Concord & 9th Songbird Stamp Set Four Ways

Hello to all you Arties visiting my blog! I hope your day has brought you a fresh load of creative passion. How great to have you stop by. Angie, from Concord & 9th, wrote me a few weeks ago to ask if I would like to guest design for this month’s release. I played it cool, but on the inside I nearly burst with excitement.

When the full release came in the mail, I just could not wait to get started with it. Each stamp set from Concord & 9th brims with well-thought out and open-ended designs, so possibilities never end. Plus, they make the stamps with high-quality photopolymer, so they stand up to a good stamping and lay down an even image.

This week, I want to show you four cards I made using the Songbird stamp set. Supplies appear at the bottom of the page. (I may use affiliate links at no additional cost to you.)

Missing You
The first card, Missing You, features a songbird colored like the state bird of Missouri, the Eastern Bluebird. Originally from Missouri, I now live a world away in Rhode Island, so my “Missing You” goes out to my beautiful home.

I stamped the images of the songbird, branch and leaves in Copic friendly Memento Rich Cocoa Ink on Neenah Classic Crest 110lb cardstock. Then I colored them in using Copic markers: (Bird — Blues: B29, B04, B45, B41, Orange/Yellow: YR04, YR31, E08, Y28 Gray: N04. Branch — Gray N04 Leaves: G29, G07, E39, Y28, YG17)

I stamped the sentiment, Missing You, from the Songbird stamp set. Then, I colored the edges of another panel of cardstock, cut just a bit larger than the main panel, with a B29 Copic marker. I layered them all together and that finished off the first card.

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You Make My Heart Sing
For the second card, I stamped a 4.25 x 5.5 piece of Strathmore Cold Press watercolor with clear embossing ink and white heat embossed the image of the bird and branch. Then, using my Arteza Real Brush Pens, I began to add layers of color by adding swatches of watercolor ink and blending them in, drying them with a heat gun and repeating the process with different colors. I added a sentiment on vellum with silver heat embossing, adhered them all together with some liquid adhesive and attached it to a Neenah Classic Crest White card base.

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You’re In My Thoughts
Next up, another Arteza Real Brush Pens card with a monochromatic palette. I layered several different shades of black and gray and then stamped the image of the songbird and branch on top. Then, I added some shading to the image with an Arteza pen and blended it out with the water pen Arteza includes in their set. The sentiment, “You’re in My Thoughts,” comes from the same stamp set.

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You Are Wonderful
Finally, for my last project, I did a five-minute card, stamping the songbird and branch image along with some pine needles and a pine cone on some Neenah Desert Storm card stock with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Then I stamp the bird’s head and beak on some scrap paper and cut it out to make a mask for the berries. I stamped the berries and colored them in with Arteza Real Brush Pens in three shades of red. The sentiment, “You Are Wonderful,” comes from the same Songbird stamp set.

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I hope you have enjoyed these cards! If you want to purchase supplies to make these cards yourself, please use the affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.

Concord & 9th Songbird Stamp Set (from Concord & 9th)

Concord & 9th Full October 2018 Release (from Concord & 9th)

Arteza Real Brush Pens 96 Count (from Amazon)

Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb card stock (from Amazon)

Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Glass Mat (from Scrapbook)

Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Mini Trimmer (from Scrapbook)

Versafine Onyx Black Ink (from Scrapbook)

Neenah Desert Storm Cardstock (from Amazon)

Vellum Cardstock (from Scrapbook)

Copic Sketch Markers (from Amazon)

Copic Sketch Markers (from Blick)

Craft with Me Live Video: Simon Says Stamp Fun and Festive Release

Watercoloring the Winter Scene Stamp set from Simon Says Stamp with Arteza Real Brush Pens.

Hello Arties! What a treat I received in the mail today from Simon Says Stamp. As part of the SSS Designer Family, I have the joy of playing with a part of the monthly release ahead of its debut. I started this month and my stamp set arrived a little late for the release party, so I decided to do a live with you.

I prefer to watch live video replays in 2x the speed, since they tend to be longer. You will see me learning how to use these pens and interacting with viewers as I go along. I have only used these pens for a few days now, so enjoy watching the struggle.

I have listed below, the supplies that I used to create this card. Thank you for shopping through these links. It helps to support my channel at no additional cost to you.

Thank you for stopping by and have a super day!

Simon Says Stamp Fun and Festive Release October 2018

Arteza Real Brush Pens 96 Count (from Amazon)

Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Glass Mat (from Scrapbook)

Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Mini Trimmer (from Scrapbook)

Copic Multiliner 0.5 mm (from Amazon)

Versafine Onyx Black Ink (from Scrapbook)

Simon Says Stamp Clear Embossing and Watermark Ink (SSS)

Strathmore Watercolor Paper (from Scrapbook)

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One Layer Card Panel Using the My Monthly Hero Card Kit

Hello all of you Arties! Welcome to my first “My Monthly Hero Card Kit” blog post. Yesterday, I hosted a Craft with Me Live video on Instagram where I masked off some images from the kit and made a scene with the animals in the stamp set. How fun to have Gina from Gina K Designs and Catherine from Catherine Pooler Designs drop in while we all chatted and broke in the kit!

To start, I cut down a sheet of Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb cardstock to a quarter panel. And after deciding which animals would go where, I began stamping with the dog, cat and mouse trio stamp. Then, using a die from the kit, I made a mask, covered the trio and stamped the tree over them. The raccoon came next and we didn’t need a mask for him (he already had one — hehehe — okay that was corny). Finally, we masked the tree off and stamped in the deer behind it.

I colored in the boughs of the tree with my Seaweed Green Arteza Real Brush Pen and the trunk with the Chocolate Arteza. I continued coloring in the animals one by one until they were finished. Finally, I heat embossed some ornaments onto the tree and added a bench on the far side of the raccoon image. I added a shadow to each of the images with Gray Smoke Arteza and stamped a sentiment from the kit.

I had a blast making this card with you all. Please go shopping for supplies using my links below. This way, you help support my art and all at no additional cost to you.

I hope you enjoy a fun-filled day, my friends.

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