A Peek Into My Stamping Room

The Rubber Cafe' & Hope You Can Cling Too!

Hello!  Hope you are having a great week!  As I was getting ready to make my project for today's post, I was kinda drawing a blank on what I should make.  So I checked out the challenges for the Hope You Can Cling To 2012 forum on Splitcoaststampers and found a challenge that was just right for a project!  I picked the Stand Like a Flamingo Challenge.

 This challenge is to be like a flamingo and stand on one leg.  What that means for me was to only use one of each supply on my project - one stamp, one sheet of patterned paper, one sheet of colored cardstock, etc..... This was really kinda hard actually but I think I pulled it off!

For the base of my card and for the sentiment panel, I used some ivory cardstock that cut for an A-2 card.  I cut/embossed a piece of patterned paper using the A-2 Matting Basics A set.   Then I got out some of my favorite The Rubber Cafe' supplies to brighten up my card! Scrap Happy Sheer Glue and Your So Fine Silver Medal Glitter!!

First I spread a piece of waxed paper on my work table.  Then I squirted a bit of the Scrap Happy Sheer Glue on the waxed paper.  Using a paint brush, I painted the glue all around the edges of the patterned paper and sprinkled the Silver Medal glitter on the glue.

I used the same technique to paint some Scrap Happy Sheer glue onto the snowflake die cut.  I sprinkled on the glitter and then put the excess back into the tub using the waxed paper!

I stamped the Merry Christmas (elegant) sentiment  onto a piece of ivory cardstock using black ink.  Then I put everything together using more Scrap Happy Sheer Glue.  It dries to tacky pretty fast so you can work with it.  Then when I had everything just how I wanted it, I set my card aside to finish drying!

So I think I was successful at the challenge.  Don't tell anyone but I used 2 dies from the A-2 Card Creator Basics A set but I had to have something to put my sentiment on and it fit perfectly on that strip!  LOL  Hope you will join us and participate in the Hope You Can Cling To Challenges this month!  You could win big!!

Supplies Used:

Stamps - The Rubber Cafe' - Merry Christmas (elegant) sentiment

Ink - Tuxedo Black Memento Ink - Tsukineko

Papers - Ivory Pop Tones 120#; Pink Paislee patterned paper

Dies - A-2 Matting Basics A, 2012 Snowflake Pendant - Spellbinders™  Paper Arts

Embellishments - Your So Fine Silver Medal Glitter, Scrap Happy Sheer Glue

RRR July Blog Hop with CardMaker!

Hello!  Welcome to the Really Reasonable Ribbon July Blog Hop.  This month we are doing something special and hopping along with the wonderful designers from CardMaker!  If you are following the hop, you should be coming from my sweet friend, Kimberly's blog.  If not, please pop on over to the Really Reasonable Ribbon blog to get started!!

The Ribbon Club Assortment for July is so much fun!  The vibrant colors are so perfect for this summertime weather we are having!  Here is what you get in this month's assortment....

Pretty, right?  The RRR Monthly ribbon club is such a great deal.  Hope you check it out!

Here is my project for today's blog hop.  I made an accordian card (tutorial found HERE on SCS)  using my wonderful Scor-Pal products along with the Really Reasonable Ribbon!  There are some great Scor-Pal products in the RRR store so be sure to check them out!

To hold my accordian card together, I made sure that my ribbon could move around because that will make it easier to tie into a pretty bow.  Here is what I did......

Before attaching the decorated front cover I made sure there was a place for my ribbon to slide?  Clear as mud, right?  This is what it looked like from the front.

Now its time for the inside!  I kept things kinda clean because I didn't want my accordian to be too thick when folded.  I thought the little tags in the pockets would be perfect to write a special note to your best friend!!

To make the pockets, I cut/embossed the S4-375 Scalloped Labels One from the orange cardstock and then cut that in half.  I added some 1/8" score tape around the edges.  Here is what it looked like before I put it in place.

I just cut two slips of white cardstock to slip inside.  I stamped the little flower image and punched a hole for the ribbon.  I added the two flowers and the bling to complete.  Here is what it looks like when folded together and laying down.

I hope you have enjoyed my blog post today.  Now its time to hop on over to my sweet friend, Jeanne's blog for the next project!  Have fun!

Supplies Used:

• Really Reasonable Ribbon - July Ribbon Club Assortment, 1/8" Scor-Tape, Scor-Buddy
• Spellbinders Paper Arts - S4-375 Scalloped Labels One, S5-143 Jewel Flowers & Flourishes, S5-132 A2 Mattings Basics A
• Clear Stamps - My Mind's Eye
• Discount Cardstock - Kraft, Two Scoops Pumpkin Pie, Prickly Pear, & Very Berry Cardstocks; Yellow Cascata Felt

 

Just For You Tent Topper Card

Here is a card I made a while back that I forgot to post to my blog.  I can't remember why I made it or who received it but I came upon the picture and just knew I had to share it with all of you!

