Prairie Paper & Ink

Cards for Friends | Picket Fence Studios Jill Girl

Hello everyone!! As I mention in my video - the cold has FINALLY let up a bit here - it was around -24C today and that's a HUGE improvement of the -40C and colder we've had for the last couple of weeks! 

During the cold snap tho - this image from Picket Fence Studios was too perfect:

This Jill Girl stamp was so perfect I had to order it when it came back in stock (it's been pretty popular so I had to wait for a back-in-stock email and then I snapped it up LOL!). It seemed rather fitting to pair it with Echo Park's Coffee 6x6 patterned papers, and then I used Simon Says Stamp's Painted Friend wafer die.

I stamped the Jill Girl onto Bee watercolor paper with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and then watercolored them in with my Mission Golds. After they were all dry I used my white Gelly Roll pens to add highlights.

To finish off the inside of the card I added strips of the EP Coffee papers and stamped a sentiment from Picket Fence's Coffee Understands stamp set using Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink. 

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

 

Gansai Tambi Galaxy Backgrounds | HoneyBee Stamps Friendship

Hello everyone!! For today's card I was completely inspired by one of the sentiment stamps from Honey Bee Stamps Friendship stamp set:

I created galaxy backgrounds with my Gansai Tambi watercolors on Arches watercolor paper. I used the starburst images from the Friendship stamp set and silver heat embossed those onto the backgrounds.

The sentiment from the Friendship set that inspired the cards was also silver heat embossed - this time onto vellum. I wrapped the vellum around the watercolor paper and used foam tape to adhere them to the card fronts.

On the inside of the cards I used a combination of silver heat embossing, black ink and Delicata Silvery Shimmer ink to make my sentiments and stamp the starbursts.

To see how my cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

Nuvo Shimmer Powder Over Heat Embossed Backgrounds

Hey everyone!! We are STILL in the middle of this cold spell here - nearly every day it's been -40C or colder for 2 weeks now. Blah!

So this week's Color Throwdown Challenge is a perfect one IMO:

You can check out what the rest of the team created HERE <--------click! and there's still time to play along if you'd like!

Here's what I made:

I white heat embossed Simon Says Stamp's Center Cut Heart Background onto Distress Watercolor Paper. I then sprinkled over Nuvo's Cherry Bomb Shimmer Powder and sprayed it heavily with water. After it was dry I did it again to make the color even more intense. 

I die cut the Big Friend wafer die from Simon's Doll Pink card stock and stacked 3 layers together before backing it with the outline I'd die cut from black card stock.

I stamped a sentiment from the Tiny Words stamp set onto Fog card stock and then die cut it with one of the Sentiment Labels wafer dies.

I used Simon's Autumn Greetings for the insides of the cards by white heat embossing one of the sentiments. I paired the cards with black envelopes to tie it all together and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

Simon Says Stamp Anniversary Sale!!

Oh yeah!!

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Quick SALE Info!

Hey everyone! Second post from me tonight - this one to give y'all a heads up that Simon Says Stamp loaded up their Steals & Deals category with a bunch of fab products at amazing prices!! Click HERE <------click!! to check them out and snag what you want while supplies last! No code needed!! ❤️❤️❤️

Serious Chemistry Card | MFT Cute Chemists

Hello everyone!

So I have another love-themed card to share with y'all - again not specifically Valentine's but it could be if you wanted it to:

I LOVE the Birdie Brown line from My Favorite Things. LOVE. IT. All the images are adorable and I have been collecting all of them since Torico started designing them lol!

So this Cute Chemists set is adorable - and I love that there's a boy and a girl image and you could use either/or and make them for so many different occasions!! I used both and went with a love/Valentine/anniversary theme b/c I thought it would be really cute!

I stamped the images from the set onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb card stock with MFT's Extreme Black ink and coloured them in with Copic markers. I added highlights with a white gel pen and filled in their glasses with Nuvo Crystal Glaze so they're slightly raised and shiny.

The background was inked with Distress inks and splattered with water and Distress Ink refills. I also added some Studio Katia Iridescent Hearts and Clear Droplets to finish off my scene.

I finished off the inside of the card with more images and a sentiment from the Cute Chemists set and that was it!

To see how this card came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

Die Cut Hearts with Ranger Alcohol Inks

Hello everyone!

I pulled out some of my Ranger Alcohol Inks over the weekend and had some fun creating a couple of marbled backgrounds on Yupo paper that I'd die cut with one of Simon Says Stamp's Nested Hearts wafer dies:

I struggled with my first attempt - and ended up completely wiping off the yupo heart using rubbing alcohol ink. I made a second attempt and initially didn't care for that one either - but set it aside and worked on the second heart. When I came back to the first one I was more than OK with it - usually when you come back to whatever you'd been working on with "fresh" eyes you'll see it differently!

I pulled out an older (oldie-but-goodie!) Simon Says Stamp set - Kristina's Love for the die cut word and sentiments. I die cut the 'love' from gold glitter card stock and white heat embossed the sentiments onto black card stock.

I finished off the inside of the cards with more sentiments from the Kristina's Love set and that was it!

To see how these cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

Love You Tons | Distress Ink Blending

Well we're in the middle of a deep freeze (for those that have been asking I'm in Saskatchewan) - and Saskatoon was the coldest city in the world yesterday. -53C (-60ishF) - just COLD. It was close to the same today. Really nothing much changes here when it gets really cold. Business as usual, other than I end up having to chauffeur the kids around to/from school and wherever else as it's too cold to be outside for more than a few minutes.

