Magenta Delicate Leaves - Fall/Winter 2019 Collection

Hello everyone, here is another post using stamps from the new Magenta Fall and Winter 2019 Collection. This is one of their largest releases yet! There's something for everyone. You can look at all of the new stamps here; and the stencils/masks here.

I love the Delicate Leaves stamp because I think it can be used for almost any type of card, as well as an interesting background. I have two cards for you today, using this stamp.

These leaves look to me like they are trailing down along the side of a fence, so it adds background interest. Yes! The orange is all one stamp, isn't that cool?

I stamped it with some several orange Distress inks, then pulled out some of the color with a damp brush. 

I finished the card by using a stamp from Magenta's last collection: a beautiful calligraphy sentiment by Sally Penley. I added a few orange pearls and left it at that.

I went a completely different direction with my second card.

Look how you can make this stamp perfect for Christmas! The sentiment is from this new collection as well, and it also comes stacked vertically, so it's very useful, and I will be using that vertical stamp in a post very soon.

I used a Wink of Stella clear glitter marker on all of the leaves, but that is impossible to capture in a photo. It gives the card a pretty shimmer. The berries are some red pearls from my stash.

Magenta Products used:

0784.Q Delicate Leaves

07.984.E With Sympathy

07.1022.I Wishing you a Merry Christmas

Other Products used:

Distress inks: Wild Honey, 

Rusty Hinge, Carved Pumpkin

Versafine Onyx Black ink

So Silk Black cardstock

Orange pearls

Versafine Clair Green Oasis ink

Stardream Jupiter cardstock

Red pearls

Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock

Lawn Fawn die LF768

Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Magenta Super Saturday: New Collection Fall Leaves

Hi everyone, I'm over at the Magenta blog today with this post, and I'm so excited to tell you that the new Fall/Winter 2019 Collection is up in the store. You can look at the new stamps here, and the new stencils and masks here. This is my first post with the new stamps, and I will be posting more often between now and December. There is so much to show you!

There are a number of really beautiful leaf stamps in the new collection, and I thought I would start with these beauties. I did two cards, and both are stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder. I thought I would try coloring with two different mediums. In the one above, I colored the leaves with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. 

This stamp really stamps like a dream. I honestly believe that anything you do with it will turn out well. I made a little chart of some Zig colors that I pulled out at random. I didn't use all of these, but it was useful to see the different choices.

When I was making the swatches, I remembered that these markers really work better on Bristol than regular watercolor cardstock, but I had no trouble moving the color around on the stamped images. It was a lot of fun!

I took an oblique angle picture of each of these cards to show how pretty the gold is in real life. It's very hard to photograph.

For the second card, I stamped it the same, but since I needed a Fall Birthday card, I changed the sentiment to Happy Birthday. Both of these sentiments I used are brand new, by the way. the Birthday stamp is one that I requested, because I am constantly needing a small Birthday stamp, and this one was done in my favorite font. I think it's elegant and just the right size.

I used Distress inks to color this card, and I honestly think that it's not that different from the first. What do you think?

I used quite a few colors of Distress, and swatched them as well. I then just squished the pads onto some acrylic blocks and picked up the colors with a brush. I thought the Peeled Paint was a little dark for what I wanted, and added Mowed Lawn instead; only using Peeled Paint sparingly, and lightening it with some Mustard Seed.

Here's the oblique angle on this one

These panels were cut to 5" x 3.75" from Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock using a Lawn Fawn die LF768, Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables. The largest die from this set is a perfect size for me, and I use it very often. I flicked Peerless Transparent liquid watercolor onto each card.

To finish the cards, I matted them with Stardream Copper cardstock, and mounted them onto a 110# Neenah Solar White base card. I added some enamel dots at the end.

I love, love this leaf stamp, and I guarantee that you will see more cards from me using it. Please be sure to check out the new Magenta collection. There are some beautiful stamps for Fall and Winter, including new Christmas images! To purchase the stamps I used in this post, you can click on the names of the stamps below and the links will take you to the Magenta store.

There will be a lot more posts on the Magenta Blog with the new products also. You can go to the blog here. The Design Team is just starting to get these fabulous stamps and stencils in their hands now. If you like the posts, please show the DT some love by commenting. We love that!

