Prairie Paper & Ink

Simon Says Stamp September 2019 Card Kit Unboxing! | Look for the Rainbows Card Kit

Hey everyone!!

Before I get to the kit - did you see Simon Says Stamp released a bunch of enamel pins?

You can check them out HERE <------click!

There are SO MANY enamel pins available now (case in point - check them all out HERE). I was trying to avoid getting in to them as I didn't have anywhere to put them. Then I received a few from some of the wonderful owners I freelance for and I couldn't resist purchasing some and now my baby pin collection is born lol! I repurposed a cork board one of my kids had and no longer wanted and now Simon's released all these great ones and I think they're all just adorable. 

OK now on to the September Card Kit:

The kit JUST showed up here - so here's my unboxing video!

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

And here are all the links!

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! 

Easy Painting with Distress Oxide Sprays | SSS Cosmos Bloom Background

Hey everyone! I hope y'all had a good weekend! I'm feeling mostly back to normal after that rotten cold I had. I also made 2 cards for last week's Color Throwdown challenge which was this:

You can check out 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 really inspired by THIS CARD that Debby Hughes posted not to long ago and I definitely had her card in the back of my mind when I made mine:

I heat embossed Simon Says Stamp's Cosmos Bloom Background stamp onto Arches water-colour paper. One I embossed with Gold embossing powder and one with white.

I liberally sprayed them with water and then applied Distress Oxide Sprays with a brush. After drying the backgrounds I added a ton of splatter with water and Perfect Pearl powder as well as some of the Oxide Sprays.

For both cards I used sentiments from the Thanks and Encouragement Word Mix 1 and the coordinating wafer dies. I LOOOOVVVEEEEE the way this set is set up with the coordinating dies! I can't wait to see what else will be released with this line!

I also added several Studio Katia crystals to the cards and adhered them into place with Simon's Craft Tacky glue.

I used Simon's Daisy Bouquet set for the inside of the card - well actually I used one individual stamp from the set. I inked it up with Victorian Velvet and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink, then painted the renters with the Squeezed Lemonade Oxide Spray.

After adding a bit more splatter and then a couple of sentiments from the Thanks and Encouragement Word Mix 1 that was it!

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

Or watch in HD 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! 

Lawn Fawn Oh Gnome! Cards | Copic Coloring

Hey everyone!! Last week we had this Color Throwdown Challenge:

You can still see what the rest of the team created as well as all the inspiration from the submissions HERE <-----click!

There's a new challenge for this week up right now (HERE) and I'll have a card for that one ASAP! I got behind last week when I caught a chest cold. I'm feeling a LOT better now - and wanted to share the cards I made for last week. I was totally inspired by the inspiration photo for the challenge with the little mushrooms - and ended up with these cards:

I pulled out Lawn Fawn's Oh Gnome! stamp and die set, along with the Mushroom House dies and the Mushroom Border dies to make these little scene cards AND even a mushroom-shaped mini card.

I stamped all the characters and images from the Oh Gnome! set onto Neenah Classic Crest 80lb card stock with Inkon3's Blackout ink and coloured them with Copic markers.

I used Lawn Fawn's Fancy Folded Banners dies for the sentiments that I white heat embossed onto before adhering to the cards.

I used the Mushroom House for the cards and made a third one into a mini card because it's SO cute - and even cuter with the punny sentiment:

I finished off the A2 cards with more images from the set, and stamped sentiments from the Oh Gnome! set onto both the A2 and the mushroom card and that was it!

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

Or watch in HD 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! 

Swatching ALL my Nuvo Aqua Flow Brush Pens + A Card!

Hello everyone! Waffle Flower's August Release is now available! You can check it all out at the links below:

As always there's a blog hop with TONS of inspiration and lots of tips and info as there are more awesome swatch sets and dies with a lot of different possibilities! I show one option in my post and video but there's a whole lot more in the hop and on Waffle Flowers site. I'll have links to the other stops as well as giveaway info at the end too!

So to start off with I used the Watercolor Swatches stamp set, along with the new coordinating wafer die set to stamp out a bunch of swatch outlines. I filled them in with all my Tonic Aqua Flow brush pens so that I had swatches of all the colors. To organize them I adhered them to the new Color Combos Tag die cuts and labelled them with a Fine Point Sharpie:

I can now attach all the tags with the swatches to a binder ring and keep them in the container I have all the Aqua Flow brush pens in.

After I was done all those swatches I decided to put them to use and make a card with the new Bouquet Builder 5 combo set:

I white heat embossed all the images from the Bouquet Builder 5 set onto Canson XL water-colour paper and coloured them all in with the Aqua Flow brush colors I'd picked out.

I used the Shutters Panel wafer die on the card base - keeping it all white on white so as to add a bit of texture but not distract from the florals. The sentiment is from the previously released Peony Notes set.

For the inside of the card I decided to experiment and inked up the stamp with the Aqua Flow brushes I'd used to watercolor the images. These aren't meant for stamping but it worked! 

To see how I made all the swatches and this card check out my video below:

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

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

In case you missed any of the stops on the hop here are all the links!

Waffle Flower

Cathy Zielske

Laura Bassen 

Jessica Frost-Ballas

Amy Rysavy

Renee Day

Alexandra Stapleton

JJ Bolton

Channin Pelletier

Rebecca Keppel

Keeway Tsao

Alix Davis

Kelli Cool

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! 

Now for the GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate the blog hop, Waffle Flower is giving away a $25 gift certificate to THREE lucky winners!! 

You can leave comment on my blog and along the hop by 11:59pm ET on 8/8/19 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 8/10/19.

Thank you for stopping by and good luck!! ❤️❤️❤️

July 2019 Happy Mail Haul | Cards from You!!

I am struggling with the thought that summer is already half over and we're into August already? I'm also struggling with a chest cold so my voice in this video is scratchy. Nothing like getting a summer cold 🤷🏻‍♀️😑.

Anywho - I filmed the July Happy Mail Haul and just finished uploading to share with y'all!

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

My Patreon page<------click!

And here's links to the few random things I was talking about/showing in the video too:

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

August Theme: Teacher/Back to School/Thank You

September Theme: Fall/Halloween

October Theme: Harvest/Thanksgiving/Falling Leaves

(((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!

MFT Fairy-Tale Friends Cards | Tombow Marker Watercolor

Hello everyone! So after I made my first Pop-Up Wiper card last week I wanted to make another one. If you missed that post you can check it out here:

MFT Pop-Up Wiper Card | Friends with Fins 

This time I inked up MFT's new Fairy-Tale Friends stamp set and made 2 cards with it:

I stamped all the images from the Fairy-Tale Friends set onto Bristol Smooth card stock with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and clear heat embossed with with Inkon3's clear embossing powder. For the colouring I used Tombow Dual Brush pens, a water brush and Inkon3's Liquid Pixie Dust.

I used the Pop-Up Wiper Card Components to create this fun pop-up card. I used MFT's Stitched Cloud Edges Die-namics to create the front panel, and also used masks cut with the dies on masking paper to create the scene. Using the masks I blended Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink over the card base and the cloud panel using one of my Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blender Brushes.

For the second card I used the masks and Oxide ink again to create the background, and on both cards I splattered the Inkon3 Liquid Pixie Dust. I die cut the panel with one of MFT's Stitched Rounded Rectangle Die-namics before popping it on to the card with Simon's Big Momma Foam Tape.

I used the leftover "frame" from the die cut rectangle and adhered it to the inside of the card. On the inside of that card and the back of the pop-up card I adhered sentiments I'd white heat embossed and a couple of the remaining unicorns 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!