Sep 05 2008
The Wave - Tutorial #114 and Blog Candy
I have a stormy ocean scene for you today.  I swear when my allergies act up and I’m not feeling well I always reach for shades of blue ink.  The color blue must sooth me. 
Maybe this card will sooth someone else too, so I’ll give it away as blog candy.
To enter for a chance to win this card, please leave me a comment on this post telling me your all time favorite rubber stamping tool, besides rubbers stamps, lol.  I love reading your comments that tell me a bit about yourself. If you are getting this blog update by e-mail you will need to click this link to leave a comment on this blog post:
 I will use a random number generator to pick the winner on the morning of Sunday, September 7th.
OK then, it is time to get on with this stormy scene tutorial.Â
Supplies:
| Stamps: Impression Obsession “Branches of a Tree” |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Basic Black and Tempting Turquoise |
| Ink: Adirondack Pitch Black, Pool, Denim & Cloudy Blue |
| Accessories: Brayer, Sponges, White Gel Pen, Circle Coluzzle Template |
Brayered on Pool ink on the right side of a 5″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock.
Brayered Denim ink at the right and left sides of the card stock.
Brayered Denim ink at the top of the card stock.
Used a circle cut with a coluzzle that measures 3 5/8″ and sponge Denim ink lightly at the edge of one side of the circle. Move the circle up a bit and sponged again. I did this a total of 5 times.
Sponged Denim ink at the left side of the card stock to blend the sponged lines in a bit.
Tore a cliff shape from a piece of Whisper White card stock.
Sponged Cloudy Blue ink on the cliff shape.
Sponged Denim ink on the cliff shape not covering all of the Cloudy Blue ink.
Sponged Pitch Black ink on the cliff shape not covering the Denim ink entirely. I also sponged Pitch Black ink on the top of the cliff shape and along the top of curve shape.
Adhered the cliff shape to the main panel.
Stamped the tree with Pitch Black ink.
Sponged some Pitch Black ink at the top of the sky area to add some drama.
Used the circle mask again and traced one side of it at the top of each wave to create a highlight in the water.
Assembled the card and here it is finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.
I hope this tutorial has inspired you to get inky today.
May your day be filled with calm seas.
Until my next post. . . . . . . . .. .
Hugs,
Michelle
Note:Â Links to all my tutorials can be found here:Â http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/
Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops:Â http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar/
OMG, this is so awesome! I have just purchased a brayer and can’t wait to try it out this weekend — I am certain it is going to become one of my favorite things because I love all the brayered cards at SCS! So, having said that, right now I woud have to say that I love my little finger daubers the most because I can be so creative inking my rubber stamps, especially those clear cling ones!
I share your pain, with allergy’s that is, try eating more honey and natural ‘things’ [really is there any such thing anymore] I have found over the yrs that has ‘help’. If all else - fails reach for those allergy pills!!
Bling, bling blilng, anything that is, I find it just completes a card. and I must say, I to love those little daubers
You literally blow me away with your ideas and creativity! This card is amazing. I was thinking of my BF son who is a surfer. What an awesome ocean with the waves this technique would make. I’m pretty boring right now with plain ole sponges. I have tried my brayer many times but just keep going back to the sponging. I also like to use my scalloped circle punch for sponging in my clouds.
Oh my goodness … is about all I can say. This card took my breath away! I am a new stamper, but appreciate beautiful design and goodtechnique! I had never heard of “brayer” but as soon as I finish writing this comment, I’m all over that. I just read through your tutorial which was very clearly written, with wonderful instructions and photos … quite impressive. I’m definitely going to “mark”your blog and look at it often. I wish I lived closer to Ohio …. thank you so much for this beautiful blue wave on this early September morning in Virginia! Awesome!!! Kathy
This card is gorgeous! My favorite thing besides stamps is ribbon. I love it, all kinds and colors. Thanks for the great tutorial.
pretty … my favorite tool of all time is my stylus tool. I could never get my brayer to cooperate I may have to dust it off =)
Michelle, gorgeous, gorgeous card. With Hanna coming our way your card gives such a beautiful visual of the ocean waves. beautiful blues. Another amazing use of brayer and circle cut out. Since following your blog my brayer has become one of my favorite tools along with embossing folders and nesties.
Blessings from the Carolinas…. Karen M.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - I love this so much!!!!!!!!!! You know I love blue, so you are really tugging the old heartstrings with a chance to win this card!!
My favorite tool is probably my circle punch - well really all my punches. It’s so easy and convenient to stamp something small and not worry about whether it’s straight because I just punch it out and stick it on a card. For some reason I gravitate to circles over squares.
But my favorite consumable is my Pacific Point Blue ink pad. Well, or my Ballet Blue. Possibly my Brilliant Blue. Of course I love my blue Copics. Oh and then there’s blue glitter….
Have a great day - really feeling your pain on the allergies. I’m dying!
Lydia
http://www.understandblue.blogspot.com
Absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, this is a gorgeous card. I find it very calming too. Favourite tool besides stamps-Well right now I am experimenting with my new set of 48 Prismacolor markers. I just love them. Second runner up would be punches. Love punches right now too. Thanks for sharing your card Michelle, and also for your blog giveaways!
