Outside the Box by Gina K Designs
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in a warm welcome back to the fabulous Gina Krupsky of Gina K Designs as a special guest on our blog! She’s sharing this super fun technique she calls “Stamping Outside the Box” using this fun Wild Blossoms stamp set along with these gorgeous script dies in the words hello, heart, and smile!
Be sure to check out the video below for more information on how to recreate your own versions of stamping outside of the box and enjoy!
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Yippee for Yana: Flip Up Birthday Card
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday and welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the always inventive and fun Yana Smakula! Read on and be sure to watch the video for all the information on how to make this card and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
In this episode, I’m showing how to make a flip up interactive masculine Birthday Card featuring simple stamping and partially cutting techniques!
I used a new stencil from Simon Says Stamp, Confetti, it’s a fabulous one to create some cool confetti-like backgrounds for Birthday and party cards. You probably think this stencil doesn’t look like much at a first glance, but often it’s the simplest things that pack the most punch and so it this stencil.
I did some simple ink blending using ink blending tools and several colors of inks from Simon – Duckling, Mint, Maliblue, Audrey Blue.
To avoid having the exact same pattern on my paper when blending 4 different colors of ink, I’m flipped my stencil to the other side and rotated it 90 degrees. If you want you can turn your stencil and flip it up to 8 times to have different ink blending for each layer. Imagine using all sorts of different colors for your confetti background and maybe also using texture or glitter pastes and even embossing powders.
Next, I stamped a big sentiment from the Big Birthday Greetings stamp set in the center of my ink blended background. I love block style sentiments, they are perfect to take center stage on a card! I first stamped it in Audrey Blue ink, next offset slightly and stamped in black.
I trimmed my panel to 4 x 5 ¼” and used a rectangle die to die-cut a partial panel in my background. Watch my video tutorial for a detailed how-to.
Finally, I used foam adhesive tape to adhere my panel to an A2 light blue card base. I only added adhesive to the sides of the panel, not to the flap itself and I need to be able to open it up. Next, I stamped the image of a cake and additional sentiment on the card base directly behind the flip up pane. I used a white pen to color the cake.
Have fun stamping!
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Color Coordinates: Bold and Beautiful!
Welcome everyone to another edition of my Color Coordinates series. I’m in the mood for Bold and Beautiful color!!
I was inspired by a display I saw at one of my favorite stores, it had gift wrap, bags, and cards with very similar colors to this set. When I see inspiration like this, I snap a photo with my phone so I can refer to it later. Do you get inspired by ads and displays? I’d love to hear about it.
I chose to use the Bold Flowers stamps because they are solid type images that can really show off my colors. I’ve created 2 tags really quickly by using a Misti.
The first tag has the message letters die cut from it and placed over a slate die cut tags. The second tag uses the letters cut from the first tag layered onto Slate die cut letters which are a bit offset to look dimensional.
If you are interested in printing out the Color Coordinates and creating a swatch book, I have the downloadable templates available below.
- Book template and past Color Coordinates
- May 2018
- July 2018
- August 2018
- October 2018
- January 2019
- March 2019
- April 2019
- May 2019
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