Archives for July 2009

Since I don’t have any religious stamps, I’ve had to come up with clever ways to make various Christening, Communion, and Confirmation cards. Here is one I made for a Christening using Circle Rhinestone Brads in shades of blue for the “cross”. I had this vision in my head and it turned out better than I hoped!

The only tricky part about this card is punching holes for the brads. My crop-a-dile wouldn’t reach past the first hole at the top of the cross, so I had to get crafty. I used the Paper Piercer and Mat to poke a small starter hole and then widened it by working the piercer around in a circle. After that little speed bump, the rest of the card came together quickly.

The card base is Shimmery White, layered with Kraft, Bashful Blue, and another layer of Shimmery White card stock. I stamped the “Blessed” from So Very, an old Sale-a-bration set (well technically it was called Sell-a-bration back then. They changed the name–I know, confusing!) I stamped it first in Versamark and then in Tempting Turquoise Classic ink so that I could emboss it.

I just learned that trick-– stamp your image in Versamark first, then ink it up with any color, stamp onto the card stock and follow with clear embossing  powder/heat gun.

I don’t know why but my Bashful Blue ink looked like it didn’t quite match the paper, so I just went with Turquoise to match the brads.

I glued all the layers together except for the top Shimmery White card stock layer, which was adhered to the base with about 20 dimensionals! OK more like 13, but all those brads were heavy!

Thanks for looking 🙂

There was a time where I used the set Good Friend way too much. But that’s me–I go through phases where I become obsessed with an image and then never use it again. The bird in this set is so absolutely cute I had to force myself to put this stamp to rest and give some face time to the rest of my stamp collection.

Today, I thought it was time to bring the good bird out, but instead of going for my old standby, I chose another image from this set. The strange flower/dandelion type image caught my eye. I colored it with the Dusty Durango and Bermuda Bay marker. Stamped on Very Vanilla card stock. The sentiment is from Small Sayings, and old mini set from 2006/2007 (and one of the first orders I placed as a customer). I also inked that one up with the Dusty Durango and Bermuda Bay marker.

The image layer was matted onto a piece of Dusty Durango card stock, which was adhered to the Bermuda Bay Textured card stock base using dimensionals.

To finish off the card, I punched out some 1/4″ circles from Dusty Durango card stock using the 1/4″ Circle Punch and popped in 3 Very Vanilla Jumbo Basic 5/16″ Brads. Since the ends of the brad overhang the circles, I snipped off the ends using my Craft and Rubber Scissors–this is a great tip! Those were adhered to the card using a small glue dot.

Honestly, this is a very plain card by my standards, but for some reason it pops more than I thought it would. It would make a good project for a class or workshop because it gets customers using lots of different products and yet takes very little time.  (Markers, brads, stamps, craft & rubber scissors, dimensionals, glue dots, textured card stock, in colors)

This Lovely Flowers DSP is so beautiful if I see a scrap of it lying around I have to make something with it right away. There’s quite a bit going on here but that’s usually the way my cards end up–I never know when to stop adding things!

The card base is Melon Mambo, one of the 2009/2010 In Colors. I stamped it with En Francais background stamp in Versamark ink, then sprinkled on Clear Embossing powder and heat embossed for a subtle raised effect.

Next, I matted a piece of Lovely Flowers DSP onto Old Olive card stock and adhered it to the card base using dimensionals.

The top layer is Crushed Curry (another In Color) matted with Whisper White, which I stamped using Happy Everything and Flower Lines, a Level 3 Hostess set. The “happy” was inked with my Melon Mambo marker, “Birthday” in Old Olive, and the flowers were also inked with my in color markers, but I stamped off before stamping onto the Whisper White each time.

To finish off the card, I stapled a piece of folded Old Olive 5/8″ grosgrain ribbon to the edge of the Crushed Curry layer and adhered it to the base using dimensionals, offset slightly to the right.