Magenta Products used:

0799.L Fall Ash Leaves

07.1040.E Happy Fall

07.1028.D Happy Birthday

Other Products used:

Zig Clean Color Markers: 053 Yellow Green; 041 Lt Green;

047 May Green; 050 Yellow; 052 Bight Yellow;

070 Orange; 260 Deep Red

Distress Ink: Mowed Lawn; Peeled Paint;

Twisted Citron; Mustard Seed; Carved Pumpkin;

Wild Honey; Rusty Hinge; Fired Brick; Aged Mahogany

Versamark Ink

Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock

Stardream Copper cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Recangle Stackables

Peerless Transparent watercolors: Gold & Copper

Ranger Gold embossing powder

Various enamel dots

Magenta Super Saturday - Brushed Distress Oxide Backgrounds

Hi I'm over at the Magenta blog today, and you can see my post here.

For some time I have been wanting to play with the cool deckle edged rectangle and square stencils designed by Nathalie Métivier. I liked this one so much I intend to use more of them in the near future.

I taped my panel (cut to 3.75" x 5" using Lawn Fawn LF768 die) to the Magenta stencil TM276, positioning it so that I would use only 2 of the 3 rectangles on the stencil. I masked the edges off with post-it tape.  I used a makeup brush to add Tea Dye Distress Oxide, brushing from the sides toward the center of each rectangle.

I stamped the dotted texture stamp inside the shaded area, and then inked the Clover Silhouette stamp (designed by Magenta DT member Ellie Knol) up with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide and stamped it. Since I was using a MISTI stamp platform, I was able to add some Dried Marigold Distress Oxide ink in a few places on the stamp and stamp it again.

I added the Sympathy sentiment last. This is one of Sally Penley's beautiful calligraphy stamps, and I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

These are the brushes I used, and I really like them. I know that Picket Fence sells a set like this but I got mine on Amazon. They're really soft, and I didn't think that the color would be that intense, but it surprised me. I felt like I barely brushed it on, and the shading has such a smooth appearance. For this card I did shading, but I also plan to use them to do some blending inside of some of Nathalie's square and rectangular stencils and I'll share those in the future.

Magenta Products Used:

TM276 Three Rectangle Silhouettes

H.0259 Dotted Texture

48.011.L Clover Silhouette

07.984.E With Sympathy

Other Products Used:

Distress Oxide inks: Tea Dye, Mowed Lawn,

Dried Marigold

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Makeup Brushes

Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables dies

Post-It Tape

Stardream Flame cardstock

Neenah Solar White cardstock 80# & 110#

Fast and Fun Birthday Cards Part 2

This is the second post showing cards I made using a new die set I acquired, Tim Holtz Multi-Media #5 dies by Sizzix (662688). I used two of the dies in the set. Dies like this make fast and easy cards if you're like me and love making lots of different backgrounds that you keep in your stash.

This second die looks more like a cherry blossom branch, and not only is it a lovely die, it shows the colors of the panel behind it very nicely.

I made 5 more cards - 4 Birthday cards and 1 Thank You card thrown in.

These are the panels I used for this set of cards. Some of them look familiar because they are like other background panels that I used in Part 1 of this 2-part series. Please go here for Part 1 of you did not see it. I give links to posts using the techniques for the different panels. All of the background panels above except one were made using stencil stamping. The top center panel was made using Nuance powdered color.

The background panels were cut to 4" x 5.25", and the white die-cut panels were cut to 3.75" x 5", with a stitched edge, using Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables.

Here are all of the die-cut panels on top of the backgrounds. I really think that almost any background would look great with these dies. The Thank You card happened because this is the perfect size stamp to stamp beside the die-cut image. I love how this stamp fits horizontally next to an image that takes up 2/3 of the rest of the panel.

Here are 4 of the finished cards. One had already been sent away before I photographed all of them together. I will be using these dies a lot in the future! I can quickly make a whole set of cards for a gift.

Magenta Products used:

07.975.I Happy Birthday Large

07.969.F have a Beautiful day!

07.882.I Thank You Multilingual

Other Products Used:

Tim Holtz Multi-Media #5 dies by Sizzix 662688

Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle die set

Versafine Onyx Black ink

For links to the techniques used on the background pieces for these cards, please go to Part 1 here

Fast and Fun Birthday Cards Part 1

This post will partly be a walk down memory lane, and I have provided some examples of previous cards, plus some links to past posts using the featured techniques.

I still need to replenish my supply of Birthday cards; I have so many friends and relatives that I want to send a card to on their special day. You will see a lot of Birthday sentiments on my cards for a while now.  I think that a sentiment like "Have a Beautiful Day can work for a Birthday card, or for lots of special occasions, or even just saying Thinking of You.

I recently acquired this great set of Tim Holtz Multi-Media #5 dies by Sizzix (662688). I like to make pretty backgrounds, so I love dies like this. If you have lots of nice backgrounds, putting the card together is pretty simple. There are three dies in this set. I cut the background panels to 5.25" x 4", and the white panel that I die-cut was cut to 5" x 3.75" using the largest size die in the  Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables. The sentiment is from Magenta, and was stamped using Versafine Onyx Black ink.