Stunning! I don’t know how in the world you come up with ways to make waves and once I try it, it’s so easy! Beautiful piece. I drink hot tea each morning as it seems to open my head. Try a long steamy shower too. So sorry you’re not feeling up to snuff. My favorite tool is one you introduced me to, the white gel pen. Well, actually, Jeanne S introduced me to it but I learned how to high light images with it from you. I’ve made so many foamy beach shore scenes for people who have requested them and its just a matter of using that pen. Oh, can I share two favorite tools? I LOVE my new piercing tool, the mighty Push Pin which you recommended as well. Can’t believe the time I spent looking on the net for the perfect piercer and all the time it was right there in my desk. Go have that cup of hot tea and feel better.
THis is fantastic! I serisously don’t know how you do it - continuously impress us with your talents. I would be honored to be your winner so please enter me in your blog candy offer. My favorite tool…..hmmm I have to pick one? I guess is would be my computer - is is where I find all my inspiration. Have a wonderful day and I hope ou feel better!
Awesome as always!!! Very appropriate for the weather and hurricanes these days.
This card is so AWESOME. You can just feel the drama! My favorite stamping tool is the embossing gun. Before I had on I would use my toaster. Let me tell you I burned a few cards. I am now addicted to the clear powder thanks you and all your wonderful beautiful tutorials.
OMG, that’s oooo purty!
My favorite tool?? heat gun for sure. Love love love embossing (and I bought some clear powder so I can try and mimic your layering technique!).
Thanks for the chance to win!
Great card! My husband thinks I have every tool under the sun - LOL. I do have a lot (almost as many as my kitchen gadgets!) I have these two ruler type things that have lifted edges in different withds that give you perfect borders on your background papers. Don’t have a clue what they are called but they work great. Yours always are perfect - do you use something special to cut them? I am sorry I always add a question to the end of my post!!!
WOW. I’m stunned. This card is just too cool for words!!
There are two things I use on almost every single card, of course beside the usual. Dimensionals and glitter glue. I love for card recipients to want to touch my cards, and these products do that. These aren’t really tools, though. Hmm.
I do love to emboss and that’s really what hooked me into stamping, as I am sure it does for many others. So I love using my heat tool.
Thanks again for another amazing creation, Michelle! We’re not worthy!!
Another beautiful card. My favorite tool is my stamp-a-ma-jig. I’m a measuring king of girl and I love to place my stamps exactly where I want them.
Eveline.
This card is just beautiful! All of your cards are, but this one really touches me. It reminds me of walking on the beaches of Florida on a moonlit night. I really miss the ocean. So would love to win this card. My favorite tools are my acrylic mounting blocks. I use them for every stamp I own. Of course you have to have them for acrylic, but I use them for unmounted stamps and SU stamps. I have astigmatism and can’t mount SU stamps straight. So I no longer attempt to mount them, I just use my acrylic blocks. Thank you for the beautiful tutorial and a chance to win the card.
This is brilliant!!! Do these ideas come in dreams?! Seriously, how do you figure this stuff out? I would so looooooooove to have this card, it’s my favorite and that’s saying something
Oh boy, my favorite tool, that’s like asking me to pick a favorite pet……. I’d say the one tool that I absolutely, positively, do not regret spending a bunch of money on would be my Japanese Screw Punch. It cost a bit, but nothing else can do what it does. And I use it A LOT!
Kathy
WOW that card is so gorgeous!! I love it and can’t wait to try it. My favorite stamping tool is the stamp-a-ma-jig, I use it all of the time! I would be lost without it. Have a great weekend and I’ll be waiting for your next post, LOL!!
Another gorgeous card Michelle. I love how you did the waves.
My favorite stamping tool besides stamps would be my copic markers. Hope you start feeling better soon. I suffer with allergies also so I know what your going through.
I stumbled onto this via the Marco’s newsletter. That was like finding $100 bill floating out of the sky! What a wealth of information! Thank you so much for putting in the time for all the techniques. I’ve been stamping for many years, but learning resources in rural Missouri are minimal. Tutorials like yours are so valulable to us. The cards are just outstanding! Thank you so very much!
This card is the most amazing!! I saw a photo of a rainbow and I want to make c card for some friends and I was going to do the same circle thing you did with the waves, you just proved to mt it will work. Your cards always inspire me to be more creative and when I look at something, look at it like I can turn it into a card. Each day you share your amazing work with people you do not even know just so we may pick up alittle of your talent. Thank You for doing that each day. I know this is going to seen kinda crazy but one of my fav stampin tools is a sponge and that is after watching you!!! Thanks Again, Cindi
Wonderful Tut…I have learned so many things from you! Thank You for another! I’d say besides rubber and ink, I am a ribbon fanatic. I love to add a little color and “pretty” to a bare spot. Bling is good, too!
I love this card. Very good instructions, very easy to follow. You do great work.
tfs
shana
Wonderful waves and cliff on this card! My favourite tool would be my chalks as they can add colours so softly and blend in so well. I also love the bling and sparkles! Feel better soon.
