Crazy Cats

Quick and easy card with a fun look for my Spring Stamping Event on May22-23.  Let me know if you are coming as soon as possible!!

Crazy cats from Sizzix and Tim Holtz, flowers Heartfelt Creations, words Simon Says stamps

Day at the Beach

This card will also be made at my annual Spring Stamping Event on May 22 or 23 from 1-4.  Please let me know by Monday if you will be attending so I can get the papers all cut!  Thanks.

Shell dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs, Stamp from Powerpoppy and words from Stampendous!

More Stenciling

This card was done with a stencil by The Crafter's Workshop (Balzer Designs) and it has both the random dots and a flower border.  I use Distress Inks for all of the images but then added Wink of Stella Glitter Brushed in different colors over the flowers and leaves.  You can not see in the photo but it does have a lot of shimmer and shine.  The words are from Paper Smoothes called 'Pretty Phases'. 

Love you Dearly

Here is an example of stenciling with with Distress Stains, grey and tan, and stenciling with Distress Inks and a Tim Holtz Tool, pink hearts.  The stains give a bolder more saturated look with less control on your part where the inks you have more control over the darkness and where you add the most ink. The gray and tan colored images are from a stencil by The Crafter's Workshop and the hearts are from a stencil from Heidi Swapp called ' Confetti'.  I stamped heart stamps in the background using a set by Unity called 'Loolah Collection'.  The words are from a great set by Paper Smooches called ' Pretty Phases'.  I love the font and size of these stamps! The hearts are die cut from Spellbinders 'Scaloped Hearts' and then embossed with various embossing folders.  I added inks, glitter and Crystal Accents to give a shiny look.

October Mojo Class

Here is another card we will be making in the October Mojo class next week.  Stamps are from My favorite things.  You can make this card into any type of card you would like by changing the words.  Let me know as soon as possible via email if you will be attending next week.

Aug Mojo

Here is the masculine card we will be making for the Aug Mojo Class this month. The stamps in this card are from My Favorite Things, 'Up Up and Away'.  The balloons are colored with Copic markers and the sky is make with Tim Holtz Distress inks.  It is a great masculine card for any occasion.

Sign up for your class today by checking my calendar above and emailing your date and time.

More Wine Tags

 Here are more of my wine tags that I have  been making ... I guess I should make a few with different papers but these looks so great with wine.  The stamp & die set again is from Stampendous (My Favorite Things).

Wine Tags

Wine items sell well for me at my markets so I have been making up some wine tags to sell.  All of these are made with the same stamp set & die set called 'Let's Toast' from Die-namics (My Favorite Things). What do you think?  Will they sell?

All of these dies for the little wine glasses and three tags are included with all of these words for wine drinkers.  It is great!!!

I used retired paper from The Angel Company, Copic makers for the wine in the glasses, various punches and ribbons and Distress ink for the shading.  I know you can not see it, but the wine and the flowers have been brushed with a Wink of Stella Glitter Brush and it gives them have a great shimmer.  I am so loving this new way to add glitter.  It is light and shimmery and the more layers you add the more it glitters.  I can get any of these supplies from you if you are interested.

June Mojo - Wildflower Garden

The stamp set used for this card is from Hero Arts and is called 'Wildflower Garden'.  I used Distress Markers, Distress Ink and the words are from Stampendous and is called 'Dream Forever'.  This card will be in my Mojo class the second week in June.  Let me know if you are interested in the class or the supplies.  I have posted many other stamps using this stamp and stamp set on previous posts since I love using it!

Enjoy Today

A great manly card for any occasion, featuring a Hero Arts Stamp set and various types of scoring for a color blocked background. The background for the stamp is stamping with Distress Pads. This will be one of the cards for my gathering next weekend and will also be in my up coming class Gathering Cards at the end of this month and the beginning of June.  Let me know if you are interested in attending a class or are interested in purchasing any of the products.

Leftovers from walking the stamp

From the previous two days I showed you cards make by walking the stamp in Distress ink and then stamping first or second generation.  Today's card was a total experiment since I tried to stamp it a third time but it was too like.  So I put the watercolor paper into the colors on my craft sheet and had them soak them up and did some blending with a waterbrush.  You can see a little of the first image in the background.  I stamped the image in black over the dried paper.  Added random dots with my Viva Pen and added words from Tim Holtz's Everyday Words.

