A Peek Into My Stamping Room

Best Wishes Foil Transfer Card

Hello friends!  Hope you are having a good week so far!  It's summer vacation here at our house.  Which just means I get to sleep in one whole hour more than usual!  LOL  As part of the Crafter's Companion design team, I get fun boxes of goodies to try out and make projects.  A few months ago, I got the Foil Transfer Sets with Gold, Copper and Silver foil.  Now I know alot of people love to foil using all kinds of different machines and such.  But these foil transfers work like the old-style Rub-Ons we all used to use for scrapbooking and cardmaking.  For these types of foil transfers, all you need is the transfers, foil and a popsicle stick.  After trying them out, I decided it would be even easier if I used my Gemini Die cutting and Embossing machine instead of the popsicle stick and I was right!

Here is my card.....

So these work just like regular rub-ons work.  Just expose the sticky part of the transfer and place it on your cardstock.  Rub it with the popsicle stick or put it thru your die cutting machine.  Then cut a piece of the foil that will fit over the transfer and apply it.  Now you can rub it with the stick or put it thru your die cutting machine.  I really got the best results by putting it thru my die cutting machine.  I tried it on all the die cutting machines I have - manual and electric and the transfers worked great on all of them!  Here is a closer look......

It's hard to photograph the copper sparkle but I think you get the idea.  I thought this would be a good graduation card for a guy.  What do you think?  I have been experimenting with the foil transfers and different ways you can use them.  I will be sharing them in the next few days!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Let's Jump For Joy!

Hello friends!  Well I took a week off to work on wedding crafts last week.  After Memorial Day weekend, I am hoping to be finished with wedding crafts!  But I did learn some new techniques that I can't wait to share with you.  For today, I have something different to share.  It's graduation time now and I have been needing some graduation cards.  Last week, Peggy Jo Ackley, owner of Pink Ink Stamps, sent me some of her new releases.  They are all so cute but there was two stamps in this group that I just loved and are perfect for making graduation cards!

I used my Spectrum Noir markers to color in the super cut Hi Top Sneaker image.  As you can see below, I also used a Spectrum Noir Illustrator marker.  Both style of marker works well for this small image!!

Here is another look at my card!  I used the Scalloped Square Layering Basics Die Set and the Modern Chevron embossing folder for this card.  The patterned paper is the Perfectly Plaid 6x6" petite paper pack from Lawn Fawn.  I actually used that patterned paper to pick my color scheme for my shoes!

I added some Nuvo  Rosewater Jewel drops on the shoes and in the corners of my card.  This card actually measures 5x7" and my papers are only 6x6....so once I trimmed the paper to the correct width, I used that leftover strip and added it at the bottom.  This is easy to do when using plaids or dotted paper.

I think any graduate would love this card, don't you??

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hello friends!  I just wanted to pop in today and wish you all a Happy Mother's Day!  I also wanted to share with you the card I made for my mom.  I am an only child so sometimes I can be a total smarty pants.......

I used the new Die'sire Stairway Card die set from Crafter's Companion.  This die set was on the Home Shopping Network on May 9th.  The die makes creating this card a snap!!  I made some coffee filter flowers and added a smarty pants sentiment!  LOL  Here is a closer look......

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hope you have a great day!

Are You Shopping?

Hello friends!  Are you shopping on HSN (Home Shopping Network) today?  Today is the crafty day I have been telling you about.  Crafter's Companion has a bunch of products for sale on HSN today and you can see Sara Davies and Jennifer Tryon showing all the things!  Today I wanted to share with you another shutter card project.  I used some of the new Luxury Purple Cardstock and one of the new centers for the Centre Circle Die set.  

I used the matte purple cardstock for behind the sentiment and the glitter purple cardstock for behind the details in the shutter card.  You get three kinds of cardstock in one pack - Glitter, Matte and Mirror - come in the Luxury cardstock pack.  It's just beautiful and comes in many colors, each color sold in it's own pack.  I added some of Sheena's Fanciful Fuschia's that I had made for another project!  I love how this card turned out.

Well that's all I have for today.  I finally finished the wedding invites for my daughter's June wedding and they are in the mail as we speak.  I will be sharing the invite in a few days.  I am also working on some coffee filter flowers for the wedding reception.  I will share those soon, too!

Altered Wooden Spool

Hello friends!  The last few weeks I have been working on projects for the Home Shopping Network (HSN) crafty day on May 9th for Crafter's Companion.  I have been really having fun with the products they sent me.  The new dies and pretty cardstock are really awesome and I hope you will check them out!  Here is a project I created using some of the new dies that will be featured on May 9th.

I bought a few wooden spools from Save-On-Crafts.com a few months ago.  I thought they might be something we could use for the upcoming wedding but they were pricey and they just didn't work.  So I thought it would be fun to alter one and decorate it with some pretty handmade paper flowers and paint, etc.  Here is the result.....

 

I used the Sheena Perfect Partners - Classic Carnations.  This is a beautiful stamp set that also has a matching die set available.  That's why they are perfect partners!  LOL  I dry brushed some white gesso and some pink acrylic paint lightly over the wooden spool.  I used a new Sheena die called Cool Corrosion that I cut from some corrugated cardboard.  I also applied the white gesso and pink acrylic paint over this.  I used some Matte Medium to adhere the corrugated cardboard onto the wooden spool.  After I created the flowers, I used a hot glue gun to apply them onto the wooden spool.  I added the jewelry grade wire sticking out of the top and added the butterfly.  

Here is another look....

And a closer look..........

 

I have been thinking about making a video to show how I created this project.....what do you think?  Let me know!!  Hope you have a great Sunday!!

Supplies Used:

Crafter's Companion Website

Sheena Perfect Partners Classic Carnations Stamp set
Sheena Perfect Partners Classic Carnations Metal Die set
Sheena Create A Flower Cool Corrosion Metal Die set
Signature Collection by Sara Davies - Rustic Cottage-Chic Butterflies Decorative Metal Dies
Crafter's Companion Ultra Smooth Premium white cardstock

Victorian Velvet Distress Ink pad
Willow Green ink pad
copy paper
Pearl/gold button
hot glue gun
corrugated cardboard
white gesso
blush pink acrylic paint
wire, wire cutters
glue dots
liquid adhesive