Archives for 2008

Owls were really popular recently, and some would argue they still are. Having seen so many owls from different stamp companies however, I’m afraid I’m kinda over it before I had a chance to actually jump on the bandwagon. The owl in Love Owl-ways from the new Mini Catalog is an exception for me though; He’s just too cute!

 

 

Also from this set :

These are both 4 1/4″ square cards.

Owl Card (Left): Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, Bella Rose DSP, Whisper White; Ink: Chocolate Chip, Watercolor Pencils; Accessories: Blender Pen, Marvy scallop punch, Marvy circle punch, pretty in pink ribbon.

Bird Card (Right): Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Old Olive, Georgia Peach DSP, Whisper White; Ink: Basic Black, Watercolor Pencils; Accessories: So Saffron Twill Ribbon, Blender Pen

Two more… 

Supplies used are same as owl card above except sentiment is from hostess level 1 set The Best is Yet to Be, layered on circle punches.

 

 

 

Here, I used Bella Rose DSP again, Riding Hood Red for the base and scallop circle. The pink “ric rac” is made with the scallop edge punch (you can find directions if you google it) and pink pirouette cardstock.

I usually don’t CASE other people’s work. I don’t even like to look at samples until I’ve had a chance to play with a stamp set myself first so that I’m not directly influenced by things I’ve seen. It takes some of the fun out of it for me if I’m just cranking out duplicates of someone else’s work. I enjoy the creativity process as much as the end result. Today, however, I happened upon this beautiful card by Jan Tink and I HAD to copy it! I quickly scanned her directions and ran upstairs to make one. Well, I didn’t follow all of her steps exactly but it came out pretty close, and beautiful nonetheless if I do say so myself.

She gives better directions but this is what I did:

Step 1: Stamped the tree in white craft on baja breeze 4″ x 5 1/4″ and embossed with clear ep. (I tried using versamark and clear ep like Jan suggested but it was too light, almost too light to see on mine. Maybe because I don’t have a brayer and skipped that step?)

Step 2: Punched out a mask with 1 3/8″ circle punch and placed it where I wanted the “moon” to be. Sponge Night of Navy all over the front of the card. Remove mask.

Step 3: Stamp snowflakes & bird in white craft and emboss with white ep. 

Step 4: Stamp sentiment on whisper white in night of navy ink and swipe the edges in baja breeze ink. Add rhinestone brad and adhere to base with dimensionals.

Stamps: Season of Friendship, Hostess Set The Best is Yet to Be; Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Whisper White; Ink: Versamark, White Craft, Baja Breeze, Night of Navy; Accessories: Embossing powder, Rhinestone Brad.