Trish
My favorite tool, this week, is my Scor Pal. I teach classes in my home and love having the cards scored all ready for them, also makes it so easy to have fun projects like treat bags. No fear in scoring anymore! Also, I introduced the brayer in this months cards. We did emboss resist with a cute cow in the pasture http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1013973?cat=500&ppuser=51826
I cased one of your cards. The photo isn’t perfect, but you get the idea. I would love to win this beautiful card. Thanks for your continued inspiration. Sunny day in MN
LOL. You mention of allergies made me sneeze. Guess it’s getting to be that time of year.
This is a great card. Very moody & dramatic.
I think my favorite tool(s) at the moment are punches. There are SO MANY shapes and sizes. Do you use them? It would be a great tutorial! (hint, hint)
But I’m beginning to love my brayer too. I’ve only started using it since I’ve seen your work. It truly inspires me. Now if you did a tutorial on brayering, just brayering, maybe I could learn. I’d love to come to your Dayton class, but it’s about 7 hrs away. Just not cost effective for me at the moment.
Anyway. I love your art and tutorials.
Have a great day!
I love you creativity. your work is very inspirational. Thank you for sharing your tutorials with us. They are awesome and easy to understand.
Your designs just are just wonderful, what you do with a brayer and a sponge seems like magic.
My favorite tool to use is a stamp-a-ma-jig because I can place a stamped image in the right spot.
ummmm - that is hard one - really depends on what I am doing - I must say that lately I never seem to have enough glossy card stock - I quess I have been using the alcohol inks a lot ….
Thanks for sharing this card is really great.
Sandra
what a beautiful inspiring card once again. I love it and would love the chance to win it although I’m unsure if you go postal to England where I live. No matter I am so enjoying all the wonderful tutorials.
Love and hugs to you and yours
Hilda
I love it..love…love it……
your amazing!!!!
This is one card I must absolutely must try…..
I would love to win some candy ; O )
and do all wonderful things with my prize….
since I never win anything I will dream…and for sure this card is a must do
thank you Michelle…
hugs
JoAnne
WOW! another amazing tutorial! love it! all your work is wonderful.
My favourite tool in this time is versamark.. i use it in every project!
thanks for share!
This is such a cool looking card! You just continue to amaze me!
WOW!! Stunning card. You are so talented. I have so many tools that I use that I love, but I think my blender pen is my go to tool. I use watercolor pencils alot and it really helps bring out the color in those, please being able to use with my ink pads to bring in the colors that I don’t have markers for is wonderful.
S-C-A-R-E-Y! I guess it’s because I live in Florida and this just makes me think of the impending Hurricanes Hannah and Ike! It is a very beautiful card though. I hope you get to feeling better.
Hugs from FL,
Suz
Your card is absolutely beautiful. I’ve been rubber stamping for 10 years and I have to admit that I’ve been “afraid” of my brayer all this time. You have inspired me. But now that I’ve been viewing your blog, I’m going to TRY to think outside my box! Thanks for the inspiration. I must say I really can’t alive without my embellishments and fiber
I soooooo want to take one of your classes! Even if I can’t do this myself I would just like to watch you! Your tutorials are fantastic and I look forward to many more. My favorite tool would have to be my SU! paper snips. I cut with them, distress with them, use them as a piercer and a bunch of other things you are probably not supposed to do with scissors.
Michelle,
This card is beautiful, as are all of your creations. I’ve always been drawn to the ocean so this card really reached out and grabbed me. I check your site every day and have plucked up the courage to try some of your techniques. This is one I’m sure I’ll try my hand at. Have a wonderful weekend.
Randa
Wowzers! Fabulous. I would love to win this and see it in person and post it up on my wall to stare at!!! Ü
I was so impressed by the tree on the promontory that I needed to comment!! I’m fairly new to stamping, and I’ve only been a scapbooker for a couple of years. I’ve found that I love telling a story by the picture!
When I was a student at UMass a few years ago, I had to do a paper on “promontories,” and all that came flooding back when I saw your stunning card. Thanks so much for the tuturial–you are indeed an accomplished artist–and I hope to try out my new brayer and “case” your soothing card!
So far I am enthralled with the white gel pen, as it can be used to show movement, especially in the water, as evidenced by your several examples.
Appreciate your tutorials more than you’ll ever know!! Thanks, Michelle!!
Hi, Michelle! LOVE your work! Hope you might get to do a workshop in Virginia one day — I would really like to take your workshop! As for my favorite tool — I have to say my Stamp-a-ma-jig — when I add a sentiment to a card I really like to get it on there straight and the Stamp-a-ma-jig is a big help!
Thanks for asking! Happy Friday!
Sherry
LOVE the card!!! My favorite stamp tool is my Stamp-a-ma-jig NO MORE miss calculations on placement, I don’t know how I lived without one for my first year of stamping. Second is the Prismacolor markers, which you turned me onto by viewing your projects, I mainly used Stampin Up and a few others to get colors needed, BUT I LOVE the Primacolor Markers now, such an array of colors and easy to use ALSO if you look around you can find them cheap. Thanks, Linda
Oh my gosh! The card is so beautiful! I can’t wait to check out your other tutorials! One of my favorite stamping tools is scrap paper….to use like you did the circle, or to tear a random side and use an ink pad similar to the way you did the circle.
WOW! I’m a first time reader led here by Greg at Marco’s Paper. Again, WOW! I love the card and must try the technique.
