Friday, December 24, 2010
Have a Happy Holiday Season!
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Peace on Earth
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
A Merry Christmas to You
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Snow Flurries
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Part 2: December Stamp Club Card
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Part 1: December Stamp Club Cards
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Part 2: November Stamp Club Card
Directions:
Friday, December 10, 2010
Part 1: November Stamp Club Card
Directions:
4.25 x 5.5 card
Thursday, October 28, 2010
French Foliage Thanks
Thursday, October 21, 2010
October Stamp Club
- Poplar leaf in Cajun Craze ink
- Oak leaf in Cajun Craze ink. Stamp- off once on scrap paper before stamping on card stock. This gives it a lighter colour
- Script in Rich Razzleberry ink
- Paris Circle in Rich Razzleberry ink
- Ink up an Acrylic Block in More Mustard ink
The club had the option to make a multicoloured butterly. Just like in the Stampin' Up Idea Book & Catologue (p.132) |
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Watercolor Trio Thanks
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Once is Enough?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
September Stamp Club
3. Stamp Sentiment on Very Vanilla card stock using Rose Red ink.
4. Use Scalloped Trim Border Punch on Pumpkin Pie card stock strip. Adhere under the Very Vanilla card stock.
5. Adhere Sweet and Sour DSP to Pumpkin Pie card stock. Adhere Very Vanilla and Pumpkin Pie border. Add Ribbon. Use Tombo Glue to adhere leaves. Cut out dry rose and use dimensionals to pop up over the leaves.
Tips:
I tried to dry my rose with the heat gun. I found I had to be extra careful not to push the ink everywhere. It also tended to curl the card stock.
Lean the rose up against something as it is air drying so that the water runs to the bottoms of each section. This gives it more of a watercolour effect.
Try this technique on Glossy White card stock. It works but gives a different look.
Dimensions:
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
August Stamp Club
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Three Cards from a Stack Party
This set, Pedaling Past, is from the SU Summer Mini Catalogue. I love this set and it was one of the first I bought from this mini. I think it is very versatile and can be used for a variety of occasions.
The image is stamped on Watercolour Paper and then coloured in with ink and an aquapainter or blender pen. I find that the blender pen gives more of a marker-like effect to the image whereas with an aquapainter it works more like a paintbrush. Also, with an aquapainter, because it feels more like a paintbrush, you seem to have less control and might go over the lines. So I guess it depends on what kind of look you want.
Supplies:
Stamps: Pedaling Past, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Taken With Teal (retired), Pumpkin Pie, Watercolour Paper, Sweet Pea DSP (retired)
Ink: Taken With Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Black Stazon
Accessories: Dimensionals, Orange Eyelets, Crop-o-dile, Corner Rounder Punch
4.25 x 5.5 card
Very simple but lots of layers
Supplies:
Stamps: Friends Never Fade
Paper: Whisper White, Bordering Blue (retired),
Ink: Bordering Blue, Night of Navy
Accessories: Navy Ribbon (Gale's), Dimensionals
4.25 x 5.5 card
The only thing fussy about this card is gluing on the Itty Bitty Bits. Other than that, this is another pretty quick card. Please note that the Turquoise card stock was place only partially in the folder to emboss about 2/3's of it.
Supplies:
Stamps: Itty Bitty Bits, A Little Birthday Cheer
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Basic Black
Accessories: White Embroidery Floss, Turquoise Ribbon (Gale's), Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Scalloped Border Punch, Three Punch Pack, Two-way Glue Pen
4.25 x 5.5 card
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
July Stamp Club
Using the Presto Patterns Designer Series Paper is like having the paper already embossed for you. The embossing is already completed for you. If you do not have this type of paper, you can always have this look by using the Emboss Resist Technique.
1. Ink up brayer with Certainly Celery ink and brayer over the Presto Patterns card stock. Keep inking brayer and rolling over paper until the colour is even.
2. Stamp ornate flower from Friends Never Fade stamp set with VersaMark ink on Soft Suede card stock and brayered Presto Patterns DSP.
3. Wipe the embossing buddy over the brayered Presto Patterns DSP and sprinkle with Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder. Heat with heat gun.
4. On "pineapplely" looking stamp :) from Friends Never Fade stamp set, colour stamp with Certainly Celery and Pink Pirouette Markers. Don't forget to huff on it; then stamp on Whisper White square.
5. Punch Pinking Hearts Border on Pink Pirouette card stock strip.
6. Adhere all pieces to card base. By the way, I find that the Presto Patterns DSP needs lots of tape since it is a thicker paper.
Dimensions:
Whisper White Card Base: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Soft Suede: 3 1/2 x 4
Pink Pirouette Strip: 1 x 4
Pink Pirouette: 1 7/8 x 1 7/8
Whisper White: 1 3/4 x 1 3/4
Presto Patterns DSP: 2 x 4 3/4
Supplies:
Stamps: Friends Never Fade
Paper: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Pink Pirouette, Presto Patterns DSP
Ink: Certainly Celery, VersaMark
Accessories: Certainly Celery Marker, Pink Pirouette Marker, Brayer, Heat Gun, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Pinking Hearts Border Punch
4.25 x 5.5 card
I found the instructions to this purse at Inking Idaho. They are very clear with some photos to follow so I am not going to repeat these great instructions. Click on Inking Idaho to get there.
One change it did make was to cut the paper bag to slightly less than 4 1/4" tall. I found that it fit inside the card stock better.
Rectangle Image:
1. Stamp "Friends are like flowers" stamp in So Saffron. Cut carefully and adhere to Certainly Celery card stock.
2. Stamp two flowers on Whisper White scrap card stock. One in Pumpkin Pie and the other in Certainly Celery. Cut out the entire Pumpkin Pie flower and only the center of the Certainly Celery Flower.
