Jul 16, 2010 | Bleaching, Cards, Embossing, Thank You |
Just a quick post today. Thursday was the first day or orientation at Ga Tech – I learned lots of information – I hope Kyle did too. We were together for parts of the day and apart for others. Today is the important stuff – like registering for classes and getting a student id.
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
Wendy and her family have moved to Saudi Arabia – they left on Thursday. I wish them the best in their new adventure and safe travels where ever they may go. We will be in touch regularly as I help her with keeping the STARZ group connected. I’ll be including the STARZ group in my downline meetings so if you live near me I hope you will join us.
I didn’t get anything done on my convention swaps since we were gone all day Thursday and I’ll be gone most of Friday too.
I’m officially a Ga Tech Mom!
Jun 7, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Big Shot, Bleaching, Cards |
And I’m continuing on with my projects that I created for the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award Contest. This is another card that I made. I know it is the wrong season for this winter card but I love how this technique turned out. I originally used this on a scrapbook page and decided to create a card for the contest using the same technique.
This is my bleached snowman card. I love the snowmen in the Holiday Lineup stamp set. They are just so fun. I cut out a Top Note with the Big Shot from Close to Cocoa card stock. I stamped the snowmen with Chocolate Chip craft ink and embossed them with clear embossing powder. This makes what I call little “walls”. Then I used fresh bleach in an aquapainter (I have one that I only put bleach in). And put bleach on the places that I wanted to be lighter – the snow parts. The bleach on the Close to Cocoa gives a Very Vanilla shade rather than white so the rest of my decorations were in Very Vanilla. The “walls” help keep the bleach from seeping into sections that you don’t want bleached.
The background is stamped with the snowflake from Tree of Friendship using Very Vanilla Craft ink. I also pulled the edges of the card across the ink pad to add some color there.
The card itself is not a traditional card opening. Instead the two end fold up to the center and the Top Note with the snowmen hangs over the front. The picture on the left shows you what the card looks like when it is opened. The inside panel was also decorated.
I added some Bashful Blue Designer Series Paper, a punched Very Vanilla Snowflake, Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, and a Chocolate Chip corduroy button all tied together with some Linen Thread.
My pictures are a little bit dark but I think you can see it all.
I think so far I’ve shown 6 of my 10 projects. I hope you’ll be back to see the rest.
These snowman look so cool on a hot day – we have bright sun today and a perfectly blue sky – not a single cloud was out this morning when I walked. And Kyle walked with me – we went all the way around our big neighborhood loop. I had forgotten how big those hills are. I think we walked about 45 minutes. Then I took Ryan to tennis camp. I have a workshop tonight at Kimberly’s house – going to pack up for that now – it should be fun! And yesterdays Simply Adorned class was great. I can’t remember if I have shared those ideas with you or not – I’ll have to do that this week too if I haven’t already done that.
Thanks for stopping by today – have a great day!
Apr 15, 2010 | Big Shot, Bleaching, class, Scrapbook Pages, Sporting, Tutorial |
The Wow Scrapbook kit will include step-by-step instructions to create each layout (three 2-page 12″ x 12″ layouts) including all measurements, color photographs, and WOW tips. Full kits ordered by the 30th of the month will include a paper & embellishment pack.
There are three 2-page 12×12 layouts – one is “Play Ball” which features the Just Basketball set but could be changed to use one of the other sets. Another is an “Easter Basket” page that features a woven basket and the last one is a “Snow Day” layout which features the bleaching technique (we had snow days this year in Georgia so we had to make one!).
We also have an ordering options for demos that don’t want the supplies – order the whole monthly kit or just individual layouts. Click here to go to the WOW Scrapbook Kits Blog.
If you have questions let me know. Happy Scrappin’
Mar 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Bleaching, Scrapbook Pages |
It is another Snow Day here in Georgia – yep another one – this has been the winter for snow all over the US – I think everyone has had more than normal. The schools closed early – Tyler and Ryan are already home. Kyle is on his way – I hope he gets here safely with no road troubles. The streets in our neighborhood were already getting slushy a couple of hours ago. And the snow hasn’t stopped since about 8 this morning – it was mixed with rain in the beginning but not right now.
So in honor of another Snow Day I’ll share my SNOW DAY scrapbook layout with you!
We made this layout at my Scrapbook class last week. The snow flake is from the Season of Friendship stamp set and stamped in Very Vanilla Craft ink randomly on the background. The background is Chocolate Chip. 
I used Bashful Blue Patterns Designer Series paper for the wide strip and for the scalloped strip on each page.
The Jumbo Snowflake punched was used to punch snowflakes for each page – 1 in Chocolate Chip, 1 in Very Vanilla, and one in Close to Cocoa. The title is cut on the Big Shot with the Simple Letters Alphabet Dies – these are Chocolate Chip and are also stamped with the snowflakes. The are attached with Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop them up off the page. I added a piece of Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla Grosgrain ribbon on the ‘O’ and the ‘D’.
The fun part was the snowmen – I cut a piece of Close to Cocoa card stock with the Top Note Die and the Big Shot. On each I stamped the Snowmen from Holiday Lineup in Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder.
Then to make the snowmen “white” I used an aquapainter filled with Bleach! The bleach removes the color from the card stock and turns it into a vanilla color so they look like snow men. It was fun – you may need to go over them more than once to get the color that you want and make sure to use fresh bleach.
I plan to add pictures of the dogs – Aspen and Magnolia – playing in the snow when we had our last Snow Day – it was the light fluffy dry kind of snow. What we have today is wet snow. I hope you like the page – I really liked how it turned out.
Have a fun SNOW DAY!
This card was Wendy’s swap card at the STARZ meeting. It features the new Stampin’ Up! set called Artistic Etchings. Wendy used several techniques on this card including Bleaching, Embossing and tearing. You can read more about her card on her blog – Click here.
