Joy to the World

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Today's card was a fun one.

Trying to use a stencil called Layered Argyle in a few different ways.

You can see what this 2 part stencil looks like below.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and placed stencil #1 onto my paper (diamond) and inked it up with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.  
• Next, I laid the part #2 stencil and positioned it over the diamonds.  I inked that up with some Blueprint Sketch DOX ink then removed it.
• I took the stencil #1 again and repositioned it over the background, moving it over onto the open areas that were still not inked and rubbed on some more Tumbled Glass.  It gave a totally different look to using this stencil in the regular way.
• I splattered the whole panel using my Posca pen.
• I took the panel and die cut the 'Joy' from it, then cut the 'Joy' shadow from some white cardstock.  (it is a 2 piece die)  I glued the two together and set aside to dry.
• I glued the inked panel onto a heavy white card base, then positioned the 'Joy' back into place, matching up the pattern.
• I stamped out the strip sentiment with some Versamark ink, then white heat embossed it.  I glued that over the die cut.
• Finally I glued on some navy dots to add some interest. 

 

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Argyle

                                           

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Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Simple Strips Christmas (TE)

Inks- Distress Oxide

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Layered Argyle (ACLD); TE blending brushes; Posca pen;

Joy die (SSS); navy gems (Dollar store); Misti

Starburst Christmas

Hello and Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC (Technique Lovers Challenge) over at Splitcoast Stampers this week.

I've chosen a fun technique called:

Starburst Background

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I started by looking through my gel prints for my card, but you could use any scraps you have or even some designer paper you have on hand.  I found these green ones....some I did with stencils, some with bubble wrap on the Gel Plate.
• I followed the directions (link and video found above) and cut my strips 1" wide, then cut them into a wedge shape.
• I wanted my starburst to focus on the top, so I started gluing my pieces down by starting in the center and then continued gluing the pieces out to the sides from there, leaving a bit of white space between each one.  I tried to mirror my papers from one side to the other, but you don't have to do that, I just liked the look.
• While that dried, I took another piece of inky paper in greens and die cut the Holly and Pine frame wreath.
• I glued the finished starburst onto a piece of green cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I glued the wreath over the starburst and added the green gems.
• I stamped the sentiment strip onto a piece of white cardstock, then pop dot mounted it over the wreath

Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Simple Strips Christmas (Taylored Expressions)

Inks- Versafine Clair; acrylic paint

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Holly and Pine Frame die (SSS); green gems;

pop dots; paper trimmer (TH); bubble wrap to make prints; Gel plate; brayer

Cheers

Welcome

Meet today's card.

It came together quickly as I used a previous inked background that I created with acrylic paint on my Gel Plate.  I used some bubble wrap to lift the colour from the plate that you can see in the background.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• Like I mentioned above, the blue background was done on my Gel Plate.  I brayered some blue and green acrylic paint onto the plate, then pressed some bubble wrap over that, lifting the colour and leaving a fun impression behind.  
• I splattered over the gel print with my white Posca paint pen and while that dried, I die cut the Dancing Snowflake Square from some white cardstock. (my finished card is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4")
• I cute the gel print to size and glued it onto a square card base.  I glued the die cut snowflakes over that.
• While that dried, I cut a few extra little snowflakes and glued them over the front panel to add more interest and to help fill in some of the open areas.
• I die cut the sentiment from more white cardstock 3 times and then glued them together and onto my card front.  
• To finish off my card, I glued on 3 little pearl gems.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Dragonfly Dreams- WINTER/CHRISTMAS

International Art and Soul- WINTER

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Sending Cheer die (WPlus 9); Dancing Snowflakes die (Memory Box);

acrylic paint; Posca pen; white pearls; Gel plate; Speedball brayer

Happy Christmas

Hello and Welcome

Another card done for the holidays.

I do send out quite a few cards every year so I need a lot of them.

I picked up a new product to try and I have to say, it's a fun one.

It is the Simon Hurley Stamping Foam. 

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with one of the stamping foams (there are 4 in a pkg.). I heated it up with my heat tool as per the instructions and pressed it onto the Pine Tree Duo stencil.  I held it there for moment to get a good impression. The foams are amazing. You can press them onto stamps, stencils or anything that has texture to create an impression.
• I inked the foam up with some Rustic Wildness Distress Oxide ink, gave a little spritz of water and pressed it onto the cardstock to create the background.  
• Next, I masked around the inked area then I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the Pine Trees from Impression Obsession with some Versafine Clair ink over the green trees.
• I dried the ink, then rubbed over it with my anti-static bag. I stamped the Friends background stamp over the whole thing with Versamark ink and white heat embossed it.  It really added great interest to the whole thing.
• I glued the finished panel onto some green cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dot mounted the pre-printed sentiment across the top. 

Here is the stencil I used:

Pine Tree Duo

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Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

The Paper Shelter- A CHRISTMAS CARD

Creative Fingers- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Pine Trees (IO); Friends (Hero Arts)

Inks- Versamark; Distress Oxide

Paper- green cs; heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Pine Tree Duo (ACLD); Simon Hurley foam; heat tool; 

pop dots; Lawn Fawn white eb powder

Joyful Wishes

 

Hello

So glad you stopped by.

