Skate Away with Stamp AnnieThing

Hello Stamp AnnieThing friends! Michelle Houghton here to share a little SAT inspiration with you today. Hope your Wednesday is treating you well and if your weather is cooling down you are taking in the wonderful crisp air of the autumn season.

Today's card is featuring Audrina - Skating By. I have been seeing all these lovely images with there wooly sweaters and scarves recently line and was dying to color one up myself. I used my Copic to color up Audrina:

Here are a couple close ups so you can see some of the details, I wanted the scarf to look warm and wooly:

and the ice to give the hint of reflection of Audrina as she glides by:

I kept the card super simple with a couple pattered paper layers and a couple Cardstock stickers popped into different layers:

Here is a final look at the completed card:

thank you as always for stopping by! Make sure to stop in the Stamp Anniething shop for all the latest! This Friday you will be blown away by Ann's creativity in the new Grab and Go release! Truly AMAZING!

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

Splashy Hello

Hi there, it's Ellen here! Although summer is almost over, still it's good weather and so perfect to share a happy summer card with the "Audrina - Make a Splash". 

I thought brown an purple where the perfect colors for this cutie. Copic Markers helped me coloring this mermaid. For the pearls in her hair I used Nuvo glitter drops and glossy accents where used on her eyes. The extra shine really adds somehting special.

To mimic a bit of the water I used distress ink to make the background and an embossing plate with weird triangles. Of course a bow and the cute sentiment couldn't be missing too.

That was it already... Have a mermazing day!

Summertime Summertime Sum Sum Summertime! Adorable summer chibis to share!

Hi everyone! It has been a while since I got to play and post on the SAT blog!  Last weekend I was in full coloring mode and knocked out these two totally FUN and adorable Summertime Cards!

Up first is my Audrina the Mermaid Card!

I colored the adorable Audrina, Make a Splash stamp up using copic markers.  I created a fun underwater scene to go with her with some coral, seaweed, sand,etc.  I added some white paint splatters to represent the kicking up of the bottom of the ocean and to add more texture to the underwater scene.

Next up is sweet Lorraine!

This card was totally fun to make and I went along with a class from Kit N Clowder to create the beach scene behind Lorraine!  Alyce has some really fabulous classes and step by step directions to create wonderful backdrops for your stamped images!

Make a Splash Audrina

      Hello Crafty friends,

Katya Bess, here and I'm showing you a card I made with

Audrina - Make a Splash.

As I sat here and thought to myself,

 "Hmmm what colors should I use today?"

I have some "go-to" colors but I try not color the same 

all of the time since I like to challenge myself

the only problem is, this method 

takes longer than usual to finish- although very fun

and relaxing it's still time consuming.

So some strategies I have for myself is to choose one

of these: chose realistic colors, go monochromatic, pick

analogous colors (which means colors that are next to each other in the color wheel)

or I go with complimentary colors (colors opposite to each other) 

and sometimes not exactly the opposite but still complimentary

(colors that are analogous to the complimentary color.)

I hope I didn't confuse you. :P

So, since I chose this lime green hair I chose a purpley 

mermaid tail with various pinks... I don't know

I think it goes together okay...  

I was going to go with a bluish or greenish hue

for the skin and then thought we have been 

having blackouts because of the storm here in the Bay Area. LOL  

This is how I also chose my coloring... the weather and upcoming events. 

(haha yea don't laugh)

Alright... too much rambling on my behalf

here is my card...

Audrina - Make a Splash  was so much fun to color! 

Since it was raining so much all I could think about was 

WATER and I chose to color a little mermaid for you all. :)

I chose Copic BG01 for the water making sure

that I gave it at least 3 coats- that is very important so it doesn't look

too streaky and doesn't really matter if it doesn't look

completely the same color since some areas will touch and 

it will have more that 3 coats, it is under water after all and 

water is constantly in motion and reflects lights and shadows in different directions.

Now for the bubbles you wants to use a much lighter color

I chose Copic B000, this sort of bleaches some of the color out

but not completely... just draw some random circles and fill them in

and they don't have to be perfect

in fact, making them a little more wonky will make them somewhat realistic.

