Family Additions

This set is SO special guys! Today, I am sharing the new Kindred Stamps "Family Additions" stamp set! We wanted a set that really encompassed the ways our family can grow. 

The first card I made, is one showing off how the adorable baby can be used in different ways. For this stamp set, I decided that paper piecing would be a great technique. I used a ton of different paper pads from Echo Park, Lawn Fawn, Sunny Studios, and I'm probably missing a few other. 

The twins, I decided to do in pink and green plaid. I stamped and colored the faces/hands first. Next, after cutting the onesies out, I shaded them with my Copics too, then cut them out and glued them onto the colored bodies. I placed these on vanilla cardstock that was die cut using Tonic dies.

For the card itself, I used more vanilla card stock, and layered a second sheet of vanilla cardstock onto it. Then I took a sheet of mint green card stock and used the Kindred Stamps "Skinny Plaid" stencil with Gold Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Kiss to create a simple, but beautiful background. 

I stamped the sentiment (which is buildable and makes me happy) on a large piece of vanilla cardstock in black ink and cut it down so it was the same width of the background, and centered slightly left on the card. I tied a brown sugar twine bow on the blank right side of the sentiment strip. The sentiment is popped up on some dimensional foam adhesive.

I colored up the pregnant momma a few different times. A fan commented in the Kindred Stamps Fan Club about how important she feels it is for different skin tones to be shown in cards. It really made me think, and gave me a push to attempt to diversify my coloring, darker skin tones are intimidating because they are more difficult to master. That being said, I am pretty pleased with how this momma turned out! I paper pieced her dress to have a rainbow on her belly.

I have several friends who have dealt with miscarriage, and it is so heartbreaking. So, rainbow babies are something so wonderful and magical, they represent love, purity, and hope. I used a sheet of Sunny Studios Bright Rainbow paper pad to create a background for this card. I used a scrap sheet of patterned paper that I die cut using The Stamp Doctor Oval dies, I popped the momma on that oval. 

For the sentiment, I decided a layer of clouds would be cute to stamp on. I used Rina K Electro Pop Raging Red ink and the rainbow sentiment. To finish the clouds off, I used some leftover Rina K Electro Pop Blaring Blue that was on one of my brushes to dust the edges of the cloud. After assembling the card, I added a few Doodlebug Sprinkles to the top right of the card. 

Next, there is an adorable adoption card, or step-child, or fostering, really anything that's a bit non-traditional I suppose! My family is big, and blended, and beautiful, so this sentiment REALLY hits my heart. 

I started by using the Kindred Stamps Star Stencil and some Metallix White Pearl Gel, I angled the stencil and just did the bottom left of the card with it. For this baby, I did a light blue, star onesie, again paper pieced and then shaded with Copics. 

I stamped the sentiments on gray cardstock, then die cut them using banners from The Stamp Doctor. The card was finished off with a few white star enamel embellishments. 

My last card, I used a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, that had the negative of the stencil included, I created a sort of spotlight using the stencil negative and Rina K Electro Pop Blaring Blue ink. I put the momma in the spotlight, she was colored up and then paper pieced in a pretty blue dress. 

The sentiment was stamped in that same blue ink on a tag. I finished it off with a brad, normally I don't use brads... cause they're stabby, but it just was perfect for this card. 

The "Family Additions" set is just one of the awesome new stamps we are releasing this week, I hope you've enjoyed my take on it! The entire Kindred Stamps February release will be available Friday, February 28th at 8am PST/11am EST. Be sure to subscribe to the Kindred Stamps blog to see a daily line up of sneak peeks from our amazing Design Team and see the full product release on Friday! Come join the Fan Club and release event to be part of the release fun, and you may just win some Kindred Stamps credit!!

I will see you all next time!

~R. Winn

Villainous Kids!

 Hi again!

I had such a blast making these cards using the new Kindred Stamps set, "Villainous Kids"! My little sister is 12 and she flipped when she saw this set. It's a 4"x6" set, that features some bad kids who are learning to unleash their good side.

I started by watercoloring the kids on Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, stamping them with Catherine Pooler Midnight ink. I have a few different watercolors and just kinda mixed and matched until I was happy with them.

I chose the four BFFs for the first card. I found these super adorable long and skinny envelopes at Dasio so I cut a base down in Vanilla Card stock from Stampin' Up for them. For the background, I used the Kindred Stamps Distressed Brick Stencil to create a street and brick wall. To give a different texture for the street vs. the wall, I rotated the stencil. I added a few "oil" and "grime" spots to the street with a black marker. Next, I graffiti-ed the wall with the black marker and used a blender pen to kinda blur the graffiti.



