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Valentine's Day Cards with Joy Clair You're s'Whale, Valentine Background, Best Buds & Love Languages

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here with my first Joy Clair post for 2020!  Happy New Year to you all!

I'm so happy to be here and to share my love for Joy Clair Stamps with you!  There are so many exciting things happening this year - stay tuned - you won't want to miss a thing!  

I decided I better get busy and make Valentine's Day cards for next month so I pulled out some of my favorite sets and made 2 cards.  

Here's how I made my first card:

1)  I stamped and colored the narwhal from Joy Clair's "I Think You're s'Whale" stamp set and the fussy cut him out.  I decided not to use the free cutting files to cut him out, because I wanted no white edge on him.  Sometimes I like the edge and other times, I don't!  

2)  Next I cut some dotted wave dies from watercolored patterned paper, stacked and glued 3 of them on the same patterned paper sheet of 4.25" by 5.5"

3)  I did use the cutting files to cut out two of the underwater plants, but that was just to help me decide the layout of my card.  I often use the free cutting files just to cut the shapes out so I can play with my layout before I decide what I want to do.  Below I have pretty much decided I wanted to affix everything, then cut out a rectangle from the the large panel.

4)  Next, I moved the cut files and stamped the plants right on the wave die cuts.

5)  I used more Zig Clean Color brushes to highlight and shade the leaves in the water, the cut the large dotted rectangle section out.

6)  Next I stamped the green hearts (behind the pink and purple ones) from the Joy Clair "Love Languages" stamp set.  That particular heart stamp (one of many hearts in that set) had a bottom edge that looked like "splashing" to me so I thought it would look like the heart was splashing out of the waves!  I added little die cut hearts to the centers so they wouldn't be teal hearts, but pink and purple hearts with teal edge and teal "splashes."  

7)  Last, I added the rectangle to a white card base, added some pink dots for his cheeks, added Glossy Accents to the hearts and clear Nuvo drops for more splashes!  Here's a closer look so you can see his cheeks, and all the shine on those hearts and water drops.

And I included this picture so you can see the texture of the papers and even more detail- it's a very pretty paper pack from Pink Paislee called "Summer Lights."

I included one more picture because I made a matching envelope and for my return address stamp, I used a custom Joy Clair stamp.  Joy Clair has quite a few styles of these they can make for you and they can even make special stamps from your logo, etc.  (I've blocked out my address with a post it for privacy.)

I did make a 2nd card for today's as I am working to get all my Valentine's Day card made.  Here's a look:

This card was much quicker to make.  I used Distress Ink, blender brush and stencil on a 4.25" by 5.5" piece of white card stock.  I blended it darker at the top and faded out as I went down the paper.  Here you can see I am deciding where to place by sweet kittens from the Joy Clair "Best Buds" stamp set, after I finished the stenciling.

To add some interest, I die cut a dotted square from the front of the card from white and then a smaller one from watercolored paper from the same pack.  I stamped the kitties on that top one and colored them, then added lots of red hearts and stamped the bottom edge with a stamp from Joy Clair's "Valentine Background Builder" stamp set in Distress Oxide Fired Brick.  The red hearts match because I cut them from card stock that I inked with the same color ink.  I added Wink of Stella to the hearts, then some Glossy Accents for shine and dimension.  Here's a closer look:

I hope I have inspired you to create some Valentine cards!  My grandkids always love getting them and so do other family members - it's nice to be remembered on holidays!  If you are interested in my supply list, please go to my blog - Cimbacreativefun - and scroll to the bottom for links to all the goodies I used on my projects today.  

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Handmade Gifts: Christmas Card and Ornament

Hello hello hello... December is here and Christmas is coming near... Today, I would like to share couple handmade gift ideas with you all that you all can make with Joy Clair Stamps for this Holidays!

I use the Vintage Christmas Ornaments stamp set to create this CAS Christmas card. I stamped the ornaments with Antique Linen Distress Ink on a watercolor paper 140 lbs. I did not use any masks to create that stacked ornaments becuase when I painted them with watercolor paper, the Distress ink reacted with the water and blended in. But if you use non-reacted dye inks or pigment inks, you will need the masks.

I painted the ornaments with Shimmerz Inklingz Watercolors (I'm Not Limon, Blue My Mind, and Good As Gold). These watercolor paints have the shimmering, metallic look. I dried the paints with craft heater, and then I sprayed it with some water using the Distress Sprayer. I dabbed the water off with paper towel to get more distressed, vintage look on them.

I added some extra gold splatters on the background with the Good As Gold Shimmerz Inklingz. After that, I dried it again with craft heater and cut it with Double Stitched Rectangles Dies.

I stamped the ornament again three times (just the top of the ornament) on a white cardstock with VersaMark Ink Pad and then I added some silver embossing powder. I heat set the embossing powder with craft heater and then fussy cut them with scissors. I added them on the ornaments with dries-clear permanent glue. I drew the stings with Posca Metallic Silver Paint Marker.

I stamped the sentiment on one of the ornament using MISTI with Delicata Silver Ink Pad, and then I stamped it again with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink Pad. I dried ink with craft heater. I added this finished background on top of a green card base with 3D foam tape for extra dimension to it.

Second handmade gift than you can make with Joy Clair Stamps is this chalkboard wood slice Christmas ornament. On this wood, I used The Reason Stamp Set and Snowy Greetings Stamp Set.

First, to paint the base color. I used Chalk Paint for the base. The paint dries fairy quickly. I usually paint the base twice, but if once is enough for you and that is okay, too.

To give the white chalk look on the background, I dibbed my finger in a white paint and lightly painted on the chalkboard. I had wet (not too wet) paper towel to remove the paint so not too much on the background.

After that, I stamped the images and sentiment on both side with white acrylic paint, too. I put the stamp on acrylic stamping block and I added the paint with mini brayer. I put the stamp directly in a bowl with warm water so the paint won't dried on the stamp and will be easy to clean.

I tied up the twine and done. You have a handmade Christmas ornament that you can also mass-produce this ornament as gifts.

I hope these projects give you some ideas to get crafty this Holidays. What would you make for this Holidays?

Festive Christmas Cards by Martha Lucia

Hello friends, Martha Lucia here with you!

I prepared some Festive Christmas Stamped Cards combining different stamp sets. Let me start with this festive and traditional Christmas card.

I arranged some images or borders included on the stamp set Ugly Sweeter  Background over my stamping tool and inked them with Memento  Rhubarb ink to stamp the images onto very vanilla card stock. After that, I resized this layer using the large Embossed Edge Rectangle die cut from Kat Scrappiness and pasted it over a real red card base.

In a separate piece of very vanilla card stock, I stamped two other images. The three is from the stamp set Happy Camper and the fabulous car from the Refuel my Soul from the Color by Faith Collection. I colored the images with Illustrators Markers from Spectrum Noir. I fussy cut the images and pasted over the decorated card base.

For my second card I used the tone to tone technique. I stamped some of the borders included on the stamp set Ugly Sweeter with Memento Rhubarb onto red card stock. Then, I resized the layer with the Embossed Edge Rectangle Die and pasted it directly over the card.

I die cut several layers of the Joy Etched Die from Spellbinders using Garden Green card stock. I pasted all the pieces on the same place to give more dimension to the die cut image an finalized the card, adding on top of the decorated card base the die cut.

My third card is using the stamp set Vintage Christmas Ornaments. I stamped several times one of the branches included on the same stamp set using two different colors of green Memento  Ink. Then I resized the layer with a medium size of the Embossed Edge Rectangle Die. After that, I inked the entire layer with a soft touche of green ink and I pasted this layer over the card base using double sided foam tape.

In a separate piece of Very Vanilla card stock, I stamped one of the ornament images included on the stamp set Vintage Christmas Ornaments using Early Espresso Classic Ink. With Illustrator markers the border of the ornament and with Memento Rhubarb stamped the sentiment on the center of the ornament. To embellish the card I die cut one tiny bow onto red glitter paper using one die from the Spellbinders Large Club.

Thank you for stopping by and see you soon with more inspirational ideas!

Snowmen Cards with Joy Clair's Cozy Snowmen Wishes & Some Custom Stamps

Hello and welcome!  It's Angie here today with some fun snowmen cards made with Joy Clair's Cozy Snowmen Wishes.  I love snowmen stamps and these cute guys are just my favorite!  Here's how I made this card:

1)  Stamp the snowmen out on white card stock and then cut them with the cut files from Joy Clair with my Scan n Cut.  (You can also fussy cut with scissors them if you prefer.) 

2)  Stamp the snowmen on plaid paper so you can paper piece the parts you want to.  (I did some of the hats, scarfs and shirts.)

3)  Color parts of the snowmen that you don't use paper piecing on.

4)  Mask off a straight line and ink the top of a piece of cardstock with Distress Oxide Inks in Evergreen Bough and Tumbled Glass.

5)  When it's dried, swipe Versamark ink over the blue section and then add glittery clear embossing powder.

6)  Heat embossing powder till melted and set aside to cool off.

7)  Cut the panel with two different sized rectangle dies.

8)  Stamp the sentiment on top panel (before you put it together) and add the snowmen on either side.

9)  Add the biggest panel to the card base with adhesive, I used glue.

10)  Pop up the top panel on foam tape, add a few snowflake sequins, and you are done! 

Here's a closer look: 

It's hard to see the glitter of the blue section but in real life it is VERY sparkly!  Don't you just love that sentiment with the snowflake for the "o" in snow?  So cute.

Here's a second card I made with the same set:

The main difference is I used dark gray card stock for the background instead of inking one.  I cut that gray card stock with a snowy background die from my stash.  I also cut snow drifts out of white card stock with scissors and added them to the bottom.  No paper piecing on this one, just colored with Zig Clean Color Markers.  And on these snowflakes I added silver Nuvo drops in the snowflake centers and in the snow dots on the back panel.  

I love this sentiment from the Joy Clair Cozy Snowmen Wishes set "angel kisses" - so sweet!   Here's another look:

If you are interested in my supplies, I have them all linked on my blog HERE.  (Those and the blue links here are affiliated links - no extra cost to you.)

I wanted to share with you also some "custom stamps" I had made from Joy Clair with my logo on it.  I had a logo made a few years back by a graphic artist and Joy Clair turned it into 2 different stamps and and return address stamp for me.  Here's a look at them.  I use the bigger two on the back of my cards:

And here is the smaller return address one they made for me - I blocked out my address for privacy, but you can see the smaller logo on the top.

Joy Clair has a whole section of custom stamps HERE, plus they will make just about any stamp you need, just email them at [email protected] and ask!

I hope you are staying warm and cozy in these winter months and have a wonderful holiday season!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Christmas cards by Martha Lucia

Hello crafty friends, Martha Lucia here with you! I have two different stamp sets to celebrate Christmas, Moose and Poinsettias! Let me start with the first card.

To make this card I used the Merry Christmoose Stamp Set. I stamped the trees using Kaleidacolor Fresh Green from Imagine.  I love this type of ink because you have a mix of colors in a single ink pad. Then in a separate piece of whisper white card stock I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and the Moose Image. I colored the Moose with Memento Markers from Imagine.

As final touch I stamped a sentiment included on the Merry Christmoose stamp set with VersaFine Onix.

My next card was totally made using designer papers and Imagine Inks. This is one of my favorites stamp sets from Joy Clair,  the 3D Christmas Poinsettia. It has a great size 6x8 and you can create all the sizes of flowers that you want.

I stamped the poinsettia over red and green designer paper using VersaFine Clair  Glamorous and Green Oasis.  I covered the stamped images with clear embossing powder. Then, I arranged all the petals to build the poinsettia and temporary placed over the background.

I moved the flower and stamped some branches and sentiment, included on the 3D Poinsettia, using VersaFine Clair Pinecone and clear embossing powder.  My final touch a tiny rhinestone on the center of the flowers.

Thank you for stopping by and I want to invite you to keep in touch with us, Joy Clair will have a fabulous and unique promotion during Black Friday and you will love to see it first!

Tips and Tricks for Creating Simple Scenes

Hi everyone! It's Lindsay here, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog and YouTube Channel, and I am super excited to be back and share another video with you all! I love to create scenes on my cards and Joy Clair stamp sets really lend themselves to making really fun scenes. But I don't always have an hour to mask, color, and die cut a ton of pieces to create really intricate scenes for my cards. But, there are so many easy and quick tips and trick on creating very simple, but still beautiful scenes that take very little time. You can watch the video below for all the details!

 

 

There are several ways to make your scenes easy and quick to put together. The first is to have a plan. I like to use my stamps, lay them out on my panel to get a good idea of what I want to use in my scene and where I want it to go. I keep checking back to my design throughout the project so I'm not left with any surprises when I'm putting it together.

Another thing to consider with some of my scenes is what coloring medium I will be using. This will save you time in the long run and help you to choose the right ink to use! If you aren't sure what medium you want to go with, try and choose an ink that will work with a variety of coloring mediums. On my first project, I still wasn't sure what medium I would be using so I used Versafine Clair Ink in Nocturne to stamp my images from Gnome is Where the Heart Is stamp set.

