Cobbler Awash

Last night I played the Featured Stamper challenge on Stampin' Connection. This week they were honoring Debbie Currier. If you have access to Stampin Connection you can view Debbie's card here. For those of you without access you can see her card below:

Now take a look at my version!

Stamps: Awash With Flowers, Occasional Quotes

Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler

Accesories: Scallop Edge Border punch, Corner Rounder punch, Whisper White Taffeta ribbon, 1/8" Early Espresso Taffeta ribbon, Button Latte button (retired), Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions die, Certainly Celery marker, Stampin' Dimensionals

The card base is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" Pink Pirouette scored at 4 1/4". The card front was textured in the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots textured impressions die. A strip of 1 1/2" x 4 1/2"  Cherry Cobbler was punched with the Scallop Edge Border punch.

The image panel is a piece of Whisper White cardstock cut at 3" x 4 1/2". The Corner Rounder punch was used on the top two corners. The outlines of the flower and stem from Awash With Flowers were stamped in Early Espresso ink and the solid flower image was stamped in Cherry Cobbler ink. The sentiment from Occasional Quotes was stamped in Early Espresso ink. I can always use birthday cards so many of the cards I make have a birthday sentiment on them.

The stem and leaves were colored in with a Certainly Celery marker. The Cherry Cobbler scalloped cardstock was adhered to the bottom of the image panel. Whisper White Taffeta ribbon was wrapped around the image panel and tied into a knot. I used a button from the Button Latte pack (retired) with some 1/8" Early Espresso Taffeta ribbon and tied the button around the knot in the Whisper White ribbon, then added a small bow. The panel was adhered to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals.

It's fun to participate in these challeges and they can give you wonderful inspiration for other projects while honoring the original creator of the project you are copying. Thank you so much Debbie for inspiring me and other stampers. Congratulations for getting picked as the Featured Stamper this week!

Elegant Turqoise Medallion

Happy Monday all!!! Yesterday I showed you the Emboss Resist technique and today I am going to show you the card I made with the panel I made in the tutorial. If you missed out on the tutorial you can find it here. Take a look at this super easy and fast card!

Stamps: Medallion, Perfect Punches
Cardstock: Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Tempting Turquoise, Versamark
Accessories: 5/8" Chcolate Chip Satin ribbon (retired), heat gun, clear embossing powder, embossin buddy, silver brad, paper snips.

The card base is Elegant Eggplant cardstock cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and scored at 4 1/4". The image panel is 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" Whisper White cardstock. I used my embossing buddy on my cardstock and stamped the Medallion in Versamark and heat emossed with clear embossing powder.

By using a circular motion with a sponge to swirl on the Elegant Eggplant and then the Tempting Turqouise ink from the center outwards until the entire piece of cardstock was covered with ink. Then I wiped off the excess ink and adhered the panel to a piece of Whisper White cardstock cut at 4" x 5 1/4". I add a piece of 5/8" Chocolate Chip Satin ribbon (retired) around the panels and adhered this to the Elegant Eggplant card base.

The sentiment from Perfect Punches was stamped on a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock in Elegant Eggplant ink ad cut out with paper snips. On a side note all of the stamps in the Perfect Punches set coordinates with a Stampin' Up punch. I just don't have the large oval punch that coordinated with this sentiment. One of these days I will fix that...anyway...back to the card. I sponged the edges of the sentiment with Tempting Turquoise ink then used my needle tool and mat pack to punch a hole right where the end of the swirl was and added a silver brad. The sentiment was adhered to the card front using Stampin' Dimensionals.

I hope you've enjoyed my card and tutorial on emboss resist. So have fun trying out this easy technique. I wouls love to see the cards that you make using this technique, so please add the web address to your card photo in the comments section. Have fun stamping everyone and enjoy the rest of your Monday!

Emboss Resist Tutorial

Sorry for not getting this posted on Saturday when I usually post the weekly tutorial. I was busy helping my  Mom tile her backsplash in her kitchen. I will have to post a picture of what it looks like because it is gorgeous.