Meet today's card.  

A simple one using a brayered 'roll off' sheet I keep when Gel Plate printing.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• Once again, I went into my stash of inked up paper and found this one.  I had rolled some acrylic paint onto white cardstock while printing with my Gel Plate.  Like I have mentioned before, I like to keep them even if they look like quite a mess when you are rolling them off.
• I placed the paper into my Misti and stamped the Poinsettia Collage with some Versafine Clair ink then clear heat embossed it as I wanted to add some more paint over the top and didn't want to smear the ink.
• The roll off sheet was pretty dark, so I added some white with my Posca Paint pen in places to help the pattern emerge a bit.  I splattered using that pen too.
• I cut the stamped image out and glued it onto a piece of navy cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I glued some pearls onto the flower center and pop dotted the sentiment strip (pre-printed) over the background.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas- ANYTHING GOES

Stamping Sensations- CHRISTMAS

Supplies

Stamps- Poinsettia Collage (IO)

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.); navy cs

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Sentiment Strips (SSS);

white pearls; pop dots; white Posca pen

Noel

 

Welcome

Meet today's card.

Couldn't be more simple to create using a piece of cardstock that I rolled excess paint off onto while Gel Plate printing and an embossing folder. 

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by looking through my stash of inked pieces, found this one and thought it would make a pretty card.  It was a piece of white cardstock that I had rolled paint off my brayer onto while Gel Plate printing.  I like to keep my 'roll offs' just for this reason.
• I took the panel and placed it into the Perfect Poinsettia embossing folder and ran it through my die cutting machine.  This folder from Altenew is a 3-D and gives such a wonderful impression.
• Next, using a sanding block, I sanded the paper carefully to remove some of the pink paint on the panel.  I love how it looked.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen to add more interest and to give a snowy feel to the flowers.
• I made sure to keep one of the little pieces that I cut from the paint roll off to use as the sentiment flag.  I placed the small piece into my Misti and stamped the 'Noel' onto it with some Versamark ink and then white heat embossed it.  
• I glued the sanded panel onto a heavy white card base, then pop dotted the sentiment at the top.
• Finally, I added a few clusters of some tiny white pearls.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BKG

My Time to Craft- TEXTURE

Allsorts- ONE FOR THE GIRLS

Supplies

Stamps- Noel (Impression Obsession)

Ink- Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Perfect Poinsettias (Altenew); acrylic paint; brayer; sanding block;

pearls (Dollar Tree); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Lawn Fawn eb powder; Posca pen

Celebrate the Season

 

Hello and Welcome

I'm still going through my inky backgrounds to try and use some of the many I have accumulated.

Here's one I did awhile ago using Ranger Alcohol inks and some blending solution on Yupo paper.

I thought the greens would work for a holiday inspired card.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• Like I mentioned above, I found this piece in my stash.  I used a piece of Yupo paper and dropped various shades of green Alcohol inks onto it, then added some Blending Solution and Rubbing Alcohol to help move the inks around.  For those of you that might not know, Yupo paper is a plastic coated paper that allows inks to move on the surface.
• I placed the inked piece into my die cutting machine and cut it with the Hemstitch rectangle.  
• I got out some white cardstock and die cut the Snowflake Window frame 2 times and glued them together.  It fit perfectly inside the Hemstitched area.
• While the glue dried, I stamped the sentiment strip in my Misti with some black Versafine Clair ink, cut it out and pop dotted it over the die cut.
• I glued it all onto a heavy white card base and finally added a green gem to the center.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- NO DP

Simon Says Wed.- MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

Craft Rocket- WINTER/SNOW

Jingle Belles- BANNER HOLIDAY

Supplies

Stamps- Taylored Expressions-Simple Strips Christmas

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- Yupo; heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Hemstitch frame die (Spellbinders); 

Snowflake Window (MFT)

Patchwork Christmas

Good Morning

The weekends seem to fly by and at this time of the year, there is less time to create.

That being said, I really wanted to try a technique featured over at Splitcoast Stampers called

  Disappearing Nine Patch.  

Super simple to do and a great way to use up some of you paper scraps.

I chose some holiday themed paper in red and green for my card.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by looking through my dp's until I found some papers that I liked.  
• Following the tutorial on SCS, I cut my paper into 1" squares and then glued my papers onto a piece of white cardstock that was 3 x 3.
• I cut them as per the instructions and glued them onto another piece of cardstock.
• Using a postage die, I cut a piece of white cardstock and glued that onto a card panel that was 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 square.  
• I glued a piece of red cardstock over that, then pop dotted the patches onto the red.
• I die cut the 'Merry' from some white and some red, glued them together off setting them a bit and then glued them over the patches.
• I stamped the sentiment strip and pop dotted that over the die cut.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Sweet Stampin- USE RED

Crafty Calendar- ANYTHING GOES

Dragonfly Dreams- CHRISTMAS/ WINTER

Christmas Kickstart- CHRISTMAS SNIPPETS

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Taylored Expressions-Simple Strips Christmas

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white cardstock (Scribes Nook-Waterloo, Ont.); dp from my stash

Accessories and Tools- Merry die (The Stamp Market);  Postage stamp die (Spellbinders); TH paper cutter; pop dots; Nuvo glue