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Creating Dimensional Embellishments with Paper Glaze

by Sara Sherlock on Mar 31 2020

Hello! It's Sara from Much Love Sara, here to share some fun today. Today I'm sharing a card, that has 3D embellishments made from Paper Glaze! Have you ever been playing with a product, and had a random "I wonder..." go through your mind? This happened to me recently, with the Paper Glazes - I wondered how they would work in silicone molds. So, I quickly dug out a mold, and filled a few spots with the Snowdrop White Paper Glaze.

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There is Life After Chaos

by Ilina Crouse on Mar 30 2020

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In My Thoughts

by Angela Bode on Mar 27 2020

Hello! Picket Fence Studios has a wide variety of stamps and dies so that you can create something new and unique for every personality type in your life! With more and more of us currently sheltering in place, there has never been a better time to send out homemade happy mail. Today I am featuring two different card styles with sentiments from one beautiful floral stamp. This is a fine example of how versatile PFS Stamp sets really are! First up is a graphic style card. I die cut the Word Bubbles from an alcohol background then I created a shadow from black cardstock. The sentiment is from Early Tulips Bouquet. Lastly, I adore the birds from the Chirp, Chirp set so I added one! (Chirp Chirp also comes in a bundled set) For my next card, I created a soft floral card with A Bride's Bouquet. I stamped the bouquet and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Next, I used Inktense pencils to watercolor the image. Lastly, I added a sentiment from Early Tulips Bouquet. Thanks so much for stopping by. Love, hugs, and wishes for your good health.

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Deep Waters with Ceal

by Ceal Pritchett on Mar 25 2020

Hello Everyone! It's Ceal here! Right now times are tough and everyone could use a little encouragement so I have been making cards to send out to friends and family just to let them know I am thinking about them. To create this card I started with a white top folding card base and a bristol panel, I have found that ink blends really well using the Life Changing Blender Brushes and Bristol card stock. I started by blending Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean distress oxide inks with the Life Changing Blender Brushes and a little water to create my background. Next I stamped the water bubbles from the set A Bottomless Sea with embossing ink and embossed it with Under The Sea embossing glitter by WOW embossing. They are so sparkly here is an up close photo I stamped the sea turtles from the Swim in the Sea set, colored them using Copic markers and then cut them out with the Coordinating dies. These sea turtles remind me of Squirt and his dad in the Finding Nemo movie I love them! To finish my card I added a sentiment from the A Bottomless Sea set that is so encouraging and reminds us that no matter what we are going through we are never alone.

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Early Tulip Bouquet Cards Two Ways with Erica

by Erica Andersson-Burke on Mar 24 2020

Hi everyone! It’s Erica here on the PFS blog today, with two spring-feel cards, using the lovely Early Tulip Bouquet stamp. The first one is a simple sympathy card, with the image part coloured with water colours and lots of white space. I stamped up the Tulips along the right hand bottom corner, using the Black Hybrid Ink. On this card I kept it horizontally. This is Ranger water colour paper and I used the smooth side. After setting the ink with a heat tool, I used some purple tape and taped the panel down. I placed the tape over the image, along the edges, to keep those parts covered. The colours I have used are Daniel Smith water colours and I did the tulips in spring like colours. When it was dry, I stamped up the sentiment in the top left corner with Black Hybrid ink and with that the first card was done. For the second card I used Kraft card stock and stamped up the Tulips with Inkon3 Fadeout ink. To switch things up a little, I did it vertically for this one. I used coloured pencils to colour it in and whilst it takes a long time, it’s so worth it! To finish off this card I stamped up the Tulips with the Fadeout Ink in the top left corner. Mainly just to fill the space a little. On top of this I heat embossed the sentiment ‘You Are Lovely’ in Metallic Rich Gold embossing powder from WOW! Embossing. Whilst this one took a lot longer than the first one, it’s lovely to see how different the outcome is using different mediums and card stock. Even such a little thing as switching up the way you stamp the image on your card stock can make a big difference. That’s it from me for today, thanks for stopping by and I hope you found some inspiration in this post! Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

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Hello from Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Mar 20 2020