My favorite tool is my newest one: a Stamp-a-ma-jig. What, you ask? a Stamp-a-ma-jig is a simple gadget that has allowed me (finally) to position my stamped images exactly where I want on the card. I ordered it from smartrubber.com. I have lots of other tools but this one has solved my problem and saved me lots of paper and time.
Hope I win……
Michelle! Wow! What a fabulous card! I’ve got to give this a try! I’ll have to see if those blue colors sooth my allergies too. My favorite tool at the moment is the new Fiskars cutting “knife” that fits on your finger. Something I can finally control better than holding onto a knife and trying to cut. Have you ever thought about teaching at Stampaway in Cincinnati? I’ve been the last two years and would love to take some of your classes. Also, if you ever put out a video/DVD with your brayering techniques (hint! hint!), I’d be first in line to purchase!
Sharon
beautiful card and thanks for the lesson. someday I hope to use my brayer as well as you. my favorite tool is my sponges. i love using them to distress and blend and also to add some matching element to the envelope when i mail out my cards.
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What an absolutely awesome card.
Thank you for the tutorial.
Linda Peterson
This card is beatiful! Blue is my favorite color too! You can send that card right over to me, I could use some major soothing. I just had my wisdom teeth removed on Wed. and had some jaw surgery. So I’m in some nasty pain right now and can’t really talk much due to swelling and stiffness, thank goodness for my computer. =) I suffer from sinus/allergy problems, so I know that misery too. God Bless you and thanks for sharing such a beautiful card!
Absolutely gorgeous! I love playing with my brayer but my favorite tool is my heat gun and embossing powder. I also love Eclipse tape for masking. Thanks so much for the detailed tutorial. Can’t wait to try myself.
I love all your work but this one just floored me. I can’t wait to try it. You’re such an inspiration! My favorite “go-to” tool has to be my sponge(s). I just HAVE to sponge a little here and a little there. You know how it goes.
Wow, Michelle - another fabulous card. This one seems especially unique! I truly love all my tools, but the ones I most often reach for are my wide variety of punches and my paper piercing tool and piercing mat set…I think I am as attached to these as you are your brayer. ; )
Thank you for updating the links to get to your tutorials. Now it is easier to find them than ever!
Truly LOVE this card! Having spent every summer on the shores of Lake Erie while growing up, I really feel a sense of calm by the water - I guess it’s my “happy place” to think about. My fav tools at this time would be my ScorPal and my Koh-I-Noor pencils. I’m having fun w/ each of those. Thanks for sharing your time& talent with us.
What an awesome card! I haven’t been stamping long, and haven’t used a brayer, so I’ll have to say my favorite tool is my little sponge daubers by Tsukineko. It allows me much more control than just dabbing the inkpad on paper.
What a terrific card - reminds me of the sea near Carmel!
I’m not sure I have a favorite tool… maybe X-axto knife, use it lots, especially with my Perfect Layers which I love, love, love!!
oh, what a wonderful card!
WOW!WOW!WOW! You just keep right on reaching for that blue ink. You are a master with it. Thanks so much for sharing. Going to give this a try.
You always make it look so simple. My favorite tool is the Crop-a-dile big bite. I have arthritis and found the regular crop-a-dile very difficult and painful to use. The big bite is perfect for me. Although, I just ordered a Scor-pal so there may be a little competition goin’ on soon.
Michelle, spectacular as always. I can we get you to Minnesota to teach us?? Seriously, I love, love, love your cards. I can never get my brayer to leave the subtle uneven lines. I always get the straight edge. I need help!
My favorite non stamp is the Stamp-ma-jig. I seem to never mount my stamps straight, so that little tool keeps my verses where they need to be.
I will have my fingers crossed to be lucky enough to win an original from Michelle!
Thanks so much for inspiring all of us.
I’m just amazed Michelle! Your work is absolutely fabulous. I have tons of beautiful stamps but lately have been just sitting and staring at them instead of creating. I have been itching to try something different with them and this is it! I’m so inspired by your art that I’m going to pull out my brayer and start playing right now (who needs a clean house - lol). I’m so thankful a friend forwarded me an email that had a link to your work. I’m going to see about attending a workshop. Thank you so much for sharing and, “Happy Belated Birthday” - my birthday was August 26th! May we live long, happy and healthy lives. Bee
I can’t believe this. I’m in awe…blown away…dumbstruck! This is incredible. Not only in how you did it, but the entire feeling of a stormy night this card invokes. Michelle…you are talented and creative beyond belief. So glad you’re willing to share it with us!
i don’t have one favorite tool - where would we be without paper cutter! or inks! i just bought some martha stewart pigment ink and i love them! the colors are great - and i like them very much.
thank you for the opportunity to win one of your cards - which i would frame and put in my craft room!
Beautiful ocean waves!!!! Another stunning tutorial, and thanks! My favorite tool, right now are my sponges and my stampa-ma-jig.
Oops, I just left my comment without letting you know what my favorite tool is (I was so excited to start playing with my brayer!) I seem to always reach for my punches. They are easy to use yet you can do so much with them. Take care, Bee
I love this card! I’ve been to the ocean (Virginia Beach) and it was just awesome. My family spends a lot of time at the lake in the summer and it’s just as great. There’s something about being on the water, a light breeze, sun hitting my face and dancing off the water surface…
Now if only I would learn how to swim!!!
