February 2016 Stamp of the Month - Texas (shape)

This year Texana Designs will be featuring a stamp of the month.  February we are featuring the Texas (shape) designed as one of the first 12 stamps designed.  The design team has been creating some wonderful samples to spur your creativity.

12x12 layout by Karen Lambert

Texas Stars Layout Page by Karen Lambert
Supply List:

Texana Designs Stamps Texas(state) small, Barbed Wire Star small and mini.
Card Stock in grey, medium blue, and dark blue
ADORNit Patterned Paper Blender Basics - Blue Damask and Blue Pixie Dots
VersaMark Ink Pad
Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder in Black
Distress Ink Pad in Hickory Smoke
Fiskars Crimping tool to crimp the stars cut with Spellbinders Star Dies
Piece of Denim cut from old jeans for mat
Barbed Wire made with cording, modge podge, and paint following these instructions at www.instructables.com ...
Sewing Machine to sew mats in place
Tiny black brads to anchor frame and picture to layout.
Olivia Cuttlebug Alphabet Dies to cut the word STARS.  Cut from two colors and layered.
Xyron sticker maker to adhere Letters.

Card by Megan Bickers

Texas State Card by Megan Bickers
Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamp: Texas (state)
Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock
ANW Crestwood: Grey Cardstock (Night Sky)
Crate Paper: Pattern Paper (Hazelwood Café)
Tsukineko: Versamark Inkpad
Ranger: Distress Inkpad (Hickory Smoke); Foam Blending Tool, Adirondack
Metallic Paint Dabber (Pearl)
Letraset: Promarkers (Red, Linen, Mint Green, Warm Grey 4)
Wow: Embossing Glitter (Metallic Gold Sparkle)
Seal It: Glitter Washi Tape (Gold)
Spellbinders: Nestabilities Die (Labels 18)
3M Foam Tape
Paint Brush, Water

I stamped the image with versamark onto white cardstock, then used the gold
glitter embossing powder and heat set it. Then I used my alcohol markers to
color in the image and cut it out.  For the grey cardstock, I used some
Pearl Metallic Paint thinned with water and a paintbrush to give the
cardstock a shimmery wash of color. I used the grey inkpad and foam blending
tool to add some definition to the outside of the pattern paper card base.
The gold in the embossing powder, the glitter washi tape and the layer of
shimmer on the grey cardstock all give this card extra sparkle and shine!

Megan :)

A2 card by Jilda Bolton

Texas State Card by Jilda Bolton
Supplies used:

Texana Designs Stamp: Texas (state)
Gold poster board
Bazzill: Raven black cardstock
Index paper: white
Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black
Deadbeat Designs Texas Trio Dies: Largest Texas
Ken Oliver: Stick It cut with Texas die
IndigoBlu Mega-Flake: Autumn Blaze
Ranger Cut-n-Dry Stamp pad foam: 1” square
Scrapbook Adhesives: 3D foam squares


I stamped the TD Texas 3 times onto the gold poster board and cut out the images.  I attached one side of the Stick It to white index paper and cut it out using the DB Texas die.  Then I removed up the other side of the Stick It to expose the sticky side.  I covered the sticky side with the Mega-Flakes and burnished the flakes with my finger to release the excess flakes. Then I continued to burnish the image with the small square of the Cut-n-Dry foam pad until all of the excess flakes were removed and the surface was smooth and shiny.  I arranged two of the TD Texas images and the Mega-Flake Texas image on the card front and then popped the third TD Texas on top of the Mega-Flake Texas with the 3D foam squares.  The Mega-Flake Texas really makes the card shine and pop against the black background!

A2 Card, #8 Tag & ATC by Janet

Card, Tag & ATC by Janet Bradshaw 

Supply List: 

Stamp:  Texas (state)

Papers:  Wright Designs – Red Bandana & Burlap,

ADORNit - Homespun Paper Burgundy Embossed

We R Memory Keepers - Fuse Tool

FUSEables Decorate Tape – Fringe/Kraft

Distress Splatter Brush

Distress Stain – Barn Door

Staz-On – Timber Brown

Craft Fun Foam

Ribbon

Video Instructions

Other samples using the Texas (state) stamp

 

Inspired by Tim Holtz January 2016 Tag

A Texana Christmas by Megan

I just love the way Megan's creative mind works.  She never ceases to awe use.  Check out these three cards.

 Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamps: BW Lines 1 & 2, Jam’n Texas Large, Jam’n Holly, Have a Texas-size Christmas
DMD Inc: Kraft Cardstock
Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock
Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black)
Kuretake: Gansai Tambi Japanese Solid Watercolors (White, Red, Green, Yellow)
Pentel: Aquash Waterbrush
3M Foam Tape
Eclipse: Art Masking Tape

I started by stamping the Texas outline and the words on the background, then I masked off the Texas shape with art masking tape so I could stamp the starburst.  To create the starburst, I stamped at 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, and 9:00 with one BW line.  Then I stamped from the card’s four corners to the TX shape, and filled in with another BW line stamped in between each of those corner stamped images and the original clock grid I stamped.  The background is totally stamped on the kraft cardstock, and I used the solid Japanese watercolors and my water brush to color the red and white sections (I had to go over the sections a couple times with the white and dry them with my heat tool until I got the opacity I wanted- I also used less water to make the white brighter).  I colored the green outline on the TX shape, and then also colored the holly images with the same watercolors.  The Holly is cut out of white cardstock and attached to the card front with foam tape.

 Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamps: Mistletoe Spray, Holiday Spirit
Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock
DMD Inc: Kraft Cardstock
CTMH: Clear Vellum
Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black), Versamark Inkpad (Clear)
Akashiya Sai: Watercolors (Maroon, Green, Yellow)
Pentel: Aquash Waterbrush
Bic Mark It: Bronze Marker
Stampendous: Embossing Powder (Gold)
The Paper Studio: Brads (Gold)


I stamped the mistletoes all over the background, then used my watercolor markers on a craft mat, and picked up the color with a waterbrush to color in the images. I colored the background with the yellow and used my permanent marker to color the berries gold. For the sentiment, I stamped the words on some clear vellum and embossed them with gold powder. The vellum is attached to the card with gold brads.

Supplies Used:

Texana Designs Stamps: Mistletoe Spray, Wishing You some Texas Twinkle
Georgia Pacific: White Cardstock
Best Creation: Red Glitter Cardstock
Tsukineko: Memento Inkpad (Tuxedo Black)
Akashiya Sai: Watercolors (Red, Green, Yellow)
Pentel: Aquash Waterbrush
Making Memories: Brads (Silver)


I stamped the mistletoes all over the background, then used my watercolor markers on a craft mat, and picked up the color with a waterbrush to color in the images.  For the sentiment, I stamped the words on some white cardstock and cut a curved shape along the bottom to create a “tab”. I edged the white cardstock with some watercolors also. The glitter paper was added to the sentiment layer with brads.

Creative Chemistry - the bluebonnet way

Day 3 of Creative Chemistry 102 showed a technique called smudge stamping.  It is created using second generation stamping so I got two-for-one.  -Janet