Special Guest - Terri Burson

Hello friends. I'm back with another guest design project for Whimsy Stamps, sharing this Wintry Valentine that features the Tweetie Pie stamp set and Cozy Winter paper pack.  I am so smitten with these sweet birdies and couldn't wait to create with them.  Scroll down for a few creative details!

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I love the size of my centerpiece stamp.  Because of this, I chose to make a simple square card with minimal ink blending, and focus on making these tweetie birds shine!

Let me tell you, I do not consider myself an expert on coloring with Copic markers.  In fact, I am a bit of a rebel in that I like to do my own thing.  I often swipe colors to test and see what may or may not work rather than following the standard recommended rule of choosing 3 colors in the same family with a 2 or 3 number variance between colors.

In the photo above, I cut a square piece of Neenah 110 lb solar white cardstock and did some minimal ink blending with a hybrid light pink ink.  I left the center white, for placement of my birds heads to begin coloring.

It's most likely cold in much of the USA during February, so I thought it would be fun to once again stretch those holiday stamps into the great beyond for Valentine's Day.  As I did for my last project, I'm once again accenting a snowy scene with a white gel pen.  It adds a fun flair and that added bit of interest, I think. If you'll look closely, you can see that I also accented the musical notes and drew in tiny white hearts around my bird stamp.

My card is layered with the pink snowflake sheet from the Cozy Winter paper pack and adhered to my square, scored card.  I'm also a matchy-matchy kind of girl, so I initially chose my paper and then decided what coloring implements I would use to coordinate.

If you'd like to know which Copics I've used, here's the run down:

Birds: E33, YR21, Y21, Y11, 0 

Bird Hat: R32, R20, RV10

Bird Scarf: B97, B93, B000

Branch: E33, E31, E00 

Thanks again to Whimsy Stamps for having me pop in today and share what inspires me.  I hope you are inspired as well!  Stay crafty, and make something sweet for your loved ones this Valentine's Day!  Kindness is the gift that keeps on giving. 

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Special Guest - Terri Burson

Hello crafty friends.  I'm so happy to be guest designing today for Whimsy Stamps!  Any time you can extend the life of your stamps and use them beyond what they were intended for, I'm all about that.  So today, I'm sharing how I've used the Gingerbread Greetings and Tweetie Pie clear stamps beyond Christmas, and on into winter, as Thank You cards for all those gifts you received!

I wanted to make a set of cards that coordinate, so I chose 3 basic colors and kept a similar design for each card.  When stamping multiple images, it just takes a little more extra time to color those additional images.  Setting things up assembly style is also very helpful.

I'm using watercolor pencils on all of my images today.  For my "pink" card, you can see the swatch that I created below to choose my colors.  I ended up choosing #1 for the darker shading and #3 to blend out my colors.  All of my images were stamped on Canson mixed media paper using my Misti and hybrid ink in a leather color, which affords a softer look and better blending for a no-line coloring effect on my Gingerbread houses.

I also used a fun technique for coloring: grabbing color directly from the watercolor pencil with a waterbrush.  You'll want to have paper towels handy to blot for a light effect.  If you'd like to see a quick two-minute video that I shared on my Facebook account showing the process, click here.  I hope you'll follow me while you're there, too!

One of my favorite tools for embellishing is a white gel pen.  I use it on almost all of my projects in one form or another.  As you can see in the photo below, I did a lot of embellishing on my images.  Not only to accent the design, but to create a little snow effect as well.

Let me also mention that I used A2 size Neenah scored cards and trimmed my Whimsy Stamps 

Cozy Winter paper pack to cover the entire front for my scenes.  I also created 3 separate stitched die pieces for each card to create a layered, snowy hillside.  Whimsy Stamps has a lovely set for you to add to your collection, the Stitched Border Die Trio. My lighting is very bright, but you can see the layering best on my "pink" card if you zoom in.  Some of my layers are popped up with adhesive foam circles, as are the sentiments, some of the houses and some of the trees.  

A touch of stenciling was also added on two of my cards for a cobblestone effect in front of the doorway on the lower houses.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I also used the Tweetie Pie clear stamp set.  The thank you sentiment was the perfect complement to complete my themed cards.

Thanks again to Whimsy Stamps for allowing me to share with you today.  If you have any questions that I haven't answered, please leave them in the comment section and I will do my best to respond.  

Stay crafty my friends!  Terri

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Ellie and her Snowman

Hello Whimsy Friends, I hope you all had the most fabulous Christmas!

I'm back with my last Christmas card for the year and back to my frilly and foo-foo cards with this cute new Ellie's Snowman stamp from the latest release by Whimsy Stamps.  Isn't it just too skinking cute?

I used the delish papers from the 6 x 6 Cozy Winter Paper Pack and coloured the image with copic markers, picking out some of the colours in the papers.

Ellie: C3, 1, 0, 00; R30

Snowman and snow: BG10, 0000

Red: R37, 35, 83

Green: YG67, 63, 03

Hat: C9, 7, 5

I added a sentiment from the Christmas Ellie-ments clear stamp set and finished off with some poinsettias that I made from a piece of the aqua cardstock and the Lily Flower Die Set.  I used a copic marker to draw in the veining on the flowers before wetting and shaping them.  I also tried something different with the holly leaves from the Christmas Branch Die Set, I die cut them from white cardstock and coloured/shaded them with my copic markers to give a more realistic effect.  I LOVE how these turned out, well worth the extra few minutes they took.

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I hope 2020 brings you all health, peace and happiness.