Hi Friends,

It's Pumpkin-everything season! I must admit it was hard to say goodbye to summer, until I started thinking of pumpkin flavored treats, sweater weather, wearing cozy scarves and wearing boots again. With the changing of the guard, season's wise, comes the changing of Starbucks flavors and their fun cups.
Lisa decided to make a fun project of the decorated cup she got at Starbucks. I love what she did with the project and how she interpreted the art into a card form using DeNami. This would be a fun challenge to do.
Read about her project here:

Hey there! It’s Lisa P. My husband and I recently stopped in our local Starbucks on a chilly morning to pick up a tea and coffee. When I saw their new Autumn-themed cups, I squealed with delight. They are so festive and fun, and they are the inspiration behind my card for today.

Here’s the cup:



And here’s my card:




I stamped the images from the PF21 Autumn Stamp Set on the bottom portion of a blank white card. I masked off the images with some stamping mask paper and then stamped the J16 Small Splatter over top. I removed the masks and added bits of yellow, orange, red, and brown color to the images with markers. I also added some small dots to the images with a fine-tip black pen---a fun little detail that I noted about the images on the cup. To finish, I stamped the E144 Thankful For You sentiment and rounded all four corners of my card base.

Here’s a look at the card and cup together:




I had so much fun creating this card and absolutely LOVE how we are surrounded by inspiration in our everyday lives! I hope you like what I’ve shared today. Thanks so much for visiting!

DeNami Design Supplies:
Stamps: PF21 Autumn Stamp Set, E144 Thankful For You, J16 Small Splatter
Ink: TK-VF082 Onyx Black Versafine (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: PC21 White Cards

Other Supplies:
Black Dye Ink, Markers, Pen, Corner Rounder, Stamping Mask Paper

I used basic supplies to create my own patterned paper to coordinate it all.

Step #5- Start with stamping one of the stripes and then line up the wood block to the stripe you stamped. Repeat this all the way across for even stripes.



 Step #5- Once the stripes going in one direction is filled,  go the other direction, lining up the wood block to the stripes to create a plaid. For a fun variation, you can do different colored inks on one direction vs the other. In this case, you can do Smoky Gray then Black the other direction. Or if you do this card on white, you can do green in one direction and red the other direction.





Step #8- The Holly stamped in Olympia green and then fussy cut.




You can do variation of this card. Change out the sentiment to "Happy Birthday" and use leaves to create an elegant card that you can use for a man, too.

Enjoy making this elegant creation.

See you next time!
Nami

Hi Friends,

 I like to browse Pinterest for inspiration and found a lovely card I wanted to share. It features our Berry Vine and Christmas Wishes sentiment stamp that comes from the Holiday Greetings Stamp Set. 
 Also, the Best Wishes card gives the Berry Vine a different look. 

This Christmas Wishes card is so versatile. All you have to do is change the sentiment to "Thinking of You" or "Happy Birthday" and you can use it for anything. Color the fern in oranges and browns for a fall feel. Color in limes and greens for summer. You can even color in various shades of gray and accent with silver touches of glitter for a very elegant look. With that gray, if you add touches of Holly Berry Red glitter, you can make an elegant Christmas card.

You can easily change the Best Wishes card by just changing the Brown Craft cardstock to black, or pine green or red. Add dimension with the pearl pens to give a pearly sheen and a 3D effect.
You can even sprinkle Sparkletts glitter on top of the pearl pen to make them look like jewels.

The Berry Vine is also great for making card for men. People have told me men are harder to stamp for. Add this to your collection as a go-to stamp for all occasions.

Enjoy!

Hello DeNami friends!

Living in the Northwest, I love the trees that we are surrounded with. My favorite sights are when the trees have dustings of snow and the sun is glistening in the snow. The coolness of the air reminds me of the warmth that is awaiting me in my home. Usually it is a hot cup of tea with cream and sugar in my favorite tea cup.

Today Lisa E made a Christmas card that was a reflection of nature. The trees were in their simple beauty without the fanfare that are saved for the department stores and movies. I love how she captured the majestic beauty of nature and used the Silent Night stamp to share a powerful, yet simple message.

Her use of different shades of green were very attractive and lends itself to simple stamping. You can easily dress up this card with colorful rhinestones, sequins and dots of color. You can even switch it out and stamp the trees in VersaFine Onyx Black and VersaFine Smoky Gray for the same monochromatic look in the grey and black hues. You can add touches of silver to embellish with. Use your imagination to create your own Silent Night card. These stamps are classics and will be in season for many years to come.


Hello and welcome back to the DeNami blog! Lisa E. here today to bring you yet another of the newly release Christmas stamps!



I wanted to make something a bit more elegant with this stamp. I began the card with some generation stamping of the Medium Pine. Next I heat embossed the new Silent Night Holy Night sentiment with Versa Mark ink and gold embossing powder. I added my stamped panel to a shimmery gold panel and then to a white card base. And finally I sprinkled about several 4mm Metallic Gold Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. Quickly created and flat for mailing, a win win!!

This card is a simple one, easily reproduced and flat for mailing. I've added some decorative paper to a white card base. The pretty stitched border is by Pretty Pink Posh. I stamped the image onto a Memory Box die cut label. A touch of glossy accents was added to each bulb and a Glitter Gelly Roll pen was used on the stars. And finally I tucked a tiny sentiment from the Christmas Greetings stamp set and Champagne Rhinestones under this festive trio!

It's great to be back on the DeNami blog! Stayed tuned for more fun projects from the team featuring the new collection of Christmas stamps!