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Tamara here with you with my latest project made for Stamping Bella. Today I have a Christmas tag for you featuring The Gnome and the mistletoe rubber stamp. This tag can also be used as a bookmark, that’s why I love adding these to my Christmas gifts.

I stamped my image with Archival Ink – Jet black on Fabriano Artistico 300 g HP watercolouring paper and then coloured it up with Distress ink pads. Distress colours used are:
skin: vintage photo
lips, berries: barn door
beard: black soot
outfit: peacock feathers, black soot
mistletoe: peeled paint, forest moss

I used tall frame dies to cut out my image. Then I cut another one from red striped Christmas paper and one from teal striped Christmas paper. I used only a bit of the red one for the front. I glued together the one with the image and the teal one, so that it looks very pretty from the back too. I added bras eyelet and red Christmas ribbon. I highlighted some details with white gel pen and that’s it.

Have a great Sunday!
t.

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Hi! Tamara here with you today. I had a plan to use one of the Oddballs today but then when I was going through my stamp drawer I found this awesome stamp and it was brand new, never used so I decided to use this one today and I’m glad I did. These three gnomes are having soooo much fun. This image is called Three gnomes and a Pickup and I used my Distress ink pads to colour it up. First I stamped it with Archival Ink – Jet Black on Farbriano 300 g HP watercolour paper. I’m using extra white watercolouring paper, there are two options (traditional white and extra white) and I like this one more.

Distress ink pads used for colouring:
skin: vintage photo
tree: peeled paint, forest moss
ribbon: fossilized amber, spiced marmalade
pickup: peacock feathers, vintage photo, black soot
gnomes (clothes): villainous potion, faded jeans, barn door

To make a card I used 5″ x 5.5″ card base and decorated it with some Christmas design paper from my stash. I die cut two large snowflakes and some mittens.

Sentiment “Sending you holiday cheer” comes with the image.

Have a lovely Sunday!
Hugs, t.

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Tamara here with you today. I’m breaking my Christmas card Sundays with a Thank you card. Today I used one of the gorgeous Curvy girl images called Curvy girl angel rubber stamp. This image comes in two sizes, you get them both in a set and there’s a separate set with awesome angel/devil sentiments called Angel Devil sentiment set. I used one of those sentiments on my card today.

My image was stamped with Archival Ink – Jet Black on 300 g HP Fabriano watercolouring paper and then coloured up using Distress ink pads.

Distress ink pads colours used:
skin: vintage photo
cheeks: worn lipstick
hair: antique linen, walnut stain
wings: tumbled glass
outfit, shoes: dusty concord, black soot

I covered her hello and her gloves with stickles glue – stardust. I also added little dots of the same glitter glue around the image so that it looks like she sparkles.

That’s all from me today. Have a great Sunday.
Hugs, t.

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Tamara here with you today. Since it’s still July I’m continuing with my Christmas in July cards. This is my third Christmas card in a row, lol. For this post I coloured Santa from Oddball Santa and the missus rubber stamp set. When I started colouring with Distress inks red was the one colour that I always stayed away from because I had a feelinhg that I can never get that true red like the one coloured with copics but after years of trying I think I really like it now. I use barn door distress ink pads for base, very little water and then I do all the shading with fired brick distress ink.

Other distress inks used on this card are:
skin: vintage photo
beard, shoes: black soot
eyes: salty ocean
Santa’s list: tea dye
outfit: fired brick, barn door

To pop up the eyes more I add a little bit of glossy glue. It makes the images look alive. Not sure if that’s good or creepy. lol

For the card I used some of the newer Doodlebug Christmas papers and added some gingam ribbon in the back. Sentiment “happy Holidays” is from Curvy Girl with holiday gifts rubber stamp set. To finish off the card I added some highlights with white gel pen and some enamel dots.

That’s all from me today.
Hugs, t.

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Continuing the Christmas in July theme…

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Tamara here with you today. Summer is in full swing here and I finally have my holidays but my mind is already in December. I have another kitty for you today, this awesome rubber stamp is called TANGLED KITTY drawn by KRISTIN FARNSWORTH. This is a fun (fat) kitty to colour in and it reminds me of one of my cats. LOL

Image was stamped with Archival Ink – Jet Black on 300 g HP Fabriano Artistico watercolouring paper and then coloured up using ZIG black marker and Distress ink pads. I only used Distresses for light bulbs. Colours used are: fired brick, fossilized amber and peeled paint. I added some glitter glue to green light bulbs just to make them sparkle a bit.

