{Spotlight Project} Maria Revisits Scrap Strips

I'm back again this month still talking about scrap strips. This time I took some scrap paper I'd used when swiping ink pads directly onto my ink swatches. In the past I'd always stamped a solid image onto my swatches but I've decided I like the color swiped onto the swatch so I've been updating them. I have a lot of inks. A lot. All that yummy color? I just had to make something with the prettiness.

STEP 1

Gather supplies - I grabbed the swatching scrap papers with all their prettiness, a piece of scrap paper to glue them onto, a glue stick and a tag die. I also wanted to add some texture paste through a stencil onto the cardbase. The rest I figured out as I went along...

STEP 2

Tore some strips in ROYGBIV order and glued them onto my scrap paper. Notice I'd traced the die onto the scrap to give me a good idea of where to place the strips.

STEP 3

When the glue was dry I die cut the tag. TIP: Rather than throwing all of the negative piece away, I trimmed off a strip of it to adorn the inside of my card ;)
I also die cut three tags from scrap cardstock to stack before adhering the tag to my card front.

STEP 4

I snazzed up my card front with some shimmery paste through this fun stencil. I did not cover the entire front, just three random areas. TIP: Be careful not to place your stencil in the wet paste when you move it around.

Here's the finished card again. I gussied it up with a couple feather leftovers from my scrap drawer. Rainbows. Aren't they the best?

Tearing up scraps or backgrounds you've made is another great way to put them to use in your cardmaking. As always, if I inspire you to place an order in the shop, I'd love it if you used my STAMPGIRLMARIA code for an additional 20% off at no extra cost to you.

Feathery

Tags #1 Nesting Dies

Painted Scales Square Stencil

{Spotlight Project} Maria Has Die-cutting Fun With Scrap Strips

Well friends, I have a luxury problem. I get to move my crafting from my basement laundry room to DD's old bedroom. Woohoo! Daylight! But let me tell you, I am totally overwhelmed. How to make it perfect? And boy do I need to purge.

So when I find myself unable to deal with the ginormity (is that a word?) of it all, I submerge myself in little projects. One of which was tackling my bucket of scrap strips. You know the ones you cut off the bottom of a card or a background you made or a piece of PP. I had a blast just adhering those strips to a piece of scrap paper then decided to do some fun die cutting with them. Speaking of fun, have you ever listened to Carissa W. podcast? She's full of cardmaking tips and reminds us to have fun in the craft room too ;) Let's get to my card, shall we?

{Spotlight Project} Maria Gets A Start On Christmas Cards (By Recycling Christmas Cards!)

Happy New Year, STAMP friends!

Here we go with another 365 day trip around the sun. Sure hope this year might bring a little more hope for all of us. Speaking of which, I "hope" you're not sick of Christmas just yet. Putting decorations away I just can't bring myself to trash beautiful received Christmas cards, can you? Today I'm sharing an idea for recycling them and letting their beautiful artwork shine on a handmade Christmas card that you can send next Christmas. Interested? I've made a few. Here's one.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Uses Ephemera To Mass Produce CAS Christmas cards

Hello STAMP friends! Hope you're not sick of me and my ephemera yet. It's just such fun to let the cute pieces do the heavy lifting while you just add a little here and there. Ready for some super CAS versions? First I must apologize, the card pictured is not the card made in the tutorial. I ran out of good natural light for photos. But the concept is totally the same. Please come by my blog  for the rest of the lineup - I had 8 pieces of ephemera to use up ;) So this tutorial covers the production line approach to making these clean and simple cards. Shall we get to it?

{Spotlight Project} Maria Uses Ephemera ATCs For Quick And Easy Christmas Cards

Hello STAMP friends! Do you make your own Christmas cards to send? If so maybe you're already done making them, but if not I've got a super easy way to create a Christmas card with a fun factor. And to do some recycling ;) Let's get to it.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Uses The Spotlight Technique With Ephemera

Hello STAMP friends! How are you enjoying the newest addition to the STAMP family - Paper Goods, specifically Ephemera? I tried the spotlight technique with one of the ATCs for today's post. Let's take a look.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Makes A Masterboard With Flexi-Templates - Part 2

Hello STAMP friends! I'm back today with with two more cards made with my masterboard I created with Flexi Templates. I hope you saw my last Spotlight where I created the masterboard and then made two cards with half of it. Today I'm sharing the other two cards.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Makes A Masterboard With Flexi-Templates - Part 1