3. Pop up flower and center with dimensionals. Attach to front flap of bag making sure you put adhesive ONLY ON TOP HALF of rectangle.
4. Place a velcro dot (I found mine at the dollar store) behind front flap. HINT: Stick the two sides of the velcro dot together. Stick the connected dot to the inside flap and press down. Carefully peel apart the velcro dot and they should be sticking on opposite sides of the purse and flap.
Dimensions:Paper Bag: 4 1/4" tall
Certainly Celery: 4 1/4 x 5 1/5
Certainly Celery: 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 (score at 4 1/4)
DSP: 4 x 5 1/4 (cut two) and 1 3/4 x 5 1/4
Certainly Celery: 1 3/4 x 2 3/8
Whisper White scraps: for Friends Never Fade rectangle and flowers
Supplies:
Stamps: Friends Never Fade
Paper: Waterhouse Gala Designer Series Paper, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Ink: Certainly Celery, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron
Accessories: Crop-o-dile, Dimenionals, Certainly Celery 5/8 Grosgrain Ribbon, Glue Dots, Velcro Dot, Scor-Pal
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
June Stamp Club
4. Tie white embroidery thread through clear itty bitty button. Add glue dot to back of button and adhere to Borcade Blue flower. Another option is to use a crystal brad. Adhere flower to middle stem. Here is the card with the Itty Bitty Button.
5. Add silver brad to So Saffron flower. Add dimensional to back of flower and attach to card.
6. Rub the embossing buddy over the Pretty in Pink flower. This helps get rid of the static. Add a Sticky Cut flower (from Sticky Cut Sweet package) to center of Pretty in Pink flower. Add glitter. Add dimenionals to back of flower and place on card
7. Add dimenionals to back of leaves and attach to card. Tie Certainly Celery ribbon in a knot and adhere with a glue dot.
Dimensions:
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
May Stamp Club
To make the main image using the Stained Mosaic Technique I followed the tutorial found HERE. It is a fairly easy tutorial to follow (with photos) so I won't elaborate on it in this post.
A couple of things I changed after practicing the Stained Mosaic Technique:
One of the changes I made was instead of using Basic Black ink, like the tutorial instructs, I used Basic Grey ink. I found that the Grey was a little more subtle looking and not so harsh as the Black ink.
When I used Blender Pens in colouring the main image, after embossing and staining with ink the image looked quite pale. When I used markers instead, the image was more vibrant and showed up better. We used markers at the stamp club last night. We "thumped" or "pounced" the marker in dots on the trees instead of straight colouring in the trees.
Also, I found I prefered to use a sponge when staining the embossed main image rather then using the ink pad directly on the image. It had a cleaner look.
Dimensions:
Brocade Blue card base: 4 1/4 x 4 1/4
Always Artichoke: 2 7/8 x 4 1/4
Whisper White: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as the Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Brocade Blue, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Brocade Blue, Certainly Celery, Basic Grey, VersaMark
Accessories: Certainly Celery Marker, Always Artichoke Marker, Clear Button, Hemp, Glue Dot, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Sponge
4 1/4 x 4 1/4 card
This card uses the DSP from the last mini catalogue. At the workshop we used the Cottage Wall DSP on this card as well.
Card Directions:
To create card base:
1. Adhere Old Olive card stock (not shown in this photo, but we used a Texturz Plate to emboss this piece).
2. Add Cottage Wall Designer Series Papaer and strip of Rich Razzleberry card stock.
3. On Whisper White card stock, punch one corner of card stock with Corner Rounder punch, use Spiral Punch to punch notches in edge of card stock and add sentiment of your choice to bottom of card stock.
4. On same piece of Whisper White card stock, use the Horizontal Slot punch to make a slot through which you will tie the Rich Razzleberry ribbon into a double knot.
To create chipboard bird or owl:
1. Choose your patterned paper/DSP for your bird or owl. Flip the DSP over and place your bird/owl on top. Trace with a pencil and then cut out. Remember, you are tracing onto the side of patterned paper that you do NOT want to see.
Note: On the bird, you can have a number of types of patterned paper, whereas the owl just uses one.
2. Use liquid white glue on the chipboard and place your cut out image on top. Once dry, you can sand the edges. This makes the edges smooth and depending on how much you sand it can give a more or less distressed look to the image.
Completing the Owl:
1. Punch out two 3/4" circles out of Old Olive card stock. Glue to chipboard circles.
2. Using the Three Way Heart Punch, punch out two of the smallest hears in Rich Razzleberry card stock. Glue onto the chipboard hearts and then to the Old Olive circles.
3. Cut out nose triangle and glue to chipboard triangle.
4. Glue eyes and nose to owl. Adhere owl to Whisper White card stock. I found that a tape runner works well.
Completing the Bird:
1. Sponge bird legs with Close to Cocoa ink.
2. Glue tail and wing to the bird's body.
3. Adhere the bird, beak and legs to Whisper White card stock.
Dimensions:
Whisper White card base: 4 1/4 x 8 1/2
Old Olive: 4 1/8 x 5 3/8
Cottage Wall DSP: 4 1/8 x 2 1/4
Rich Razzleberry Strip: 4 1/8 x 1/2
Whisper White: 4 x 3 1/2
Cottage Wall Scraps
Old Olive Scraps
Rich Razzleberry Scraps
Supplies:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Paper: Cottage Wall DSP, Whisper White, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Close to Cocoa (for Bird's legs)
Accessories: Spiral Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Three Way Heart Punch, Horizontal Slot Punch, Rich Razzleberry PolkaDot Ribbon, Tombo Liquid Glue, Scissors, On Board So Tweet Chipboard
4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card
Here are some pictures of the creating of my own Stained Mosaic block:
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