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Grungy Gears & Textures – Card 3

On my Facebook live recently I wanted to include the dies from the Gears & Textures Bundle and so I created these Grungy Gears & Textures cards. I had so much fun creating these cards. The second card I’m sharing was just created on the fly without any real idea in mind except to use the die cuts I had pre-prepared.

How I created the card

I pulled out my blending brushes, some Nature Walk designer series paper and got to work on creating the card below. Roughing up the edges of the DSP and adding some ink. Sometimes I do things a bit backwards and I certainly did that on this card and glued the DSP onto the left side of the vanilla card before I started stamping. I started stamping the images and didn’t worry if it went over the dsp as well. I just kept going. Adding on the die cuts and also stamping the sentiment onto another piece of DSP and roughing that up as well plus of course adding some ink.

Once I finished stamping the background, adding the die cuts, I added some linen thread and then the sentiment with dimensionals to pop them up. The Secret Sea card base I added some ink around the edges of it and then glued the card front onto the card base. Stamping a piece of vanilla card for the insert and then I was done.

Grungy Gears & Textures Card 3

Below is the video when I was creating these cards. This is the extended version. You can hop over to my youtube channel to see the shortened sped up version if you want.

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165296 $25.00	165285 $15.75	149165 $15.75	121689 $25.00
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166005 $15.00	166912 $21.75	150083 $15.75

January 24, 2026

Grungy Gears & Textures Card 2

On my Facebook live recently I wanted to include the dies from the Gears & Textures Bundle and so I created these Grungy Gears & Textures cards. I had so much fun creating these cards. The second card I’m sharing was just created on the fly without any real idea in mind except to use the die cuts I had pre-prepared.

How I created the card

I pulled out my blending brushes some Nature Walk designer series paper and got to work on creating the card below. Roughing up the edges of the vanilla card and then inking up the edges with basic gray ink. Stamping images randomly on the card front in various colours. I added some linen thread around the centre of the card front and also added on the die cuts that I’d also added some basic gray ink to.

I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of designer series paper to make it look worn, I then grabbed another piece of DSP and tore off the edge, scrunched it up and also added ink to it to give a good distressed look.

Once I finished stamping the background, adding the trim and all the die cuts, I added the sentiment with dimensionals to pop them up. The basic gray card base I added some ink around the edges of it and then glued the card front onto the card base. Stamping a piece of vanilla card for the insert and then I was done.

I’ll share the video of how I made these cards soon or you can check them out here. You can also check out some of my other cards that I’ve made using this stamp set here.

Grungy Gears & Textures Card 2

Product List

166851 $35.00	166853 $53.00	166854 $79.00	153118 $15.75
153086 $25.00	153611 $27.00	152813 $14.00	152392 $49.00
165296 $25.00	165285 $15.75	149165 $15.75	121689 $25.00
147114 $15.75	121688 $25.00	166785 $25.00	104199 $8.75
166005 $15.00	166912 $21.75	150083 $15.75

January 23, 2026

Grungy Gears & Textures

On my Facebook live recently I wanted to include the dies from the Gears & Textures Bundle and so I created these Grungy Gears & Textures cards. I had so much fun creating these cards. The first card I’ll share with you was inspired by Rochelle Blok back from March 2019. She used a different stamp set but is similar to the gears & textures set that we have and pulling in the Nature Walk DSP make it so much easier to create with.

How I created the card

I pulled out my blending brushes and got to work on creating the card below. Roughing up the edges of the designer series paper to make it look worn, I then added early espresso ink as I wanted a dark colour but not black. Using the blending brushes, I added additional colour to the die cuts as well to darken them. They almost look black. Stamping the images onto the DSP adds another layer of to the card.

Once I finished stamping the background I started layering up the die cuts and then looked for something to stamp on for the sentiment. I know vanilla or white wasn’t going to work on such a dark card so I chose a piece of dsp from the Nature walk pack and again roughed up the edges, stamped the sentiment in early espresso ink and also added some pretty peacock ink to the sentiment piece to darken it up but I knew I didn’t want it to be too dark. Adding the black and gold bakers twine onto the back and another die cut to the back and I attached the sentiment with dimensionals.

Inside the card I added a piece of vanilla cardstock and stamped a couple of images on that before gluing into the card. I’ll share the video of how I made these cards soon or you can check them out here. You can also check out some of my other cards that I’ve made using this stamp set here.

Grungy Gears & Textures Card 1

Product List

166851 $35.00	166853 $53.00	166854 $79.00	153118 $15.75
153086 $25.00	153611 $27.00	152813 $14.00	152392 $49.00
165296 $25.00	165285 $15.75	149165 $15.75	121689 $25.00
147114 $15.75	121688 $25.00	166785 $25.00	104199 $8.75
166005 $15.00	166912 $21.75	150083 $15.75

January 22, 2026

Gears & Textures – Masculine part 2

Recently on my Facebook Live I created with the Gears & Textures Stamp Set. You can see other cards I created with this set here. After the first three cards I created I wanted to change it up a bit and using the masking technique I got to work and used a post it note to cover over a section of the card. I then proceeded to stamp the images randomly over the card, overlapping the post it. Using blending brushes and Old Olive ink I added some ink over the card front.

Once I’d finished stamping and adding ink I peeled back the post it to reveal my card and then stamped my sentiment in the blank space. Then layered each card front onto coordinating card stock. Really #simplestamping cards for you to recreate with a bonus masking technique thrown in.

Gears & Textures – Masculine

Below is the quick version from my Facebook live, but you can also check out my long version with measurements here.

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166851 $35.00	166853 $53.00	166854 $79.00	153118 $15.75
153086 $25.00	147090 $15.75	106576 $25.00	147085 $15.75
121683 $25.00	153611 $27.00	152813 $14.00	152392 $49.00