Lisa Stein

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the ink foam storage pages for Ranger Distress inks, and apparently I also need to update my ink stash.

Here are the new pages, with 70 ink colors. I’ve made one the same as previously posted here, and I’ve also made one without the circles of ink colors. This way you save some printer ink.

Below are links to the *.pdf files. Click on them and the page will download. Print on US Letter size paper, cut in half (or leave whole if you’re using a larger binder), slip into page protectors and add some velcro dots to store your blender foams.

Let me know if you have any questions.

It’s that wonderful time of the year when my friend Michelle has a holiday card series, and I am honored to be joining her this year. The premise is that I pick a card of hers that inspires me to “CASE” it, and make my own version. Click here to see which card of mine inspired her to create something.

This is the card of Michelle’s that inspired me, since she used a stencil with multiple colors. I knew I could translate that to some new stencils I got from Right at Home. The kaleidoscope stencils had to come live with me as I collect kaleidoscopes, and have for over 30 years. Crazy that it’s been that long!

I turned the stencils into a “stained glass window” by using distress oxide inks and ultra thick embossing powder on a piece of heavy weight vellum. For each stencil that I put down, and there are five in the set, I used a combination of red inks on the center areas, and greens on the outer edges.

Once I got to the last stencil, I used a bit of gold ink for a little holiday bling. I could not bring myself to trim any of this stencil away and this card measures in at almost six inches square. For the sentiment I used a favorite stamp from an older, but amazing, set that is also from Right at Home.

Here you can see that because I only did one layer of ultra thick embossing powder, the melting is not perfect, but it really reminded me of a very old stained glass window, and it worked just as I hoped it would.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, no matter what you celebrate. I look forward to some quiet meals at home, some favorite scents and flavors, and a happy and healthy new year.

Bonus content! If you hold this up to the light, this is what you see. It would be an amazing sun catcher or ornament.

I am very excited to be a part of highlighting this awesome new release from Essentials by Ellen! It’s available now, and only at ellenhutson.com.

I have been in need of too many sympathy cards lately and have depleted my stash. When I saw this set from Brandi Kincaid I knew it would be perfect to help me make some more, with just the perfect sentiments.

This card is actually pretty simple, but the one thing I wanted to point out was that I colored the flower image with Distress Glazes. Have you used these yet? I got four recently just to play with, and I’m going to need all of them. If you see them on sale, please let me know!

These were so easy to make and I am in love with the end result. Pretty, yet subtle, which I think is perfect for when you want someone to know you’re thinking of them, but don’t want to send one of your typical bright creations.

I stamped the flower in versafine ink and clear embossed the image, and used the coordinating die to cut it out from heavy white cardstock. Using a versamarker pen, I applied ink to the petals, stems, and stamens (I think that’s what the yellow bits are called?), and applied the distress glaze to each area. I did the stamens first, then the petals, and then the leaves and stem, heating the glaze each time. I intentionally left some uncovered parts in each area so that it wasn’t perfect. For one area of a petal that I completely missed, unintentionally, I went back after using my heat gun, reapplied more ink, more glaze, and it worked perfectly.

I let that cool for just a minute or two and then pressed the entire die cut into a versamark pad, and applied clear embossing powder over the top, to create more of a cohesive look. You can see some parts where the glaze reacted to the clear embossing powder and sort of melted together. I think it’s a dreamy look and I hope I can recreate it when I get more colors of glaze.

Once that cooled I adhered it to three more layers of the die cut for the embellishment that you see here. I had some patterned paper that I thought worked well with this and used a Lawn Fawn die cut to get the scalloped card front. Before adhering that to the card base I clear embossed the sentiment with black ink, and splattered some black watercolor and some gold spray from Hero Arts.

The entire new release is wonderful and has some amazing stamps and die cuts. I can’t wait to play with more of them.

Supplies:

There are four new Ranger Distress Oxide ink colors, so I’ve updated these pages to include them. Below are links to the *.pdf files.

Click on them and the page will download. Print on US Letter size paper, cut in half, slip into sleeves and add some velcro dots to store your blender foams.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I am very happy to be taking place in the Hero Arts Winter 2020 Release Blog Hop. It’s been a while since I’ve been paper crafty, our new puppy is high maintenance, but worth it! It was so much fun to get to play with some new items from Hero Arts, and I hope you like these clean and simple holiday gift tags.

I was talking to a friend about tags, and realized that I like to make them because they’re “mini” cards, and miniature items seem to be more fun by default. You know, like miniature appetizers, desserts, etc. Is it just me?

Using the Tag Infinity die set, I cut tags from both Kiwi and Palm Hero Hues cardstock, four of each color. I embossed four different sentiments from the Off-Beat Holiday Messages stamp set on the tags, silver on the Kiwi and gold on the Palm cardstock.

Setting the tags aside, I cut the Christmas Lights Border Die six times from heavy white cardstock, and then once from both silver and gold metallic paper. I adhered three of the white die cuts together, twice, to make two thicker die cuts. Once those dried I colored the ornaments with copic markers, intentionally leaving a small white area on each bulb to create a “glare”. I used RV29 for what would end up surrounded by silver and R29 for the gold. This got coated with a layer of glossy accents and set aside to dry.

Using detail scissors, I carefully cut off each ornament from the metallic die cuts. Using liquid glue I adhered the metallic “frames” to the colored die cuts and stepped back to admire how awesome these looked.

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