I love to create Clean & Simple cards or One Layer Card, but at the same time I love to use techniques and different textures on my creations. Combining both styles in a single card is not complicated when you have materials like VersaFine Clair. Let me show you my sample: This is a single layer card created with the stamp sets God’s Masterpiece and Broken Brick Background from Joy Clair Stamps. To make it, I selected Whisper White...

Hello everyone!!! Welcome to Stampartpapel!!! Today I am featuring some  stamps from Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps. I love “colorful stamped” butterflies and definitely the Monarch Butterfly is one of the most beautiful. To create this card I used Very Vanilla and basic black cardstock, but all the creative process is realized on very vanilla color. The first thing that I made was inked the very vanilla layer with two different...

Hi all! Today I’m back with Creative Visions highlighting this Stripped background. I thought it is gorgeous, maybe because I love strips and as soon I saw I knew what I wanted to do. The base of this card is Wisteria Wonder cardstock and the second layer is one sheet included on the foilable pattern pack toner sheet Geometric 051. I don’t remember if I tell this before but in Creative Vison Stamps you find packages of foilables with...

Hi there!!! Today we are launching a new edition of  Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps Challenge. The inspiration for this month’s challenge is Summer cards. This is a 4-1/4″ square card. To create mine, I stamped the Butterflies Solid Large using different colors of VersaFine Clair Ink over a whisper white layer. Then I stamped the Stars open Small  with VersaFine Clair Morning Mist and the Pointy Stars with VersaFine Clair Nocturne. ALL the...

Hello everyone! Today I’m excited to join another creation with Creative Vision Foilables. I love these backgrounds and images that help me create different things. On this card I used old olive card stock for the base and as second layer I foiled one of the patterned designs called Pattern Paper pack Toner Sheets Geometric 29 . On this opportunity I used the heat transfer foil Pirate’s Chest. This is a very gold tone that enhance all the...

  Today is our official celebration of the 4th year of Retarte Challenge!  We’re so thrilled to get this challenge started!  Just a reminder this challenge is a bi-weekly challenge that runs the Tuesday’s and our theme is always Anything Goes. Usually we announced the winner of the last Challenge when we are posting our next challenge and today is not the exception. The winner of Retarte 122 sponsored by Dr. Digi House of Stamps ...

Hi Everyone! Today I’m so excited to share a card I made specially for the 4th Anniversary of Retarte Challenge. This challenge has give me a lot of wonderful moments in my creative live and I only have grateful words to the fabulous design team and followers.  As usual the theme of this is Anything Goes and this is my take. I started by creating a card base using Pool Party cardstock. Next, I pasted a tiny border on the lover part using a...

Hi everyone! The challenge this month on Imagine’s team is a color challenge using sea tones. I decided to work my design over decorated paper and not over regular cardstock and create with Kaleidacolor Ink an awesome card! On this project I am using one of the sea colors included on the Serenate collection from Quick Quotes Scrapbook as base to create my stamped layer but you also can use cardstock. Directions: Cut the layer of decorated...

Hello crafty friends and Welcome for a fantastic journal! During the next two days the Retarte Design Team will be celebrating the 4th Anniversary of this challenge. It is easy to say four years but for us this has been a very good experience and learning curve.  Personally, I want to thanks ALL the designers that have been with us during these four years and have knowing how to make us a family. Well today, the current Design Team start the...

Welcome to the Anniversary Retarte Challenge Design Team Blog Hop! Our theme is always Anything Goes and the hop starts right here. Let’s get right to it! For my first card,  I chose a bright colors for the fowers. This is a digital stamp from Digistamp4Joy, one of the fabulous sponsor of Retarte Challenge. It is called Anemone Corner. I printed the image twice over whisper white cardstock and colored with Studio 71 Alcohol markers. Then...