Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Mixing Stamp Sets + Featuring Avery Elle
Hello crafty friends and Happy Monday! It’s Nina-Marie here with you, sharing a new Studio Monday video! This week I am featuring Avery Elle and I wanted to show how fun it can be to mix and match your stamp sets to create a custom, one-of-a-kind scene.
Scene cards are one of my most favorite styles of cards to make; there is something special about watching a blank card transform into a lively scene. You almost feel like you could dive into it! Many of you are probably familiar with making scenes; but if they are something new to you, this video should be helpful!
Often a company has a certain style they adhere to throughout many of their products, or in a certain line of products. By working with a particular product collection, it makes building scenes really easy; and its a great tip for those of you who might not feel as comfortable creating a scene. I worked primarily with products from Avery Elle in today’s card.
Avery Elle is a great example of working with a certain product line. Many of their stamps are sized perfectly to be used with each other. By selecting different stamp sets as I did today, you can achieve a scene effortlessly because the guess work is taken out of deciding whether or not a stamp set will work well with another.
For this card, I chose to work with the Woodland Wonders, Big Greetings, Storybook and Wild Birthday stamp sets (all from Avery Elle). I also used a Postage Stamp die from Hero Arts, the Landscape Trio dies from Mama Elephant and the Grassy Hills border dies from My Favorite Things. These dies were used as supporting elements to help build the rest of the scene.
In this card, I colored all the images with Copic markers. I was going for a soft shading on everything, so I used lighter colors and did a lot of feathering. All of the colors I used are listed below for reference:
- Bunny: YR00, YR0000, RV10, T0, T2
- Raccoon: W1, W3, W4, W6, W7, RV10
- Bird: B0000, B00, B01, YR0000, YR00, RV10, YR15
- Butterflies: Y11, B00, G00, E13
- Banner: Y11, Y08, G00, YG41, RV00, RV10, B0000, B00, E13, E15, YG25, G12
- Party Hats: RV00, RV10, RV13, Y11, Y08, Y35, B00
- Balloons: RV00, RV10, G00, YG41
- Grass: G12, YG25, G24, YG17, G46
You’ll notice how I created a soft blended effect on the sky and clouds in the scene as you watch the video. For this I used the Inkylicious Ink Duster brush, which is a newer product that we recently added to the Simon store! I love how these brushes are dual-ended; the brushes come in a pack of three, which means you have a total of nine brush heads to work with. They blend inks very smoothly across your paper because the bristles are a natural fiber and hold the ink better, unlike synthetic brushes. I am really enjoying working with these brushes and I encourage you to give them a try for unique blending techniques like I used in this card.
I hope you will be checking out the video below to see how this card came together! I also hope that it will inspire you to try making a scene card of your own. Whether its with the stamps I used today or a few stamps from another company, try combining sets together to build a custom scene that jumps off the card!
Thanks for visiting me today and I will be seeing you again next week for a brand new Studio Monday video!
WATCH THE VIDEO
Great card! :)
What a cute scene. Love all the layers and that sweet little bunny. Hugz
Very cute card. And thanks for all the great tips!
that’s really cute
Lovely card coloring ! Love it Nina! Thanks for sharing!
Cute scene and love the layering and dimension you created:)
This is so precious. Love the soft palette (unusual for you!) and adorable scene. Love Avery Elle products.
Such a cute scene, love the softness of the colors.
SOOOO sweet!
This is so CUTE, I love the soft colors, thanks for the video!
Sweet as sweet can be !
Such a fun and cheerful card! I love the gorgeous colours!
I am such an animal fanatic. Your card is just so adorable. Love the little birdie with the balloons.
Thanks for sharing with us!
Wow! Beautiful sweetie card!!!
Such a fun & sweet card!
What a cute scene
what a sweet scene! Love your restrained pallet and the soft touches here and there. Almost like tinting on on old photo. Great idea!
What a fun birthday scene you created! Love this!
Such a sweet card! The little scene is adorable! With our frigid temperatures, I’m thrilled to see your lovely spring colours and scene!
Cute!!
Such a HAPPY card! Love it
Cute scene with critters for card. Like the cheerful colors, coloring & edging.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Very cute card. Thanks for the great design ideas.
What a fun card! Love cards with animals. Great card for kids.
What a sweet scene.
Very cute card-love all the cute critters!
An adorable card…so many items on it that make such a wonderful scene. Love this!
That is just way too adorable. Nina is amazing!
Very cute! I almost always mix my stamp sets. You have so many more options that way!
Such a cute celebratory scene!
Cute card, always enjoy little critters! Thank you
Boy, this card is so adorable!! Love the video of using the 3 stamp sets and your coloring was GORGEOUSLY done! Love your pastel color choices and will be trying this too! TFS! And happy Monday!
Thanks for all the tips! I love your scene! TFS
Adorable card with the little animals!
Nice scene on the front of your card with some great coloring! Thanks for sharing!!
Super Sweet card!! Love the soft colors!!
Super sweet card!
This is a really cute card! I haven’t tried scene cards before. Thank you for sharing your tutorial :)
Such a cute card!
Really love this super adorable card!
A very sweet card!
Very cute!
Beautiful card. I love to make scene cards.
What a darling scene…too cute!!
What a cute card! I agree – Avery Elle has great sets that are fun to mix together!
Cute card!
Oh, what fun! Makes me think Easter!
And spring! And I love it!
Love the stamps!
Cute card! Looks like Spring!
Such a FUN critter scene, a total celebration!!!