Wowwwweeeee….I’m going to have to print this out and study it! I think one of my favorite items that I have within reach is my glitter glue. I love it because it’s a no mess way to get a little sparkle. I also LOVE my punches, I am trying to find a way to store them closer to me! Ughhhh…I need a bigger craft room. Hmmmmm I wonder if my 10 year old is ready to move out!
Oops, I forgot my favorite tool also. Hmmm…to pick just one…I can’t decide! I love embossing power, different inks (so many colors!), sponges… Lately I’ve been using iron-on transfer paper and Color Box chalk ink to decorate T-shirts and a tote bag for my daughter. FUN!
what a breath taking card. I think one of my favorite tools is my prism. pencils. It is what I reach for in every card.
Again a wonderful card. I love my nestibilities and my spica pens. They both give me such a boost in creativity. I am going to try this tutorial today so wish me luck. Thanks for sharing.
Heather
One of my favorite tools are blending pens. They make coloring so much easier.
Debbie Schubauer
This is totally AWESOME. I would love to be the lucky stamper to win and have this in my stamp room for inspiration!! Every time I see update I can’t open it fast enough to see what you have created. You always WOW me! You are one talented and inspiring stamper. Thanks so much for sharing your projects and tutorials on how you do them. Your tutorials are so easy to follow. Thanks for a chance.
Thanks Michelle for the chance to win this beautiful card! I like how you used the circle, it reminds me of the leaf one you did and i liked that one also. Hope you get to feeling better!
Fabulous tutorial again Michelle … I shall have a go and let you know how I get on!
My favourite stamping tool has to be my heat gun … I am too impatient with inks drying and just could n’t be without my gun to speed drying times up! Plus I love embossing … it is one tool … apart from my rubber stamps that I have withdrawal symptoms from if I am away from it for too long!
Sorry i forgot! Favorite tools, well me and my brayer are getting pretty close, sponges and my white gel pen! Now i just need fairy dust!
Wow is all I can say. Wish I lived close to you so I could take some of your classes.
You do Alsome cards and hope some day to be able to make cards as good as yours.
thank you for giving us the tutorial and hope you are feeling better.
My favorite tool I sure regular is the nestibilites.
Wow, this card is awesome!!! The blue is soothing. My favorite tool is the clear block for the clear stamps. It’s great to see where you are stamping!
Michelle, you so inspire me! I would love to have one of your beautiful cards! I also think blue is a very calming color. One of my favorite tools is my paper piercer. It can really add the final touch to a sometimes ho hum card. Thanks for sharing
You don’t have to enter me for the candy but I just wanted to tell you that this is one of your most impressive cards as of late (not that they all aren’t)! Love the moodiness of this card!
You are amazing! I try to copy your work and it just doesn’t compare…so I mostly just lurk and wish I had just a fraction of your talent.
My favorite tool is my cuttlebug.
Donna
Love the colors and the action. Perfect use of that tree stamp also. My favorite thing beside the stamps is ribbon. I love all kinds of ribbon. I am a ribbon junkie. Of course ink and paper are a close second!
Michelle, you are my hero! I’m just completely awed every single day when I get your blog updates. I would love, love to take a class from you and am hoping that there will be one in my area at some time in my life.
I put a bug in the ears of a stamp store that I go to sometimes to check out your blog and invite you. It’s about an hour and a half from me, but I would definitely drive that far or further for a class! I really love ALL my stamping tools, but the one thing that I literally say “I love this” every time I use it is my Genesis paper cutter. Thank you so much for sharing your talent.
Mason in Chatham, VA
BEAUTIFUL!! I would love to win this card!! My favorite tool would have to be the punches. I use them all the time - all shapes. Hope you feel better. Thank you for the inspiration day after day!!
I just LOVE this card. You do amazing work with just a few simple tools. My favorite go to tool is sponges right now. If I am looking for a little texture they are great, If I am looking to distress something it works like a charm! I would have to find just the perfect place in my crafting area to display this magnificent card!!
Michelle, this card took my breath away at first glance! This is so awesome!!! I love how it has a stormy feel to it (and I love BLUEs, too). I will be CASEing this for certain for some loved ones going through a personal storm at this time.
I am so fickle… my favorite stamp tools are prone to change so frequently as I learn new techniques. AND, brayers have become the #1 favorite tool for me since I took your workshop in August! Thank you so very much for sharing what you do.
-Mary B in San Jose, CA
What a great card! I guess I love my Big Shot and all the things I can do with it! Thanks for the chance to play : )
I just discovered your site (via my friend Robin-the-Artist) Thank you so much for doing this. As a newbie to the joy of paper art, this is like candy. Amazing.
I love your card - how you turn out such beauty with a head stuffed full of allergies I don’t know. Favourite tools for stamping - well acrylic blocks come high on the list because of all the unmounted stamps and then the prismacolor pencils to colour in the images! I have also recently bought some cheap wood blocks for mounting sponge on - great for doing edges
This Card… well it is really strange how a scene can mean so much for different people. It is so beautiful, and yet exactly how I feel today. Just amazing, Your work is truly art.
