Mr Cardmaker is BUGGY for Picket Fence Studios

I'm back to help introduce the August Picket Fence Studios release, and today I'm staying in a natural vein, and sharing projects made with the new Moths stamp. This is a background stamp, about 3 1/4" square, which seems small, right? However, this stamp is drawn in such a way that it's wicked easy to stamp them in series and easily match up the edges, creating any size image you want.

I decided to keep it on the simple side today, though, and made a card with just one stamping--well, one and a bit extra...

I made this--

Aren't these moths just too cool? I stamped them onto a panel I made using Distress Inks and the "smooshing" technique, some water spots, and some ink spatters. This is one of my favorite techniques- always unique, and always fun to do.

My moths are gold heat embossed. I like the elevated feel, using the gold. I also colored  a scrap of cardstock, stamped and gold heat embossed just a portion of the image, and fussy cut one of the moths. I added it with foam tape to the bottom of my feature panel to give it just a bit of action.

My sentiment, which is far too perfect for far too many of my friends, comes from the previously released  Never Faked a Sarcasm stamp set, which is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. I gold heat embossed this onto a deep blue card panel.

I double matted my focal panel, and added it to my blue panel. A few gold Nuvo drops were the final touch before I mounted it to a white top-folding card base.

For my second card, I decided to use the Songbirds stamp set along with the Moths.

I made this--

I'm a big fan of mixing a snarky sentiment with sweet images. It makes me laugh.

I started with a panel ink blended with Distress Inks and sprayed with water to activate the colors. I set it aside to dry while I moved ahead elsewhere.

I ink blended several green Distress Ink shades onto another piece of white cardstock. I then stamped the Moths stamp with black ink, let dry, then offset it just slightly, and restamped in versamark ink; which I followed up with white embossing powder, and heated until melted and shiny. I then diecut the word 'hiya" with dies from my stash, and got to making an arrangement for my card.

I stamped the bird and sentiment in black pigment ink and clear embossed them. Once I knew where my letters would go, I stamped the bird's feet onto the H so he would look perched on top of it before foam mounting my letters. This is definitely easier to do BEFORE adding the letters to the project! 

 I decided to point up my focal panel with some striped paper and a skinny cardstock strip. I didn't have the correct color cardstock , so I used a direct to paper inking to make the proper blue for my strip. Matching makes me happy...

Just a few sequins to finish up!

 

The Moths and Songbirds stamp sets, along with lots of other fun things in the August release, is available right now at the Picket Fence Studios website. Check it out!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and spending time with me.

All Best--

Richard