Something else I really love to do to with my scenes is frame them. That's what I did on the second card today. If you don't have any frame dies you can easily make your own with nesting die sets. Be sure to watch the video for all the info! On this card I used the Blessed Harvest stamp set and to help let the simple scene shine, I used a frame to set it apart from the background.

My final tip I will leave you with is to not make anything more complicated than it needs to be! On my final card, I wanted to create a die cut scnene. Alot of times I would inlay separate pieces, to create a one layer background, however you don't need to! I only die cut a few pieces through simple layering I was able to create what looked like a lot of dimension, but is really just one piece of foam! On this card I only used one stamp from the Turkey Talk set to create this scene!

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Scene making definitely does not have to be difficult and I hope you all found a few tips and tricks that help you create really fun, simple and quick scenes! If you are interested in any of the supplies or stamp sets I used on my cards today, you can find them all listed and linked down below. Until next time, happy crafting!

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Affiliate links used

• Gnome is Where the Heart Is Stamp Set
• Blessed Harvest Stamp Set
• Turkey Talk Stamp Set
• MISTI
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink Pad
• Schpirrer Farben Colored Pencil Set
• Gamsol/OMS
• Blending Stumps
• Blending Brushes
• Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
• Craft Knife
• Finger Daubers
• Memento Dew Drop Ink Pads
    Sky Blue, Bamboo Leaves, Toffee Crunch
• TCW Plaid Fringe Stencil
• Jumbo Ink Dauber
• Picket Fence Die
• Cloud Dies
• Hill Border Die
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
• Foam Adhesive

Rejoice with Joy Clair's Thankful & Blessed and Fall Greetings

Hello and welcome! 

 

It's Angie here  today with one of my favorite fall cards using two Joy Clair stamp sets along with some amazing products from Imagine.  Here's a short list of what I used.  (Complete list and links can be found on my blog.)

Affiliate Links:

Joy Clair Fall Greetings

Joy Clair Thankful and Blessed

Imagine MBoss

Versamark Ink

Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink

 

Here's how I made my card:

 

1)  I masked off the edges of the panel and sunflower with a mask so I could partially stamp the border stamp along the edges.  I ended up only using a smaller rectangle from this panel after I finished coloring it.  

 

2) For the sentiment, I used Versafine ink and MBoss embossing powder in Rose Gold and for the 3rd layer of the front panel.  There are 3 layers, the focal image and sentiment panel on top of black and layered on the embossed rectangle.

To save embossing powder, I only heat embossed the part you would see of the bottom rectangle.

 

3)  Below is the picture of the embossing before I cut it out with the dotted rectangle die.

 

 4) I colored the images with Zigs and added sparkle pen to the center of the sunflower.

 

Here's a closer look at my card, isn't that rose gold MBoss amazing looking?

 

 

If you are interested in my supplies I have linked them on my blog.

 

I love how this turned out because the colors mixed with that rose gold embossing really pop.  Check out all of the 38 amazing embossing powder colors, the incredible inks and more at Imagine Crafts!

 

"This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it."  Psalm 118:24

 

I hope you are enjoying your day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Don't forget to stop by the Joy Clair store and check out all their holiday stamps for your upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas cards.

 

 

Dogs for Christmas Cards

Hello friends, Martha Lucia here with you! I am sharing some Dogs for Christmas Cards and more today!

Let me start with my first card. It is a Christmas card that I made using the stamp set Dog Gone Christmas. This is a great set that include a series of Dogs for Christmas. Take a look at my card:

This month Joy Clair is making a Cross Promotion with Imagine. For me it is the perfect combination of the best stamps with different types of ink. I decided to use VersaMark clear to create my background and I stamped with it some of the images included on the Dog Gone Christmas over my second layer. With the VersaMark I created the tone to tone effect. I resized this layer using one of the Embossed Edges Rectangles. I pasted this piece directly over a Real Red card base.

In a separate piece of whisper white card stock, I stamped some of the images included on the stamp set Dog Gone Christmas with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. I colored all the images with Illustrator Markers from Spectrum Noir, fussy cut them with scissors and pasted over the decorated card base using double sided foam tape.

Joy Clair is super sponsor of the Fall & Winter Coffee Lovers Blog and I created a second card using the  Feeling Slothly stamp set. I created the background with Fireworks and stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. The sloth was colored with Illustrator Markers from Spectrum Noir and I just cut the decorated layer with the large size of the zig zag stitched rectagle die.

