Showing posts with label stampin blends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stampin blends. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Stampin' Blends Coloring - Christmastime is Here

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you a card I made with the upcoming Christmastime Is Here Suite of products that will release for a limited time in November.  The stamp set in this suite is a duo configuration stamp set; meaning you get two stamp sets one is a Cling Mount set and one is a Photopolymer set.  With this configuration you get both styles.  The cling stamp is just the outline image and the photopolymer set is designed to layer the colors into the outline.  I just stamped the outline image and colored it with my stampin' blends.  Here's a look at my card.

I love this stamp set and love the Christmas feel.  As I mentioned this is from a Limited Time Release coming in November.  In the suite that is coming there's the two stamp sets, matching dies, enamel dots, ribbon and designer series paper.  I will share another post next week with all the products from this suite.  I stamped the outline image onto a piece of Thick Whisper White cardstock using my Stamparatus and some Tuxedo Black Ink.  I did this because it's a larger stamp and I wanted to be able to stamp it twice if I didn't get a good impression the first time.
Once I got it stamped out I used my Stampin' Blends to color the image.  I colored the rose first using the light and dark Cherry Cobbler Combo Pack.  I colored the entire rose image with Cherry Cobbler Light first and put down a base color.  I then came back with my dark to add my shadows, and then went back in with my light to blend it out.  I did this on each petal, one at a time.
Next I worked on the leaves and colored them with Pretty Peacock light and dark blends.  This time I did them a little different.  I started with the dark and then came back in with the light.  With both I flicked in the colors and let the ink blend together.  Next I worked on the pine cones.  They were colored with Crumb Cake and Soft Suede stampin blends.  I then colored the pine branches with Shaded Spruce, put both light and dark in not really blending, but picking certain needles to be each color.  This gives the illusion of light and dark needles.  I wanted a different shade berry so I used Poppy Parade to color them.
To embellish my card I did some ink platter on my Whisper White Thick panel with my Shaded Spruce Blends.  And let that dry and then added some of the gold enamel dots in the limited time release suite, and popped the rose bundle up on dimensionals.

Video Tutorial: 

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Thanks for dropping by by today, I hope that you have enjoyed the little walk through of my card.
Remember that the products in the Christmastime is Here Suite will release on November 1, 2019.  And they are only while supplies last.  I will be back again tomorrow with a new project for you see you then.
Happy Stampin' 
Rick Adkins 


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Friday, October 11, 2019

Playful Penguins Sunset Silhouette Card

Hello and welcome to my blog:  Today I am going to share with you a fun technique that will stretch your stamp collection and allow you to make some fun unexpected cards as well.  Sometimes there's nothing more attractive then a sunset on a cold winter day.  Then you add to that a bold graphic figure in silhouette and your heart will start to go pitter pat.  There's just something about those beautiful bold colors in the sky either as the sun is raising or starting to set paired with the dark image in front of it that is just so very striking.   That's exactly what I did for my card today, I brought both of these wonderful things into my card today.  Let's have a look at my project shall we.

Tips & Tricks: 

Creating this look isn't as hard as you may think; as long as you have the right mind set and tools to create it.  Anytime I create one of these types of cards I always start with Masking off anything that needs to be the white of the paper.  Next comes my sunset area.  Because, it's one of the main draws to the card and one of the most crucial parts.  If you don't have your sky right people will be drawn to it.  The trick to ink blending is to just keep going until you're happy with the way it looks.  Sometimes it may take up to 30 minutes or longer to get the ink to blend jsut right.  But, if you keep going back and forth between the colors it will start to blend out.  My go to sunset colors are Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, and either a little Blackberry Bliss or Night of Navy.  
After the sky is nice and blended I can peel off my snow mound masks and start stamping my silhouette images.  The most common way of stamping these images are with solid image stamps, but you can do it the way I did today with regular plain stamps.  It just adds in an extra step, but what's one more step to getting a beautiful card, right? 
Once I had the penguins stamped out on the card front I then came back and simply colored them in with my Basic Black Stampin' Blends.  Yep, that was all I had to do to get these bold images to appear they were in silhouette.  So, What stamps do you already own can you do this technique with to get a new look from your stamp collection?  I bet you can think of about 10 sets you haven't touched in a long time.  I highly encourage you to give both of these techniques a try and breath a little new life into your stamp collection.  Thanks for dropping by today, I hope that you have a great day and I will see you again tomorrow with this week's episode of Rick's Saturday Simple Stamping.  Until then Happy Stampin'!
Happy Stampin' 
Rick Adkins 
If you live in the US.  I would love you to choose me as your demonstrator.  If you would like to purchase any of these products you can click on the Shop Now Button or by clicking on any of the images below.  Alternatively, you can also contact me by email to place your order.  Please be sure to use the monthly host code and I’ll send a little something out to you the following month to say Thank You!  