I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of white paper then tore the edges to create rough edges. Then I layered the friends and finished the card off.


Next, I had the daughter of a sea witch. I wanted to create a background that looked like water and octopus ink. I created the background with alcohol inks, then die cut it with The Stamp Doctor's new Slanted Blinds Dies. I loved the idea of stamping the sentiment on one of the slanted blinds, so I grabbed a similar color family in solid card stock and die cut the same set of blinds.

I used Catherine Pooler midnight ink again and used the build-able sentiments to create a birthday sentiment. I cut down solid black card stock for a base and layered the alcohol ink background blinds and the solid dies. I popped the blinds up using foam adhesive.



To separate the sea princess from the background, I used some adhesive backed vellum and The Stamp Doctor Circle Dies to give her a spotlight to sit on.  For the finishing touches, I used Tonic Nuvo Cloud Dream Drops to add a few pearls all over the front of the card.

The entire Kindred Stamps January release will be available Friday, January 24th at 8am PST/11am EST. Be sure to subscribe to the Kindred Stamps blog to see a daily line up of sneak peeks from our amazing Design Team and see the full product release on Friday! Come join the Fan Club and release event to be part of the release fun, and you may just win some Kindred Stamps credit!!

I hope you've enjoyed, and can't wait to see how YOU use "Villainous Kids"!

~R. Winn

Merry Whatever...

Season's Greetings!

I don't know about you, but I LOVE Christmas. It's a time where people are more thoughtful, kids behave better, and I get to shop... I like to shop! 😂 So, I've been excited about making some Christmas themed cards and have been having visions on a snow globe card for like 2 years. Well, I finally did it!

The new "Merry Whatever" set from Kindred Stamps felt like the perfect set to make my vision come to life. I began by watercoloring the images and fussy cutting them out. Next, I took watercolor paper and created a blue sky with lots of different blues and trial and error in blending them. After that dried, I took white watercolor paint and splattered it over the blue to create falling snow. 

I used the Jaded Blossom Snow Globe Die set to create my snow globe. After I cut out my sky using the die, I added a layer of snow to the bottom to create a ground for the images to stand on. After that dried, I added them with the dog positioned a bit in front to add some depth!

I built my snow globe then cut out the tag and background layer in a nice bright red cardstock. I took the "Merry Whatever" sentiment and cut the words apart to allow me to fit them on the tag, thankfully my MISTI makes positioning words onto a small tag a breeze. I added small black enamel dots to cover the holes on either side of the tag. 

I layered it all onto a nice mossy green card base to really give it a Christmas feel. I added some small iridescent snowflakes to the sky and some Honey Bee small clear sequins below their feet to really give that snow globe feel. 

My next card using "Merry Whatever" was super quick and easy! I did a "quick" watercolor on these two friends, not stressing so much about lines or adding depth, just laying down the color. I did add a little pink to the green fellow's cheeks to make it appear he was blushing. I also quick watercolored the heart stamp. 

The images I fussy cut with a bit of a border, I didn't want to stress so much about them being perfect and think they came out super cute honestly. I popped the heart onto the green fellow's chest with a foam adhesive square to complete the image.

I recently added the Kindred Stamps Medallion Stencil to my stash and wanted to play with it. I blended Catherine Pooler Rockin' Red Ink over the stencil, adding multiple thick layers. Next, I took Catherine Pooler Icing on The Cake ink and brushed it lightly over the edges of the paper. 

I put the two friends towards the center of the card, the green guy I glued down, the pup I used a foam square for. I stamped the "Holidays are Ruff" sentiment some green paper and just kept it a simple strip popped with foam adhesive.

The entire Kindred Stamps November release will be available Friday, November 29th at 8am PST/11am EST. Be sure to subscribe to the Kindred Stamps blog to see a daily line up of sneak peeks from our amazing Design Team and see the full product release on Friday! Come join the Fan Club and release event to be part of the release fun, and you may just win some Kindred Stamps credit!!

Hopefully, you enjoyed my cards, I would love to hear what kind of cards are your favorite to make? Simple and easy or more complex and time consuming? Leave me your answer and a good email address to be entered into my drawing for a $10 Kindred Stamps Gift Certificate! 

Thank you so much for visiting me, and I hope your holidays are absolutely magical and filled with love!

~R. Winn