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Collage Stamping with Happiness Abounds

Posted on March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 by inkspirationwithteresa

I don’t know if you can call this a technique. But I think it kind of is. And it’s a great one to use if you’re into making more simple cards without lots of die cuts and embossing. I’m talking about Collage Stamping! And I’m doing some collage stamping with Happiness Abounds. This is such a great stamp set for this! Lots of sentiments to choose from and a variety of images to create your collage. Of course you can always mix and match different stamp sets if you like.

Since I’m crafting with Pale Papaya that was the first colour in my combination. This is one of my favourites from the 2021-2023 In Colours and am definitely going to miss it when it retires in a couple of weeks! And since I’m using the Happiness Abounds stamp set I chose Pear Pizzazz as my second colour. Then for my third colour I went with Crumb Cake. I always like at least 3 colours for a card like this and Crumb Cake is a nice subtle, neutral colour.

To create my collage for the background I started with the larger flower image with Pale Papaya ink. Then I stamped the ink splatter image from Quiet Meadow with Crumb Cake ink. And to fill in any open spaces I used Pear Pizzazz ink with one of the leaf images.

For the next layer I simply stamped a sentiment with Pear Pizzazz ink and then stamped a few of one of the smaller flowers around it. Then I die cut it with the Stitched Rectangles dies and did the same with the next larger die to create a Pale Papaya frame. I popped this up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And then to finish it off I added a few Brushed Brass Butterflies.

I just love this card using Collage Stamping with Happiness Abounds! Check out my card from earlier this week using Pale Papaya and Happiness Abounds here.

And be sure to check out my online shop! Some of he 2021-2023 In Colour products are already low inventory!

#SimpleStamping with Happiness Abounds

Posted on March 22, 2023March 21, 2023 by inkspirationwithteresa

I’m sharing another #SimpleStamping challenge today! This time I’m doing some #SimpleStamping with Happiness Abounds. And this month we’re only allowed to use stamps, ink and paper to make a birthday card.

For this design I wanted to use Pale Papaya. Each week over the next few weeks I’m featuring one of the soon to be retiring 2021-2023 In Colours. I’m sad that this colour is retiring soon! This have been one of my favourites from this group. So to go with the Happiness Abounds stamp set and Pale Papaya, I’m using Pear Pizzazz to finish off my colour combination. I’m using the Pear Pizzazz for the card base. And then I’m also doing some tone on tone stamping to create a border with some of the smaller images.

With the Pale Papaya, I stamped a few of the larger flowers on a piece of Basic White cardstock. Then framed it with some Pale Papaya cardstock. To make it a birthday card I stamped “happy” in one font from the Biggest Wish stamp set right on top of the flowers. Then on a separate piece of cardstock I stamped “birthday” in a different font with Pale Papaya. And then I popped all these up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals.

To step this card up there are a few different options. You can add some Wink of Stella to the flowers in the centre. Or you can add a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels. And if you want to you could use some of the great rectangular dies!

Even without those, I really like this card using #SimpleStamping with Happiness Abounds. Simple can still look pretty!

Check out the In Colours I featured last week here… or here. Since it was St. Patrick’s Day last week I ended up using both Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen in my projects.

And don’t forget to stock up on any of the 2021-2023 In Colour products soon! Polished Pink inkpads are already on low inventory! Once these sell out they are gone! Here’s the link to my online shop.

#SimpleStamping with Paper Craft Crew

Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 by inkspirationwithteresa

Each month Stampin’ Up! has a #SimpleStamping challenge and I’ve been having a lot of fun doing them. This week the Paper Craft Crew is doing some #SimpleStamping too (PCC488). So I’m excited to do some #SimpleStamping with Paper Craft Crew and Stampin’ Up!

For my card design I started with what punch I was going to use. (Stampin’ Up!s challenge gives us an extra punch to work with on top of the usual stamps, ink and paper.) I love the bottle images from the Vintage Christmas stamp set! So I decided to use the Vintage Bottle punch even though this is going to be a thank you card.

From here I picked my colour combination. And since it’s not going to be a Christmas card I’m using Pale Papaya and Crumb Cake as my main colours. I stamped the bottly with Crumb Cake ink and the main flowers in Pale Papaya ink. Then I added in a splash of Soft Succulent for the flowers’ centres. The thank you is from the Biggest Wish stamp set. I also stamped that in Pale Papaya, then framed it with some Crumb Cake cardstock and popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals to be at the same level as the bottle. And to have a little something more in the background I stamped the ink splatter image from the Quiet Meadow stamp set with Crumb Cake ink.

I really enjoy #SimpleStamping! And so I had a lot of fun with these challenges.

Check out the other cards for more #SimpleStamping with Paper Craft Crew here. And you can check out one of my previous #SimpleStamping cards here.

Simple Handmade Wedding Card

Posted on June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 by inkspirationwithteresa

I’m finally getting around to sharing the card I made for my team’s recent Annual Catalogue card swap. With every new catalogue we always do one and I just love all the different card samples I get! I can’t wait to share some of my favourites with you. In the meantime here’s my simple handmade wedding card.

For our swaps we have to use a new stamp set as our main focus. And we need to have an embellishment of some kind. It could be Designer Series Paper, ribbon, jewels. Just something a little extra to step up your card design. For my design I used the Happiness Abounds stamp set. I wanted to make something simple as I needed to make 15 cards. While I sometimes enjoy making cards with a few different pieces/layers, those cards do tend to take a little bit more time.

For my colour combination I used Pale Papaya and Pear Pizzazz. Both are such nice soft colours and they go so nicely together. And instead of adding some of the coordinating DSP, Hues of Happiness, I added some extra colour using the Blending Brushes. I added some Pear Pizzazz behind the flowers and Pale Papaya to colour the flowers. You can stamp the flowers first and then use the Blending Brushes or vice versa. It’s completely up to you. Just make sure if you stamp first that you give plenty of time for the ink to dry so you don’t end up smudging the lines from the stamped images.

From here I used the Blossoming Happiness dies to cut out the two smaller flowers. Then I popped those up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. And the embellishment I used was a few of the Rhinestone Basic Jewels. If you want to add a bit more sparkle you can add some using the Wink of Stella Glitterbrush to the flowers.

Such a simple handmade wedding card! Check out this other card I made using the Happiness Abounds products here. And you can check all the products from this suite in my online shop.