboss and how to use alcohol inks.  

Dry embossing using bigshot

Working with alcohol inks 

Dry foil embossing without bigshot 

I was so amazed with the first out cum that I kept on trying more.....just got addicted working with the same technique. Addiction of anything is bad....but for me addiction to any craft technique is like breathing.  

And look what I came up with my so called addiction :P

Do u believe these gorgeous pieces are nothing but the regular kitchen foil.
Aren't they pretty ??

Small tips to be taken care of while working with foil

1. Try to use thick kitchen foil and fold it 3-4 times to make it more steadier. 

2.  I also prefer giving a layer of glue in between all the layers.

3.  Always take extra margin of foil  as you might damage the corners while working with alcohol inks.

Last days I was practicing coloring with distress inks All that went so perfect with my cards. Simple layering, a die cut frame, distress ink colored flowers, butterflies and a sentiment. Here are the cards that I assembled with these beautiful pieces.

  

Hope,I have inspired you all that what stunning effects you can achieve with regular kitchen foil and dry embossing.
So,don't you want to try your hands on these beauties?? Just take out little time and dig out what all embossing folders you have in your stash. Create one and do play along our current challenge dry/wet embossing. 

SUPPLIES USED
Spellbinders 3d M-bossabilities --E3D-018 Spellbinders 3d M-bossabilities--E3d-009 Spellbinders 3d M-bossabilities--E3Ds-001Alcohol inks
Black Penny- bouquets
Black Penny-from the heart
IO stamp-HI 2004
JustRite Butterfly Kisses
Spellbinders heirloom flourish one dieSpellbinders Nestabilities Die, Floral Ovals


Thanks for  stopping by..
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Happiness Is Spending Time Together

Happiness Is Spending Time Together

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all...

Here is my another entry for Justrite Friday Challenge #117. I am enjoying working with  Magnolia Vintage Labels Seven Clear Stamp. This time I stamped these flowers separately and again colored them  using distress re inkers. But in this card I fussy cut them,added dimensions and used them as embellishments for my card. I have added different matts and layered my card using Spellbinder's Nestabilities Tapestry die , Spellbinders Nestabilities Gold Majestic, Spellbinders Butterflies circle.Sentiment is stamped with Hero Arts shadow ink and is from Justrite Ornate Happiness Squares. Small butterflies are from winged vintage labels two and three and the bigger butterflies are from Hydrangea vintage Labels Seven stamp set.  The flourish is from Spellbinder's Twisted Metal Tags and Accents die set.

 Used Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush on flowers and butterflies.

Basic circle die and circle butterfly dies are clustered together to form a frame for the sentiment. 

Hope You like my entries. Looking forward to hear your views.


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Justrite friday challenge #117

Know that you are loved !!

Know that you are loved !!

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all....

I am again here to share my entry for JustRite Challenge #117. This weeks challenge is to use their gorgeous sketch. Here is what I came up with. I have used JustRite's March release Magnolia Vintage Labels Seven Clear Stamp set and created two cards. Here is the first one.

The magnolia flowers are stamped and then colored using distress re-inkers on Spellbinder's Label 17. Again distressed the complete label with distress inks using stenciling technique. Then highlighted it to make it a center  piece for my card and placed it on Spellbinders detailed scollops die cut. 

The  magnolia flowers are glittered using Wink of Stella clear brush. Really loved the end results of my card.

 The sentiment is from the same stamp set, fussy cut and matted on a black card stock. The butterflies I have taken from Hydrangea vintage labels seven stamp set and winged vintage labels two and three. 

The  main flowers are handmade by me and garnished with diamond dust and white puffy paint. 

Thanks for stopping by !! 

Looking forward to hear your views about my creation.

Entering ...

Justrite Friday Challenge #117 -Sketch 





 

Money envelopes...

Money envelopes...

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all...

A small and a very quick post. Today I'm sharing money envelopes that i designed with heat embossing technique. I loved the way they turned out. Hope u liked them.

 

Miss you !!

Miss you !!

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Helo all.....!!

Third and the last entry for Justrite Challenge #116. This time I used background stamp..Remember When and created a tag and stuck it on my card base. I kept it quite simple and just gave little distressing at the edges.  Sentiment is from Timely Banners. 

Loved the clean and yet the elegant and vintage results.

Hope you like this too!!

Entering 

Justrite Challenge #116

Cheer Up..Tomorrow is another Day !!

Cheer Up..Tomorrow is another Day !!

Posted by Rajni Chawla

Hello all!!

I don't know about others but I myself  really get swayed away with others views very easily. While I was about to make my previous entry for Justrite Current Challenge, my daughter came in and was not happy with colors that I have used. According to her I should have used bit brighter shades to match the sentiments.
I gave myself another try on the same stamp and really was very happy with the results. This color combo was suggested by my daughter....so credit goes to her also.

Again used simple techniques of masking and layered stamping and I was done with my card and the stamp set used is same..... Let your soul sing from Justrite collection. This card of mine is making my second entry for Justrite's Current Challenge.

Hope You like this one too!!

Entering

Justrite Challenge #116