I just read the blog! And see you can win this card… My favorite tool - thanks to you is my Brayer! So versatile!
Michelle, this card is outstanding. It reminds me of the Japanese woodprints with the waves. You are so talented and so patient to create this tutorials. Thanks.
This card is very beautiful. My prefered color is blue and I love being by the sea. My favorite tool is a positionner! I hope your allergies will soon go away!
WoW! Do you EVER run out of ideas? We can’t keep up with you but you are such an inspiration! Thanks for sharing.
Your talent & creativity knows no bounds!! My favorite tool would be the ATG gun or my Big Shot or a stamp positioner or my Martha Stewart tiny sissors. I just can’t decide…….
You have done it once again—created a masterpiece!!!! There’s no way I can even attempt to do what you do with your art. Fabulous job!
hello,
wow… this is soooo beautyfull.
i have to take at least 3 times a day a look att your blog… like i wrote bevor, this is ART!!! and i’m really intrested to win this card.
I really like my fiskars-shape-cutter and i realy like embossing-powder, and since i read about the clear powder, i had to by it, and now i’m verry happy.
(i’m sorry aboyt my english)
have a nice weekend, and i realy want to win this card. it would be an onour to have a card from you.
johanna
I love all of your cards-what an inspiration you are to all card creators!
I would love and honored to receive one of your cards!
Thanks,
Janet
WOWZER!! This card is AWESOME!! As usual!! But i especially love the colors and design on this one!! Cool tutorials!! THANKS!!
I love this card. I just found your blog yesterday through Marco’s and have reserved my spot for your Sept 13 workshop. I can’t wait….I am so excited to learn how to use my brayer. My favorite tool right now is probably my aqua brush. I like to use it with watercolor markers and a plastic pallette to color my cards with.
You are just so talented. I am in awe at your wonerful creations. Each time I visit your site I cannot believe your continuing creativity. Some people are just born with it. You are so blessed. My all time favourite stamping tool is my heat gun as it allows me to create such beautiful embossed designed, adding dimension and wow to my cards. Thanks for the opportunity to maybe win your stunning card.
Wow, the stormy sea card was amazing. You can make your brayer do magical things. I’m afraid my is not as magical. I am still pretty new with all of this but I hope to get better using the aqua brush. I love how you can blend and shade.
You have definitely taken the brayer to a wondrous level. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
How do you even think these scenes up? Very nice indeed. I would love to win this card. Thank you for the opportunity. BettyAnn
Hello Michelle, the one stamping assistance item I wouldn’t want to let go of would have to be my guillotine (paper cutter). What a time-saving device! Of course there’s many other things I would like to add to this. I’d love to participate in one of your workshops - maybe one day you’ll get to trip overseas? All the way to Australia, would be fabulous! Enjoy reading over each of your wonderful tutorials and am always totally engaged in your posts.
I am curious what you use for inspiration. Seems like the allergies are not inhibiting your creativity. Another delightful lesson and your cards are a gift in themselves. Lately I cannot seem to stay away from the computer looking at all the ideas. so for now that seems to be my favorite tool.
This is a beautiful and amazing looking card Michelle! I love the sea (to look at) and love storms.
Even if I don’t win this card, I will love to come and look at it again and again.
I am sick as anything at the moment, silly spring weather we are having over here, and the blue is very soothing.
Thanks again for the fantastic creations you share with us!!
Deanne
xx
(Australia)
How beautiful!!! Reminds me of the stormy waters we may be seeing from Ike in the near future…sure hope he goes out to sea somewhere, but I’m sure someone will have to deal with that bad boy!! This is one of your best tutorials…very unique card!!!
My favorite stamping tools change as I evolve as a stamper, but right now my favorite tool is my embossing powders and heat tool. Lately I end up embossing nearly every image I stamp…love the dimension of the images even if I am just going to color an outline image!
OMG! Another great design. I just love it, actually is reminding what they East Coast is going to experience in less than 12 hours with Hannah coming up! My favorite tool I would have to say are eyelets. I just love the various styles and colors they have. I’m crossing my fingers to win this blog candy! Looking forward to yet another wonderful tutorial!
Thank you for continuing to share and inspire us!
I think my favourite tool would be my cuttlebug and Nestie dies. They are still fairly new to me.
I share your pain…Allergies are the worst…the always hit me at the beginning of August and stay with me till the first frost.
Your card is awesome as is the tutorial…such a wonderful technique. You must be the most imaginative person ever.
Love it!!!
Gloria
Michelle, your card is absolutely stunning! It reminds me of stormy days when I used to live in La Jolla! Thanks for the awesome tutorial! At first I was going to say my favorite tool is my heat tool because I use heat embossing on some part of almost every card I make. But I realized that I have also been using my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig on a lot of cards, too. One of these two is my current favorite! Call me indecisive! Thanks for the constant inspiration!
Oh My!
Totally awesome tutorial…can’t wait to try it!
My computer is really my favorite tool because this where I get all these awesome tutorials that help me grow as an artist and stamper….yup I gotta say it is definitely my computer!
