Apr 20, 2012 | Birthday, Cards, Embossing, Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012 |
This card features a bunch of products from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the new Diagonal Score Plate. The Diagonal Score Plate was used to create the waffle background on the Soft Suede piece.
There is a strip of Designer Series paper from the Sweet Shop collection. I used the Label Framelits to create the Pool Party label. The yummy ice cream cone is from the Mouthwatering stamp set. There are a couple of different things going on with the ice cream cone. The cone is colored first with a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write marker and then thumped with the Soft Suede marker – that gives it the different shades of color. The ice cream was colored with the Calypso Coral marker and then I put a drop of Versamark ink on it and spread it around to cover the ice cream – sprinkle with the Cherry Scented Embossing Powder and heat set. I know you can’t smell my blog post but if you could smell the card in real life it smells like cherries. The cone is cut out and added on the label with dimensionals.
There is also one of the Jelly Bean brads right by the label. and the greeting punched out with the decorative label punch – I thought this one was perfect – “Happy birthday with a cherry on top!”.
I did tie some Calypso Coral ribbon that came from the Sale-A-Bration ribbon&brad pack onto this card – I thought it finished it off quite well. This card was based on something I saw at leadership.
Have a sweet day!
Oct 24, 2011 | Embossing, Halloween, Holiday Mini catalog 2011 |
This is a quick easy little treat for Halloween. This was one of the projects in my last hands-on class which was all about having fun outdoors. What’s more fun outside than Glow sticks?
The bracelet sized glow sticks fit perfectly in our 1″ x 8″ skinny cellophane bags. I slid in two glow sticks and the connectors and sealed up the bag. I had purple glow sticks so I decided to use purple on my tag.
For some added fun I pulled out my Tangerine Tango Embossing powder. I stamped the trick-or-treat owl from the Warmest of Wishes stamp set (the hostess set in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog) with VersaMark ink on some Basic Black card stock, covered it with the Tangerine Tango Embossing powder, heat set it with the heat tool, and then punched it out with my Owl punch. Isn’t he cute with his black mask?
I punched a piece of Elegant Eggplant card stock with the big 2-1/2″ Circle punch. On the bottom I stamped the spider web image from the Wicked Cool stamp set in Black ink – it is a bit hard to see in the photo but it’s there. And above that I stamped the “have a wicked halloween” from the same set in VersaMark and embossed it with the Tangerine Tango powder. To attach to the glow stick bag just punch a hole in the corner and tie on with some Basic Black Taffeta ribbon. 
I attempted to take a picture of it in the dark with one of the sticks glowing – not the best picture but you get the idea. I think these would be fun to had out at Halloween or for a party – get them all glowing and put them in a pot for the kids to pull out.
Enjoy your day!
Aug 10, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Embossing, Inspired by Nature, Masking, uStamp |
Hi everyone! Only a few more days before we move Tyler down to his dorm to start college. We shopped yesterday and the girl at the check out gave us a funny look and said “is he going to college or why are you buying all this stuff?” And yes we are getting ready for college – there were many other things that I thought he needed and his answer was “I’ll let you know later if/when I need that.” Fortunately he isn’t going to be that far from home and I do a monthly card class down on the campus so I will be around.
Well that probably isn’t why you are here on my blog so let’s get on to a stamping project. This card is one that I made for the UStamp Swap at convention. Oh by the way the next UStamp class starts this Friday and I designed TWO projects for the class. If you haven’t signed up for this online class you should – there are over 40 projects from demonstrators all over the world with complete tutorials. CLICK HERE for more information.
Anyway back to my card for today. A bunch of us got together from the last Ustamp Blog Hop and did a swap at convention. Here is my card:
This card has a lot of steps and masking going on and I am writing a tutorial with the instructions for it. I will add it to this post later today.
Colors are Basic Black, Old Olive, Whisper White and Crumb Cake.
Stamp Sets -Nature’s Nest and Inspired by Nature.
This was also my card swap for my PAWS team meeting in July. I’ll be back later today.
UPDATE: I was having some trouble getting my tutorial converted to a PDF so that I can post it for you – I’ll get it fixed in the morning. Thanks.
