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Gemini Girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Mar 30 2022

Michelle Lupton here today - I'm sharing a card I made using the Gemini Girl stamp and coordinating die. I used the A2 rose lines stencil with Distress Oxide ink in the background, and then coloured the gemini girl image with copic markers, adding some gold gel pen highlights to her hair clips and earring. I finished with the gemini sentiment and I was done. Thanks for visiting :)

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Taurus Girl with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Mar 11 2022

Hi, it's Michelle Lupton here today. Taurus girl is the latest installment in the Zodiac Girl series of stamps from Picket Fence Studios. When you google the characteristics of women with the star sign Taurus, the colour green comes up quite often, so I went with it! Thanks for visiting :)

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Rainbow leaves with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Feb 07 2022

Hello! Today I'm sharing a colourful rainbow card using the Leaves in a Stream seamless stamp from the January release. I stamped the image twice, top to bottom, and the coloured the leaves in a rainbow of copic markers. I adhered my panel to a card front, adding some black border strips, and also added a white embossed sentiment banner. Thanks for visiting :)

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Aries girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Jan 19 2022

This month's release from Picket Fence Studios includes a new addition to the Zodiac Girls series, Aries Girl. I decided to use red and black as my colour palette because the colour associated with the zodiac sign Aries is red. Aries is also ruled by the planet Mars, and Mars is the god of war, and is also associated with red. However, I did not use any red alcohol ink in the background. I used black alcohol ink, smoulder alcohol pearl (which is a bronze/brown colour) and Stirling alcohol alloy ink (the silver). The red colour at the top and bottom edge came from the black ink separatinng into its component colours. I coloured Aries Girl with Copic markers. Thanks for visiting :)

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Hello shaker card with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Dec 31 2021

While it is the last day of the year (and it's a year than many of us might want to forget), I prefer to look forward and say a bright, rainbow hello to the new year. I used the Hello die insert along with the slimline double stitched rectangle die to create a shaker card. I decorated the shaker with the Lots of Blossoms stencil, Distress oxide inks and lots of the new Crystalline Diamonds. Thanks for visiting :)

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Stenciled Joyeux Noelle with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Dec 19 2021

Welcome to another day of our Christmas series at Picket Fence Studios! I've paired up the Joyeux Noel set with the Slim Line Lots of Blossoms stencil and some of the new Gradient Flatback Pearls Thanks for visiting :)

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Blue and sparkly Christmas with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Dec 10 2021

Hello, and welcome to our 25 days of Christmas inspiration! The card that I'm sharing today uses the "A wreath for all seasons" stamp, silver embossed and coloured with Zig markers and sprayed with water. Thanks for visiting :)

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Aquarius Girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Nov 19 2021

Hello! I am continuing my series of cards using the Zodiac Girl stamps. This month's release is Aquarius girl, and it you look closely at her hair, it seemed obvious to me what colour it had to be! The card base is acetate, so I cut 4 pieces of cardstock with the coordinating die - one (#1) to stamp and colour in to go on the front of the card, one (#2) to go inside the front of the card to hid the adhesive from the front of the card, one (#3) for inside the card to write a message on, and one (#4) on the back of the card to hid the adhesive from the 3rd piece. Thanks for visiting :)

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Rudolf the red-nosed gingerbread man?

by Michelle Lupton on Oct 28 2021

Hello! Today I'm sharing a card using a die in a way that was definitely not intended! I love making gingerbread men at Christmas time. A few years ago, I saw a photo on Pinterest showing how to decorate gingerbread men upside down to make gingerbread reindeer! So when Picket Fence Studios released the new gingerbread dies, I had to make a reindeer! Thanks for visiting :)

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Paper glaze and glitz with gilding flakes with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Oct 08 2021

Hello! It's Michelle Lupton here today, and I have two quite different cards to share today, both using gilding flakes, one with Paper Glitz and one with Paper Glaze Luxe. And I made a video to show you how I did these - I used two different techniques to get very similar results. Thanks for visiting :)

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Capricorn Girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Sep 17 2021

I'm continuing on with my series of Zodiac Girl Cards - this month, the new stamp and matching die is Capricorn Girl. I coloured her with Copic markers and popped her onto a grey and purple stenciled background. I decided she needed a little pizazz, so I added some of the new Silver Bells Paper Glitz to her horns, her eyelids and her earrings. I also mixed some with water and splattered it in the background. Thanks for visiting :)

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Sagittarius girl with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Aug 27 2021

Hello! Michelle here and I'm continuing with my series of Zodiac Girl cards. This month, the new set released is Sagittarius, and I paired her up with some Paper Glitz in the colour "Pecan pie filling" over the centre cut flower stencil. I also used Fall Golds paper glitz on the word die, and I painted it onto her earrings, choker and the arrowheads. Thanks for visiting :)