Hello! Michelle Lupton here today to share an alcohol ink card using dies and a stamp from the February release from Picket Fence Studios. I started with a panel of Yupo and added some alcohol inks in blues and greens. I then took some black cardstock and die cut the "Hello" word die three times and layered them up. I cut the shadow from vellum, adhered the word to the shadow and then covered it with Glossy Accents to give a glassy shine. I decided I needed a bit more, so I stamped the sentiment from Favorite Notification and fussy cut it before adhering it below the die cut. Thanks for visiting :)

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Picket Fence Has So Many Fun Words!

by Becky Roberts on Mar 13 2020

Hi Stamping Friends, Becky Roberts from Inking Idaho here today posting to the Picket Fence blog. I really love the sentiments sets that Picket Fence Studios carries, so today I decided to pair them up with some of the stand alone word dies to create cards with sayings that probably weren't meant to go together but sure are fun! Seriously OMG. NO. JUST NO. Seriously Word Die Always be you the world can adjust Always Word Die Love Ya really. truly. absolutely. Love Ya Word Die Coffee you make my heart skip a beat Coffee Word Die The sentiment sets I used are It's Peopley Out There, Favorite Notification and Seriously, Absolutely, Always Seriously, Absolutely, Always and Favorite Notification It's Peopley Out There Look how fun these words are! The background for all of these is A City in the World. I started with a stencil background for each of them, but when I added the words, it felt kind of plain, so I stamped the background over the top. Thanks for reading today! For more creative ideas, please visit my Inking Idaho blog or follow me on Instagram. See you next month! Becky

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Good Friends and Support

by Lisa Henke on Mar 11 2020

Hello and happy hump day. Are you surviving the week of full moon, time change, and almost Friday the 13th? And we won't even mention the other hot topic of concern. I'm keeping things light and cheery and uplifting.....see what I did there? lol. I am thankful I can escape the day to day crazy with a paper, ink and a punny sentiment. The Tightening Her Bra Straps stamp set from the February release is a fantastic friendship set and I love the encouraging words included with it. I colored up the pretty bra and used the matching Tightening Her Bra Straps Dies to cut it out. The detail in the image, had me reaching for the gorgeous Fancy Flourishes (it's back in stock! Yay!!) stencil. I did a quick, soft and pretty inking with the Life Changing blender brushes with some blush and light grey inks. I stamped the sentiment in Stormy ink and added the bra image above it with foam dimensionals. I never underestimate the support of a good bra and I always rely on the support of a good friend. Both are priceless. I hope this card makes you smile and that you get some crafty time soon. Hugs, Lisa Henke

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Walking on Sunshine

by Angela Bode on Mar 06 2020

So far this year we have received around 20 inches of rain! I am pretty sure we have had more overcast or rainy days than sunshine which is not typical for where I live. Lucky for me, I am quirky and I love the rain. Another quirky thing about me is that I love to create the opposite weather on my projects. So if it's cold out, I love butterflies and bright colors but in the summer when everyone is reaching for their beach stamps, I am reaching for my snow scenes! Since we have had so much gloom lately, it won't surprise you that today's feature is a brightly stenciled sunshine! First, I stenciled the gorgeous Artsy Sun Stencil using LDRS Creative Ink and Life Changing Blender Brushes (also sold in a 4 pack). Next, I die-cut the Seriously two-part word die. And lastly, I heat embossed a sweet sentiment from the Favorite Notification set. Whatever your weather I hope you carve out some stamping time this weekend! Thanks so much for stopping by! (Affiliate links used when possible which means when you click a link and order from my link I receive a small commission without any additional cost added to you. Thanks so much!) Angie

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Winter Blues with Ceal Pritchett

by Ceal Pritchett on Mar 04 2020

Hello Everyone! It's Ceal here to share a winter card with you today because winter seems to be lingering in my part of the world. We had snow last week not once, but three times and on the days it wasn't snowing it was cold and rainy. I have the winter blues and I am so ready for spring! To create this card I started with a white top folding card base and a white panel. I stamped the trees from the February release Watercolor Trees and Bushes set with embossing ink and then embossed them with WOW Sparkling Snow embossing glitter. They make gorgeous snow covered trees. I also stamped the ground and embossed it with Wanderlust embossing glitter as well. Next I blended the background using the Life Changing Blender Brushes. I stamped the cute snowman from the On a Christmas Walk set and colored him using Copic markers and cut him out using the Coordinating dies and popped him up using foam tape.

