Today i wanted to show you how to embellish your stamped images with a simple trick: I add diamond stickles from Ranger on top of my stamping when the ink is dried. It gives a lot of effect and a total new look to the image! Also, it brightens and saturates the color of the ink. I love it!!

I’ve made a layout to give you an example:

I used two different sets from My Stamp BOX: the “rough copy alphabet” and the “colorful companions” set.

Here’s a booktag that i made using the same technique and a different butterfly:

Don’t hesitate to add a little bit of dimension to your stamped images using stickles.

Have a nice day!

This week, i challenge you to create bookmarks. You are free to choose the size and form, but you have to use stamps of course!

I made 4 bookmarks, one for each season. This one is for summer:

I used the “Road Trip” stamp set. I stamped the luggage in black on a piece of paper i had already coloured with distress ink vintage photo.

That one is for autumn, i decided to go with red and yellow leaves. I used the “Abundant Blossoms” stamp set.

For winter i used the “Au creux des siens” stamp set and the “Bits and Pieces” stamp set. I put liquid pearl in white opal to mimic the snow and give a little bit of dimension.

For the spring bookmark, i used the “funky flowers” stamp set. I embossed the butterfly in yellow; for the grass i used distress ink in shabby shutters and for the sky i used the broken china distress ink.

I didn’t do it but if you want you can laminate the bookmarks to make them last longer.

Hope you liked this challenge!

It’s Wednesday today, which means it’s challenge day! I’ve been trying to use perfect pearls lately and I really love the shiny effect they bring to a layout. So here’s the challenge: make something shiny with stamps of course!

Here’s my layout:

I’ve put pearls to add to the shiny effect.

And for the ones wondering how to use perfect pearls, here’s a step by step (which shows one of the many ways to use them):

You need an ink, i’m using versamark.

Ink your stamp.

Stamp on paper.

Dip your brush in the perfect pearls, and lightly brush on the stamped image.

Spray a fixative, and there you have it!!

Good luck!

Today i want to show you a layout with tone on tone satmped embellishments. It gives something different, very subtle i think.

I like to mix genres! This layout is a kind of girly layout with the flowers but it’s about renovating our house so the subject is masculine…

I have used the “Abundant blossoms” set for the flowers and the “Snapshot” set for the photo corners. I decided to stamp the flowers with the same color as the paper beneath them. So green flowers en green paper and red flowers on red paper. I embellished the center of the small flowers with pearls.

I hope you enjoyed this idea!

Virginie

I took a lot of pictures when flowers started to bloom a few weeks ago and i wanted to make a layout with those pictures.

The layout is really simple: 2 patterned papers and a cardstock, a few stamps from the set “abundant blossoms” and some punched butterflies.

This stamp set is great to make accents for layouts, i love it!

Here are some close ups of the stamped accents:

I decided to stamp the flowers with a red ink. Then i cut closely around the stamped image and mounted it on pop dots to add volume to the page. I stamped the stem and the leaf with a brown ink on green cardstock.

Hope you like it!

Virginie

Today we are going to make a card where you can insert a gift inside.

To start, cut a piece of cardstock: 8 1/2″ by 8″.

Fold at 4 1/4″.

Cut the bottom of the card’s front so you’ll end up with an 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″ card. You should cut 2 1/2″ if you followed the dimensions given.

Then fold the bottm of the card’s back.

Punch a circle right in the middle of the flap.

Then sew the flap to the back of the card in order to have a pocket.

With the “Birthday Balloons” set, stamp 2 balloons with different inks.

Then cut around the balloons.

Prepare the front of the card.

Add pop dots to the balloons to give dimension.

Stamp a greeting inside the card and insert your gift.

Here’s the finished card:

Enjoy your gift giving,

Virginie

Aren’t you tired of winter? Well, I am and i want to put a lot of colors in my layouts. So here’s what i came up with: a color combination which makes me feel like it’s spring…

It’s a bright pink, with a grass green, a sky blue and a brownish grey. I hope you like it.

Here’s my page:

I used the “funky flowers” stamp set. I stamped the small flowers on the spiky circle in a bright pink to mimic the color of the background and i added little pearls in the center to add dimension.

Then i stamped the dragonflies with their trails in the sky blue color. It looks like they are flying!

Don’t forget to show us what you’ve done with this color combination by leaving a comment!

Virginie

Today i wanted to show you a fun way to use glitter: i punched a few stars out of  double sided sellotape. Then i adhered one side of the star to cardstock and sprinkled glitter to the other sticky side. There you have it! The only little thing left to do is punch the star another time (trough cardstock). It’s really pretty and versatile, you can punch every shape you want, and it’s so easy!!

I used the “you name it” and “your story” stamp sets on this layout. The glitter (carnival) is from PK Glitz.

Have a nice day!

I’m here to share a layout with you today… And i wanted to show you a fun thing i like to do: glossy tone on tone borders. I love the effect and it’s so easy! All you have to do is stamp the border with versamark and then emboss it with clear embossing powder:

I used the “bits and pieces” stamp set and the “your story” stamp set.

And here are some close-ups:

I hope you like it and i’ll see you soon!

This sketch can be used for any occasion. Here are two examples of cards i made: one is for a birthday and the other one is a Christmas card.

I like to make very colorful cards for birthdays, it’s a way to say “be happy, it’s your birthday!”. I used the “you name it” stamp set. I didn’t follow the sketch exactly as i wanted to put stars instead of the circle.

For this one, i still wanted colors, even though it’s a Chrismas card. I like color! I used the “bits and pieces” stamp set.

I hope you like the sketch and it inpires you to use it to create cards or layouts!

Today i want to share with you another fun tip to get the most out of your stamps. We’re going to make embossed polka dots on vellum and incoporate those pieces of vellum on a scrapbook page.

Here’s what you’ll need:

In order to help me stamp straight and regularly (the dots are evenly spaced), i took a piece of school paper and draw the lines with a black pen.

Next, ink your stamp with versamark:

Use the black lines to center you vellum and use the intersections of the lines to stamp:

Repeat that step several times (i do 2 lines of polka dots in a row), and then sprinkle some white embossing powder:

Heat emboss with a heat gun:

Repeat the stamping + embossing part until you get the surface you want:

It’s not perfect but it doesn’t matter because i’ll be covering up the messy parts with patterned paper. Then, what i did is cut circles out of my layout and replaced the empty spots with circles of vellum. The vellum is stuck to the back of the layout with liquid glue.

Here’s the final page:

I really like that you can see trough the polka dot vellum!

Here are some close-ups of the stamps i used:

- a flower for you (that’s where i got the dot from, it’s supposed to be the center of the flower)

- splash me a lot (alphabet)

- wishing you sunshine (clouds and sun)

I hope you enjoyed this little tip!

Today’s challenge is a simple one. I want you to create a tag and use it as an embellishment on your layout/card. The tag doesn’t need to be fancy, mine is very simple. You can use any technique you want, like embossing, resist… I just did simple stamping on that one.

Here is what it looks like:

I used the “you name it” set and the “funky flowers” set. I took what is supposed to be the stems of the flowers to make the straight and dotted lines on my tag. It’s just a different and funny way to get the most out of your stamps.

Here is the final page:

In addition, i used the “wishing you sunshine” set and the “funky flowers” set to create embellishments for my layout.

The butterflies are embossed with yellow embossing powder, and for the red strip i used clear embossing powder (i wanted a shiny tone on tone effect).

Don’t forget to show us what you create, by posting a link here, or in the gallery!

Virginie