Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Red Wine Birthday

My days a getting ahead of me and I can not keep up with this diary as I would like. This was my Dads Birthday card. He loves wine and I had this stamp for forever.

Desinging a card for original personality of a person is not so easy, and i am usually making the card the day of, even though I have the idea in my head for weeks.

I stamped the image on watercolor paper and then distressed it with ink and tearing it. This is a 5 1/2 square card.

RECIPE:
PAPER:
SU Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Creamy Caramel, Watercolor paper

Stamps: Non-SU, SU Happiest of Birthday Greetings, SU French Script (retired)

Accessories:
SU retired Cording, Circle punch, brads, Dry Embossing Folder


Simon Says Alli's One

This is special card for my niecs first birthday. A very generous lady at Simons Says Stamp gracious gifted me this stamp set. It is one of there eexclusive designs. The theme of the birthday was party was Party hats. The invitations I made were party hats and the favors were party hats stuffed wth candy. On to the card. It is a 5 1/2" sqaure card with wrapping paper as the designer paper in the background. I cuttlebugged the Bashful Blue paper witht the "happy Birthday" folder. I printed the number one on light weight cardboard using a large font(Times New Roman) on Microsoft Word. Then I cut the additional layers out of wrapping paper and card stock. The Balloons were punched.


RECIPIE:
Paper: SU White and Bashful Blue, scrap wrapping paper leftover from wrapping gift.
Stamps: RAK from SS Stamp
Accessories: Computer for words, baloon punch, SU retired Cording

Richie's Valentine

I know that if you have had the opportunity to spend time with me you know that Richie's the reason for my becoming a SU Demo as well as an instructor. If I didn't not have his support there would not be a blog or any of the other creative things that I do when it comes to crafting. So this Valentine was I would say over the top. It was easy just time consuming. I love the way it came out. And he was really surprised. He wanted to know if I owned the real thing. I won't go any further.

This is a 5 1/2 inch square card. Lots of eyelets.. The paper is digital paper that I printed from my many digital paper packs. the xo is a dollar bin Stugio G stamp from last years AC Moore Valentines Day stamps. The Marvy (green handle) heart punch. I used some left over hem lace tape as the "ribbon" embellishment. PTI Bitty dots paper. I used black grosgran ribbon on the bottom to look like garters.

I got the template from a very talented artist named: Sara Sandberg http://www.timeforcrafting.co.uk/corset_invite.html.


STAMPS: Studio G Valentine (AC Moore Clearence)

PAPER: Digital Heart Paper, SU Basic Black,SU Blush Blossom, PTI White and Bitty Dots, Scrap Silver for Hearts.

Accessories" American Crafts Black Eyelets, Wrights Hem Tape, MArvy (green Handle) heart punch, Black Offrasy ribbons. Cropadile.


Suspended Thanks

What is TLC? Well in the world of acronymns it stands for; TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE". This is a technique I taught for one of my classes in February. I am trying to expand my classes to reflect some of the challenges that they would love to do on SCS but for one reason or another don't get the chance to do it.

This is Card #2in the "Suspension Class". I followed the tutorial on SCS. Here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/suspension_card/
The Technique is great. I also wanted to show the students that one technique can create a whole different card. (See the Buzzin Bees below). One of my favorite Stampin Up! colors is Mellow Moss, I combined sponging and stamping to create this card. Each layer of the scallop that is punched out is done one at a time, The punch can not go through two layers at one time. So I punched through the very vanilla first. I then placed the vanilla layer on the eggplant layer and traced the scallop with pencil on that layer. Placed the punch over my pencil marks and I got the second scallop cut. Now to get the circle on the moss layer I used a colluzle circle cutter, because the scallop punch could not go into the layer of moss far enough to create the window circle.

Finally I sponged and stamped my images and put the card together. This took longer to explain. It is quite easy.

STAMPS: SU True Friend, SU Sincere Salutations.
PAPER: SU Mellow Moss , SU Elegant Eggpant, SU Very Vanilla, SU Vellumn Cardstock
INK: SU Old Olive, SU Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: UNWAXED Dental Floss, SU Scallop Punch, Coluzzle Circle Cutter, Sponge, Silver Brad, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch.