 

The patterned paper is from The Madeline Collection from Prima.  I love the color combo in this paper.  I made a Tent Topper Card.......using THIS tutorial from Splitcoaststampers.  The butterflies were cut from the patterned paper.  The topper portion of my card is a die cut/embossed from Labels Seventeen from Spellbinders.  Then I added the sentiment onto a Ribbon Tag.  This is a fun type of card to make and its really unique.  It will still fit into the A2 size envelope, so no worries there.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  I don't have much planned and hope to spend some serious time scrapbooking.  I have been printing pictures all week so I will be ready to get busy!

Bisque Pottery - A New Technique!

Today I am sitting around with my foot propped up because I twisted my ankle in our driveway this past weekend.  So I took the opportunity to participate in the Try A New Technique Challenge - TLC361 -  over at Splitcoaststampers.  I had to modify the technique because I don't have any embossing folders...so here is my card and the technique I used!

The technique is called Bisque Pottery Technique.  You were to ink up the negative side of the embossing folder with a neutral ink and then emboss.  Since I have no embossing folders I used my Spellbinders Impressabilities™ for this technique.  I started with a base of Neenah Solar Crest White #110 for my base and Simply Smooth White for everything else.   I inked up the Flower Silhouette Impressabilities using Versamark Embossing Ink and ran it thru my Grand Calibur using the embossing sandwich.  Then I sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heat set it.  After it cooled, I cut/embossed the panel using Labels Seventeen die #5 and inked the whole thing using Antique Linen Distress Ink.  The embossed parts resisted the ink leaving the cool look you see!  Then I cut/embossed a frame using Lattice Rectangles #3 and Labels Seventeen #2.  I inked all the edges on this frame, too.  I printed out my sentiment on my computer and cut/embossed it using Ribbon Banners die template.  As you can see, everything got inked really good - which is always fun!!  Plus I added a seam binding ribbon to complete the card.  Hopefully this does look like Bisque Pottery, if you don't think so I just hope you think its pretty!!

 

It's Virtual Stamp Night on SCS!!

Yep, its that time again.....Virtual Stamp Night on Splitcoaststampers.  I always tell myself I am going to do a bunch of the challenges and then I only end up getting one or two done.  Well, I got off to a great start last night!  I completed 2 challenges and plan to do some more tonight.  There will be a challenge announced every hour on Splitcoast from 12 pm until 11 pm (eastern time) today ....HERE is a link to the Master Challenge thread so you can participate in all the fun!

Here is my first card for the "No Business Like Snow Business Challenge" from last night.  Remember, you have 45 minutes to complete the challenge AND challenges can't be combined!

Supplies Used:

• Stamps - Snowflakes background stamp -November Kit of the Month (Unity); sentiment (Hero Arts)
• Cardstock - Neenah Solar White #110, Blue #67 - www.discountcardstock.com
• Ink - Jasmine Mix'd Media Inx (Colorbox); Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
• Accessories - Cool glittery snowflake - For Keeps Sakes goody bag!!; velvet ribbon (PTI), Rhinestones (Want2Scrap)

 

Here is my card for the "Jack Frost - Frosted Image Tech" Challenge.  This is a new technique for me and it was alot of fun.

Supplies Used:

• Stamps - Fabulous Flourish (Hero Arts); sentiment (Heartfelt Creations)
• Cardstock - Gray Cardstock #67, Simply Smooth Ivory
• Ink - Jasmine & Chiffon Mix'd Media Inx (Colorbox); Tuxedo Black Memento
• Accessories - Lacey & Nested Pennant die, Banner die (Spellbinders Paper Arts); Pennants Rhinestone Nestabling (Want2Scrap), Tulle, Fancy Button

I hope you will join me for some Virtual Stamp Night fun tonight!!  I will share what I got done in the next couple of days.  But before I get to have fun creating stuff......I gotta bake some holiday goodies!!  Wish me luck!  LOL

 

Warm & Cozy Mittens!

Here is a card I made for last night's Mini VSN on Splitcoaststampers.  I had planned to do all the challenges last night but I got lazy!  LOL  It was only Caitlyn and I home for the night AND we had the new Harry Potter movie on Blu-ray, so I popped some popcorn and we watched the movie together!  It was great!

But I did participate in one of the Mini VSN challenges - the first one.  You were to make a project with some type of mitten, scarf, etc...anything that would keep you warm and you were to use felt.  Well, luckily I had some felt mittens that a friend had die cut for me and I used them on this card.

Supplies Used:

• Stamps - Papertrey Ink
• Cardstock - Simply Smooth Ivory, Posh Red Linen 80#, Spring Willow Medium Prismatics - Discount Cardstock
• Dies - (S5-027) Labels 21 and (E8-001) Scallop Edgeabilities - Spellbinders Paper Arts
• Accessories - red/white twine, rhinestones, Season's Greetings Patterned Paper and Brads (Echo Park), Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink Pad

Case-ing Today's Featured Stamper!

