Welcome friends! Thanks for joining us here at The Ton Stamps blog, The Season. Janette here to share with you Simple Mermaid Vibes. Summer time brings the heat and a house full of children for me here in Central California. As much as I love it, it can sometimes be chaotic. These days I am craving quiet, cool and simplicity. How would I describe that in color? Blues. Calm, relaxing, dreamy shades of azure.

This has definitely been the summer of mermaids, and I could have not been more excited when The Ton Stamps surprise released realistic mermaids!

The background of this card was created by wetting a large area of watercolor paper with heavily pigment saturated Daniel Smith watercolors, letting the edges of several shades of blue and teal merge together.

The mermaid was stamped in Caviar Hybrid Ink and colored on 80# Neenah Classic Crest Solar White paper with Copic markers. Fin: BG09, BG57, BG45, BG53, BG01. Skin: E35, E33, E31, E30, E000. Hair: E59, E49, E47, 0. Her fin is divine with 3 layers of Clear Wink of Stella!

The shell and fish were both Versamarked and heat embossed. The shell in Ranger Super Fine Gold embossing powder and the fish in Ranger Blue. I added a few Dew Drops as bubbles for the fishies. How could I resist?!? I accented each side of the panel with Bright Blue Adhesive Foil Paper. The ease of use and reflective quality was a perfect enhancement for this cool vibes card.

The shell I heat embossed and tucked behind the mermaid is the top portion from the bed above. After Versamarking and adding the powder I wiped away the powder from below the top portion of the shell with a fine paint brush. Then heat set. I fussy cut the image to suit my needs for this particular card. Stretching your stamps in new ways is always a good idea! This stamp set has so many options. I can’t wait to create more with it!

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xo, Janette

 

Happy Hump Day everyone!! Brenda here with you today with two cards created with the beautiful Mermaid Vibes stamp set. Seriously, this mermaid set is so classy!! So much fun to use!!

For the first card, I began by stamping the mermaid & the shell from the Mermaid Vibes stamp set with Caviar Ink, then colored with Copic markers, before fussy cutting. I blended distress inks onto the background panel and a piece of torn cardstock. I used Hampton White Pigment Ink and a piece of acetate to create sunrays through the background. Other images from the set were stamped onto the background with Ocean Teal Dye Ink. The “sand” piece was adhered onto the “water” background, then die-cut with the Double Stitched Rectangle Dies (Large). Next, the sentiment was stamped onto the panel, then the center panel was adhered onto fun foam and popped into the frame. A Wink of Stella clear sparkle pen, white gel pen & Morning Dew Crystal Nuvo Drops were used to add in some details and shine. The shell and mermaid were then adhered with fun foam for added dimension. Lastly, a sprinkling of Glass Slippers Round Confetti completed the card.

For my next card, I used the Mermaid Vibes set in a non-mermaid way…

I started by blending some clouds onto a background with distress ink and a homemade cloud stencil. The Wave was stamped with Cali Blue, Parisian Blue & Deep Sapphire inks before die-cutting with the Coordinating Die…I also die-cut the wave from blue fun foam. Stickles were used for the foam on the wave. Next, the Palm Tree images were stamped with Soft Garden, Bright Fern, Deep Emerald, Found Topaz & Aspen Cocoa Inks, before using the Coordinating Dies to cut them, as well as a piece of fun foam. The Mermaid from Mermaid Vibes was stamped with Caviar Hybrid Ink and then colored with Copic markers, before fussy cutting the image, cutting the mermaid’s tail off to make a hula dancer. I used some craft colored crepe paper streamers & some twine to create a skirt. A piece of cardstock was torn & blended with distress inks to create a beach. The sentiment is from the Palm Trees set & was double stamped with Cali Blue & Noir Inks. The birds were also stamped with Noir Ink onto the cloud background. All the components were then arranged and adhered onto the background panel. A white gel pen was used to add some final details.

That’s it from me today!! I hope I have provided some inspiration for your paper crafting!!

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Hi peeps. How’s it going? Vera here. Today, I have a purple beauty to share with you all.

For my card today I play with the gorgeous Poppy Border Cling Background set and Poppy Border Coordinating Dies to make this fun shaker card.

I start by stamping and heat embossed the image on a piece of watercolor cardstock. I then colored them with Kuretake Zig marker. I mix blue and purple to create the color gradient on the flower. I love combining color like this to create depth to the flower.

Did the same thing with the leaves, combining green and teal. Then I added some soft blue all around. Once that done, I work on the shaker part. Added a piece of acetate and then the fun part… mixing sequins and beads! 🙂

To match the color theme, I start with Violet Sprinkle Couture Mix and then added a bit of Periwinkle Pearl Seed Beads and Light Rose Pearl Seed Beads to make it more fun. The more the merrier, right?

