Stamps by Judith and Heather

New Idea Sheets

2012-01-24T12:27:00.000-08:00

Ok...I'm finding it harder to get back on the horse after the holidays....but I wanted to share with you the project Mom (Judith) and I worked on over the holidays. New Idea Sheets! You will find a set included when you order. We tried to cover more of the questions we've been asked over the years....let us know what you think.

Masking your heart...

2011-12-27T21:07:00.000-08:00

I'm back! It's been busy with 3 little kids and the Christmas season....but I haven't forgotten you! Hope everybody and a blessed and safe holiday season. I have often been asked how to mask...so let's see if I can walk you thru this.... To mask the E-238-HK Little Owl inside the R-54-HK Lg. Design Heart you need to first stamp the heart on your card stock. Then stamp it again on a scratch paper and cut out the center of it. This is your mask. Then place it over the heart on the card and stamp the owl. When you remove the mask the owl will look like it is in the heart. The owl was then colored in with Tombow Watercolor Markers, light browns, light grays, a touch of a darker brown for highlighting, and a touch of pink for its cheeks. Always put cheeks on anything that has a face, it gives them life. The saying F-161 Give a Hoot was stamped in black and then AAA-04 Dots and AA-69 Bold Modern Heart were added. Remember to stamp the Dots in blue. Other colors like red or green can overwhelm the card.

Time to decorate the tree!

2011-11-22T20:06:00.000-08:00

Tis' the season to decorate the tree. I built this tree out of one little stamp, B-75 Design Leaf #1. The tree was built in the same manner that an artificial tree. Start at the bottom and work up. First stamp the Leaf in a horizontal line 4 or 5 high. Then branch out to the sides from the bottom and work up, tilting the Leaf up to make the tree taper to a point. Think triangle. Next take a fine line pen, I like to use a Pilot Precise, to draw the wire on the tree. Then stamp the AA-21 Solid Light on the tree. The nice thing about drawing the wire first is that I don't feel like I have to have every light touching a wire. I have found when I do the lights first and then the wire the tree gets really messy. The star at the top of the tree was created using the AA-21 Solid Light as well. Why buy a separate star when you can make one out of a light? In then added the AAA-04 Dots. When you use the Dots stamp them in blue and use a light touch. When you stamp the Dots down too hard you get blue blobs. Lastly I added the AA-23 Snowflake and D-132-HK Joy. Hint: use a rainbow pad for the lights and you will have all the colors you need in one pad.

A hint of color.

2011-11-03T20:12:00.000-07:00

While trying to scare the grey squirrels off of my bird feeders I noticed a male cardinal and it made me smile. This is an image I originally drew for some cards I gave to my mother-in-law. It can make a beautiful and simple card. For the main portion of the card I stamped I-170-HK in our black ink and then colored it in with Tombow Watercolor markers. Remember to always use more than one color, for example, I used a yellow and a light orange on the cardinals beak and I used green and blue one the pine boughs. I then added the saying H-146 Season of Joy. Hint, if you have a hard time positioning the saying under the cardinal stamp it on another card, layer it and then adhere it under the cardinal. For the background of the card I stamped B-54 Cardinal and C-74 Sm. Branch in a random pattern. I then also colored them in with Tombows. I then layered everything on red card stock. What a fun and simple card to remind me of the cardinal on my bird feeders.

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Are you ready for the snow?

2011-10-24T11:37:00.000-07:00

All the leaves are off the trees where I live in Northern Wisconsin and my 5 year old was asking if winter was coming and it made me think of this card. It will soon be snowman season and this was a fun card to make. First I stamped the F-162 Pine Needles and the C-32 Grass on the card and colored them in with Tombow Watercolor markers. I sponged below the grass to fill in the white area and added a light grey around the pine needles to make them pop off the page. Next I stamped the S-16 Lg. Button Snowman and the O-16 Lg. Wooden Fence on another piece of card stock and colored them with Tombow Watercolor markers as well. When I need a good black ink that works well with watercolor markers, I use our Stamps by Judith Quick Drying for Watercolors Dye Based Black Ink Pad. After the images are colored I cut them out and arrange the snowman on the fence. For fun I added tiny, gold eyelets over the nails on the fence and blue and green eyelets over the buttons on the snowman. I then mounted the snowman and fence on my background with double stick foam tape and layered the H-49 Snowman Melts Heart Saying.

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