Hello STAMP friends! I'm back today with another idea for using your Flexi Templates. I hope you saw my Tuesday inspiration posts in April for ways to use them. Today I created a masterboard with the oval templates and was able to then create four cards out of it. Here are two cards. Let's have a look.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Makes A One-layer Card With Flexi-Templates

Hello STAMP friends! I recently got some Flexi Templates designed by my teamie Monika and I'd like to share some fun I had with them with you today in my Spotlight project. There are so many things you can do with them (check out my Tuesday inspiration posts this month for more ideas). Today I created a one layer card with lots of interest using the oval templates. Take a look.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Takes A Texture Cover Plate Up A Notch

Hello there STAMP friends! I have an idea for you if you'd like to stretch your stash a bit. Do you have one of those cool cover plate dies which impresses an image into a piece of cardstock? I was inspired by Elisabeth's cool card and created a similar look.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Takes A CAS Design Up A Notch

Hello there STAMP friends! Back with another tutorial for you. Today I'm sharing an idea for those of you who like to make super CAS cards. Something to think about if you want to take it up a notch ;)

{Spotlight Project} Maria Fills A Pop Up Box Card With Flowers

Howdy STAMP friends! Hope 2021 has started off well for you. I have a project for you today that's going to take you, not kidding, hours. BUT... it's a super fun way to spend a couple hours. Plus you can use up some of your paper scraps! Meet my flower bouquet.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Makes DIY Chipboard With UTEE

Hello there STAMP friends! Long time, no see. Hope your December is going well. I'm back with a Spotlight post for you today. It's a super fun way to stretch your stash by creating shiny DIY chipboard.

{Spotlight Project} Maria Stretches Stash - Dies

Hello there STAMP friends! I've another Spotlight post for you today. It's an easy way to stretch your stash and add a subtle touch to your CAS card backgrounds. Nothing new here, just a reminder to use dry embossing in your creative process and today I've used dies for this. (And a soon to be released coffee stamp set ;)

{Spotlight Project} Maria Tries Salad Spinner Art - part 2

Hello there STAMP friends! I'm back with Part 2 of a Spotlight project for you today and it's a messy one. Did you see my last tutorial about Spin Art? Have you tried it?

A couple months ago an artist I like, Alisa Burke, posted this where she and her kid used a salad spinner to decorate little gift boxes. That stuck in the back of my mind and when I saw a salad spinner at my dollar store I decided to buy it to try out the technique.

Fun. And messy. And unique. There's no way to know what you're going to get. And no way to recreate it exactly if you get something you really like!

Here's a card I made using one of the backgrounds I made in my salad spinner.

{Digital Wednesday} Digital Stamping on Patterned Paper

Happy Wednesday! Digital Wednesday is back and every 3rd Wednesday in January, February, and March, STAMPgirl Maria will be sharing her creations spotlighting our digital images either by themselves or together with other STAMPlorations products. We'll draw one lucky crafter to win a $15 gift code -- randomly drawn from all comments left on the Digital Wednesday post for the month, as well as from the featured designer's blog.

STAMPgirl Maria created five cards combining digi stamps with patterned paper.

    

  

{Spotlight Project} Maria Tried Salad Spinner Art - part 1

Hello there STAMP friends! I've got a Spotlight project for you today and it's a messy one. Have you heard about Spin Art? Have you tried it?

I remember long ago hearing about putting an art canvas with blobs of paint on it in the back of your car and then driving around with it, thereby creating a cool piece of art. Never tried it though. Then a couple months ago an artist I like, Alisa Burke, posted this where she and her kid used a salad spinner to decorate little gift boxes. That stuck in the back of my mind and when I saw a salad spinner at my dollar store I decided to buy it to try out the technique.

Fun. And messy. And unique. There's no way to know what you're going to get. And no way to recreate it exactly if you get something you really like!

Here's a card I made using one of the backgrounds I made in my salad spinner.

{Digital Wednesday} Maria Does Cards with Digital Stamps Four Ways

Happy Wednesday! Digital Wednesday is back and every 3rd Wednesday in January, February, and March, STAMPgirl Maria will be sharing her creations spotlighting our digital images either by themselves or together with other STAMPlorations products. We'll draw one lucky crafter to win a $15 gift code -- randomly drawn from all comments left on the Digital Wednesday post for the month, as well as from the featured designer's blog.

STAMPgirl Maria created four cards using digi stamps four different ways.