Next, time to work on the sentiment. I stamped the banner from Banners Basic set and die cut it with Banners Basic coordinating die. Add the sentiment and adhere the banner to the card. Voila… I’m done.  Whoops… , not quite. Last but not least, add some shimmer to all  the flowers. Gotta have shimmers.

On the above pic, you could see the spec of glimmers on the flowers. I love, love, love pretty shimmer on my card.

Well peeps, what do you think? I know, poppies supposed to be red or orangey, but hey, card making is jut like art, right, you could make it any way you want. Use whatever color that makes you happy. I hope you enjoy today’s inspiration and psst… don’t forget to join the current mood board challenge on The Ton Challenge Blog.

That’s all from me today. Thank you for stopping by here. Cheers….

 

Hello everyone! It’s Mayline here today! I am sharing two cards using The Ton’s Wave stamp set, Love and a Cat stamp set, Scheduled stamp set, and Palm Tree stamp set. Let’s take a look at how to make my first card!

To start off, I stamped wave images in Sky Blue Collection  (Cali Blue Dye, Azurite Dye and Deep Sapphire Dye) on the white cardstock and then I cut it using Coordinating Die  . And I adhered it on the another white cardstock panel. Next I stamped a sentiment from Palm Tree stamp set with Noir ink on the panel. I stamped a cat image from Love and a Cat stamp set in Noir ink on the other cardstcok and then cut it using coordinating die. And then I colored it and set aside.

Next I made a frame. I painted pink border using  Color Burst – Fuchsia on the watercolor paper. And then the frame was cut using second largest of the Double Stitched Rectangle dies (Small) and cut a white fun foam as well.

Now it’s time to assemble the shaker card. I adhered a piece of clear acetate under the frame and then the die cut fun foam underneath. Lastly I put Blue Lagoon Couture Mix, Glass Slippers Sequins, Mercedes Blue Sparkling Clear Sequins, Turquoise and Caicos Sequins, and Round Confetti – Red into the wells and mounted the background panel.

 

Here is my second card.

To start off,  I painted background using Color Burst – Cerulean Blue on the watercolor paper. Next I die cut the large palm trees from Palm Tree twice using the coordinating dies and colored them using Color Burst – Pthalo Green and Terre Verte. I stamped third layered image using Everglade moss ink and Noir ink. Next I stamped a cat image from Love and a Cat stamp set and sunglass image from Scheduled stamp set in Azurite dye ink on the some white card stock. I colored a cat and cut them. I adhered the sunglass on the cat.

Next, I draw a hammock and colored it. I then fussy cut it and adhered palm tree and the hammock on the background panel. I draw lines using black pen. I taped the cat on the hammock. Next I stamped fish on the other white card stock and colored it and cut them using coordinating dies. And I adhered them on the panel. Lastly I stamped a sentiment from Palm Tree on the panel. That’s it.

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Hello Everyone! Anna here and today I’d like to share with you two fun summer cards I made using Palm Tree stamp set.

For my first card I decided to stamp palm trees with Beach Blondie, Coralline and Violet Fringe Ink pads.

The third layer of the palm tree was stamped with Couture Color – Hampton White Pigment and then with Violet Fringe. I cut out the palm trees using Palm Tree Coordinating Dies. To create a frame (ocean frame), I used Wave stamp , Caribbean Turquoise Dye, Cobalt Breeze and Double Stitched Rectangle Dies (Small). Next , I stamped sentiment from Palm Tree on a kraft card base and embossed it with white embossing powder.

I affixed the frame and all palm trees to the card base with foam tape. Lastly, I added Glass Slippers Round Confetti to finish off the card.

For the second card I started off by stamping images from Sunnies and Palm Tree stamp sets.

I stamped sunglasses with Coralline, colored them with Copic markers and cut out with Sunnies Coordinating Dies. The palm trees were stamped with Couture Color – Crystal Garden Collection, Found Topaz Dye and cut out with Palm Tree Coordinating Dies. To create the background (card panel) , I used a washi tape to mask horizontal stripes . Then I blended Lemon Drop Dye onto a card panel and removed the washi tape.

I stamped the sentiment on a kraft cardstock, embossed it in white and cut out with Double Stitched Rectangle Dies (Small). I adhered the card panel onto the kraft card base and affixed the sentiment and all images to the card panel. I embellished the card using Glass Slippers Round Confetti.

I hope you enjoyed my summer cards today.

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Anna