Now on to the tutorial. Last week I showed you embossing. Today I am going to show you a technique called Emboss Resist. For this tutorial you will need your heat gun, embossing buddy, clear embossing powder, Veramark, cardstock, stamp, sponges, and ink.

First you will use your embossing buddy on your cardstock, stamp your image with Versamark, add your clear embossing powder, and heat emboss. If you missed the tutorial on heat embossing you can find it here. Here you can see that I used the Medallin stamp on a piece of 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" Whisper White cardstock.

 

Now you are going to ink up your sponge with your first color of ink and sponge from the center of the medallion outwards. I like to use the sponge in a circular motion to apply the ink.

Here I am using Elegant Eggplant for the center of my Medallion.

Next ink up your sponge with the second color and sponge outwards past the ends of the Medallion.

I chose to go ahead and sponge the rest of the cardstock. Here you can see that I used Tempting Turqouise for my second color.

Now you will use a tissue or paper towel to rub the ink off of the embossed image.

The result is a beautiful white medallion surrounded by color. The embossing resists the ink which allows you to color your background while keeping your image the color of the cardstock you started out with. I really love this effect. It's so easy and looks great!

 

Come back tomorrow to see the card that I made with my emboss resist panel! Have fun stamping!

Purse Gift Card Holder

This is the final project that my guests made at the make and take last week. This project was inspired by a gift card holder that Heidi Tekunoff posted on Stampin Connection. These are a super cute way to give a gift card! Take a look!

Stamps: Baroque Motifs

Cardstock: Whisper White, Pretty In Pink, Rich Razzleberry

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories: Top Note Die, Scallop Circle Punch, silver brads, velcro dots, Paper Snips, Needle Tool, Mat Pack, Mini Glue Dots

To start off I cut a piece of Whisper White cardstock 6"x6" and scored it at 3". After folding on the score line I measured in from the sides 1" on the open end and marked it with a pencil. Then I went to the paper cutter and cut from the folded side corner to the penicl mark I made. This angles the sides of the paper in so that it will fit inside the top note die.

The front of the purse was stamped with the swirls from Baroque Motifs in Pretty In Pink ink. Then I cut out two Top Notes from Rich Razzleberry ink. One of them I scored in half long-ways, and the other one I cut in half long-ways. The scored top note gets two holes punched approximately 1/2" from the end on both ends. Some Whisper White Taffeta ribbon was threaded through the holes in the folded top note to create the handle. Sticky strip was added under the fold line and along the sides of the folded top note. This will be where the purse adheres to the lid.

Remove the liner from the sticky strip and adhere your ribbon ends (from your handle) to the sticky strip. Then adhere the back of your purse to the bottom of the folded top note. By adhereing your ribbon between the two layeres you don't get a bluge from a knot and you don't have to worry about finishing off the ribbon ends.

Sticky strip was added to the sides and a small piece on the flat side of one of the top note halves. You want to make sure that your 1/4" sticky strip is as close to the top note edge as possible. This will leave a space just big enough for a gift card to slide in. You could use the other half of the top note to put a pocket on the inside of the purse front to hold a note card.

The small medallion from Baroque Motifs was stamped in Pretty In Pink ink on a scrap of Pretty In Pink cardstock and punched out with the Scallop Circle Punch. The small medallion was stamped again with Rich Razzleberry ink on a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock and was cut out with Paper Snips. The needle tool and mat pack were used to pierce a hole in the center of both medallions. A brad was added to hold them together and the medallions were adhered to the purse front with a couple Mini Glue Dots.

Now we need to add the velcro to hold the purse flap closed. I cut the velcro circle in half since we really don't need a whole one to keep this purse closed. I put the hook and loop velcro together and stuck it to the purse flap where I wanted it. Then simply close your purse flap to adhere the other side in just the right spot. Since you had the two parts together already when you close the flap the velcro gets adhered right where you need it to.

Now your purse gift card holder is complete! This is such a cute way to present a gift card to someone.

Come back tomorrow to see a tutorial on Emboss Resist! Have fun stamping!

Butterfly Grasses

Today I have for you the last card that my guests made at the make and take last week. This card was inspired by a card Jen Smith made. It's cute and pink! Take a look!