Oct 24, 2010 | Bingo, class, Embossing, Halloween, SU Ribbon |
This is a fun project that I created for my Halloween class (it was last month). It is a BOO wall hanging. The letters are wood cut outs that came from a craft store. You could do the same thing with chipboard – if you use the dies from the Big Shot – it would be smaller though.
Each of the letters was covered with Craft Ink using a Sponge Dauber in the base color – Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black and Old Olive. Then I stamped with Craft Ink on each letter using the Wicked Cool stamp set. Surprisingly the ink did not dry like I thought. I started by making just one letter and when it wasn’t dry the next day I decided I needed to try something else. My solution – cover the whole letter with Clear Embossing Powder and heat with the Heat Tool. Problem solved and now they had a glaze look to them.
Then I decorated each letter with some punched pieces and ribbon. The ‘B’ uses the Decorative Label Punch, the Bat Punch, the Wide Oval Punch, and the Black Lace Raven ribbon. The witch boots are stamped and cut out and then I added the Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink to them.
For the first ‘O’ had the Basic Black Wide Grosgrain Striped Ribbon – torn in half so that it frays. Then for the tag I used the Bat Punch, the Jewelry Tag punch and the Small Oval punch. All are tied together with Linen Thread and tied to the bow. 
Also on the Black ‘O’ I stamped the candelabra’s from the Wicked Cool stamp set and then used the Moonlight Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink on each of the candle flames. It looks good in person – it gives them a spooky glow.
For the last ‘O’ I used the Decorative Label Punch, the Modern Label punch, the 1″ Circle punch (or it may be the 3/4″ inch – I’m looking at the picture and don’t want to walk upstairs to look at the real thing). The hat is stamped and cut out. 
There are actually two of the decorative label punches – one goes around the back of the letter and then the two are held together with the brads.
My goal was to attach everything to the letters so they couldn’t fall off. The tag on the ‘B’ is tied on with the lace ribbon, and the first ‘O’ is of course the ribbon tied around. So for this one I used the punched pieces with the brads.
At the very top I added a bunch of ribbon tied in a knot around the hanger. It turned out to be a fun Halloween decoration – I have mine hanging in my kitchen.
So how about Bingo – I’m looking for a new winner – is today going to be the day????
Let’s play for today ….
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #13 –the 
cupcake from Cute by the Inch stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
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!
May 31, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Baroque Motifs, Cards, Embossing, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Thank You |
It was really hard not sharing these projects earlier. Since we made them during the Sale-A-Bration and Occasions Mini Catalog sales period some of my projects use items from these. They were current at the time so they were eligible for the contest. Even though the judging occurred after they ended. I wonder if that had anything to do with the chosen winners. Between that and using what are now going to be retiring colors – that was announced after I sent my entry in and when you see one of my scrapbook pages it ended up with a bunch of retiring colors on it. Oh well…
So here is card #1 – I considered this to be my vintage card. I had actually created a scrapbook page with this idea and posted it on my blog earlier – click here to see it – and when I was creating for the Artisan contest I kept coming back to that page but knew I couldn’t enter it since it was already on my blog. My solution was to make a card using the same idea.
It is a very pretty card in person – I’m not sure the picture does it any justice. The card base is Basic Black and the stamping is done with Versamark and embossed with Clear Embossing powder. I love this look.
I used the Vintage Labels stamp set from Sale-A-Bration – too bad that one isn’t still available. The others are all still current – Charming, Tiny Tags, and Baroque Motifs.
The colors are Crushed Curry, Basic Black and Whisper White.
I had also decided to decorate the inside of each of my cards. I go in phases of doing this. And I usually always do it when the card base is dark like the Basic Black. The inside was pretty simple but matched with the front of the card.
So that is my first entry for the Artisan Award.
I hope you like it. And that you’ll come back to see the rest!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
CLICK HERE – to go to the post for other Almost Artisan blog links.
This card features a bunch of products from the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog and the new Diagonal Score Plate. The Diagonal Score Plate was used to create the waffle background on the Soft Suede piece.
