Month: February 2025

Luck O’ the Irish w/ Rainbow Stenciling!

February 26, 2025 February 26, 2025 by PinkWhisperDesigns in Art Impressions, St. Patrick's Day Card No Comment

Hello and Welcome!!!

Watch video tutorial!!!

Let’s create a colorful rainbow St. Patrick’s Day Card using the Ai Sham-rock Set (5006). We will be using the pot of gold, four leaf clovers, and a cute sentiment from this set…but there are lots of other images and coordinating sentiments that you will love to include on your St. Patrick’s Day cards!

Once we have stamped, colored and cut out all of our images we can go onto creating our sky and rainbow for this card. Note that all of the coloring was done using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Fl Yellow, Yellow, May Green, Green, Lt Gray, Gray.

For the sky we will create a background panel with the Ai Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Dies (5063) and then add a watercolor sky using the Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray in both Tumbled Glass and Uncharted Mariner. I’ll show you how quick and easy it is to create a fun, yet interesting sky!

Next, we will stencil a beautiful rainbow using the Lawn Fawn Corner Rainbow Stencils and also some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks in a variety of colors. And for a little twist we will cut this rainbow out using our detail scissors. This will allow us to add some dimensional tape to the rainbow and give it some more interest on the card. But first, we will spatter the rainbow with some water and blot that up with a paper towel and then we will spatter the rainbow with some beautiful gold watercolor ink. This adds the “wow” factor to this rainbow!

Now we can stamp our sentiment which says, “May the Luck O’ the Irish be yours!”. Let’s go ahead and assemble the card and add a bit of sparkle to the pot of gold using the Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen.

It would also be fun to add a few sparkly gems to the center of each of the shamrocks for some added interest and dimension!

Thank you so much for joining me today! If you enjoyed today’s video, please select the Like and Subscribe buttons and don’t forget to hit that notification bell so that you don’t miss a single video!

All of the supplies used in today’s video are listed below. Click the products below to make a purchase. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which are at no additional costs to you.

Art Impressions Sham-rock Set (5006)

— https://shrsl.com/4u2qr (artimpressions.com)

Art Impressions Rectangle A2 Double Stitched Dies (5063)

— https://shrsl.com/4u2qt (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4u2qv (Scrapbook.com)

Wink of Stella Glitter Pen – Clear

— https://shrsl.com/4u2qy (artimpressions.com)

Signo Gel Pen – Gold

— https://shrsl.com/4u2qz (artimpressions.com)

Lawn Fawn Corner Rainbow Stencils or Altenew – Stencil – Double Rainbow

— https://shrsl.com/4u2r0 (Scrapbook.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4ujj8 (Scrapbook.com)

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders Dies

— https://shrsl.com/4u2r4 (Scrapbook.com)

Gina K Designs – Acrylic Block – Comfort Block – Round

— https://shrsl.com/4u2r6 (Scrapbook.com)

Lawn Fawn Cardstock 100lb – Cilantro

— https://shrsl.com/4u2r8 (Scrapbook.com)

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

— https://shrsl.com/4u2r9 (dickblick.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray – Tumbled Glass

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rc (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray – Uncharted Mariner

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rh (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Titanium Shears 9.5″

— https://shrsl.com/4u2ri (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Rustic Wilderness

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rj (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Mowed Lawn

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rk (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Carved Pumpkin

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rl (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Broken China

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rn (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Fossilized Amber

— https://shrsl.com/4u2ro (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad – Candied Apple

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rp (Scrapbook.com)

Picket Fence Studios – Paper Splatter Watercolor – Liquid Gold

— https://shrsl.com/4uihp (Scrapbook.com)

Hero Arts Blending Brushes – Sm

— https://shrsl.com/4u2rz (Scrapbook.com)

Ranger Ink – Wendy Vecchi – Make Art – Non-Stick Craft Sheet

— https://shrsl.com/4u2ry (Scrapbook.com)

Versafine Ink Pad – Onyx Black

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s0 (Scrapbook.com)

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s1 (Scrapbook.com)

Therm O Web – 3D Adhesive Foam Tape – White – .5 Inch

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s3 (Scrapbook.com)

MISTI Mini

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s4 (Scrapbook.com)

MISTI Original

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s5 (Scrapbook.com)

