Non-Winning Artisan Award- Western Boot card

Here is another card I made for Artisan Award this year. I loved these colors together (Basic Black, Baja Breeze and Cherry Cobbler). (Click on the card to see it bigger!)

I used the Newsprint designer series paper and squares of the colored card stock to make the cards background. I also sponged Basic Black classic ink around all the edges of the DSP. Do you see the words in the DSP that go so well with the stamped image? I totally planned it, but don't know if anyone else notices! :)

I stamped the boot image from the Out West stamp set in Versa mark onto watercolor paper and then embossed it using black embossing powder with a touch of dazzling diamonds in it. I added the Basic Black satin bow and an antique brad in the middle to finish it off.

Nothing too crazy and technical here, but clean and sticking colors I think make this card worthy! :)

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if you were at convention you may have seen this card on the display boards...it was there!

Saffron Duck- Color Throwdown #76

I have seen the Color Throwdown color challenges all over and decided this week to give it a try! This week the colors are So Saffron, Melon Mambo and Old Olive. They are bright fun colors to work with!
Here what I came up with. I know the Melon Mambo is hard to see but I could not make it work the way I was thinking it would, so the small little Melon Mambo flowers will have to do.

The duck is from the retired stamp set Wagon Full of Fun. I love water coloring this little guy, he is so fun. I put the Old Olive card front through my Big Shot with the SU! Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder, added the So Saffron ribbon and card stock, mounted the duck on a piece of Old Olive card stock and then mounted him on the card base and called it good!

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Full Moon Tent Topper

Here is the card I designed for everyone who attended our World Card Making Day event to make. It is a Halloween scene Tent Topper punch art card!

The punches I used to make this card were the Wide Oval (for the pumpkin) and the Scalloped Square (for the bats). I made the moon by rubbing the Sahara Sand Classic ink directly on the Very Vanilla card stock. The background of the Basic Grey was made the same way the moon was made. I finished off the card by making Old Olive grass and stamping the sentiment "Happy Halloween" from the stamp set Teeny Tiny Wishes along the bottom.

Here is a side view of the card, so you can tell that it is a Ten Topper better.

If you have any questions, let me know!

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Echos of Purple- SACC31

As I was looking around blogs yesterday I saw on Brandi's (The Squareheaded stamper)blog something about challenges at Stampin Addicts so I decided to go check it out. It is an online community that loves stamping, so I had to join! As I was looking around I found a color combo challenge I had to try!

The colors were Rich Razzleberry, Pale Plum, Basic Gray and Basic Black and here is the card I made using them. I used the retired stamp set Echos of Kindness. I inked and stamped the main image with Versa Make on the Richrazzleberry cardstock to give it a subtle backround. I stamped the image on watercolor paper and used my aqua painter pen to color it in. I finished the card off by tying a piece of 5/8" Basic Black Grossgrain ribbon and adding a few black brads.

I look forward to participating in more challenges over at Stampin Addicts!

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February Club

This month in club we did two new techniques, the View Master card and stamping with Bleach.

The first card was the View Master (tutorial coming soon to my blog!). A View Master card has a built in paper wheel that you turn to make the different images show up in the hole you punch (does that make sense?) I chose to use the Owl Together Now stamp set because I thought it would work well for this kind of card.

The colors in the card are Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa and Old Olive. The wheel rotates so you see another owl and then a saying from the stamp set.



The next card we made used the stamping with bleach technique. Depending on what color of card stock you use, the bleach will change it different colors. So my advise it to always do a test stamp in bleach first on a scrap piece of card stock to see if the bleach does what you want it to do.

The colors I used in this card are Barley Banana (card base), Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip and bleach (the bleach is the yellow-y color on the daisys). The Stamp set is Upsy Daisy, and DSP comes from the Chocolate Chip Patters DSP and the ribbon is the 5/8" Chocolate Chip grosgrain. I also used the Stampin' Up! Backgrounds 1 texturz plate (the biggest dots) with my bog shot to give the Baja Breeze some texture.

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December Club

Here is the card that we made for club this month. It uses the emboss resist technique. I think this card makes a good masculine card.