Anywho - I finally got the video edited for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge:

You can see what the rest of the team created with these colors HERE <------click! and there's still time to play along if you'd like!

I was very much liking these WARM colors - and this is what I made:

I used the colors of Distress Ink to blend over a heart I'd masked off on my card base. Once the inks were on there I applied Moonstone Glimmer paste with a palette knife and let it dry.

I used Simon Says Stamp's Big Picture Book Elephant and added him with foam squares, then built the sentiment with alphabet dies and a heat embossed sentiment.

I finished off the inside of the card with another heat embossed sentiment and that was it!

To see how my card came together check out the video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

You Are Amazing Card Set | Waffle Flower Be Her

Hello everyone!! It's time for Waffle Flowers February Release! You can check out the release HERE <------click! and I've got links to all the stamps and dies individually as well as the stamp and die bundles below:

 

To celebrate the new release there's a fun blog hop with a bunch of inspiration and giveaways! If you didn't get here from the Waffle Flower blog I'll have links to all the stops below as well!

Here's what I made with a couple of the new sets:

I created 4 cards using the Be Her stamp set and the Label Greetings set. I clear heat embossed the critters after stamping them with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto water-colour paper, then watercolored them with Prima and Gansai Tambi water-colours.

I did all the backgrounds with the same watercolors, and white heat embossed the sentiments on black card stock then die cut them with coordinating dies.

All the critters and sentiments were adhered with foam tape, and I added some of Waffle Flowers enamel dots to the backgrounds.

I finished off the insides of the cards by stamping each of the critters with Distress Oxide inks, and also stamped them onto matching envelopes for each card. I then adhered the thanks sentiments to the insides and that was it!

To see how my cards came together check out my video below:

Or watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <--------click!

Next stop on the hop is Channin's blog <-------click!

And if you missed any of the other stops you can find them all here:

Waffle Flower (Nina) 

Amy Rysavy 

Channin Pelletier 

Nichol Spohr 

Rebecca Keppel 

Caly Person 

Kelli Cool 

Alix Davis

Keeway Tsao 

JJ Bolton 

I get asked a lot about where to purchase the supplies I use in my videos and blog posts. I list all the supplies I use at the end of my posts (below) or in the description box directly below my video on YouTube.

Compensated affiliate links used when possible at no extra cost to you. Affiliate linking is what keeps my blog and YouTube channel up and running and enables me to work from home and provide for my children! I appreciate your support more than words can say! I occasionally receive product for free from stores/manufacturer with no obligation on my part to use/review - I only use and share what I personally love. Everything else I purchase myself! 

To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 2/7/19 for your chances to win. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 2/11/19.

Thank you for stopping by and good luck!!

January 2019 Happy Mail Haul! | Cards from YOU

Hey everyone!! I hope y'all are having a good start to your week! It's still super cold here and from the looks of it it's not letting up any time soon. We're in for a long haul of COLD. At least we're used to it in Saskatchewan (tho very very tired of it), I can't imagine how it is for everyone in areas NOT used to dealing with cold-extreme-cold weather!

I got everything organized and filmed over the weekend to be able to share with all of you the cards and gifts that showed up in my PO Box last month:

You can watch in HD over on YouTube HERE <-------click!

And I DID remember to include links to the 2 funny stamps I like to use on my cards and/or envelopes:

 

And now for the rest of the info:

If you'd like to mail a card to be featured in an upcoming Happy Mail Haul video here's my mailing address:

Amy Rysavy

Box 1041 MARTENSVILLE PO

Martensville, SK

S0K 2T0

Canada

February Theme: Glitter/shimmer/Sparkle (glitter paste, shiny card stock - whatever makes your cards shine and/or sparkle!)

March Theme: Spring/Easter

April Theme: Mother's Day/Thinking of You

(((a note about the themes - if you have ideas/suggestions for future themes feel free to post them in the comments below!)))

(A repost of some important info!!)

Like I mention in all the Happy Mail Haul videos - I am not strict with the themes.. The post can be notoriously slow especially getting to me here in Canada, so I like to share everything that shows up in my PO Box the previous month regardless! If you ever want to check out previous months Happy Mail Haul videos you can find them all here:

RAK/Happy Mail Hauls

If you want to send ahead and mail cards for multiple themes in the same package I am totally OK with that. It helps if you add a sticky note or something to mark what month each card is for. Please do not send more than 2 cards for each theme (so there are the 3 upcoming months therefore 6 cards in total). I cannot accept large packages/boxes of cards. I don't have anywhere to store large amounts plus it takes up a lot of my time to film/edit/upload these videos and limiting the submissions to 2 per person ensures it's fair for everyone. Thank you for understanding!

If you are interested in donating your cards there are MANY charities and organizations out there. You would need to do your own research to find a cause/group/organization that works for you and what you want to do! Everything from local nursing homes/palliative care units/Ronald McDonald Houses to charities to cards for troops is out there - LOTS to choose from!

Also if you haven't sent in a card before but want to go ahead! I love seeing what y'all are making, and being able to share it with the rest of my audience. We all have to start somewhere ;). Also again there's no need to send gifts or anything like that. I more than appreciate the thought, and I read all the letters I receive (I can't respond to them but I read and keep all of them!). 

For those reading/watching - I would love if you'd take the time to leave comments/questions/etc for those that sent in something in the comments below and I know those that sent in would love to read them!