Stamps: Inspired By Nature, Very Vintage Wheel, Punch Potpurri

Cardstock: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red

Ink: Rose Red, Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Basic Black

Accessories: Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions die, 1/4" Pretty In Pink Grosgrain ribbon, Butterfly Punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch

The card base is Whisper White cardstock cut at 4 1/4" x 11" and scored at 5 1/2". The card front was textured using the Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Die in the Big Shot. A piece of Rose Red cardstock was cut at 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" and stamped with Rose Red ink with the Very Vintage Wheel. This was adhered to the bottom of a piece of Pink Pirouette cardstock cut at 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" and punched with the Scallop Edge Border Punch on the top and bottom.

A piece of Whisper White cardstock was cut at 2 3/8" x 3 1/2". The grass from Inspired By Nature was stamped with Old Olive ink. The sentiment from Inspired By Nature was stamped in Basic Black ink. This panel was adhered to the top of the Pink Pirouette punched panel.

The butterfly from Punch Potpurri was stamped on a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and punched out with the Butterfly Punch then adhered on top of the grass with a Stampin Dimensional. Some 1/4" Pretty in Pink Grosgrain ribbon was tied into a knot around the layers. All of these top layers were adhered to the card front using Stampin Dimensionals.

I just love how cute and fun this one is! Thank you Jen for the inspiration! 

If you live in the Leavenworth, Kansas area and are interested in attending a Make and Take at my home please e-mail me at amanda.c09@hotmail.com. You can check out the calendar on my Stampin' Up website to see the Make and Take dates.

Come back tomorrow to see the 3D item that we made. It is a really cute gift card holder that I just know you'll love!

Watercolor Tree

What I have for you today is the masculine card that we made at the Make and Take this month. I always try to include at least one masculine card, because those are harder for some people to come up with. This card was inspired by Heather Klump on Stampin Connection. Well...take a look!

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Elements of Style, Wood Grain
Cardstock: Pacific Point, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla
Ink: Versamark, Pacific Point, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Gold Embossing Powder, water spritzer, 1/8" Early Espresso Taffeta ribbon, Watercolor Crayons: Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip

The card base is Pacific Point cardstock cut at 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and scored at 4 1/4". The card front was stamped with the Wood Grain background stamp in Pacific Point ink. I really love this Wood Grain background stamp because it works so great for those guy cards or for nature cards. It's one of my most frequently used background stamps!

The image panel is a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock cut at 2 7/8" x 3 7/8". To stamp the image I colored directly on the stamp with the watercolor crayons using a combination of Pumpkin Pie and More Mustard for the leaves and Chocolate Chip for the trunk. After you stamp is colored spritz it with water using your spray bottle. I just use an old travel-sized hair spray bottle because it puts out a pretty fine mist. Then simply stamp on your cardstock!

To add the color in the trunk of the tree, the grass, and the sky squeeze the center of the closed Classic Ink Pad. Always Artichoke for the grass, Pacific Point for the sky, and Chocolate Chip for the tree trunk. Open the ink pad half way so that the lid is lying on the table. Use an Aquapainter to pick up the ink off the lid and use it to color in your sky, grass, and tree trunk. Now you have a beautiful watercolored scene! At this point it may take a while for your image panel to dry completely. I'm impatient sometimes so I dried mine off with the heat gun before continuing.

The embossing buddy was rubbed all over the bottom of the image panel. This is such a great tool for heat embossing. The powder inside the little pouch prevents embossing powder from sticking with static electricity where you don't want it. The embossing powder will only stick where your ink is. If you like heat embossing then it is definitely a tool to have in your stash! The sentiment from Elements of Style was inked up with Versamark and stamped in the bottom right hand corner of the cardstock. Gold embossing powder was poured on top and the excess removed. This was heated with a heat gun and now you have a shiny gold sentiment. 

The image panel was then adhered to a piece of Cajun Craze cardstock cut at 3" x 4". A piece of 1/8" Early Espresso Taffeta ribbon was tied around these panels between the sentiment and the watercolored image. This panel was adhered to the card front and you're done!

Come back tomorrow to see a pretty pink and white card with butterflies! Have fun stamping!