Three Room Studio - Mom’s Hibiscus

Hi Friends!

Today is a special day…it’s a day to celebrate all the Mom’s in our lives and this is the card I created for my Mom for Mother’s Day. 

I decided to use the mini but mighty stamp set from Three Room Studio called, “Mom’s Hibiscus”. The stamp is a singular floral stamp with a bunch of great sentiments. I decided to stamp and mask off the main floral hibiscus image to create a bouquet of gorgeous hibiscus. 

I coloured them with Copic markers and then used my Scan and Cut to cut out the grouping of flowers.

I added foam tape to the back of the image to add height then placed it on top of a background I created by ink blending using Distress Oxide in Worn Lipstick, Scattered Straw, Twisted Citron, and Milled Lavender. 

I was initially going to place the ink blended piece with the floral images onto a yellow background but felt it was missing something, so I used the Spring Flowers Background stamp from Simon Says Stamp in a coordinating ink for a tone on tone effect. 

For my sentiment, I stamped “I Love You” from the Mom’s Hibiscus set onto a thin piece of pool coloured card stock. Using plain white card stock, I die cut out the letters to spell MOTHER from the In Stitches Alphabet Die-namics from My Favorite Things. 

  Always follow your creative heart

Three Room Studio - Hello Friend

Hey Friends!

Earlier this week I shared a Fairy card I made using a stamp from Three Room Studio stamps. If you would like to check that one out, I will link it HERE

Well to my surprise, When I came home from work on Tuesday, I had some happy mail waiting for me. Sandy, the owner and artist behind Three Room Studio stamps had graciously sent me her newest stamp set and coordinating dies. This new set is called, "Hello Friend" and honestly I LOVE it. I have never seen another stamp set like it (but thats pretty much always the case with the stamps from Three Room Studio...her sets are a breath of fresh air.)

I knew I wanted to create my own backgrounds for this card.  I pulled the word "Hello" from the set and stamped it on white card stock multiple times on the diagonal. I used Premium Dye inks from My Favorite Things, which always give then nicest stamped impression. If you haven't given MFT's newest inks a try, I highly recommend them.  For the waving hand image background, I stamped the hands in a matching ink to the card stock to get a tone on tone look.

I stamped the word, "FRIEND" in a black ink on a narrow strip of yellow card stock and then stamped the word "HELLO" again but on some red card stock using VersaMark ink. I then heat emboss it using white embossing powder, then die cut out the word "Hello" using the coordinating dies. For some added dimension and popped it up using foam tape. 

I coloured up this gorgeous image using Copic markers, cut her out using the coordinating dies and then popped her up using foam tape.

Copics:

Skin - E59, E57, E15, E33, E31, R32

Eyes - YG95, E87

Hair - W7, W5, W3

Shirt/Shoes - YR24, YR23, Y15, Y13, Y11, BG57, BG23

Pants/Shoes - N6, N2, N2, N0

Always follow your creative heat

 

Three Room Studio - Believe In Fairies

 Hi Friends!

Aside from my design team work, it's been a while since I took some time to create using other companies stamps . With Kathy Racoosin's Daily Marker challenge currently going on I thought I would take some time out of my day to create just for me. 

I decided to use a stamp from a company who's images I absolutely adore and that is Three Room Studio Stamps...If you haven't heard of them, I highly recommend you go check them out because their style is like no other and the images are just a joy to colour and create with.

I decided to just grab a single image from the Believe In Fairies stamp set and colour her up using Copic markers. I will list the markers I used at the bottom of this post if you are interested.

Once I finished the colouring, I cut her out by hand (there are coordinating dies available but I don't have them). and then went on to create my background.

I have been on a real ink blending kick these last few weeks and have had so much fun making my backgrounds using stencils and inks...it can really take your card to the next level. To create my background, I used the Radiating Rays Stencil from My Favorite Things and ink blended using Distress Inks in the colours Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves and finally Black Soot....woooah that was a lot of colours but I just love how it came out. To finish off my background, I added some white splatter using white paint mixed with water. I then mounted my background onto some Poppin' Pink card stock from My Favorite Things to help bring all the colours together.

To finish off my card, I stamped out the Circle Doodle Background stamp  from Simon Says Stamp onto some Eiffel Tower Card stock from My Favorite Things, using Eiffel Tower premium dye ink from My Favorite Things. The sentiment was stamped onto a banner and heat embossed using white embossing powder.

Copics:

Skin - E04, E11, E2, E00, E000, E0000 R20

Hair - E29 E25, E23

Dress - V17, V15, V12

Wings - B02, B00, B0000, BV00, BV0000

Always follow your creative heart

Yay! Finally!

Hi Friends!

I am back with another card creation...I must say I have been on a real creative swing these past few days and it feels amazing. I have been busy working on design team project but also sneaking in some time to colour up other images that I love. Back in May, my wonderful friend Sandy Boone over at Three Room Studio Stamps sent me the most amazing care Package. In it was the "Yay!" stamp set...I must say I have never seen a stamp set like it before (if you haven't checked out her stamps, you are truly missing out)...just looking at it sparked joy. I went back to work shortly after receiving her care package and sadly it sat on my desk for far too long waiting for me to colour it up. 

I coloured her up using Copic markers, I even attempted a pattern on her shirt using my markers to create a heart pattern. The card layout was kept simple to keep the emphasis on my coloured image. I did some simple ink blending and splattering behind the tag in order to ground the tag and image more against the stark white background. To finish off my card, I stamped the sentiment "Finally" and heat embossed it using white embossing powder and added some iridescent sequins for that little bit of sparkle.

Until nest time...

Stephen

Products used:

Yay! Stamp Set

Stamp Anniething hybrid inks