Lastly where ever your light source is coming from you want to use

the Copic Blender (Copic 0) and highlight and finalize that water bubble look - 

I chose my light to come from the left and 

I don't always follow light source since light is tricky but I try.

I hope you get to try it out some day with this cutie. 

Here is a closer look at her and the subtle water bubbles too. :)

I used one of my favorite pens - Sakura Clear Star Gellyroll

to give her some sparkle on her star and the pearls on her hair.

I used Copic Opaque White to highlight her eyes

I don't know why I keep using the brush it comes with 

I made a big glob on her eye and had to make the eye-lights

different than I normally do. LOL   

I usually don't talk this much in person... 

(just in my crazy head. LOL) 

I hope you have a lovely weekend

enjoy it to the max!!! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katya Bess

February Theme Week Day 2 - Gigi and Annie on the Blog!

It's time for another Theme Week!
This time its all about using 3 shades of a color!
*Yes you MAY use more than three shades, but there is a min of three for this theme week!*

We would love for you to participate with us in our THEME WEEK, and its quite easy to do so!

Simply create a project using ANY Stamp Anniething product (as your main focal point) in the set "theme" for that month.

Post your project to the corresponding album over at our Face Book Group page (Stamp Anniething Stampers)!

You may enter as many projects as you wish, but you will only be counted as ONE entry person.

A minimum of 5 people (not including DT Members) is needed in order for a prize to be given.

So here we go for February's Theme Week!

Make ANY project using the 3 shades of ONE Color!

All projects must be uploaded by midnight PST March 4th to qualify

Again, a min of FIVE entries for a prize win!

Here is what I created for February!

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Hi everyone! This is GiGi from The Cricut Bug and I have a fun treat box to share. 

I used the Audrina-Make A Splash stamp set for my challenge project.

I started this project with the SVG Cutting Files Bag With Bow file and cut it out with my Cameo.
I added the wave layers to the bottom that I cut with the Jaded Blossom Tropical Dies.
I stamped and colored Audrina with Copic Markers. I cut her out and mounted her on pop dots.
I cut the sentiment banner using the Flag Dies 2 and stamped the sentiment from the Best Friends stamp set.
To finish, I added the bow to the handle that I cut with the Bow Dies and added some Doodlebug Sprinkles.

 I hope you will play along with us in our Monthly Theme Week! You can see and post all your projects in our Facebook Group HERE
Thanks for visiting and have a great day!
GiGi

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And now for Annie's Project for the day!
Today I choose the color YELLOW for my project.
You will notice for most of this week, my project layout is the exact SAME, just using different stamps , sentiments and dies.
Again, this is to show you do not need a TON of products in your arsenal to create some fabby projects!

All my projects this week start with a standard A2 card that I topped off with Card Mat dies.  Next I took my adorable Jemma Stamp and stamped her on the Layered Frame & Journal Die.
I added more dies to tie it all together, like the sunshine from Spring Dies 2 and the Mini tag from Mini Tag Dies 2.  Then the Label die just as an added element. The sentiment is from the Annie Stamp.

Another view of the cute JEMMA STAMP!!

See you tomorrow!!

COPICS USED:

e00 e02 e93

y00 y04 y26 y08

bv000 bv01

Baby Blue Winter Wonderland w Audrina

Hi Everyone!

 I hope everyone is enjoying the season whether you're at home or in the work place.

As for me, I'm at home all day with the kids. LOL    It has been cold and raining... 

a big big change for us in California. 

Okay on to my card. It's sort of a re-do using:

Audrina

Audrina as an ice skater!

Audrina is just flowing with motion on her new skates! She is just skating to say hello

or whatever sweet message you want her to say. :)

for my previous card using Adrian I colored her in brown and gold tones.

Check out that card here:

http://www.kattyxotica.blogspot.com/2015/11/audrina-skating-by-with-nov-release.html

With this one I used a lot less glitter... actually it was embossing glitter so none of it flakes off.

Okay here is the card... in my Winter Wonderland theme.