I started with some backgrounds that I had previously made while playing with various techniques.

The top left and bottom right backgrounds shown above were made by "stencil stamping." I have several posts on this technique, here, here (please scroll down for the stencil stamped cards), here, here, here, and here. This has been a favorite technique for a long time, and I used to really enjoy demo'ing it when I worked at Art 'n Soul.

Here is an example of a previous card using stencil stamping.

You can find the original post for this card here

The bottom left panel is just blended Distress Oxide ink with some splatters of water thrown on it. If you want to see my Distress Oxide overview post, packed with lots of information about using Distress Oxide inks, please go here. I also have fun techniques with Oxide inks here, here, here and here.

Here is an example of a card using blended Oxide inks

You can find the original post for this card here

The panel in the upper left of the photo showing the different backgrounds was done with one of the most popular techniques I have ever shown on my blog. It's a technique with Oxide inks, using Distress glaze over the Oxide. For a tutorial on how to do this technique, please go here. For some other posts with cards using this technique, go here, here and here.

Here is an example of a card using the Distress Oxide glaze technique

You can find the original post for this card here

The final panel above, that is already covered with a die-cut (the orange one) was made using Nuance. Nuance is a fabulous powdered color from Magenta, and is lots of fun to use. If you search for Nuance on my blog, you will see lots of posts for many techniques using it. Here is a card using Nuance.

You can find the original post for this card here

Here's a look at all of the finished cards I made from this one die, and all of the beautiful backgrounds I chose out from my stash. I will have a second post using another die from this set soon.

Magenta Products Used:

07.969.F have a Beautiful day!

Other Products Used:

Tim Holtz Multi-Media #5 dies by Sizzix 662688

Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle die set

Versafine Onyx Black ink

For products used to make the various backgrounds, please 

refer to the original posts for those techniques.

Distress Oxide Glaze Technique: Sending Warm Thoughts

As with my last post, for the next few posts I will show some cards that I have made using the Distress Oxide glaze technique and die cuts. I have had lots of questions about how to use these backgrounds, and one of the easiest and most fun ways to use them is with die cuts. If you have not seen my post on how to do this technique, please go here for an overview.

This card was made using the same die as my last post (you can see it here). These cards look completely different. I love versatile dies that you can use over and over like this.

I took the Distress Oxide glazed panel that I made (I think it's part of this pile I made recently) and die cut it using the MFT-463 Die-Namics Blueprints 13 set (the large rectangle in the set cuts a panel to 5.25" x 4").

I cut the white panel out of Core'dinations 80# white canvas cardstock, using the Lawn Fawn LF-768 Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables die set (the largest die in the set cuts a rectangle 5" x 3.75") The MFT rectangle and this Lawn Fawn rectangle are the most used dies that I own. They cut rectangles in sizes I use a lot, and with a nice stitched finished edge.

I used the Memory Box 99946 Cherry Flower collage die at the top center of the white panel. This cuts out the circle with the flowers in it. I stamped a Magenta sentiment 07.806.K "Sending Warm Thoughts" under the circle. I really like this sentiment because it doesn't command the person who gets the card to get well; it's also nice for people who are not sick, but are recovering from an injury

However, this stamp is very long, and normally on a card of this size can only be used horizontally. But you can break it up using a Stamp-a-ma-jig old style stamp positioner. Even though I own more stamp platforms that one person should, I still kept my old Stamp-a-ma-jig for times like this. The beauty of this style positioner is that once you stamp on the plastic, you can move it around on your paper to be sure your stamp will be where you need it to be. If you want to see a tutorial on how to break up a stamp like this, please go here (scroll down toward the bottom of the post where it says "Bonus Tutorial").

To finish the card, I adhered the white panel to the Oxide glaze panel, and the whole thing to a base card of Neenah Solar white 110# cardstock. I added yellow gems from Little Things from Lucy's Cards Jewels.

Products Used

Magenta 07.806.K Sending Warm Thoughts

Memory Box die 99946 Cheery Flower Collage

MFT-463 Die-Namics Blueprints 13 die set

Lawn Fawn LF-768 Small Stitched Rectangles Stackables die set

Stamp-a-ma-jig positioning tool

Distress Oxide inks: Wilted Violet, Salty Ocean, Wild Honey, 

Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry

Versafine Onyx Black ink

Ranger Glaze Medium

Core-dinations 80# White Canvas cardstock

Ranger Alcohol Ink cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Little Things from Lucy's Cards - Jewels - Lemon mix