choose to be happy

Hi everyone! It's Ashley here today sharing a card I made using my stamps in a different way.

I cut out a piece of cardstock slightly larger than my die. Then I used Text Melange and Crowns stamp sets to heat emboss text and crown images randomly all over the cardstock. I knew I was going to die cut my hearts from this cardstock so the actual images wouldn't be visible. I just wanted to add some color and dimension to the final die cut piece.

After I felt like I had added enough heat embossed images, I ran the cardstock and die through my Grand Calibur. Here's a close up of what the die looks like. I used a fine detail gold embossing powder for the text stamps and a white embossing powder and a glitter embossing powder for the crowns.

I attached my die cut to the front of my card. I used a sentiment from Brave Girls red rubber stamp set and heat embossed it with fine detail white embossing powder.

You can see more details about my card on my blog, Markland and Main. Thanks for looking!

thankful for you

Hello everyone! Ashley here with my first post as part of the new design team. I used the text melange stamp set along with the crown stamp set. I heat embossed stamped images from both of those stamp sets and then used distress ink blending for the base of my card.

I stamped a sentiment from Fall Mix It Up and then made a little banner which I adhered with foam dots. This may be a fall themed set, but it has a lot of great little sayings and sentiments for use all year around!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! You can view more details about my card on my blog.

Mixed Media Canvas

I hope Christmas has passed with a lot of joy and as much ease and free time as possible. Today I´m showing you a Mixed Media Canvas that was a Christmas Gift for my best friend Annica.

I used different Paper Wings stamps on top of my background that I buildt up with gesso & spray inks. The Vintage Cuties fits so well on this project. 

Hope you enjoyed my little creation - Marie

Vintage Cuties Clip Art Sheet	Keys and Arrows Clear Stamp Set	Holiday Mix It Up Clear Stamp Set	Crowns Clear Stamp Set
Text Cling Stamp Set

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Themed Thursday - Happy Easter!

Hello everyone, Norma here with you today!!  Did you guys see Dana's "Faux Paper Casting" technique on Tuesday?!  WOW, she shares the coolest techniques doesn't she!  I'm learning so much from her so if you missed it just click on the link.  ;D

The new Mixed Kit just came out too and it's AWESOME!  Click on the link to check it out: PWP Mar Mixed Media Kit Release



Okay so for today I'm sharing a fun little Easter project that I made using a variety of PWP stamp sets:

     

This cute little project started out as an empty ribbon spool and shoe box lid.  Here's a look at the lid before I cut it up:

I actually intended to make this into a shadow box for my Feb hop project but I just couldn't make it work.  So I set it aside and it just happened to be perfect for this project. ;D  I added some additional layers of green paint, 3-D Enamels flourishes and randomly stamped the Writings Backgrounds Cling Stamp.  Next I cut it down to size creating a nice backdrop for my project.

For the base, I padded the empty spool with foam then covered it with a scrap piece of Debbie Mumm fabric.  On the top, I adhered a piece of white cardstock that I ran through my Cuttlebug to emboss with the Swiss Dots folder and then inked with Tim Holtz Shabby Shutters.

Moving onto the banner, I cut a wooden dowel into two pieces for my "poles" and gave them a light wash of TH Vintage Photo.  I stamped the pennants onto various patterned papers with the Happy Day stamp set.  Next I fussy cut, layered the pennant pieces and highlighted with a white gel pen.  To string my banner, I punched holes and added grommets for a nice finished looked.  I hung the banner on a thin sheer ribbon.

I stamped two sets of the flowers onto pink patterned paper, fussy cut and highlighted with white.  (Tip: highlighting helps create depth on the image.)  After attaching to my "poles", I wrapped pipe cleaners around the poles to soften them a bit and add visual interest.  

 I choose to use a bird from the Bird Melange set and stamped him on yellow patterned paper.  He's topped off with a small crown from the Crowns stamp set.

For the sentiment I used a verse from the Scriptures stamp set and layered it on various pieces of K&Company cardstock die-cuts.

To finish off my scene, I stamped the butterfly wings from the Mini Wings Stamp set on yellow patterned paper and added a little blue coloring with Tim Holtz Distress Markers.  

I cut the banner with my Cricut Stand and Salute Cartridge then stamped "Happy" from the Happy Day stamp set and hand wrote "Easter".  Next I attached ivy, flowers and an Easter egg to finish it off.

That's it friends, I hope you enjoyed my little Easter project!  Thank you so much for stopping by today and for all of the sweet comments you leave me.  I really appreciate it and enjoy reading them.

Have a Beautiful Day :D

Happy Day Clear Stamp Set Bird Melange Cling Stamp Set Crowns Royal Melange Scriptures Stamp Set Mini Wings Clear Stamp Set Writing Cling Stamp Background Writing

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What's Up Wednesday: Golden Christmas

Hello peeps!

It's Shay here.  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Before I get onto today's post I wanted to draw your attention to Julie's series of Advent Calendar tags: Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3.  They are each unique and delightful.

Now that December is nearing it is a perfect time to get those Christmas and holiday cards done.

I think gold is perfect for the holidays so I pulled out my gold embossing powder, some older Paper Wings Productions stamps along with newer stamps to create a couple Christmas cards.  I really love how I was able to incorporate the older non-Christmas themed stamps with newer Christmas themed stamps to create very Christmasy cards.

For the first card I wanted to use the Madonna and baby Jesus image from Melange Women 2-Worldly Women set.  After gold embossing the Madonna, I adhered the white cardstock panel to the white cardbase which I adhered a piece of decorative gold tissue paper and wrapped around with twine.  I added a few gold embossed stars from Hanging Stars for added interest around the the Madonna and on the cardbase.   The sentiment is from Christmas Mix It Up which I gold embossed yet again and cut into banner shapes.

The inspiration for this card was the three Magi who are sometimes portrayed as kings.  There are great crown images found in the Royal Melange or Crowns sets.  I chose to use the two larger crowns.  On red cardstock I stamped in red the postcard image (such an awesome background) from Writing Backgrounds or Postcard.  I then embossed each crown with a different embossing powder: silver, gold and copper. The sentiment is the same as the first card from Christmas Mix It Up which I stamped inside the banner from Banner Day--all gold embossed.  The words fit rather well and because they are clear you can bend them slightly to fit the curve of the banner.  I adhered this panel to a gold panel.  The card base is red which I stamped in red using the big bold flourish from Flourish Fun 1 and the trio of dots from Flourish Fun 2.  All of the red layers are distressed using the red ink and my ink blending tool.

I hope you ink up some Paper Wings Productions stamps and create festive holiday cards.  We would love to see what you make with Paper Wings Productions stamps.  Add your projects to our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

Take flight,

Shay.

Supplies:

Golden Mother and Child
Stamps: Melange Women 2-Worldly Women, Hanging Stars, Christmas Mix It Up
Ink: Versamark by Tsukineko
Cardstock: Georgia Pacific in white
Other: gold embossing powder by Judikins; brown and white twine by Divine Twine; decorative gold tissue paper

Three Kings
Stamps: Royal Melange or Crowns, Christmas Mix It Up, Banner Day, Writing Backgrounds or Postcard, Flourish Fun 1, Flourish Fun 2
Ink: Versamark by Tsukineko; Jenni Bowlin for Ranger in chili powder
Cardstock: gold and red
Other: gold, copper and silver embossing powder by Judikins and Ranger; ink blending tool by Ranger