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Funky Leaves Stencil cards, two ways, with Erica

by Erica Andersson-Burke on Mar 03 2020

Hi guys! It's Erica back on the PFS Blog today. I've used the Funky Leaves Stencil, in two different ways. Ok, so the cards both started out the same way but I finished them off differently and I got very fun results. To start with I sprayed the Funky Leaves Stencil with Pixie Spray to make sure it stays in one place so I get clean straight lines. Then, armed with a Life Changing Blender Brush and some inks (Mountain Mist from Altenew and Goddess Green from Ink On 3) I blended a panel each with each colour. Not all over, oh no, my ombré obsession is going nowhere fast. On the Mountain Mist panel I then went back in with the Embossing Pad from WOW! Embossing and on top of that I sprinkled Aquamarine Glitter Powder. This I set with the dual heat gun on the lowest setting, from underneath the panel, to keep the glitter in place. I also trimmed this panel down a little bit. I didn't want to cover up all that gorgeous glitter too much so what to do? I heat embossed the Happy Birthday from Fancy Sentiment on a strip of vellum, in Platinum embossing powder and then wrapped this around the panel. This I adhered to a light grey card base and with that card no1 was done. Card no2, done with the Goddess Green ink, I did the same Happy Birthday sentiment for. Also in Platinum, on vellum. After wrapping the sentiment strip around the background I adhered the whole thing to a card base. To give this one a bit more interest, I added lots of Nuvo Jewel Drops in Key Lime. I used the leaf shape and added drops of different sizes to them and then set the card aside to dry. Which one is your favourite? The one with glitter or the one with texture? Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed these cards and will try one of these techniques yourself. Don't forget to tag @picketfencestudios in your posts when you show off your creations! That's it from me!Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

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Lots of Hello with Erica

by Erica Andersson-Burke on Feb 29 2020

Hi, hey, HELLO! It’s Erica on the blog today with lots of Hello cards! I love the new Hello word diecut and have used it in different ways for these cards. I’ve been totally obsessed with making striped backgrounds with coloured card stock recently. It’s so fun and I love it! So much so I’ve ended up with some 20+ backgrounds... which I keep using and then replenishing, lol! The first two cards have striped backgrounds, and the Hello layered up. One is done with dark grey and layered up with black, the other one has a Copic coloured backing part and layered up with white card stock. The backing part is done in an ombré look which was easy to achieve with Copics. On this one I should perhaps have used a lighter grey card stock or maybe even white but it still pops! The third card has vertical stripes in a more masculine colour scheme and only the word part of the Hello added to it. For the final card I cut out the Hello out of coloured card stock and adhered them to a white card base. I did not add anything else to this one, only the word diecuts and that was it but it’s still lovely and colourful. That’s it from me for this leap year day! Happy February 29th! Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

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Peacock beauty with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Feb 28 2020

Hello! It's Michelle here today to share a card I made using a cover die from the January release. I used my Life Changing Blender Brushes to create a Distress Oxide background, and then sprayed it with Perfect Pearls in water. I cut the Peacock Beauty die from silver mirror card stock, and then fussy cut the peacock image from it. I finished with a sentiment from the Beauty and Song stamp set. Thanks for visiting :)

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Fancy Flourish Ink Blending with Erica

by Erica Andersson-Burke on Feb 23 2020

Hi guys! Erica back on the PFS Blog with a quick card. It’s blue, it’s ink blended and it has bling on it. All my favourite elements. As I was going to do ink blending I got a panel of Bristol Vellum card stock out. I also generously sprayed my Fancy Flourish stencil with Pixie Spray to keep it in place while doing the ink blending. I had three shades of blue inks from Catherine Pooler picked out. Something Borrowed, Suede Shoes and Juniper Mist. With my beloved Life Changing Blender Brushes I did the ink blending in an ombré fashion with the darker colour at the top. Thanks to the Pixie Spray the lines are super crisp and clean! This product is absolute genius and a must-have if you are into ink blending. As the stencilling is so fabulous, I didn’t want to cover it up too much so I kept the sentiment simple. I cut out the new Hello word diecut out of black and white card stock and layered these up. On Lawn Fawn Blue Jay card stock, I heat embossed ‘I’m obsessed with your awesomeness’ in white. The sentiment is from Favorite Notifications, which is a super fun and relevant stamp set. This I then trimmed down to a slim strip and adhered to the card. The Hello was added above it. The final flourish were some Iridescent Crystals from Studio Katia. For a bit of bling, you know. This design would be so easy to do in different colours for different occasions and different people. Ok, well, that’s it from me for today. I hope you like the card! Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

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Fancy Sentiments and Flourishes with Sara

by Sara Sherlock on Feb 18 2020

Hello! I'm Sara, from Much Love Sara, and I'm excited to be sharing a pretty wedding card with you today - featuring a dry emboss technique using a stencil. Today's card begins with...