Wildflower Garden

Here is a new technique with the Wildflower Garden solid image from Hero Arts called walking the stamp.  I put various colors of Distress inks on a stamping sheet and walked the image through them a few times to get the color on the image.  Here is the first generation of the stamping.  The words are from Way with Words by Tim Holtz.  I like the look of the bow on the top ... it kinda looks like a present with it up that high.

Note pads

I know ... I know ... I have not been posting much.  But that does not mean I have not been stamping!!!  I have been doing three markets a week and selling quite a bit so I have to keep making more to sell.  Life is rough sometimes but I love it!!!

These are a few of the smaller notepads I made using stamps from all three of the companies I sell for: Our Daily Bread Designs, Heartfelt Creations and Stacy's Stamps.  I really love how they all came out.  I used Distress Inks on an acrylic to make the backgrounds.  The hardest part in making them is waiting until they dry so you can stamp on them.

I am sitting on my deck enjoying the early morning but missing my birds.  I had to stop feeding them for a while due to the nightly visits by a young raccoon.  It has been fun to watch but I do not want it to come all the time onto my deck so I have to wait to feed the birds until after she gets too big to climb and sit on the top .... another one has tried but is too large to sit on top of the feeder.  I miss my bird friends though.

Fun day planned today but stamping will be involved .... making up some new baby cards!

As yu Graduate ...

It is that time of year again with all of the graduation parties going on .... so this month in June Mojo Class we will be making this graduation card.  Don't need one this year .... you can change it into a birthday, sympathy, get well or anything you need this coming month. The set is called Graduate by Our Daily Bread Designs and I will be showing you a neat easy trick to get color without a lot of time coloring.  Hey check out the new stamps for June ... I will be putting in a order soon so let me know if you want me to get you any of these new sets ... they are really great this month!

Mojo class is next week on Tues (one and six) and again on Sunday June 17 at two.  If these dates do not work for you let me know and I will see what I can do but my times are limited now with markets starting.  I think I have some really easy and quick ideas to share with you with these five cards this month.  Give me an email or call!

I am excited to have a friend and her two children here from AK.  I love having them here and hope to be able to show them some of the fun things here in Cleveland like the beach and museums!

Hues of Sunset

 

Hues of Sunset is one of three cards in a series I will be teaching in my Blending Tool techniques classes in June. (Check my calendar for days and times) All three of the cards will be done at my gathering this weekend too!  I used the set 'Wildflower' (Stacy Stamps) for the cattails and Tim Holtz inks and blending tool for the coloring.  If you have not gotten one of these tools you should ... they are great and make coloring with inks so easy and fun. It you are interested in purchasing any of these supplies let me know and i will let you know my prices.

If any of my local customers would like to visit us at the gathering on Sunday from 1-3 that would be great.  You can see what a gathering is like if you have never attended, see samples for future classes, see samples, and shop in Pat and my stores. RSVP me by email before Friday morning if you are planning on a visit. Oh ... bring your scissors and have Mike sharpen them for you while you are there too!

I am on my deck writing this enjoying the beautiful sunshine!  Hope you are having a wonderful day.

November Mojo Class

It is time again for a Mojo class!  Here is one of the cards we will be making using Heartfelt Creation's Oak leaf background stamp.  I used the trio of new fall colors of Tim Holtz's Distress Inks for the background on white paper ... yes it is white not kraft!  I love the way it turned out.  I did not put words on the front but the inside has a Thanksgiving greeting.  Here is a close up look at the card.

Check out the calendar at the top for the dates and time for this class.  Please let me know by Sunday if you will be attending.  We will be making 5 cards for $15.  I will post one more of them tomorrow.

I will be at Lake Catholic this Saturday and St Pasquals the following for their craft shows.  I had a great time and did very well at my last one at St Gabs.  It was nice to see so many of you at it.

I am trying to see if there is enough interest for a Christmas Stamp-a-stack for the week after Thanksgiving.  Please let me know if you are interested by Nov 20 so I can decide if it is a go or not.  I just sent out a newsletter with possible dates on it.  If you did not receive one and would like to get my newsletters please email me at ritasangels@gmail.com.  Thanks and have a wonderful day.