Silly but so very true
As for an actual tool of the trade …..let see I would have to say my all time favorite tools are all my sponges and applicators that I use with my brayer.
My Alcohol inks are right up there to!
Thanks again Michelle for an awesome tutorial,
Hugs,
Barb
Wow… there goes my jaw again!
My favourite tool I would have to say is my SU Mat pack and paper piercer. Although I tend to think of myself as someone who uses a variety of things, I think if I looked through my cards I would find those little holes everywhere!!!!
Diane
I also came across your website from the Marcos newsletter. This card is unbelievably gorgeous! If I had to pick, one of my favorite stamping tools are Twinkling H2Os. I love the look of watercolors, though I am still trying to master the technique of getting them to look right. I never seem to be able to get the shading in the right place. I think it’s my “engineering,” uncreative mind that gets in the way.
The wave card is incredible! You never cease to amaze me with your creations. My favorite stamping tool is the stamp-a-ma-jig, with my photo corner punch running a close second.
What an awesome card. The deep blue colour and sheer impact of the wave is so incredible, how do you do that with your cards. You really insprire me to try your techniques. Michelle your are such a great teacher.
From trying out your tutorials I’d say my favorite tools were the versamark pen and embossing powder and of course the stampamajig.
Christine
Absolutely amazing! I’m just in awe of your work! I really like trying the techniques you show. Especially sponging with various colors. It’s amazing the looks you can get with it.
Fantastic card today!! Love the tutorial too! I think my favorite tool right now or should I say tools would have to be my punches!! I just love having a fun punch to use!!! Love SU’s new scallop edge punch!!! Thanks for the wonderful tutorial today!!! Have a great weekend!
I love your card–if I had only an ounce of your creativity it would be awesome. I think my favorite tool is my Scor-Pal–don’t know what I did without it. Thanks for your sparks of imagination to get my brain cranking.
OMGoodness I want to win this blog candy! That card is jaw-dropping gorgeous! My DH is Army and worked the holiday week-end coordinating some of the evacuees from Louisiana and his trip to Japan next week was canceled so he could stay and work issues for Ike. I’d love to present him with a card like this! I know I don’t have it in me to CASE this one!
Beautiful as always! My favorite tool for stamping–Somedays it is my mister and other days it would be my makeup sponges.
~~**BEAUTIFULLY BRILLIANT BLUES**~~
Love your card…makes me dream of being with my in-laws on the far west coast of Vancouver Island, B.C., CANADA…Happy Birthday to my sweet MIL!
My favourite stamping tool: crystal effects
WOW! Your artwork amazes me! I have to say my favorite tool for stamping are sponge daubers…they always add a little extra to my work. Thank you for sharing your awesome talent!
As always your cards are fantastic. Win or lose the card doesn’t matter as I’m already a winner for having this tutorial. Thank you so much for your generosity.
Hmmm, favorite tool, that’s a tough one. Usually it’s whatever I’m using at the moment. So that would have to be the internet. Especially since I haven’t stamped in quite a while, your tutorials are filling a need for eye candy and inspiration. Other favorite tools I guess would include my ScorPal and Wizard.
Thanks again,
D in FL waiting to see what Ike is going to do.
Michelle: I look forward every day see what project you have done for the day. I just love the way you use color and how you use the post- it- notes as a tool to achieve the terrific shading. I have only tried your technique once, but I an reading to do more cards. I think my favorite tool for stamping is my “Green Pal” the Cuttlebug. I just love to put paper through those embossing envelopes. I enjoy adding color to the raised areas of the paper and also doing the negative embossing trick with stamping ink. I make wonderful punched leaves from using the textile embossing envelope . I also like using stamps to create a background and then add punched flowers in different shapes and sizes.
Thanks for sharing all your wonderful techniques. You WOW my life with color!
Ashley Anderson
Surprise, Arizona
My favorite tool would have to be the Scor-It - there’s just so much you can do with it. How in the world did we ever create with all these wonderful new gadgets?
Beautiful card!!! I would love to own a “Zindorf”. My favorite tool right now is inks. You have gotten me aquainted with the Ranger Brights and Lights, and I love them. I have had several of the Earthtone ink for years, but I really didn’t know they sold other pallets as well. I was a great discovery, and I love using them!
What a Beautiful Card, you made. My favorite tool now is embossing powder Clear and heat gun tool, it makes my card more nice with this 2 things. I hope I get your card Michelle. Have a nice weekend. Monika
Wow, what a beautiful card. I am amazed at the emotion it evokes. I really appreciate all the time and talent you share with us here. A favorite tool . . . just one? I know this sounds very basic, but I really like the dense burgundy foam pad that I use to stamp on. It makes all my images come out clear. After that it would be my Wizard and Nesties and Cuttlebug embossing folders and Twinkling H2Os
Thanks for all your beautiful inspiration.
I absolutely love your techniques! I often catch your cards on SplitCoast, but today is the first time I have visited your blog. Your tutorials are so explanatory. I am going to try a “Zindorf” today! My favorite rubber stamping tool so far is stamp-a-ma-jig, but after today, maybe it will be my brayer! I do not use it because I am intimidated by it, I think one of your tutorials will change my mind!
I love blue even if my alergies aren’t acting up. I would be thrilled if I won your card.