For card design I used one of my dies and made a shaker out of it. I added some cute candy, diamonds and sequins in the shaker part. Papers used are some new Christmas papers that I got in the mail and I think they go perfectly with this image.

Sentiment “Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle!” comes from Holiday fun sentiment set.

Kitty was fussy cut and glued to the acetate and then covered up with another layer of card base.

I hope you like my Christmas in July card. Have a great Sunday.

Hugs, t.

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Tamara here with you with my new card made for Stamping Bella design team. I used The Cat and The Ornament image to make this early Christmas card. First I stamped my rubber stamp with Archival Ink – Jet Black on 300 g HP Fabriano artistico watercolour paper and then I coloured it up using ZIG black marker for the cat and Barn door distress ink for the ornament. I added some details with white gel pen and then I fussy cut it.

For the card I chose some pretty red-white-teal papers from my stash. I made the center part as a shaker filled with lots of pretty sequins, diamonds and clay embellishments.

Sentiment “It’s all fun and games until santa checks the naughty list” is from Stamping Bella also. It’s just one of the great sentiments from “Holiday fun sentiment set“.

Have a great Sunday!
Hugs, t.

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Tamara here with you on this sunny Sunday. We had lots and lots of rain in the last few weeks so we’re really enjoying the warmer and sunnier days. For this week’s post I made a card with Pinky Promise rubber stamp and Pinky Promise sentiment set. I stamped my image with Archival Ink – Jet black on 300 g HP watercolouring paper and then coloured it up using Distress ink pads. I used Vintage photo distress ink pad for the hands and Barn door and Fossilized amber distress ink pads for the flowers.

I used two sentiments from Pinky Promise sentiment set, “Pinky Promise” and “Friends forever.”. There’s a lot of different sentiments to choose from in this set.

To finish off the card I chose some pastel design papers from my stash.

That’s all from me today.
Hugs, t.

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Tamara here with you with my latest Stamping Bella card. Spring is in full swing now and what better image to colour than gorgeous Oddball Cherry Blossom.

I chose totally unusual colour combination for me for this card. I made flowers soft pink and then her outfit teal-pink-red. Design papers used are some old sheets I had in my stash and it took me 15 min to go through them and find them. I added some glitter to her outfit and lots of little details with white gel pen.

Image was stamped using Archival Ink – Jet Black on 300 g HP watercolour paper. I coloured it using Distress ink pads. Colours used are listed below:

skin: vintage photo
hair, floor: black ZIG marker
outfit: barn door, broken china
ice cream: barn door
cherry blossoms: victorian velvet

That’s all for me today.
Hugs, t.

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Hi! Tamara here with you. For this Sunday I made a card using one of the newly released images called Oddball Glinda Oz The Good Witch rubber stamp. She’s one of the ODDBALL OZ themed images, there are also Dorothy, Wicked Witch, Cowardly Lion, Flying Monkey, Tinman, Scarecrow, I loooove them all! Plus there is an EMERALD CITY BACKDROP to go with them, and the OZ SENTIMENT SET.

Image was stamped using Archival Ink – Jet black on 300 g HP watercolour paper. For colouring I used Distress ink pads.

Distress colours used are:
skin: vintage photo
eyes: salty ocean
hair: antique linen, walnut stain
dress: saltwater taffy
crown: black soot

To make the dress look glittery I added small dots made with my brush and small dots with my gel pen. After fussy cutting the image and adding it to the card I added small dots with glitter glue (stickles – star dust).

Background was made with alcohol inks.

Sentiment “You can do anything with the right shoes.” is part of the OZ sentiment set (also NEW!!!).

That’s all for now. Have a great Sunday.

Hugs, t.

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Tamara here with you. For this weeks post I made a shadow card with one of the great Oddball images called ODDBALL GRANDPARENTS. I really like this sweet image and it was great to colour in.

First I chose my design papers and then I started colouring. Image was stamped using Archival Ink – Jet black on 140 lbs HP watercolour paper. I often get asked which brand of paper I’m using. It’s called Fabriano – Artistico acquarello, extra white. For colouring I’m using very thin brush size 000 or -3.

Distress ink pads used to colour this images are:
skin: vintage photo
hair: black soot, hickory smoke
purse, shoes: fired brick
jacket, mug: fossilized amber, spiced marmalade
vest: broken china
pants: forest moss, peeled paint
dress: stormy sky, fired brick, peeled paint
newspaper: tea dye, black soot
grass: peeled paint

Shadow box was made with a die and then decorated using different design papers, it’s 3/4″ deep.

Sentiment “GRANDPARENTS There to help children get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet!” comes with the images.

That’s it from me today. Have a great Sunday.

Hugs, t.

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