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A Fun Camping Card with the New Getaway Ink

2026-04-15

It’s always so exciting to open and swatch a brand new ink color for the first time. That’s how I felt when I tried the new Getaway Ink with the new Catherine Pooler Trail Mix Release.

Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink pad and reinker styled with a color wheel swatch ring and a bright handmade camping card in the background.

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This cardmaking project features:

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Handmade camping card with Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink.

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For today’s project, I created two cards, using the Gone Camping 3×4 Stamp Set, which is the gift with any $50 purchase freebie during the release using the code CAMPING. Such a fun extra for this release!

Hand holding the Catherine Pooler Gone Camping stamp set with camping-themed handmade card supplies in the background.

How I made this card

I started by stamping the tent images and the little backpack elements with Getaway and Catching Rays ink pads, then I die cut everything with the matching dies.

After that, I chose one of the patterned papers from the Trail Mix Patterned Paper for the background. I loved the striped pattern here because it adds even more energy to the card and works so well with the fun camping theme.

Bright handmade camping card with repeated tent images, striped patterned paper, yellow backpack accents, and a bold layered red sentiment.

Next, I arranged the tents across the card front in a repeated design. I wanted the card to feel full, playful and a little bit whimsical, so I spread the images around the panel instead of keeping everything in one small focal area.

Then I added the tiny extra flower elements between the tents to help fill the background and make everything feel more connected with the Wintergreen inkpad.

Hand holding the Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink reinker with handmade camping cards softly blurred in the background.

For the sentiment, I chose a bold “you” die cut made with Just You Word Die and layered it for dimension. I really love how this bright pop of color stands out against the softer background with the Samba ink pad color. I also added a heat embossed white sentiment to the top of the bold one that I have made with the From Me to You Sentiments Stamp Set.

Handmade camping card with pastel tent die cuts, teal text background, red flower accents, and a layered sentiment made with Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink.

I had some tent leftovers, so I made a cleaner version of this card with the same used supplies. To tie everything together, I added a few little accents and kept the overall look bright, fresh and summery.

Fun animal handmade card with soft colors, colored stamps and made with Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink

Fun animal handmade card with soft colors, colored stamps and made with Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink

Peeking Forest Friends Card

For this card I have used the same supplies, I just changed the stamps. I stamped the images with the newly released Peeking Forest Friends Stamp Set with its coordinating dies, and colored them with Ohuhu Alcohol markers. The lovely You sentiment is from the From Me to You Sentiments Stamp Set, which I have stamped with Do-Si-Do inkpad.

Getaway Ink Pad

The Getaway ink is a lovely fresh red-orange shade that is lighter than Do-Si-Do, and it joins the Party Red-Orange family. It feels bright, cheerful and full of summer energy, which made it perfect for this playful camping inspired card.

Flat lay of Catherine Pooler Getaway Ink pad and reinker beside a color wheel, blending brush, and handmade camping card supplies.

If you don’t have the Catherine Pooler Color Wheel Freebie yet, you can download it for free, and I also shared more about why I find it so useful in this blog post.

Before and after comparison of a handmade camping card photo, showing how editing makes the image brighter, cleaner, and more eye-catching for craft photography.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope this project inspires you to pull out your bright inks and create something fun.

Catherine Pooler Inkpads with Catherine Pooler Color Wheel Freebie and a fun animal card made by Mona Tóth

Catherine Pooler Inkpads with Catherine Pooler Color Wheel Freebie and a fun animal card made by Mona Tóth

BEFORE YOU GO...

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USED SUPPLIES

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Let's make a cute 3D Box Card

2023-04-18

It's always exciting to try a new technique, or card type, so it was a joy to create this 3D card with the new Brooke 3D Box Card Die, what I made for the Heffy Doodle Insta Hop. (Hoppy hop 🐸😂) Come and join to hop along for the opportunity to win one of the gift cerfificates.

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THIS CARD FEATURES

Ohuhu 216 Colors Set
Brooke 3D Box Card Die
Be Hoppy Clear Photopolymer Stamps
Be Hoppy Clear Photopolymer Dies
Moxie Alphabet Dies
Freshly Cut Grass
Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide Ink
Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Ink
Cilantro cardstock
Mermaid cardstock
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STAMPING AND COLORING

I started the cardmaking process with stamping. I inked the cute frog images from the Be Hoppy Clear Photopolymer Stamps with Jet Black inkpad to Neenah Solar White Cardstock, then I gave them a little heat set with my heat gun, to fix the ink on the cardstock. After a heat set, I started the coloring process with Ohuhu markers.

POP-UP CARD BASE

When the coloring was done, I created the diecuts with the Brooke 3D Box Card Die from Mermaid cardstock. I also made a few die-cuts with the Freshly Cut Grass Dies with Cilantro cardstock. Next, I created some stitched Die-cuts from Neenah Solar White Cardstock and made on it a quick inkblending with Kitsch Flamingo and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Inks. That's what you see in the background and on the sides of the card.

SENTIMENT

Before I put the colored critters to my box, I created the sentiment to the background. I created the "HOPPY" text with the new Moxie Alphabet Dies and I also stamped the sentiment from the Be Hoppy Clear Photopolymer Stamps with watermark ink. After this I heat embossed it with white fine embossing powder on a black cardstock.

WRAP UP

Last but not the least, the colored images found their place. Thank you so much for stopping by, don't forget to join the IG hop fun by April 27, 2023 at 11:59 PM EDT