Marliese
One word sums it up Michelle, Unbelieveable!
This card is BEAUTIFUL! And so inspiring! I”ve been away from stamping for a while, but definitely will give this card a “go”…………..would love to send it to my sister who is very very sick, and will so be “going under the knife”…………….Blue is her favorite color, and I know it will calm her jitters………..mine too……………..I recently joined your blog, so I am looking forward to all of your great ideas. My favorite My favorite tool is the Scor-it board!
Love the card! I always wonder how you set up your photographing area. My favorite tool? Twinkling H2O’s. So beautiful and elegant! kren k
Well if my schtuff looked like yours my fave would be my brayer……but thats why my favorite tool or tools are maybe punches to add accents. There are so many to make different things to add to the work. Rather it be doing something to the corner, making layers to a sentement or adding a cute “something” that goes with the card.
Great and beautiful card….wow super ideas you have and share to all.
this card is gorgous! Your creativity never ceases to amaze me. Thanks for all your tutorials, they make your works of art look so easy. I can’t believe you made the waves using a circle! Unbelieveable. Please pick me! I would love this card. I would frame it and keep it as a work of art. A michelle zindorf original!
This card is just beyond awesome Michelle. I mean I hate to wish allergies on you but if this is what you create just tell me where to send the Claritin!
You know a friend and fellow demo paid me the highest of compliments the other day. She emailed me a link to your blog with a note that said “I stumbled across this blog today and it totally reminded me of your cards” and I was like “oh my god! I worship the brayered ground Zindorf walks on and I cased them all from her! so thank you!” And thank you! You inspire me all the time! And I’m sure she has been lost in your archives ever since!
Sorry to double post - I was so excited about the card I didn’t even realize there was a chance to win it on the line! As you might guess from the post above - lately it is definitely my brayer. All time, I guess it is my sponge daubers. I use them ALL the time. I am also quite twiterpated with my colour spritzer lately. Crossing my fingers now!
Love it Love it Love it Michelle you are something else you work is truely amazing have a wonderful day
Stunning card, I don’t know how you manage to come up with so many inspirational designs almost every day. After stamps, well my next favorite is sponge, brayer or any other tool for getting ink onto paper - even a scruched up plastic bag can be fun.
This is beautiful work, I love it, I would love to win it thanks for a chance at it. My favorite thing after stamps would be my nestabilites, and my embossing tool. Hope you feel better soon.
Ks.stamper
Wow - what a beautiful card! I would have to say my all time favorite rubber stamping tool would be my daubers as I use them on practically every card I create. LOL
Love the depth of the blue in this one!
My favorite tool is my Cuttlebug. I’m really enjoying all the new embossing folders.
DeniseB
After looking at your tutorials I am dusting off my brayer!!! They are so incredible and you sure make them look easy. My favorite stamping tool is a paint brush, to watercolor Tombow markers and watercolor pencils. I see you live in Ohio and will demo at Marco’s Paper. I will watch for your next demo and hope to sign up before you sell out.
Hello again!
I love the wave card! The blues are really very soothing, and you can feel that when you look at this card! I also get a feeling of being a little alone, since that lone tree is precariously on the edge of the cliff. Neat effect! Denim blue is really a pretty color and the blending with the other blues is amazing!
I am trying to figure out my favorite tool, and I don’t know what to mention first. After a few thoughts, I think I really like my Stamp-a-ma-jig! I had it for awhile before I really knew how to use it. I went to a few tutorials, and now I have finally learned how to use it! I keep it very handy! Don’t know how I got along without it. I used it with an alphabet set last night and what a difference it made!
I wish I could say the brayer is my favorite tool but I have yet to get one. I went to Michael’s the other day to get one and they were out. I won’t be able to go out shopping for two days! So busy!
Michelle your art is amazing! What a priviledge to have a card made by you, it would be so awesome!
Love your cards and tutorials very much!
Thanks for all you do!
You have really out done yourself with this card - it is spectacular. My favorite tools are the stamp a ma jig and spritzer….using them more lately…and my brayer recently purchased is quickly becoming my newest favorite. Thank you for all of your wonderful cards and tutorials.
Shirley
This is amazing, as always, Michelle!! Anything water related always thrills me! :o)
I guess my favorite thing after stamps, would have to be ink! I’m definitely an ink whore! I have no less than 174 full size ink pads, 5 sets of petal points, and who knows how many little squares and cat’s eyes! Oddly enough, I never have the right shade! I really need some blending classes so I can get the shade I need through my own creativity! LOL
Hugs,
Ursula
After perusing your amazing web site and tutorials, I am so inspired. Ink is my favorite stamping tool, especially the adirondack pads which, I noticed, you use often. Your sense of color and composition is remarkable and your tutorials are very easy to follow. There was only one problem that I encountered. There are so many beautiful samples from which to choose that I had a tough time deciding which one to try first! Thanks so much for sharing your stunning works of art.
Hello,
I love your cards! This is beautiful work.
Thanks for the chance to win. My favorite thing after stamps are my nestabilites and my cuttlebug.
Hugs Inge
wow you are myfav your work is so great i cant belive it thank you for allthe work you do for us to enjoy
This is probably my favorite halloween card of all times. Fabulous!
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