Stamped clips

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Welcome to my new small tutorial made for Susan K Weckesser's blog.

This time I decided to make something for the planners trend. And as I don't even have a planner, but I do use  small notebooks, I made a few stamped clips for my notebooks as dividers.

So here is my tutorial:

1. Stamp Susan's  houses with her Clearsnap ColorBox mini Pop ink in Mystery color twice using co-branded with Unity Tumbleweed Houses stamp set.

2. Color the houses with Susan's other Clearsnap inks in Fresh, Ice, Sky and Kiss colors and as there is no Susan's yellow ink I used another Clearsnap ink in yellow. Don't try to make the best ever coloring and don't afraid to be out of the lines as we are going to cut the houses later.

3. Cut all colored houses and make them 3d using 3d foam glue.

Glue the house over plastic office clips with strong paper to plastic glue.

Use them!

Home Time Tags

Hi everyone, Steph here today.   This month's theme is tags so I've created two tags using an assortment of Susan K. Weckesser products.

 

 

I've used plain office supply tags as the bases and cut the Live in Color paper to fit the tags, edging it with Shimmer Color Pop Ink.

 

 

Using the Doodle Stencil with assorted colors of Color Pop Inks, I created a background pattern, then put the house #s inside the circles. Some torn strips of paper were added to the bottom of the tag and several Tumbleweed Houses were stamped, colored, fussy cut and added to the tag with foam adhesives.  I used "home" from the What's Up Gnomey stamp set. 

 

Using Color Burst paper, I cut it to fit the tag.  I fussy cut a flower from the Live in Color paper, adding it to the tag with foam adhesives.  Several dew drops were then added to the flower center.  I used "home" from the Tumbleweed Houses stamp set and the phrase from the What's Up Gnomey stamp set. 

Using the Doodle stencil, I created the house #s, but didn't like where I first stamped them so I added a dew drop to the center creating a butterfly.  Then I put the house #s in the correct spot.

On the reverse side of the tag I created a pocket to hold a check.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Steph Ackerman
Susan K. Weckesser Design Team

Home Where Our Story Begins

Hello friends. Larissa here with you today. I am using two different stamp sets from
Susan K Weckesser. 

First I used one of the little houses from 

Tumbleweed Houses. 

Secondly I used the three mushrooms and leaves stamp from
What's Up Gnomey? 

I stamped the leaves over the entire card front with Stampin Up Slate Gray ink. I stamped some off first on a piece of scratch paper then onto the card front. 

I then stamped the mushrooms down at the bottom of the card using Stampin Up Real Red Ink. I stamped the house in the middle of the mushrooms using Colorbox® Color Pop Archival Dye Ink by Susan K. Weckesser in Mystery.

I colored the leaves using Prismacolor Pencil in True Green.
For the mushrooms and grass I used Distress Inks in Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint. The house I used Distress Ink Weathered Wood. 

For the sentiment: I actually have seen this sentiment on a few signs in friends homes and I thought it would fit perfectly. So I wrote it across the card front. 

I hope you enjoyed my card today. Have a wonderful rest of your day friends.

Larissa Pittman 

A Fun Mixed Media Tag To Make You Smile by Lynne Mizera

Hello Everyone... Lynne Mizera here today wishing you a Happy Fall Day! And I just want to share, "I LOVE FALL!"  The bright, sunny days and the cool, crisp air just makes me Happy.  So when I sat down today to create something "Mixed Media" for my Susan Weckesser creative team post this tag is what appeared... Doesn't it just make you smile?

I used Magenta Nuance pigment powders to create the background and to paint up the Susan K. Weckesser Tumbleweed Houses stamps, of course I added Ranger Stickles and Liquid Pearls until the entire tag just sparkled.  I think this tag would be just lovely on a birthday present instead of a card.

You can see all the steps in my process over at My Blog, where I have been up to my eyebrows in all things Mixed Media this month... (No Really!  I have paint in my eyebrows... Grin)  And I hope I helped to inspire you to try something painty and inky today.

Lynne Mizera
for the Susan K. Weckesser Creative Team

Susan Weckesser products used on this project:

Tumbleweed Houses stamps

 

Home Canvas Panel

Hi everyone, Steph here today.  Can you believe it's October already?  This month it's all about mixed media so I've created this cute Home Canvas.

I've started by stamping an assortment of Unity stamps from the Tumbleweed Houses and Fly Away stamp sets.

 

Using  Colorbox® Color Pop Archival Dye Ink by Susan K. Weckesser in Mystery, I stamped all the elements on the panel.

 

 

Using a waterbrush, I then used  Colorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Ink by Susan K. Weckesser.  I brushed in Ice Ink for the Sky, Fresh Ink for the grass and Cocoa Ink for the pathways.

I stamped the butterfly and flowers from the What's Up Ghomey? stamp set, coloring them with Kiss and Ice.  Then I continued brushing in colors to finish the canvas. 

 

I used some Clearsnap Smooch Accent Inks to add color to the windows and flowers.  Finally I stamped the phrase with Mystery ink, masking off the first few words.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Steph Ackerman
for Susan K. Weckesser

Tumbleweed House Cards

Hi everyone, do you believe we are already in September?  Steph here today and I've created a couple of cards using Tumbleweed Houses.  This sweet set is perfect to celebrate friends and family who are moving or perhaps settling into their own homes.

Using kraft cardstock, I chose the LiveLoveCreate paper for the background then added Spellbinders die cuts to hold my sweet houses.  I inked the edges of the die cuts with Color Pop Metallic ink in Shimmer.

I stamped the houses with Color Pop Mystery Ink then colored them with Copic Markers.  I fussy cut them for the cards.

The houses in this set as so sweet, you could mix and match them, stamp them together or stamp them individually.  I used the sentiment from Grandma's Needlepoint, stamping it in Color Pop Kiss Ink.