Buzzin BY(Suspension ) Card

This is a card from one of my Technique classes for the Month of March. I found the tutorial for a "Suspension Card". It is a tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers.
I give my students more than a sample. I provide them with options to use their own imaginations. So I am not only providing a technique I give them inspiration. I don't like to call it "casing" I like sharing inspiration.
This set really is cute. A real must have. And I love love love "Buttercup Flowers" aka Daffodils.
I colored the Prima Flower with a So Saffron Marker to give it the hue of the card.
PAPER: SU Basic Black, SU So Saffron, Papertrey White
STAMPS: SU Just Buzzin By
Ink: Versafine Black, Re-inkers; So Saffron, celery, going gray, close to cocoa, creamy caramel, blush blossom for the Bees Cheeks.
Accessories: Auqapainter, T. Holtz Glossy Accents, Basic Basic Black Stitched ribbon, Prima flower, UNWAXED Dental Floss, Silver Brad, Cuttlebug embossing folder from the "Thank you" Die Duo.

MFT Valentine

This was a set that I have been wanting to play with for over a year. I made this card for a good friend CB and her DH DB. I love the whimsical art of the MFT stamps.. The layout is from a fellow stamper who shares wonderful work on SCS and on her own blog. Her name is "Nitestamper"http://memystampsandi.blogspot.com/ . One of CB favorite colors is SU Regal Rose. So I found ribbon from a a place called G&& in Saddlebrook, NJ and built the card from there. I also have really enjoyed play with " Digi Paper", and this is from MFT digital paper pack. Stephanie Fizer Papers - Chocolate Kiss @ http://www.mftstamps.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=25.

I also created a little treat box from 2 SU Scallop envelope Sizzix Die Cut, ran them through the Heart Cuttelbug Folder, and glued them together. I had to cut some of the bottom of the envelope off to get the base of the box to close.

The chocolates are colored with Copic Sketch markers, doodled with a gel pen and then put crystal effects over the box. I used paper pebbles/a/k/a "Dew Drops" also from G&G Distributors. The Hear buttons are from AC Moore when they had the "seasonal Valentines" section.

PAPER: SU Regal Rose, SU Chocolate Chip, Papertrey White

INK: SU Craft Chocolate Chip

STAMPS: My Favorite Things "Be Mine", SU Holidays and Wishes

Accessories: Cuttlebug- Heart Blocks Folder, Morex Ribbon 5/8", Marvy Gigia Hearty Punch, SU Sizzix Scallop Envelope Die, Paper Pebbles, Heart Buttons by Dress it UP.



Rustic Rooster

The newest thing I have discovered is purchasing "Digital Paper Packs". Many Digital Scrapbookers and Graphic Artist's create these paper packs, which can be purchased and downloaded. I then save them in my hard drive, and print out what I need. I love this because I use these papers a lot in my classes. I ideally use Hammermill 60lb. white paper, which I get at Staples.com (only). It is cost effective and fun. The best is the paper packs have coordinating papers just like Hybrid papers. I started the base of this card I can not tell you how long ago and just plain lost my Mojo on it. I cuttlebugged the Very Vanilla Base attached the the ribbon and digital paper layer, and then was stuck. For months it layed on my desk. I would look at it and nothing. Then I got my new Hostess Level 2 set from Stampin Up and the day I mounted it on the desk it struck me. From that instant it took ten minutes to complete the card.

I colored in the Rooster with an Aqua painter and ink pads from the SU Earth Element color family. I used some pewter brads from American Crafts and a paperclip that was in a basket of things to put away and a scrap piece of SU old olive ribbon. I used the SU Tab Punch, circle punches, ticket corner and word window punch to create the greeting.
RECIPE:
PAPER:Digital Paper by Shawnery Mathis on the Scrapbookbytes.com website. Here is the link ; http://scrapbookbytes.com/store/search.php?mode=search&page=1, SU Very Vanilla
SU Chocolate Chip, SU So Saffron
INK: Versa Briallnce Ink in Choclate, Memento Ink in Brown stamped off once, So Saffron for Sponging the edges of the main image.
ACCESSORIES: American Crrafts Brads, Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder-Leafy Branch, SU Punches Word Window,Tab, Circle, and Ticket Corner, SU Felted Chocolate Ribbon, Staples Paper Clip, Su old Olive Ribbon.