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Blooming in Life – New collection of Joy Clair Designs

Posted by on February 1, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Digital Art, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 12 comments

Blooming in Life – New collection of Joy Clair Designs

Hello friends, welcome to Blooming in Life the New collection of Joy Clair Designs. Today we are presenting seven different stamp sets that we are loving. This is my turn to show you two of the new digital stamps. They are Stronger Roses and Just Butterflies.     Stronger Roses is a fabulous digital stamp that includes 2 different branch of flowers, one sentiment and an amazing quote.       To make my first card, I just resized the images and printed onto White Smooth Card stock. I used my ink-jet printer and this...

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Stamped Cards with Special Details

Posted by on January 28, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Stamped Cards with Special Details

Hello friends, Martha Lucia here with two stamped cards with special details created with Whimsy Stamps. For me has been a honor to stay this month playing with these fabulous stamps. Today I am featuring the Lilac and Butterfly Rubber Stamp and the Butterflies clear stamp set.     Flowers are my favorites stamps and work with this fabulous Lilac and Butterfly was very easy. I just stamped it onto White Smooth Card Stock and then enjoy my coloring with Illustrator Markers from Spectrum Noir. I fussy cut the image with scissors and...

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# Single Clear Stamp from Joy Clair Designs

Posted by on January 26, 2021 in Cards, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Techniques | 0 comments

# Single Clear Stamp from Joy Clair Designs

Hi there, today I have a new card created with the # Single Clear Stamp from Joy Clair Designs. It has right now my favorites snarky stamp sentiments. In my card, I combined it with the heart included on the Paper Tattoos Clear Stamp.     My card is very simple, I just created a real red card base and decorated a piece of white smooth card stock. I stenciled the white layer with the Argyle Heart Stencil with Gold Paste and let it dry naturally. In a while, I stamped the heart included on the Paper Tattoos stamp onto another piece of...

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Slimline Card with Joy Clair Designs

Posted by on January 25, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Slimline Card with Joy Clair Designs

Hi there, I just pop up to share a Slimline Card with Joy Clair Designs. On this opportunity I am featuring the Ooh La La Clear Stamp in combination with the #Single Clear Stamp.     To create my card, I used blue card stock and decorated the top layer with a piece of designer paper that I die cut using one of the Layering Rectangle Slimline Dies. I pasted it directly over the card base with E-Z Runner Adhesive.     Then, I created the decorated layer with a piece of White Smooth Card Stock. I die cut it with the second...

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Color Pencil Stamped Card

Posted by on January 23, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps, Die Cutting, Spectrum Noir | 0 comments

Color Pencil Stamped Card

Hi there, I just pop up with a color pencil stamped card. I am featuring the Tulip Single Stamp and the sentiment I’m Thinking of You from Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps.     Definitely I love flowers and this Tulip Single is perfect to use alone or create different looks. I just stamped this several times onto white smooth card stock using VersaFine Pigment Ink Onix. Additionally, I colored them with ColourBlend Pencils from Spectrum Noir. The colourblend pencils that I used, are from the Florals and Primaries collection. I...

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Easy crafting with Whimsy Stamps

Posted by on January 21, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Easy crafting with Whimsy Stamps

Hello there, I am so excited to share with you that I am Guest Designer this month with Whimsy Stamps. For today, I prepare two cards to show you an easy crafting with Whimsy Stamps products. I am featuring the Bearing Gifts Stamp Set and the FaDoodle Frames Scalloped Rectangles Dies.     Bearing Gifts is a clear stamp set that include three cute bears, gifts and perfect sentiments for a party. My first card is a slimline card. I stamped the images onto White Smooth card stock and colored them with Illustrator markers from Spectrum...

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Full Heart Valentine Card

Posted by on January 20, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Digital Art, Gina Marie Designs, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Full Heart Valentine Card

Hi friends, I just pop up to share a Full Heart Valentine Card. I am featuring the Digital Stamp Full Heart and the #Single clear stamp from Joy Clair Designs.     To create my card, I used White Smooth Card Stock. I love how I can use it for card bases, die cutting, stamping, printing digital stamps and coloring with different mediums. First, I created a regular card base. Then, I decorated the top with a white piece that I die cut with the Funky Die Coverplate. In addition, I pasted the funky piece with crafting foam tape to add...

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Fun Valentine Stamped Card

Posted by on January 19, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir | 0 comments

Fun Valentine Stamped Card

Hi there, I just pop up to share a fun valentine stamped card. I love how this turned out with this combination of stamps. In my project I am featuring the Paper Tattoos and the #Single Clear Stamps from Joy Clair Designs.     If you remember a few years ago all my cards were white or without brilliant colors. Now I am loving to add color to my designs and this is a perfect sample of it. To create the base of my card, I used White Smooth Card Stock and keep it just plain. Then, I stamped over another piece of White Smooth Card stock...

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Happy Singles Awareness Day Card

Posted by on January 15, 2021 in Cards, Coloring, Die Cutting, Joy Clair Designs, Recent Works, Spectrum Noir, Techniques | 0 comments

Happy Singles Awareness Day Card

Hey, do you know about the Happy Singles Awareness Day Celebration? Well, I just made a card for it using the #Singles Clear Stamp from Joy Clair Designs.     The process to make this card was very fast. I don’t know about you but after Christmas season, I feel that I need to make fast and simple projects to catch my time. This is a perfect sample of it. First, I made the card base using basic black card stock. Then, I die cut one of the better half cutting plates from Taylored Expression onto White Smooth Card Stock  to...

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Perfectly CAS Challenge

Posted by on January 14, 2021 in Cards, Joy Clair Designs, Perfectly CAS, Recent Works, Techniques | 6 comments

Perfectly CAS Challenge

Hello there! The Perfectly CAS Challenge back and I am so happy to continue on the design team. I love the Clean and Simple style, where the challenge is only one third of the top layer of the card.  This month the theme is stencils.     To make my card, I used white smooth card stock and Distress Oxide Inks. First, I created the card base with white smooth card stock. Then, I masked the central area with post it tape. After that, I just inked the blending tool with different colors of Distress Ink and blend all them.    ...

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