The emboss Resit technique is really pretty simple. All you do is pick a DSP, rub your embossing buddy over it, ink your stamp with Versa Mark, stamp it, pour clear embossing powder on it, emboss it, then sponge a darker color (here I used Always Artichoke) all over it and you will begin to see your embossed image pop! If you can't see your image very well, just sponge more ink on to it!

The colors in the card are Chocolate Chip, Craft and Always Artichoke. The DSP I used is from the Manchester paper pack. The tree stamp is from Lovely as a Tree. I used the linen thread to tie around the Always Artichoke paper to finish it off.


The other project we did in club this month was the little lanterns with the tea lights in them. I did a tutorial on them a few monthes ago on here. You can find it by clicking on the "Tutorial's" link and then look for the Lanterns.

November Club Cards

Here are the cards that we made this month for my club.

The first card features the Cracked Glass Technique. You do this by "smooshing" Versa Mark ink all over your stamped image and then sprinkling Glassy Glaze Enamel over that and then embossing it. You do this three times, so you have three layers of Glassy Glaze Enamel on to your stamped image. You then put your paper you just embossed into the freezer for about 5 mins. When you take it out you just crack the "glass" by bending the image in a few different directions. Here is a close up of the crack glass.

The card stock that I used to make this card were Really Rust, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. I used Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow and More Mustard classic ink to stamp the images and Glassy Glaze Enamel and Versa Mark to make the "glass". Other accessories I used were 5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Chip ribbon, Linen Thread, the Scallop Edge punch, the 1 3/8", 1 1/4" and the 1/16" circle punches. To make the background image I used multiple stamp sets, they include Itty Bitty Backgrounds (little dots), Priceless (little flower), and Season of Friendship (the leaves) and the sentiment is from the Hostess set called Best Yet.

((You may recognize this next card from an earlier post on my blog, this is the card I submitted for the soshelli.com creative challenge, but I liked it so much I wanted to share it with my club!))

This was the Thanksgiving card that we made. The main image (the Pumpkin) is punch art. It is made by punching out five Wide Ovals sponging around them and gluing them together in a pumpkin shape.

The card stock I used for this card is Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie (how appropriate! :) ) and So Saffron. The pumpkins stem is made with a little piece of 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon folded in half. The Vines are made from the 3/4" and the 1/2" circle punch punched out and then cut into a spiral shape. The "hay" is the So Saffron paper cut into thin strips and then crumpled up.

There wasn't much stamping on this card, but the stamp sets I used were Celebrate Everything (Celebrate) and Fundamental Phrases (thanks). I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the two words.

The last card that we made was a simple Christmas card. It seems like Christmas is so far away, but it will be here before we know it!

The paper used for this card is Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White and Holiday Treasures DSP. The ribbon is the 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain. The cute little reindeer is from the A Holly, Jolly Christmas stamp set.

I stamped the reindeer in Chocolate Chip Craft ink and then clear embossed it. Then I colored in the nose and put a drop of Crystal effects on his nose! I think you can tell which reindeer he is!

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Here is an invitation that I made. The card is made using the Joy Fold Technique. I thought it made the perfect fold to be an invitation.

I used the new Sock Monkey Set with a few (Riding Hood Red and Tango Tangerine) of the new in colors to go with. (I think that all of the new in colors go great together!!) The Designer Series Paper (DSP) is the Bella Rose paper. I used the Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel markers to color the monkey.

Here is the card open. On the left is the space for all the information regarding the party. You could put directions to the party on the Riding Hood Red part if you would like or just leave it blank.

What a fun and bright card to make!

Simple Suspension

These are suspension cards. The punched out circle is "suspended" and spins around showing two different images.

When I read the sentiment that I used ("if nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies.-unknown") and thought of a suspension card, I came up with this idea. I thought it was appropriate, because the card is changing (while you spin it) to having a butterfly to no butterfly flying through the bold flowers.

I used all six of the new in colors on the two cards (three on each), along with the Basic Black and Whisper White paper. The flower and the butterfly are from the Pretty Amazing stamp set that is now on the dormant list, but still available and the sentiment is from Flight of the Butterfly stamp set in the current catalog.

For a tutorial on how to make a suspension card visit Splitcoast Stamper's:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ee/index.php/resources/tutorials/suspension_card/