Blue Knight Rubber Stamps: Creating Cards with a Few of My Favorite BKRS Stamps

Hello again!

Each of us on the Blue Knight Rubber Stamps Design Team have dedicated our December projects to sharing cards with you that they've created with a few of their favorite BK stamps.

I started the week off, here at my blog last Sunday, with sharing a few cards created with 2 of my Blue Knight favorite stamps...and today I'm ending the week with a few more cards created with 2 more of my BK faves!

First up...Peaceful Lake with an added image from Momma Bear and Friends.

I stamped the Peaceful lake image first, then added the smaller Momma Bear image to the scene.
I added color to most of the image with PanPastels and Copics (boat and lower tree line).
I created the cloudy sky with Blue Knight's Heidi Pettie Cloud Stencil and PanPastels.
When colored image was sealed with Nexxus Comb Thru hairspray.
Yes!...This is a great way to seal you PanPastel colored images **As long as you don't need or want them to be archival safe.**
For me...Nexxus is a great sealant for card projects.
I actually like it better than art store types of sealants.

This card makes me smile...I truly LOVE this stamp...It's no wonder that it made it to one the top spots on my Blue Knight list of favorite stamps

My second card...created with another of my Blue Knight favorites: Silhouette Stag.
I Love Love Love this stamp...emphasis on LOVE
(Apologies for the poor lighting on the second photo...I was having lighting issues in the studio when I took today's photos.)

This is a super quick and easy card to create.
Some repetitive stamping of the silhouette image to get a good solid black image.
Some masking with a basic circle shape to create the moon...and some PanPastel coloring to create the evening sky.
I added some great shading to the moon as well.
And wha-la...a card!

I'll be using this stamp to make some boxed sets of cards to gift to a few people who are outdoors men...and will, I know, love this image as much as I do.

Well, that winds up my last Design Team projects for the year!
You can find each of today's stamps HERE , at the Blue knight Rubber Stamps web store.

Blue Knights new DT term begins in January and I'll be continuing on as Design Team Coordinator and with the pleasure of working with a team that consists of a few familiar DT members who will continue to inspire you as they always have......and a new DT member who will be wowing you with her amazing card making!

Be sure to check in at the Blue Knight Blog HERE...and the Facebook Fan Page HERE...so that you won't miss out on the upcoming NEW RELEASE and all that the "new" DT has to share!

Blue Knight Rubber Stamps December Design Team Inspiration Cards: SAILBOATS and DANCING in the RAIN

Hello friends!

Today I'm sharing my Blue Knight Design Team inspiration cards with you here at my blog.
This month, the DT has been given the opportunity to create cards with their personal BK favorites.

My list of BK favorites is very lengthy.....so it wasn't so easy to choose favorites for my December DT projects....
BUT...I managed to whittle my December favorites down to 4 stamp sets...and am sharing 2 of the cards/stamp sets, here with you today!
(I'll share 2 more on Saturday...so be sure to check in here, at my blog, again at the end of the week!)

DANCING in the RAIN

As soon as I laid eyes on this stamp I knew that I'd enjoy coloring it...creating stormy cloudy background...but I also knew that I wanted to crate a paper pieced card with this wonderful stamp.
I love everything about this stamped image...and I especially love the detailed reflection in the puddle!

For this card I paper pieced the umbrella, jacket and boots with a Swiss dot print paper.
I added the color to the rest of the image with Blue Knight Select PanPastels and Copic markers. I created the stormy sky with PanPastels and Blue Knight's Heidi Pettie Cloud Stencil.

My second card today was created with another BK favorite....SAILBOATS.
I have created cards countess time with this stamp set and love that the set includes 2 identical images/stamps: A large SAILBOAT and a smaller SAILBOAT. I always reach for this stamp set when I need a masculine card that comes together quickly.

For today's card I chose to create a card with the smaller SAILBOAT image.
I added color to the image with Blue Knight PanPastels...added some matting...a little bit of natural fiber red twine .....and had a this completed card in about 15 minutes.
*Coloring images with PanPastels is a CINCH!

I hope that you enjoyed seeing toady's cards...created with two (of many) of my Blue Knight Rubber Stamps favorites...

I'll be back on Saturday with 2 more cards...created with 2 more of my BKRS favorites!

You can see more December Inspiration projects from my Blue Knight Design Team teammates over at the BKRS... HERE

And..you'll find today's stamps and the BLUE KNIGHT PanPastel Palettes over at the Blue Knight web store.... HERE

Thanks for visiting today!
See you on Saturday!
Michelle

My Daughter and I: A Card Collaboration for a Friend.

It's been a long time since I've spent time in my studio making a card of any sort.

Recently, a friend asked me to make a card for her.
Her daughter is getting married..and she asked me to create a card that she cold give to her daughter and soon to be son-in-law on their wedding day.

I knew, immediately, which stamp sets I wanted to use to create the card and had a vision in my crafty little head about which colors...supplies...and card stock/paper I wanted to us.... and what I wanted the finished card to look like
I also knew that I wanted to "recruit" my daughter, Chelsea ...who does beautiful hand lettering....to personalize the card and envelope.
(I SO wish that I had Chelsea's talent and gifts for doing beautiful lettering....she does it without effort.)

About the supplies....I chose the following to create today's card:
Stamp sets: Altenew's Vintage Roses layered stamp and die set
The Ton's Haute Wedding Dress and Plus One stamp sets
Papertrey Ink's VINTAGE CREAM card stock for the card base and stamping layer.
Green Metallic card stock (chosen because this is one of the wedding theme colors)
Sheer Vellum

My daughter added the hand lettered personalization and sentiment with an old fashioned fountain pen and ink.

I prepared the 5 x 7 card....cut the card stock...and scored it to create the base card.
Next, I cut the green metallic mat layer, stamping layer and the velum layer.

I set those pieces aside.

I stamped the layered Vintage Rose pieces in multiples and die cute each floral image and the leaves and set them aside.

Next, I stamped the bride...and groom...
I did some masking of the bride image to position both images as I wanted them...getting the groom close enough to the bride so that it would look like they are holding hands behind her gown. (Masking the bride eliminated the grooms right hand which created the illusion of hand holding.)

After I completed the stamping...I handed the stamped piece over to my daughter who added her beautiful hand lettering to personalize the image piece and add the sentiment.

I them positioned the flowers on the vellum layer, making sure not to hide any of the personalization and sentiment.

Finally, I assembled the card using Scor-Tape on the metallic and card stock pieces and  foam dimensionals to position the flowers and leaves.

I took a few photos and sent them to my friend...the Mother-of-the-bride...who was very happy with the card!

Yay!
(Her happiness made me happy!)

Thanks for stopping by today...
Wishing you a wonderfully creative day!
Michelle.