Silhouette Portrait of a Lady Trio of Vintage Cards

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Trio of vintage cards with stamping, dry embossing, faux linen tech. Stamp Set Used:Silhouette Portrait  from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

Artist Trading Cards with Carnival Girl

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Artist Trading Cards made with Archival ink, spray inks, and dye inks. Stamp Set Used: Carnival Girl from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

Summer Fun With Hearth Mice

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Two cards stamped with black dye ink and colored with Copic Markers. Stamp Set Used: Hearth Mice Full Sheet from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

Wedding Cards for that Special Occasion

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Pair of Wedding cards stamped and colored with Copic Markers. Stamp Set Used: Love and Romance from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

                             

Ancient Ornaments Vintage Card

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Vintage Card created using stamps, a recycled potato bag and Distress Ink. Size:4.25 x 5.50" Stamp Set Used: Ancient Ornaments from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

"Wonderland Tea Party" Steampunk Top Hat by Leigh S-B!

 Created by: Leigh Snaith-Brunton - The Sharpie Domino Queen and Design Team Member

 Description:  Another day in Wonderland at another Tea Party all depicted on a mini Steampunk Top Hat.  All the Steampunk animals are from Blockheads' Fringe Folktails stamp set.  Stamped onto Neenah Solar White cardstock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and coloured with Copic Sketch markers.   The gears and cogs are Tim Holtz Alterations Bigz and Movers and Shapers dies die cut out of Grungeboard and coloured with all 3 of the metallic Distress Stains.

For step by step instructions for my project please visit my full blog post on Leigh S-B Designs.

Shabby Chic Circles

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Shabby Chic Card made with Stamps that coordinate with Spellbinders dies. Stamp Set Used: Classic Circles, Small and Verses: Special Delivery from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

Regally Shabby Chic

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Card created using Crafters Workshop Template and Distress Ink. Stamp Set Used: Feeling Regal and Grunge It Up  from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

Vintage Shabby Mini Cards by Leigh S-B

Created by Leigh Snaith-Brunton aka The Sharpie Domino Queen and Design Team Member

Last week I shared a vintage shabby chic swing card I created using a Distress Ink watercolouring technique with just one ink pad and today I'm sharing two mini note cards (4.5"x 3") I made by combining more than one ink pad to create the watercolour effect.  I used Fired Brick and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink pads on the Chinese Dragon card and Pumice Stone, Tea Dye and Walnut Stain on the Imagine the Possibilities card.

Stamp Sets Used: Chinese Princess and Architecture

For step by step instructions for these cards please visit my full blog post on Leigh SB Designs.

Shabby Chic Butterfly

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: Shabby Chic card  created using Memento Ink, monochromatic color scheme, and distressing. Stamp Set Used: Painted Butterflies and Feeling Regal from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

Vintage Note Cards

Created by: Leslie Turner, Design Team Member

Description: Set of 4 heavily distressed vintage note cards created for our Blockheads DT showcase of vintage/shabby chic projects during the month of May

Stamp Sets Used: Blockheads Up In The Attic Full Sheet and Verses-Feel Better

For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Love To Scrap!

Graduation card!

Created by: Trisha Neal, Design Team Member Description: graduation card with a Perfect Pearl Mist  background Stamp Set Used:Greco-Roman, Full Sheet and Verses, Full Sheet   It's that time of year--graduations and weddings are EVERYWHERE. That Verses sheet--it always has my back, no matter what the card emergency may be! (You will find two more graduation cards, using the infamous Party Cat, on my blog at easily amused, hard to offend.) Have a great Sunday, everyone!  :)

Shabby Chic Travel Swing Card by Leigh S-B

Created by: Leigh Snaith-Brunton aka The Sharpie Domino Queen and Design Team Member Description: A double sided shabby chic swing card with a vintage travel theme created using a Distress Ink watercolour technique,  4.5" x 6.25". Stamp Sets Used: Vintage Travel  Flowers-Daisies, Feeling Regal. For step by step instructions for this card please visit my full blog post on Leigh SB Designs.  Have an awesome weekend!

Vintage "Italian Tile" Card

Created by: Barb Black, Design Team Member

Description: "Italian Tile" Card created using Liquid Pearls White Opal, embossing powder, and Metallic Distress Stain.

Stamp Set Used: Blockheads Flower Vignette

For step by step instructions for this card, please visit my full blog post on The Workshop at Black Ink Pad Designs.

Blockheads Stamps Re-Deux

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: I am in the process of re-doing my studio and simply cannot get in there and make anything!  I hope you will enjoy taking a second look at some of my favorite past projects. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

feel better soon

Created by: Leslie Turner, Design Team Member

Description: Vintage 'feel better' card created with shadow stamping technique for the Blockheads DT showcase of vintage/shabby chic projects during the month of May

Stamp Set Used: Blockheads Flourished Bird Cage and Verses-Special Delivery stamp set

For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Love To Scrap!

Shabby Chic Mother's Day Cards

Created by: Leigh Snaith-Brunton, The Sharpie Domino Queen and Design Team Member

Today I'm sharing two 5 x 6.5 inch shabby chic vintage style Mother's Day cards created with Copic markers, Memento, Distress and VersaMagic inks.

Stamp Sets Used: Flowers full sheet,  Daisy Verses sentiments and Geco-Roman

For step by step instructions for these cards please visit my full blog post on Leigh S-B Designs.

Lamp Post CAS Card

Created by: Karen McAlpine, Design Team Member Description: CAS Card  created using Distress Ink. Size: 4 x 5.5" Stamp Set Used: Architecture Half Sheet from Blockheads. For step by step instructions for this card, visit my full blog post on Dreaming and Creating.

make-your-own stamped, shabby chic fabric roses

Created by:  Trisha Neal, Design Team member Description:  stamped, shabby chic fabric rose embellishments Stuff I Used:  Stamp Set--Greco-Roman, Full Sheet, Tattered Rose Distress Ink, Rich Cocoa Memento Ink, and Fireworks spray in Angel Pink For step by step instructions for these versatile embellishments, visit my full blog post at easily amused, hard to offend. Happy Sunday! :)trisha

Beaded Grungeboard Earrings

Created by: Leslie Turner, Design Team Member

Description: Pair of beaded earrings created with Grungeboard, VersaMagic inks and Glossy Accents for Blockheads DT showcase of Grungeboard projects during the month of April

Stamp Set Used: Blockheads 123 Backgrounds-Butterflies (spotted background stamp)

For step by step instructions for this project, visit my full blog post on Love To Scrap!