October HOST CODE:  SQ2WWJZN

  1. Spend any amount with me this month and receive the Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle featuring Fall & Halloween Projects.  Plus get a gift from me in November. 


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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Rare Blessings One Layer Card PCC353 By Rick Adkins

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share a really pretty and easy one layer card with you today.  I wanted the orchid image in the Rare Blessings Stamp Set from Stampin' Up! to be the main focus on my card today.  I didn't want a lot of embellishments, or layers so a one layer card was the way to go.  Here's a look at my card. 
 The Rare Blessings Stamp Set features a wonderfully detailed orchid just for you to give to a friend. The Rare Blessings Stamp Set also comes with great sentiments in a beautiful font.  I think the orchid is what I noticed first when I was thumbing through the catalog back in April and was like omg I have to have that set.  Then I look at the sentiments and it was a must have after reading what was in the set and seeing the fonts.
I used a little ink blending in the background of the card to enhance the coloring of the orchid.  But, before I laid down the Crushed Curry ink blend; I had to stamp the orchid and mask it.  I create my mask with a little Avery Removable Label and cut it out.  For the colors of the orchid I used my Stampin' Blends.  There's really not a lot of real estate to color with this image, but I still got four different colors on each section.  For the leaves I used Old Olive and Mossy Meadow.  For the orchid's blooms I used Purple Posy and Highland Heather.  For the flower centers I used Daffodil Delight.  I did use the light and dark of all these markers on the flowers and leaves.  Even with out a lot of area to color I still could get in there and add some nice shading.  

When I got the orchid colored it was standing out from the background enough.  The reason for that was the ink blending in the background was so soft compared to the coloring with the blends.  So I came back in with the Daffodil Delight blends and the color lifter and added some color around the the orchid.  I wanted it to kind of look like a glowing shadow around the image.  I think it made the image pop more.  What do you think?  

To decorate the envelope for this card; I simply stamped the orchid in tuxedo black ink on the front.  This gave me a nice backdrop for the front of the envelope and I still have plenty of room to write my recipients address.   To decorate the flap of the envelope I just stamped the orchid blooms around in a pattern, as you all know I like to do if you follow my blog.  
I hope that you have enjoyed my little one layer card today.  Thank you for stopping by and spending a few minutes of  your day with me.  I will be back again tomorrow with a video tutorial so I will see you tomorrow.  
Happy Stampin' 
Rick Adkins 


If you live in the US.  I would love you to choose me as your demonstrator.  If you would like to purchase any of these products you can click on the Shop Now Button or by clicking on any of the images below.  Alternatively, you can also contact me by email to place your order.  Please be sure to use the monthly host code and I’ll send a little something out to you the following month to say Thank You!

October HOST CODE:  SQ2WWJZN
  1. Spend any amount with me this month and receive the Creative Stampers Tutorial Bundle featuring Fall & Halloween Projects.  Plus get a gift from me in November. 

Please remember that if you use the host code you cannot use that order towards my KCRP’s (Kinmon Crafty Reward Points) that would be double dipping and is not allowed.  For more information on KCRP’s click here. 

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October 02, 2019 , , , , , , 1 comment
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