tea-drinking stamper

Amazing how different this card looks from the one I posted yesterday. I've used a lighter check (Gingham Gala), added some bling and popped up an oval cut from the design, all of which combine to give a very different feeling to this card from yesterday's. I actually stamped and colored the piece of Whisper White card stock and then cut out an oval using one of the Oval Layering Framelits. I attached the stamped frame first with some all purpose glue and the popped up the center of the image using Stampin' Dimensional.  It wasn't difficult to align the elements of the image. This is the inside of the card. Products Used: His Grace cling stamp set (7), 148676, $20.00 Highland Heather 8-1/2" x 11" card stock (24), 146986, $8.50 Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" x 11" card stock (24), 146987, $8.50 Whisper White 8-1/2" x 11" card stock (40), 100730, $9.75 Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad, 147103, $7.50 Gorgeous Grape Classic ...

I love the fact that Stampin' Up! included a meaningful faith-based stamp set in their occasions catalog. Somehow shades of purple just seem so appropriate with this set.  We made two different cards with this set at my March stamp class. I'll show the second one in tomorrow's post. This one is fairly simple. The most difficult part is probably the Buffalo Check on the background paper and that's only because I seem to struggle to cover the background stamp completely. Hence the most helpful and greatly appreciated Stamparatus! However, this stamp appeared in the Holiday catalog and I'm not sure if it will show up in the next annual catalog or not, but I've listed it below anyway. I have discovered that if I want to stamp an image with our classic stampin' pads, it's easy to blur the outlines if you use markers or blender pens. However, the Stampin' Blends work perfectly. So that's what I used to color the vine and flowers on this card. P...

I don't know what it's like where you live, but here in Western New York we have spring one day and winter the next. Or so it seems. We'll be in the 60s tomorrow but dropping temperatures and snow in Sunday's forecast. So "Happy Spring" is a very nice wish! I fell in love with the Fable Friends stamp set as soon as I saw it in the Occasions Catalog but wondered if it wasn't more for baby cards than anything else. It is definitely sweet and could surely be used for such cards; in fact, the stamp that says "darling baby" makes it especially so. But the other greetings make this very versatile. Add the Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper, and I'm in seventh heaven, so to speak. I've always loved gingham and I'm so happy Stampin' Up! added this 6" square paper to their product line. I hope they keep it coming in the next annual catalog.  I even added the Gingham Gala sequins. The fact that they are adhesive-backed doesn't ...

Today I'm sharing two of my very favorite cards - at least at the moment. We made the top card at my February card class and I taught them the blender pen technique used here to add some color to the images without completely filling them in. I'm loving that technique! I got the idea for these cards from the sample on page 49 of the Occasions catalog. I studied the picture long and hard before I figured out how the images were colored. I think I figured it out correctly... The way I taught my class was to stamp the image in the color we want. The flowers all had two colors, one for the blossom and one for the leaves, so we used our markers to color the rubber stamps. I used some of my acrylic blocks as well as my silicone craft sheet to hold ink so ladies didn't have to wait for access to the ink pad. I love that ability!  All I do is tap the blocks against the ink pads to pick up the ink or rub the ink pads along the surface of the silicone sheet (I could put several c...

I am so in love with this stamp set! It is exactly the kind of thing I go for. Combined with the Falling in Love Designer Series Paper—ooh la la! Just gorgeous. Products Used: So in Love stamp set (14), W 143112, $28.00; C 143216, $20.00 Falling in Love Designer Series Paper (12), 142788, $11.00 Sahara Sand 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock (24), 121043, $8.00 Sweet Sugarplum 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock (24), 141418, $8.00 Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad, 141395, $6.50 Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad, 126976, $6.50 So Detailed Thinlits Dies (3), 142751, $33.00        Bundled with So in Love stamp set, W 144738, $54.75; C 144739, $47.50

I was so charmed by the Mediterranean Moments stamp set in the Occasions Catalog, that I wanted to order it, even though I wasn't sure how I would use it. Then I discovered we also have Watercolor Pencils in our catalog in colors that coordinate with our color families! So I ordered both and began fooling around with it. I do hope Stampin' Up! adds more colors because I really wanted a brick color and would have chosen Cajun Craze if it had been available. But I had lots of fun coloring and then smoothing the coloring out with a Blender Pen. I might add a banner with a greeting, such as Happy Birthday, but for now it's just a peaceful note card. Products Used: Mediterranean Moments stamp set (4), W 143188, $28.00; C 143191, $20.00 Watercolor Pencils (13), 141709, $16.00 Blender Pens (3), 102845, $10.00 Whisper White 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock (40), 100730, $9.00 Pacific Point 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock (24), 111350, $8.00 Smoky Slate 8'1/2" x ...