Wendy Vecchi Make-art Stay-tion

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s6 (Scrapbook.com)

Tombow – Mono Power Mini Glue Tape – 3 Pack

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s8 (Scrapbook.com)

We R Makers Detail Scissors

— https://shrsl.com/4u2s9 (Scrapbook.com)

Heat-it Craft Tool

— https://shrsl.com/4u2sa (Scrapbook.com)

Dress My Craft – Mini Score Board

— https://shrsl.com/4u2sb (Scrapbook.com)

Cricut Weeding Tool Kit

— https://shrsl.com/4u2sd (dickblick.com)

Strathmore Bristol Smooth 100lb Cardstock

— https://shrsl.com/4u2sg (dickblick.com)

Art ImpressionsLawn Fawn Corner Rainbow StencilsZig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

Vellum Overlay “Stay Fabulous” Card!

February 18, 2025 February 18, 2025 by PinkWhisperDesigns in Art Impressions, Birthday Card, Congratulations, Encouragement, Friendship, Vellum, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers No Comment

Hello and Welcome!!!

Watch video tutorial here!!!

Today we will create a vellum overlay card using the super fun Ai Stay Hydrated Set (5928). This stamp set has a wonderful image of a lady holding her tumbler, which can be decorated with the variety of insert stamps available in this set. It also has some wonderful coordinating sentiments, and we will be using one of those today. We are going to be using just the individual tumbler for today’s card and hopefully give this set a fun new look!

This card was inspired by the current Ai Blog “Drink Up!” Challenge. For this challenge you can use coffee, tea, cocoa, wine, water or whatever this challenge congers up in your mind! Just have fun!

For the card base we will create a A2 size card using some vellum and a piece of 100lb cardstock in white. The vellum will overlay the white card base. So next we can stamp the tumbler along the bottom of the vellum using the Staz-on Snowflake White Ink Pad. This will dry permanently on the vellum with no need to emboss….unless you want to!

The next step is the best part! We will do all of the coloring of the tumblers on the backside of the vellum in a rainbow of colors. Here we can do some simple blending and highlighting. Keep in mind that the coloring will stay wet a bit longer because the vellum is not as absorbent as your cardstock and will allow the ink to sit up on the vellum. Just be careful and heat set the ink as you go along.

To do the coloring I will be using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Carmine Red, Scarlet Red, Bright Yellow, May Green, Blue, Violet, Cool Gray 3. However, your Tombow Markers and blender marker would work great for this technique.

Now let’s add some lettering to each of the tumblers using the Ai Small Alphabet Set (5284). We will stamp out the word “CHEERS”!

Next, let’s create a pretty scalloped border for the top of the card and for our sentiment. The border die is from the Ai Journal Template Die Set (5543). It is not quite long enough to fit across the card so I will show you how to easily extend the border to the needed size.

Once the border is die-cut we can add the sentiment from the same set and ink it with our markers in all of the rainbow colors. You may have to ink it a few times to get a nice crisp stamping.

Using some double-side tape we will add the border to the vellum overlay and then with some additional double-side tape we can attach the vellum to the card base.

For some additional interest we will stamp and die-cut some cute little butterflies from the Ai Birds and Bugs Set (5561) and sprinkle those around the tumblers in the coordinating colors. With the Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen, we will add some sparkle to each of the butterflies.

Finally, let’s add some pretty iridescent gems and ribbon, both of which will pick up all of these rainbow colors!

So please feel free to join us in this fun new challenge…. we would love to see what you create!

All of the supplies used in today’s video are listed below. Click the products below to make a purchase. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which are at no additional costs to you.

Art Impressions Stay Hydrated Set (5928)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrc (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnre (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Birds and Bugs Set (5561)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrf (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrg (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Small Alphabet Set (5284)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnri (artimpressions.com)

Art Impressions Travel Box (4924)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrj (artimpressions.com)

Art Impressions Journal Template Die Set (5543)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrk (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrm (Scrapbook.com)

Post-it Labeling and Cover-up Tape

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrr (artimpressions.com)

Wink of Stella Glitter Pen – Clear

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrt (artimpressions.com)

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrw (dickblick.com)

Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens – White and Black Set of 4

— https://shrsl.com/4tns0 (dickblick.com)

Pinkfresh Studio – Dual Tip Embellishment Tool

— https://shrsl.com/4tns5 (Scrapbook.com)

Pinkfresh Studio Brass Triangle Tray

— https://shrsl.com/4tns7 (Scrapbook.com)

Pinkfresh Studio Clear Drops – Iridescent

— https://shrsl.com/4tns8 (Scrapbook.com)

Staz-on Pigment Ink Pad – Snowflake

— https://shrsl.com/4tns9 (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Titanium Shears 9.5″

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsa (Scrapbook.com)

Lawn Fawn 1/4″ Double Sided Tape

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsb (Scrapbook.com)

Heat it Craft Tool

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsc (Scrapbook.com)

Lawn Fawn Clear Vellum Sheets

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsf (Scrapbook.com)

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsg (Scrapbook.com)

MISTI Mini

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsh (Scrapbook.com)

Wendy Vecchi Make-art Stay-tion

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsi (Scrapbook.com)

Dress My Craft Mini Scoreboard

— https://shrsl.com/4tnsj (Scrapbook.com)

Strathmore Bristol Smooth 100lb Cardstock

— https://shrsl.com/4tnru (dickblick.com)

Cricut Weeding Tool Kit

— https://shrsl.com/4tnrv (dickblick.com)

Art ImpressionsArt Impressions Birds and Bugs Set (5561)Art Impressions Stay Hydrated Set (5928)Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

Creating a Box Card – Magical Songbirds!

February 12, 2025 February 11, 2025 by PinkWhisperDesigns in Art Impressions, Birthday Card, Box Card, Scene Cards No Comment

Hello and Welcome!!!

Watch video tutorial here!!!

Today we will be using the brand-new Ai Song Birds and Feeders Set (5980). This set is just perfect for today’s box card with its lovely birds and bird feeders. We will combine this set with the absolutely adorable Ai Gnomes Set (5785) and some little mushrooms from both the Ai Fairytale Houses Set (5935) and the Ai Whimsical Mushroom Set (5788). It is so much fun mixing and matching all of your stamp sets to create a unique and special card!

We can now add some white highlights and polka dots (on the mushrooms) to make everything pop a bit more!

Let’s stamp all of the images and color them using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Sugared Almond Pink, Lt Beige, Beige, Mid Brown, Yellow, Orange, Ice Blue, Sea Green, Smoky Teal, May Green, Green, Lt Gray, Purple.

Next, let’s create the cute little box card design. I will give you all of the measurements in today’s video. It is very easy to cut, score and fold this box card design. I have sized it to fit into a standard A2 size envelope when folded flat, but you could also use a square envelope if you prefer. Just keep in mind that the postage may be a bit more for the square envelope.

We will now cut all of our patterned paper layers for the box card using the Ai Mini Birthday Paper Pack (5873). Let’s add a few sentiments to the card using both the Ai Birthday Sentiments Set (5735) and the Ai Fairytale Houses Set (5935).

Finally, we can assemble this fun little scene onto the box card! This card will sit up nicely on your table when it’s opened up. I hope you got inspired to give this design a try!

All of the supplies used in today’s video are listed below. Click the products below to make a purchase. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which are at no additional costs to you.

Art Impressions Song Birds and Feeders Set (5980)

— https://shrsl.com/4twv3 (artimpressions.com)

Art Impressions Gnomes Set (5785)

— https://shrsl.com/4twv5 (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4twv6 (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Fairytale Houses Set (5935)

— https://shrsl.com/4twva (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvc (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Whimsical Mushroom Set (5788)

— https://shrsl.com/4twve (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvf (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Birthday Sentiments Set (5735)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvh (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvj (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions My Trust Set (5937)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvk (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvn (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Mini Birthday Paper Pack (5873)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvo (artimpressions.com)

Art Impressions Watercolor Travel Box (4924)

— https://shrsl.com/4twvq (artimpressions.com)

Post-it Labeling and Cover-up Tape

— https://shrsl.com/4twvs (artimpressions.com)

Kuretake – ZIG – Clean Color – Real Brush Marker – 30 Color Set – Single Tip

— https://shrsl.com/4twwg (Scrapbook.com)

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

— https://shrsl.com/4twwh (dickblick.com)

Versafine Clair Ink Pad – Green Oasis

— https://shrsl.com/4twvt (Scrapbook.com)