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Rainbow Christmas card with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Aug 06 2021

Who says Christmas cards can't also be rainbow? i used three colours of Distress Oxide ink to create this rainbow over the Handcut snowflake 6x6 stencil, and added a stamped sentiment from the Joyeux Noel set. Quick, easy, and a one layer card, so very easy to post. Thanks for visiting :)

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Winter lights with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Jul 16 2021

Hello! It's Michelle here today, and I'm sharing a card I made using a die, a stencil, a sequin mix and Paper Glitz. I used Distress Oxide inks to create the sunset in the background, and then used part of the Handcut Snowflake 6x6 Stencil and some Paper Glitz Sparkle to create the pattern in the sky. I used the Santa's Snowy Hills die to create the three tiers of snowy hills, and ink blended with some blue ink to create dimension between them. I finished with a stamped sentiment, and some snowflake shaped sequins from the Icicles sequin mix. Have you seen our 7 in 7 event on Facebook? We have 7 free classes over 7 days! Drop by the Picket Fence Studios Community page on Facebook at 6pm CDT (that's 9am AEST for my Aussie friends) A $50 gift card to PFS shop will be given to one lucky person from the comments in each live video, each day. Winners will be announced on July 21st. The 7 classes are at 6pm CDT, so I hope to see you at the Picket Fence Studios Community page on Facebook! Thanks for visiting :)

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Zodiac girls: Scorpio with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Jun 25 2021

Hello! It's Michelle Lupton here to share my next card in the Zodiac Girls series. This month's new release included Scorpio Girl. I also used the new Paper Glitz: Sparkle over the stencil in the background. THis product has become a firm favourite of mine! Thanks for visiting :)

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Sweet treats with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Jun 04 2021

Have you ever used one of the seamless stamps from Picket Fence Studios? They allow you to create a background panel covered in stamped images of any size, as you can stamp them top to bottom, left to right as many times as you like, and they line up seamlessly! Well, I decided to use this seamless stamp a bit differently today, to come up with a clean and simple card design. I coloured the images with Copic markers, fussy cut them out, and adhered them to a white card base. I used a sentiment from the Dragon Fruit set. Thanks for visiting :)

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Zodiac girls with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on May 14 2021

Happy release day! Two of the brand new stamps released today are zodiac signs - Libra Girl and Virgo Girl. I went with a gold theme for Virgo Girl. I coloured her with Copic markers, giving her blonde hair and a gold background (using the Coloring Book Stencil and Distress Oxide Inks). I added some sparkle to her hair and earrings, too. I finished the cards with a sentiment from Fancy Sentiments. For my 2nd card, I used the Centre Flower Stencil with one of the new Paper Glaze trios. I coloured the girl with Copic markers again, and finished with her zodiac sign white embossed onto black cardstock. These are the Copic markers I used for these two images: Make sure you check out the entire release - it's a great one, with a lot of variety - something for everyone! I've linked all of the new products below. Thanks for visiting :)

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Rainbow birthday card with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Apr 23 2021

Hello! Michelle here today to share a rainbow card I made using products from this month's release. I inked this card in a most unusual way! I had a very, VERY old ink pad that had a rainbow of colours on a series of little foam pads. The foam had degraded so much that the pad was unusable, so I swiped the pad over some card bases and then scraped the degraded foam off the surface with a stencil scraping tool. (You could achieve the same look by masking off stripes and ink blending heavily with a rainbow inks) I then placed the Details of a Wing stencil over the rainbow card and added white pigment ink using a Life Changing Blender brush. I then stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Inside Quotes: Birthday set in black ink, and adhered a thin strip of black cardstock to cover up the edge of the inked portion of the card. Thanks for visiting :)

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Ink smooshing lilies with Michelle

by Michelle Lupton on Apr 02 2021

Today, I'm sharing a couple of mixed media cards, that combines Distress Oxide ink smooshing, embossing and copic colouring. So, I had already made my first card when I decided to make a video of it. The 2nd card didn't end up exactly the same, but I went with it anyway! And I made a video showing how I made these cards :) Thanks for visiting :)

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Live life on the sweet side

by Michelle Lupton on Mar 12 2021

Hello! It's Michelle here to share a card using a colour scheme I usually associate with Christmas! The white card base is inked with some green ink over the Triple Weave stencil. I added a strip of green cardstock from my stash and then stamped the sentiment. I stamped and coloured the dragonfruit with Copic markers, before cutting them out and arranging them on the card front. Thanks for visiting :)