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Stenciled Valentine's day card with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Feb 07 2020

Hello - Michelle here today! One of my favourite items from the January release from Picket Fence Studios is the "Flowers in a Heart Stencil", and I think it is very useful for Valentine's Day cards. I blended some pale pink and pale purple Distress Oxide inks onto a piece of white cardstock. (My Life Changing Blender Brush still had some yellow ink on it from another card, so the pink came out as a yellowish pink.) I then added the stencil and blended the pink and purple ink at the opposite ends of the cardstock as the first application, and I added more ink that the first time. I then stamped "I love you the mostest" with Picket Fence Black hybrid ink, and added some sequins as a finishing touch. Thanks for visiting :)

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Eiko Girl with Karen Reategui

by Karen Reategui on Jan 30 2020

Hello crafty friends! Today I’m over Picket Fence Studios Blog sharing this floral card with a partial die cutting. I’m featuring the Eiko Girl Stamp and die, Flowers for Picking Stamp and dies, Glass Window Rainbow Die and for my sentiments I used A Pain In My Ass Stamp. Let’s create the background! I placed the Glass Window Rainbow Die on top of a white cardstock and make a partial die cutting. I added a piece of glitter paper at the back of this panel and then I adhered a white card base using glue. Next, I stamped the Eiko Girl and Flowers for Picking Stamps onto watercolor paper and applied pink, yellow, skin and brown shades of watercolor. Once my panel is dry, I die cut all the images using the coordinating dies. Finally, I arranged all the die cuts on top of my panel using glue and foam tape for some dimensions. Added a few iridescent jewels and stamped the sentiments. Thank you so much for stopping by and have a marvelous crafty day! Karen

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Swallowtail Beauty

by Ceal Pritchett on Jan 25 2020

Hello Everyone It's Ceal, here to share a couple cards using the Swallowtail Beauty with you today. I was supposed to post on Wednesday and I still had brain fog from Creativation and totally forgot. The January release was fabulous and huge and this stamp is one of my favorites because I love butterflies. I shared the second card on release day on my blog but wanted to share it here along with the top one I created after I got back home. For the first card I used Fadeout ink for no line watercoloring and the new Atelier inks from Ink on 3. You can find the links to these on my blog, Simply Beautiful. The Fadeout ink along with the Atelier inks make it so easy to no line watercolor and we have several new stamps like the Swallowtail Beauty that are begging to be watercolored. The card below I stamped the Swallowtail Beauty in embossing ink and then embossed it using Brutus Monroe Alabaster Sparkle. I used the Life Changing Blender Brushes to blend a rainbow of colors over it. The greeting is from the Forever & Ever set.

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Foiled Watercolor

by Angela Bode on Jan 24 2020

Welcome and a happy Friday to you! One of the first techniques I learned as a new stamper was to add ink on a craft sheet and spritz with water, then swish cardstock through the watery ink. It's still one of my favorite ways to create interesting backgrounds. I created several backgrounds with the technique and let them dry. After selecting a background I foiled and die cut it with this Two-Part Foiling and Cutting Die set. I was thrilled with the result! I am a huge fan of white and black with a bit of color so I simply splattered a bit of black ink on white cardstock and stamped the Thank You sentiment. Lastly, I added the succulent to the card. That's it for me today! I hope this inspires you to add shine to your projects with foil! Have a wonderful weekend! Angie

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Swallowtail beauty with Michelle Lupton

by Michelle Lupton on Jan 19 2020

Hello! Michelle here today to share a card I made using products from the January release at Picket Fence Studios. I stamped the Swallowtail Beauty stamp in Picket Fence Studios black hybrid ink onto some watercolour cardstock. I added clear embossing powder and heat set it. I then watercoloured the image with blue on the butterfly and pink around the edges. I added a gold mat around the panel, and gold embossed a sentiment from "A Bride's Bouquet" onto black cardstock with its own gold mat. Thanks for visiting :)