As final touch, I stamped on the background some tiny stars using Delicata Ink Golden Glitz. The sentiment is a message included on the stamp set Fall Greetings stamped with VersaFine Onix .

Remember that until today, all our stamps are 25%OFF and you will find amazing stamp sets coffee related and not related because Joy Clair has all that we want!

Masking Tape Backgrounds

Hi everyone! It's Lindsay here, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog & YouTube channel, here with you today sharing a fun technique, Masking Tape Backgrounds! This technique is so fun and easy to do with very few supplies needed! You only need cardstock, masking tpae (I used painter's tape), and ink pads. For my cards today I used dye ink pads, but pigment ink pads will work for this technique, too!

The basic instructions for the masking tape background technique are very simple. Start with a piece of masking tape that is the length you want it. I went with a length that is slightly longer than my cardstock. Then, press the tape into your ink pad inking up the STICKY side of the tape. I just use my finger and press the tape into the pad, moving the tape down until the entie length is covered with ink. Finally, press the tape onto your cardstock to transfer the ink to your paper. I like to put a piece of scrap paper over the tape while I'm pressing so I don't smear any ink that may be on top of the tape or my fingers. It's that simple!

Now that I shared the basics of this technique, it's all about customizing it and making it your own! On my first card I "stamped" the tape in a plaid pattern using Christmas colors. This is such a fun and quick background!

I knew I wanted a more Christmasy background so I could pair it with the Merry Christmoose stamp set! I love this stamp set!! It's just too cute!! And the sentiment is from Snowy Greetings, another super cute set that's perfect for winter time!

My second card is more of a striped background, but I cut down my painter's tape into different widths for more variation! This is a great tip for painter's tape in general, so you don't have to store so many widths in your craft room. All you need to do is place it in your paper trimmer and it cuts like butter! 

With the dusty color palette of this background I wanted to make a more autumnal card. I went with the Deer Friends stamp set and colored quite a few of the images to create a little scene! And while I LOVE the sayings in the Deer Friends set, I wanted to make this more of an everyday card. So I pulled a "You Got This" sentiment from the Life's a Breeze stamp set.

On my third and final card I wanted to go bold and bright and more distressed. This is super easy to do with just color choice and not pressing the tape into the ink as hard!

Because I went so bold I wanted to make this into a fun birthday card. I am always in need of boy birthday cards and I have to admit I struggle with them! I chose to use the Jesus is My Jam stamp set, which is from the Color by Faith line, but the images are PERFECT for a more teenage boy card! I just paired it with a sentiment from the Life's a Breeze set to finish the look!

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I hope you all enjoyed a look at this fun masking tape background technique and will give it a try! It's so easy to play around with and customize it to fit your cardmaking style!

If you are interested in any of the stamps I used today, you can find them all listed and linked down below! Until next time, happy crafting!!

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Affiliate Links Used

• Merry Christmoose Stamp Set
• Snowy Greeting Stamp Set
• Deer Friends Stamp Set
• Life's a Breeze Stamp Set
• Jesus is My Jam Stamp Set

Easy technique to color with Leisure Art Markers

Hi friends, Martha Lucia here with you!.

Today I want to share an easy and quick bible journaling page that I made using on of the Gather Together  stamp set by Color by Faith from Joy Clair and colored with the Double Ended Markers from Leisure Arts.

I have a package of 60 color Double Ended Markers from Leisure Arts. They are good to color over coloring books or hard paper surfaces but for the bible paper they are very strong hindering the mixture of colors. This does not mean that you can not use them, you can use and enjoy your markers, just taking care of your paper and combinations.

PROCESS:

The first thing that I made, was stamp the images from the stamp set Gather Together onto my Bible with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and then, here is technique, I colored my craft mat with my selection of colors from the Leisure Arts Double Ended Markers.

I colored the mat color by color and with a blender pen, I took the ink from the mat and transferred it to my design on the bible journaling. It let me to mix the colors and gave a soft touch, just like the paper requires.

The process was consuming time but I enjoy my time making this bible journaling page. At the end, I enhanced some details of my coloring using the Watercolor Pencils from Leisure Arts. Also, using this technique I got the control of the colors/ink.

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy your day!

PS: If you are curious with the right side page of my bible journal. It was one of my first pages created and you can find all the details HERE. I used the stamp set Grow with Faith.