Steampunk Maggie

Hi friends! Its my day to share a card creation on the Stamp AnnieThing blog. 

I am sharing a card that has been sitting in the back of my head for about 6 months now. Back in November, I ate at a restaurant called Toothsome Chocolate Emporium...its a really cool steampunk styled restaurant with amazing food (AND desserts!!) at Universal City Walk in Orlando, Florida. 

Inside of Toothsome Emporium - my inspiration photo of my card creation.

I immediately thought the Maggie -  Steampunk stamp set would be perfect to create a card with a design inspired by the restaurant. 

I created a shaker card filled with gold coloured balls and crystals. I also used Nuvo Mousse to add accents of golds and bronze onto of the embossed black cardstock. To finish off the caed, I added some black and white striped paper. Lastly, I heat embossed the sentiment using a bronze embossing powder to tie everything together...and of course I added a few sequins because it wouldn't be a card of mine without sequin.

I hope you like my card creation!

Until next time - Stephen

Bellariffic Friday Challenge - Vintage

Happy Friday Friends! I have another card creation to share with you today. This time its for the Bellariffic Friday challenge happening over on the Stamping Bella blog. This weeks challenge is "Vintage" and the design team was challenged to use any stamp set not from the recent release.

I pulled out the Cacti stamp set and the accompanying Cut It Out dies. 

I coloured the images with my Copic markers and added gold details to the pots using a gold gel pen. To carry through with the gold, I masked off  square area on my card  base and used some gold Nuvo Mousse to create a backdrop for my freshly coloured and die cut images.

I hope you like my card creation for this weeks Bellariffic challenge. Be sure to stop by the Bella blog to see what the rest if the design team created.

Until next time - Stephen 

Stamp AnnieThing October Release - Day 2

Hi and welcome to Day #2 of 

Stamp Anniething's October Release!

Eloise will be available in the store Friday along with the other 2 stamps we showed you  this week!!

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I played around with a number of mediums to create this very cool textured card. I started by creating the sunburst background using a stencil and Distress Oxide inks...I am really loving those Oxide inks. I then diecut out the mountains as well as the Torii gate and added some gold gel pen accents. To create the foreground, I started by blending gold and bronze Nuvo Mousse directly onto some white card stock. I then pulled out my Tim Holz texture paste and added some champaign Gelato medium to the texture paste to tint it, then applied the texture paste using a stencil.

Eloise was coloured with my Copic markers and Fussy cut out. To finish off the card, I added a few gold sequins to help draw your eye across the card.

See you tomorrow for the last preview of the Stamp Annie October release.

Until next time - Stephen  

Altenew - Hug Me stamp set

Happy Friday everyone! I am popping in today to share a card I made last week, Live on my Stampin' Steve Facebook page. If you are not a follower of my page, I do Live Streams every so often and create a card start to finish...unplanned, unscripted but totally fun.
I decided to play around with the, "Hug Me" stamp set from Altnew. I love the beautiful and unique designs of Altenew's stamps and when I saw the "Hug Me set", it was just so unique and playful, I just had to get it. 

The set has so many wonderful images in it but the one that I wanted to colour up first was the Fox that had "Hug Me" written behind him.  I stamped the image in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Hammermill 100lb cardstock. I did some very simply colouring with my Copic markers using the following colours:

YR18, YR16, YR15, Y15

BB28 ,B26, B26

Once my colouring was finished, I used the coordinating dies to cut the image out. I love how the die cuts around the letters and the image...so unique. 

I created a simple background starting with a A2 sized piece of Tim Holtz watercolour paper. I used the Radiating Rays stencil from MFT and blended my Nuvo Embellishment Mousse in Indian Gold and Pure Platinum overtop of the stencil. 

Once my background was dry, I added a black matting to frame and ground the background piece. I also added some foam tape to the back of my cute fox for some added dimension and adhered him to my card front. For some added sparkle and shine, I added some clear Wink Of Stella glitter pen to the words, "hug me". For a finishing touch, I heat embossed one of the smaller sentiments with white embossing powder onto a thin black banner piece.

I have included the video of the live stream if you would like to watch the process...but unfortunately the video cuts off at the end as my computer battery died...oops

Until next time - Stephen

Experimenting with Nuvo Mousse and Distress Oxides

My friends at my local scrapbook store, Two Scrapbook Friends challenged me to use Nuvo Mousse. I have to be honest, they have been sitting on my desk for over a month and I didn't touch them, as I was a little unsure of what to do with them. I did a live stream on my Stampin' Steve Facebook page last week decided to crack them open and give them a try...LIVE!! Oh my gosh, I don't know why I waited so long to play with them. I feel like I have just cracked the surface of the possibilities of this amazing new product from Tonic Studios. If you like beautiful shimmer and shine, then this product is for you.

I cut an A2 sized card front out of Tim Holtz water colour paper. I will say that I have fell back in love with this brand of watercolour paper as I love how bright white it is. I decided to do some ink smooshing on my craft mat with Wilted Violet Distress Oxide, slowly building up layers to get a very cool demential effect. 

Once my I was happy with my smooshing and it was fully dry, I grabbed the Nuvo Mousse in Indian Gold and Pure Platinum as well as the Mini Woven Stencil from TCW. I used a blending tool with foam applicator and basically blended the two colours together with the stencil overtop of my Oxide background. The result was stunning! Is subtle at first but when the shimmery Nuvu mousse catches the light - wow!

For the stamp set, I used Enchanted Iris and its coordinating dies from Altenew. I stamped them using memento tuxedo black ink on Hammermill 100lbs card stock  I coloured the beautifully illustrated images with my Copic markers using the following colours

Flowers - V09, V17, V15, V12, Y08, Y06

Leaves - YG01, YG03, YG17, YG63, YG67

To finish off my card, I added a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and added yellow matting to bring it all together. I had a lot of fun creating this card, thanks for stopping by!

Until next time - Stephen