I added some clay elements using products from Makin's Clay as accent pieces.  The assorted sized clouds were the perfect touch above the houses as were the tiny flowers.

I hope I've inspired you to create today.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph Ackerman
for Susan K. Weckesser

Altered ATC Blocks using Heart-Full Homes and Tumbleweed Houses

 Hi all

I am back with another project  using Susan's Unity Co branded stamps. I have used the ATC Blocks from Things to Alter to create this stack-able home decor.

I painted the cubes with DecoArt Crafters Acrylic  but used different colors on the same block.

I used the Tumbleweed Houses and Heart Full Homes stamp sets for the little houses which i colored with alcohol markers 

I stamped the base of the cube with  In Circle Me using the Clearsnap Color Pop Mini inks.

I sued the DecoArt Crackle paint and just painted a few random patches over the cube. I then spritzed with inks and dried it off.

I tried to make each cube different by mixing up the little houses.

Thank you for visiting 

Katie DT

Home

Hello friends. Larissa here today and I have to say I am so happy to be back for another term with my friend. Susan is one of the sweetest people I know.

Today I created a card for you and used a few different stamp sets.

First off I took a piece of white cardstock I had cut to 5 1/4 x 5 1/4. I laid it in my MISIT and placed the stamps where I wanted them. I used Simon Says Stamp Black Intense ink to stamp them on the cardstock.

After stamping them on the cardstock I used a couple different mediums to color the images. 

First off I used Colorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Ink By Susan K. Weckesser in Fresh and Ice I stamped the banner and then used them for watercoloring.

I then colored the images with Copic markers. Except for the Gnomes outfit I paper pieced with a piece of yellow polka dot pattern paper from Lawn Fawn. 

 And here is the final card.

Products used for this card: 

What's up Gnomey?

Create a Day

In My Garden 

Tumbleweed HousesColorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Ink By Susan K. Weckesser in Fresh and Ice
MISTI
Simon Says Stamp Black Intense Ink
Copic Markers
ATG
Tombow Mono Multi
Lawn Fawn Let's Polka Paper Pad

I hope you enjoyed my post today. Have a lovely week friends.

Larissa Pittman 

It's An INKY Feast For the Senses!

It was  my pleasure to be one of the first people to use and review the new Susan K. Weckesser inks by Clearsnap: ColorBox Color Pop Minis 

Here are the two cards I created using these inks...

And here is my review

I LOVE them!  Grin 

These are all the things I love about these inks:

The 1"x2" size is perfect, small enough to easily have within reach but large enough to handle most stamping jobs.  The Lid fits snugly so the ink won't dry out and it does not come off when I throw them in a basket (which is my usual modus operandi).

The dye ink colors are vibrant, both when they go on and when they have dried (not always the case with some inks) and they blend beautifully with water - again without fading!

The pigment ink is thick and opaque, just the way I like it, and takes a while to dry unless you use your heat gun - all Good qualities in a pigment ink.  But the Metallic ink... Swoon!  Seriously, the best metallic, pigment ink I have come across to date and I have used a LOT of them!  This ink dries metallic and looks like I used metallic paint - which is what I have resorted to since I have been unable to find a metallic ink that still looks like metal after it has dried - that is until NOW!

And now for the fun stuff.  Because I was trying out a new product I wanted to use these inks in a few different ways and I took photos along the way so you could join in... I hope you enjoy this mini card class and a peek into my creative process.

 

I decided to ink the background of my cards and then use the white pigment ink to stamp right onto the dark background.  For me THIS is the true test of a both a dark dye ink and a white pigment ink.  will the dark ink stay dark?  And will the white ink be opaque enough to show up and not fade away?

Not only did both inks pass, but I needed very little of the dark blue ink to create a wash on my background... I used way too much! Grin

Then I stamped right onto my background (after the ink had dried of course) with white and gold pigment ink.  I used a masking technique to make the sun appear as if it was coming out from behind the clouds.

You can see how the pigment inks stay crisp and bright and how the background ink is still dark even after drying.  Then I did something CRAZY!  I used water with my white pigment ink and added a light wash to the clouds... This NEVER works for me with pigment inks and yet here it is!!

Then I stamped a whole bunch of tiny house images onto white 100lbs card stock, grabbed my water brush and started painting in the houses. I used Archival waterproof ink for this part since I knew I wanted to get my images wet.  These dye inks acted like a watercolor paint and blended beautifully.  They worked so well I went and grabbed another of my ColorBox dye inks in yellow, (Not the mini pops 'cuz NO yellow) and it did not work at all!  So this confirms for me that all inks are NOT created equally!

And then I did the same sort of things for the second card in Red...

 

The rest of the photos are all about design and embellishing... using my very favorite techniques of fussy cutting and popping the images, and then using gel pens and Stickles & Liquid Pearls to enhance the card.

Then of course you have to mount the card image onto a card base...

What I love the most about these two cards is how the ink stayed dark and vibrant so the white, un-coloured houses I stamped just jump right off the page... but then that one coloured house becomes the focal point... 

Yup... Great product and wonderful inks. My one suggestion, MORE Metallic Colors and I NEED a yellow dye ink! Grin

Scrapbook Lynne Mizera

for the Susan K. Weckesser

 

The following are a list of stamp sets and products I used for these two "simple" cards... (She says Grinning Madly!)

Susan K. Weckesser/Unity Stamp Sets Used on this Project:

Create Your Day

Celebration of Simple

Tumbleweed Houses

Fly Away

SKW Cardstock - Beautiful Day Dreams

 

ColorBox Color Pop Mini inks

Ranger Stickles and Liquid Pearls

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens

Tsukineko Clear Embossing Powder