Pretty Cute Stamps August New Release Blog Hop!

Thanks so much for joining us for the August 2016 Digital Stamp Release Blog Hop, where we are all sharing projects featuring the new digital stamps this month that are now available in the Pretty Cute Stamps Store!

If you came from Larissa's Blog - Muffins and Lace, you are in the right place. If you just stumbled across this post and would like to start from the beginning, please visit the Pretty Cute Stamps Blog. 

For my project for the hop, I've used the Little Sweetie stamp set to create a cover for my Dylusions Art Journal! I've wanted to decorate the cover for my art journal for a very long time, but just couldn't decide on what I wanted. When I saw this adorable cupcake girl image, I knew it was perfect!

I first layered some pretty papers from the Pink Paislee Fancy Free collection and Mod Podged them onto my journal. Then I gessoed the remaining spots on the background, which added a white painted layer. After printing my Little Sweetie out onto white cardstock, I printed her again onto the patterned paper I wanted for her hair and dress. I cut out the 'sweet' sentiment and added it to a Fancy Free circle and tore around the printed Cherry On Top sentiment. How cute is this sentiment?!!

I've been having so much fun taking the Online Card Class Creative Chemistry 103 and learning some new techniques using my Distress Crayons, so I definitely wanted to incorporate them on my Art Journal! I used several different stencils to apply texture paste to my background. After the paste dried I added a layer of Collage Medium by Tim Holtz and when that dried the inky fun started!

I lightly rubbed the Distress Crayons onto my textured background and smudged it around with my finger. I love the way it blends with the other colours and highlights the stenciled areas!

I added Stickles to the cherry and Little Sweetie's lips, earrings and jewelry - because a girl's gotta have bling!

I used Prismacolor and Hobby Colour Markers, which are alcohol based, to colour in all the areas that I didn't paper piece, and then used the markers to highlight my paper piecing.

Here's a look at this super sweet stamp!

Little Sweetie

Blog Candy!! There is a $15 Gift Certificate to the PCS Store available to win! All you need to do is:

1) Comment on each of the blogs. 

2) For extra chances to win you can LIKE Pretty Cute Stamps on Facebook and/or sign up for the Pretty Cute Stamps mailing list. (Leave an extra comment for each on the Pretty Cute Stamps blog as your entry)

A random winner will be chosen on Tuesday, August 16, 2016.

Be sure to check the Pretty Cute Stamps Store to pick up your favorite sets!

 August 2016 New Releases

There is also a FREEBIE digital stamp available for you today at the Pretty Cute Stamps blog!

Wonky Cake

Now, you can head over to the next stop on the hop- Tasha's Blog - Crafty Pink Pixie!

If you get lost along the way, here's the lineup!

Lisa: http://prettycutestampsblog.blogspot.com/

Gloria: http://gloriasgoofycraftspot.blogspot.com/

Shannon: http://designsofapaddymack.typepad.com/

Henriette: http://hmier.blogspot.com/

Lena: https://pysselokaffe.blogspot.com/

Carolyn: http://2freespirit.blogspot.com/

Noe: http://elscrapdecrisynoe.blogspot.com/

Larissa: http://muffinsandlace.com/

Karla: http://creative-love-affair.blogspot.ca/ You Are Here!

Tasha: http://www.craftypinkpixie.com/

Amber: http://sew-ink.blogspot.com/

Kel: http://www.scrap-photograffs.com/

Thanks so much for joining me today! Don't forget to leave your comment for a chance to win :)

Linked to:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Let's Go Wild (I went wild with Distress Crayons!)

Smile Lawn Fawn Birthday Card!

Well, I'm just having so much fun over at Tim Holtz' Creative Chemistry 103 this week that I had to use two of his techniques from Day 1 on this card!

One of the techniques for Day 1 was Distress DIY Ombre. That inspired me to get out this Dylusions customizable ink pad that I've had in my stash for a while! It's a foam pad that you can add your own inks to. Since I don't have many Distress Reinkers like Tim used in his instructions I thought I'd use my Dylusions sprays. I masked each strip off with paper before spraying with my desired ink spray colour and created this fun and bright ink pad. This pad is fully washable, so you can change it whenever you want.

I used my new ink pad to stamp on several different types of paper with a couple different stamps. Love it!

I added a background of patterned paper from the Fancy Free collection and then layered my chevron stamped inky background, cut into 3 pieces on top. Behind my watercolour birthday background, using Year Three and Love You A Latte stamps, I added lots of fun patterned paper layers and handcut a little banner, adding the smile sentiment.

 
The second technique I used from Day 1 was Distress Off Set Stamping. I stamped these adorable Lawn Fawn stamps on watercolour paper, using Antique Linen Distress Ink and masking to create this little birthday scene. I am totally craving cake now ;) I watercoloured my images in by smooshing my Distress Inks on a craft sheet and using my waterbrush to pick up the ink. The Antique Linen ink allows you to get the 'no line colouring' effect. After colouring in I went back over my image and stamped with black Archival Ink. You can see it doesn't quite line up, which gives it that little off set watercolour look!

Inside, I used the sentiment stamp from the birthday stamp set, Year Three, and used papers from Paige Evans' Fancy Free collection again.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you're enjoying a crafty week, and some lovely weather.

Linked to:
SSS Monday Challenge - Celebrate
Lawnscaping Challenge - Patterned Palooza #135
Mojo Monday - Sketch #459

Ombre Technique with Alcohol Inks!

I've been rewatching a lot of the videos lately from the Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101 and 102 classes from Online Card Classes, and I came across this neat technique using alcohol inks. I love using alcohol inks, but they're one of those things that I forget about using all the time!

I started with a piece of glossy cardstock and used the felt pads to layer on three different colours of alcohol inks from light to dark, swiping across my tag and slightly overlapping each colour to blend it all together. I took a metal heart piece from my stash and covered it with several colours of alcohol inks, including the gold mixative, with a felt pad. I filled in the heart in the centre with Glossy Accents and sprinkled glitter on in three coordinating colours.

I stamped with Archival black ink over the alcohol inked background, using several stamps at different angles. A bit of translucent embossing paste with a Tim Holtz stencil and some clear glitter on top gives it some pretty texture.

I added some blue ribbon and a cute paperclip along with some pretty yarn and ribbons at the top of my tag and then added a friendship pin. Do you remember these?! I made them when I was a kid, and just thought the other day this would be a fun thing for my girls to do. 

Erica loves making these cute little pins! All you need are safety pins and beads- which you probably have in your stash! 

A few sequins attached with Glossy Accents and my pretty tag was good to go!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I'm busy now watching Creative Chemistry 103, and will definitely be back with lots to share from that. Hope you have an awesome week!

Linked to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge - AG