Every Sunday on Splitcoaststampers a Featured Stamper is picked.  Your challenge is to pick a card/project from that person's SCS gallery and CASE it.  So here is my card that I Cased for the challenge.

Here is a link to the card I CASE'd from PAWALLEN's gallery.  I used a new stamp set I just purchased from Stampin' Up!  I just love everything about this stamp set.....pretty swirls, butterfly, flowers....its all great  and it's called Creative Elements.  The cardstock I used is from www.discountcardstock.com, of course!  I used Posh Milk Chocolate Felt for the base.  The pink layer is Shocking Pink.  Then I used a layer of Kraft cardstock to stamp some of my images on.  I used Rich Cocoa Memento ink pad and Melon Mambo (SU) for the pink images.

What a fun card to make.  This will be a busy week for me.....getting my two younger girls ready for school on Wednesday.  Then my hubby and I will take my oldest daughter to college (which is about 4 1/2 hours away).  It will be a bittersweet week because I am so happy and excited for her but at the same time, I am going to miss her so much.......sniff, sniff!

Talk to you soon!!

Quick Card for Today!

Here is a quick card I made for Monday's Technique challenge on Splitcoatstampers.  You were to use newsprint on your card somewhere.  Well, quite a few weeks back, I was experimenting with making my own flowers from an old hymnal that I rescued from the recycle bin.  So I already had the hard part done for this challenge.  So I needed a sketch to make it even easier!  I used the Mojo Monday sketch for my card layout.  What do you think?

Here is a link to my card in my Splitcoast gallery where I have all the supplies listed.  Yes, I am being lazy today!  LOL

Hope you are having a great week!

Silver Glory Card

Here is a card I made for the Virtual Stamp Night challenge last night called Happy Christmas.  Here is a link to the master challenge thread so you can check it out!  Since the challenge was to make a Christmas Card using NO Red or Green colors, I thought it would be neat to see what it would look like to emboss silver snowflakes onto some Metallic Silver cardstock.  All the cardstock I used for this card can be purchased at Discount Cardstock. 

For the base of this card, I used some Lovely Lilac DoubleMates cardstock.  The neat thing about this cardstock is that its a dark purple on one side and a matching lighter shade of purple on the other side.  This cardstock sure makes like easier when you like for your stuff to "match".  I used some Silver Ore Metallic Cardstock and embossed the small snowflakes on the layer using silver embossing powder.  The senitment from Joyous Noel PreCut Set from  Heartfelt Creations is embossed in silver onto some Simply Smooth White cardstock and then cut/embossed using a S4-229 Labels Five Nestabilities.  I added some rhinestone stickers and adhered it to the silver layer using some 3d foam squares.  The snowflake is from the S4-223 Create a Flake 2 dies by Spellbinders.  I embossed the snowflake using silver embossing powder mixed with iridescent glitter.  It really has a cool glitter effect that is hard to photograph.

This would be a card that I would probably hand-deliver because I am too cheap to pay the extra postage!  LOL  Hope you have a great weekend!  I am going to work on some more of the challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.....it's Virtual Stamp Night!  Wooo Hooo!!

Flower Soft Challenge

Today there is a new Flower Soft Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  The challenge is called Flower Soft Kid's Stuff.  In other words, make a project showing off your Flower Soft featuring Kids!  EASY!!  Did you know that Flower Soft has stamps?  They have some really cute stamps that are super easy to add Flower Soft Sprinkles too.  Here are 2 cards I made using the Moments In Time Stamps line from Flower Soft.

•  Stamps - Little Friend - Moments In Time Collection - Flower Soft
• Cardstock - Posh Satin Sparkle-Aqua (November Posh Paper Kit) & Simply Smooth White - Discount Cardstock 
• Accessories - Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad, Copic Markers, Peel Off Stickers - Silver & Polar White Diamond Range & Silver Diamond Range (Flower Soft), S5-025 Labels Seventeen Nestabilities™, embossing folder, 3d Foam Squares

 

• Stamps - The Singers - Moments In Time Collection (Flower Soft)
• Cardstock - DoubleMates Berry Red, Prismatics Herbal Garden (November Posh Paper Kit) & Simply Smooth White (Discount Cardstock)
• Accessories - Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad, Copic Markers, Peel Off Stickers - Silver & Polar White Diamond Range (Flower Soft), S5-025 Labels Seventeen Nestabilities™, embossing folder, 3d Foam Squares

Are you curious about the November Posh Paper Kit yet?  I have been talking about for a couple of days now.  On Friday, I will show you all about the cool Posh Paper Kit Club from Discount Cardstock.  You are just going to love this!  Talk to you soon and have a great day!