I used Copic markers to color her up

Salty Ocean mini Distress Ink for the trees on the back

then I used Whispers Clear Glitter embossing on top of some of the trees.

The hill die is from Avery Elle Elle-ments it's called Dotted Border Die.

The bottom portion I used Copic markers again to give it an frozen ice

for skating then I used Versamark pad to use the Martha Stewart's

Sterling embossing Powder for the sentiment at the bottom.

Here you can see the sparkle from my Sakura Gelly Roll it's a soft blue

and it's from the Stardust collection. You can also see the sterling silver embossing :)

For more inspiration using this cutie you can check out 

our Pinterest page using here: 

https://www.pinterest.com/stampanniething/audrina-skating-by/

Thank you for stopping by.

Have the an amazing start of the New Year.

~Katya Bess

November Release Day #2 - Audrina, Skating By

Hi and welcome to Day #2 of Stamp Anniething's November release!  

With Winter well underway in parts of the country, we are dedicated this release to Winter!

Audrina

Check out Audrina as a ice skater! 

Audrina is just flowing with motion on her new skates!  She is just skating by to say Hello!

Audrina will be available in the store FRIDAY along with the other 2 stamps we show you for you this week!!

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Check out the AWESOME creations the Design Team made with skating Audrina!

Just click on their name to be taken to their blogs for all the details.

 Don't forget to leave some love for them! 

Mel

Katya

Cassandra

Cindy

JoAnn

Annie

GiGi

Stamps will be available in the STORE on FRIDAY

Thanks for joining us for our November Release

 and have a great day!

Under the Sea

Hello everyone! Mel with a new card for you today.  I could not wait to color the newest Audrina Stamp with red hair. She is colored with Copic Markers and I added some real peals and gems to the bubbles in her hair.  She is on one of the penny card bases from SVG Cutting Files. I love this interactive card!

 

Here she is swimming on the other side of the card.. hehehe.

Stamp Annie Thing

sentiment and mermaid stamp - Audrina

SVG Cutting Files

Penny Card Slide Base

Copic Markers

hair -  R22, R29, R39

skin - E00, E02, E11, BV20

fin - V12, V15, V17

sea star - Y11 Y17

top - BG10, BG23

eye- BG23

Thanks for looking at this fun card today!

Mermaid In Green

Hi everyone! This is GiGi from The Cricut Bug and I have a card to share using the Audrina stamp. I LOVE this adorable mermaid!!!

For release week I did a mermaid with red hair and so for this one, I tried a green haired one. She turned out so so cute!
I stamped Audrina onto a tag I cut with Jaded Blossom's Luggage Tag Die and colored her with Copic Markers. 
I cut a matted circle with my Cameo and layered it behind the tag.
I added some banners to the side of the tag using the Flag Dies 2 and stamped and colored an extra starfish from the Audrina stamp.
To finish, I stamped the sentiment at the bottom.

I hope you all liked my card and thanks for visiting!
Have a great day!
GiGi

May Stamp Release - Day #1 Audrina's making a Splash!

Hi and welcome to Day #1 of Stamp Anniething's May release!  

This release we are introducing you to ONE new  and TWO returning characters.

Today its all about Audrina!!

Audrina is an adorable clear cling stamp measuring around 2.581 X 2.780

She has great flowing hair with sea pearls in it.  She is just too much fun!

Included is a small "make a splash!" sentiment as well.

She is perfect for everyday occasions!

Audrina will be  available in the store FRIDAY along with the other 2 stamps we are peeking for you this week!!

Your Chance to win!!

Comment to win during the release days for your chance to win 

a prize of a 6X6 Glitz Paper Pad (random theme)

The more places you comment to win, the more entries for your name!

Comment on THIS blog, PLUS all the DT's blog for the 3 day release!!

Winner will be announced on Friday EVENING May 15th

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Check out the AWESOME creations the Design Team made with adorable Audrina!

Just click on their name to be taken to their blogs for all the details.

 Don't forget to leave some love for them!

Mel

Stacie

Cassandra

Cindy

Annie

GiGi

Stamps will be available in the STORE on FRIDAY

Thanks for joining us for our May Release

 and have a great day!