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad

— https://shrsl.com/4twvu (Scrapbook.com)

Lawn Fawn 1/4″ Double Sided Tape

— https://shrsl.com/4twvw (Scrapbook.com)

Scrapbook.com 3D Foam Squares – Sm & Lg

— https://shrsl.com/4twvy (Scrapbook.com)

Tim Holtz Titanium Shears 9.5″

— https://shrsl.com/4twvz (Scrapbook.com)

We R Makers – Trim and Score Board

— https://shrsl.com/4tww0 (Scrapbook.com)

We R Makers Detail Scissors

— https://shrsl.com/4tww2 (Scrapbook.com)

Strathmore Bristol Smooth 100lb Cardstock

— https://shrsl.com/4twwe (dickblick.com)

My Colors Cardstock – By PhotoPlay – Kraft – 10 Pack

— https://shrsl.com/4tww3 (Scrapbook.com)

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen – White

— https://shrsl.com/4twwc (dickblick.com)

LDRS Creative – Stampendable Stamping Tool – Rose Quartz

— https://shrsl.com/4tww5 (Scrapbook.com)

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

— https://shrsl.com/4tww7 (Scrapbook.com)

MISTI Original

— https://shrsl.com/4tww9 (Scrapbook.com)

Cricut Weeding Tool Kit

— https://shrsl.com/4twwb (dickblick.com)

Art ImpressionsArt Impressions Fairytale Houses Set (5935)Art Impressions Gnomes Set (5785)Art Impressions Song Birds and Feeders Set (5980)Art Impressions Whimsical Mushroom Set (5788)Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens

“Touch of White” Tulip Floral Card!

February 5, 2025 February 4, 2025 by PinkWhisperDesigns in Art Impressions, Floral Card, Hello, Spring No Comment

Hello and Welcome!!!

Watch video tutorial here!!!

I had previously done a set of floral cards using a “”Touch of Gold” (which I will link down below), so I thought I would call today’s card a “Touch of White” for the Art Impressions current blog “Highlights” Challenge. This challenges us to use a white gel pen or white paint to add highlights to your projects.

I thought I would take the white highlights theme to a new level by adding touches of white by not only using the gel pen but by adding white touches in several other ways. We will create a texture white brick background, add some white embossed tulips, add white speckles to the background, add some white ink around the edges of the card panel, and add some pretty white hearts! Lots of different ways to brighten up or highlight your cards!

Let’s start by stamping our images using the Ai Floral Long Stem Bouquet Set (5918) and the Ai Glass Containers Set (5921) and the Ai Easter Bunny Puppet Set (5869). Now we can color these using the Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens in the following colors: Blender, Lt Pink, Peach Pink, Bright Yellow, Orange, Sea Green, Persian Green, May Green, Green, English Lavender, Purplish Gray, Lt Gray.

Once the coloring is done let’s add some highlights with our white gel pen to the flowers, container and bow.

Next, we can build the background for the flower arrangement by using a brickwork embossing folder and some white cardstock. We will ink the embossing folder in gray to give it a more realistic look. We will also use another embossing folder to create a little wood shelf for our arrangement to sit on. We can color this using some brown inks and then cut it down to size.

Let’s go ahead and assemble the arrangement onto some black cardstock, leaving a small border of black all the way around.

Now for the larger background, we will begin by stamping and embossing a pretty tulip border in white ink and white embossing powder, using the Ai My Trust Set (5937). Let’s use this same set to stamp the little speckled stamp (one of my new favorite go-to stamps) and stamp the kraft colored cardstock with all of the colors used in the flower arrangement and also a pop of white ink!

Let’s assemble onto a white card base and add a few pretty white hearts! I hope this card inspires you to add some white highlights onto your cards in a variety of fun ways!

Here is the video for the “Touch of Gold” cards I had recently done if you would like to check it out:

All of the supplies used in today’s video are listed below. Click the products below to make a purchase. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which are at no additional costs to you.

Art Impressions Floral Long Stem Bouquet Set (5918)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmay (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb0 (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Glass Containers Set (5921)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb2 (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb4 (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions Easter Bunny Puppet Set (5869)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb6 (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb7 (Scrapbook.com)

Art Impressions My Trust Set (5937)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb8 (artimpressions.com)

— https://shrsl.com/4tmb9 (Scrapbook.com)