Strength and Hope with 2 techniques

Here is the first card I've made with this new, beautiful stamp set Strength and Hope.  It showcases two stamping techniques.  The first is emboss resist and the second is thumping!  We made this card at this month's Demo Only Stamp Camp.  A "mistake" was made by someone in that she sponged Pretty in Pink ink instead of Bashful Blue and it was gorgeous!  I made another card with the Pretty in Pink sponging.  Hopefully I'll get a picture of that one for you tomorrow so you can compare the two.

Have questions about any of these techniques?  Just ask!  Or better yet, host a workshop or card making night and I'll show you and your friends!

Tired of Christmas Yet?

Well can you suffer through a couple more of these great Christmas cards I received??  I think you can!  Check these out.

The first one was made by Dottie C.  The wreath is such a nice deep green (Handsome Hunter maybe?) and the red bling really stands out from it.   And check out the corner details!

The second card was created by Mary C.  It’s a fabulous easel card using the Definitely Decorative stamp set.  The ornament was stamped and embossed with Iridescent Ice embossing powder on Real Red cs and punched out with the ornament punch.  It holds the tent up just perfectly!  And what a perfect way to display a picture of her handsome boys, huh?!?!

Thank you ladies!

Four Reasons for this card…

So… my friend Mary showed me some great Thanksgiving Day easel cards she was making not too long ago.  If you know Mary you know she likes the more involved, intricate type projects (remember this?) so I thought to myself, ‘must not attempt easel card.’  LOL

Well, in the last couple weeks these easel cards have started popping up everywhere in the online stamping world.  So I thought maybe I should reconsider my original thoughts on these and try something new!  And then it turned out that splitcoaststampers posted a tutorial on them and then I discovered the Crazy 4 Challenges blog posted an easel card for a challenge last week.  Of course I didn’t get my card done in time for the challenge deadline, but that’s okay.  I actually combined it with this week’s C4C Challenge of using acetate as well! 

So have you counted three reasons thus far as to why I created this card?  1) to attempt something new 2) to participate in the easel card challenge 3) to participate in the acetate challenge.  What’s number 4 you ask?  To create a project to be made at this week’s Stamp Club meeting!!  Hope my clubbers like it!!

If anyone from SU! is reading this, please don’t ever retire the ‘Lovely as a Tree’ stamp set!  It’s such a wonderfully fabulous versatile stamp set!  I white embossed the trees onto Night of Navy cardstock.  See the snowflake acetate covering the trees?  I used Frost White Shimmer Paint for the snowflakes using the new ‘Serene Snowflakes’ stamp set.  The sentiment ‘warm winter wishes’ comes from the hostess stamp set ‘The More the Merrier’ and I used the shimmer paint for that as well.  And just to add more sparkle (and a prop for the easel) I put a strip of sticky strip across the base and covered it with the Silver Glass mix beads.  That’s another product I don’t use enough!  Love how it sparkles (of course it looks better IRL, but use your imagination!) 

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about product used on this card.  Take care!

Birthday Stars

The first meeting of the Twist Card club is this coming Monday night, so I finished designing the final card for club today and used the Mojo sketch to help me do so!  This is one of those sets I had to have months ago that I’ve NEVER used – until now.  You know you have those sets too!  Sets you have to have in your collection, can’t get rid of, but perhaps barely use!  LOL  No worries, stamps aren’t a terrible addiction to have!

Anyway… on to the card.

Supplies
Stamp Sets:
Starring You
Darling Dots
Paper:
Kraft
Ruby Red
Bashful Blue
Glossy White
Whisper White
Basic Black
Inks:
Ruby Red marker
Bashful Blue pad and marker
Creamy Caramel marker
Basic Black Craft and Classic
VersaMark
Accessories/ Embellishments:
Clear embossing powder
Heat gun
Stamp a ma jig
blender pen
scallop edge punch
scallop circle punch
1-3/8" circle punch
black vintage brad
star punch
dimensionals

And here’s the Sketch for this week’s Mojo Challenge:

Rainy Day Kindness

It’s a rainy day here – a perfect day for stamping!  So I looked around online to find a challenge and remembered Taylor’s challenge that she puts on each week.  So here’s her sketch:

And here’s my card:

I embossed the rose with Rose Red craft ink and clear embossing powder then watercolored it in with Pretty in Pink ink and an aquapainter.  To make the circles I used the Circle Scissors plus.  And the butterfly came from the Bigz Beautiful Butterflies die with the Big Shot.  And I love the Brushed silver card stock additions.  I sometimes forget about our specialty card stocks; I really should start using them more! LOL  Anyway, hope you like it and hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend!