Rain or Shine

April Stamp Club Card

Directions to make the cloud background:

Punch out four scalloped circles and trim off bottoms.  Tape together to resemble a grouping of clouds.  Place over white card stock and sponge area in a circular motion with Baja Breeze ink.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Rain or Shine
Paper:  Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Sunshine and Sprinkles DSP
Ink:  Baja Breeze, Daffodil Delight, Midnight Muse, Basic Gray
Accessories:  Scalloped Circle Punch, Midnight Muse Ribbon, Pool Party Ribbon (SAB), Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons, Pool Party Baker's Twine, Glue Dots, Dimensionals 

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Whirly Twirly

April Stamp Club Card

Supplies:

Stamps:  Wishes Your Way
Paper:  Sunshine and Sprinkles DSP, Whisper White, Melon Mambo 
Ink:  Marina Mist, Melon Mambo, Old Olive
Accessories:  toothpicks, glue dots, scissors (to cut hills freehand), sponge dauber (to sponge edges of hills),  sponge (to sponge clouds), Cloudy Day embossing folder, silver brads, Pinwheel Die

Pleasant Poppies on Vellum

March Stamp Card

I always like cards that have vellum on them.  It gives such a nice effect to the card.  I saw THIS card on one of my favourite blogs: Limedoodle.   I get so much inspiration from her blog.  Her cards are very clean and simple.  Anyway... I saw her card and this is what I came up with.

Just a few directions:

Stamp the Pleasant Poppies stamp set in Whisper White ink on the vellum card stock.  Add white embossing powder and heat carefully.  If you heat too much you might either burn the vellum or heat it too much and the vellum curls a bit.

Use markers to colour in the poppies.  

On this card, I spritzed the vellum lightly with water and quickly and carefully pressed a kleenex over top to take some of the water off.  Don't spray too much or the paper might curl.  This gives the poppies a more water coloured  or mottled effect.  Laying the the piece under some heavy books for a while will also help keep the vellum flat.  Note:  I did have left over supplies so I made some more of these cards.  This time I did not add water and as a result I didn't have to struggle with the curling vellum.  So I'm very sorry stamp club members, next time we won't add water to the vellum.  I also dabbed at the poppies with a kleenex soon after I coloured one to take some of the ink off.  That had a nice effect as well.

On the reverse side, place glue dots behind the poppies to help adhere the piece to the vanilla card stock.  Note:  If you place glue dots where there is not an image, the glue dots will be seen through the vellum.

Add brads to corners  and complete card.

The square punch was used to punch the flags on the vellum and DSP strip.  

Supplies:

Stamps:  Pleasant Poppies, Friendly Phrases
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Vellum card stock, Natural Composition Specialty DSP
Ink:  Whisper White, Versa Mark
Accessories:  Garden Green and Tangerine Tango Markers, White Embossing Powder, Tangerine Tango Embossing Powder, Square Punch, Button (SAB 2013), Linen Thread, Glue Dots, Mini Brads

Dimensions:

Very Vanilla: 11 x 4-1/4(card base), 3-7/8 x 5-1/8
Crumb Cake:  5-3/8 x 4-1/8
Vellum:  3-3/4 x 5, 1" strip
DSP:  1" strip  

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Feeling Sentimental

March Stamp Club Card

In January I was looking for some card ideas for my Dad's birthday.  I came across THIS on Splitcoaststampers card and absolutely loved it.  Plus I pretty much all the supplies which is a bonus.  Michelle Zindorf has a great blog with very detailed tutorials.  I basically followed her tutorial on making the main image of the the card.  So rather then rewriting the instructions, you can check it out for yourself. The card I made for my dad was about 6" x 4-1/2" whereas the card shown above is a regular A2 size:  4-1/4 x 5-1/2.

Supplies: 

Stamps:  Feeling Sentimental (SAB 2013), Itty Bitty Banners (sentiment)
Paper:  Whisper White, Soft Suede, Pool Party
Ink:  Soft Suede, Pool Party,
Accessories:  Soft Suede Marker, Mini Brads, Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Word Window Punch (retired), Label Punch, Eyelets, 1/8" Circle Punch, Crop-o-dile, Crumb Cake Seam Binding, Linen Thread, Edge Distresser, Sponge, Dimensionals

Dimensions:

Whisper White:  8-1/2 x 5-1/2 (card base), 3 x 4-3/4 (main image), scrap
Soft Suede:  4-1/8 x 5-3/8, 3-1/8 x 4-5/8, scrap
Pool Party:  4 x 5-1/4  

This is the card I made for my dad.  Pretty much the same.  Just bigger and there is antique hardware highlighting the sentiment.

  

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Hey Chickie

Retro Sketch # 51

A couple of weeks ago I ordered some stamps from a company called Paper Smooches.  Shhhh.   They are not Stampin' Up!  Don't tell.  :)  I have been eyeing these stamps for a while now.  They are just sooo cute!  I just love the talk bubble.  Anyway....  I saw THIS card posted on the Retrosketch blog and had to case it using my new stamps.

I made my own homemade light box.  So I'm hoping that will get rid of the blue-ish tinge I seem to have in the last number of photos.  Cross your fingers.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Chubby Chums, He Said She Said (both Paper  Smooches)
Paper:  Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, Wild Wasabi
Ink:  Black Stazon, Cloudy Day Embossing Folder, White Baker's Twine, Yellow Button (unknown), Glue dots, Dimensionals  

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Love You

Happy Valentine's Day!!  And a happy birthday to my friend, Jen.

Supplies: 

Stamps:  Hearts a Flutter, Itty Bitty Banners
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Primrose Petals Co'ordinations, More Amore Specialty DSP
Ink:  Primrose Petals 
Accessories:  Framelits:  Hearts a Flutter & Itty Bitty Banners, Edge Distresser, Sanding Block

Have a wonderful day!  

Wonderful You

I have seen this card layout a number of times on either Splitcoaststampers or other blogs.  It's a good one.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Loving Thoughts, Hearts a Flutter
Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Grey, Real Red, More Amore Specialty DSP
Ink:  Basic Grey
Accessories:  Basic Grey Marker,  Hearts a Flutter Framelit, Needlepoint Border Embossing Border, Hearts Framelits, Dimensionals

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