Remembrance

Just a quick post today!

Last week I was able to participate In the Dirty Dare '08 challenge with Joan Ervin. She asked us to use silhouette style stamps. COOL! It is one of my favorite styles to use. I love the ones from Starving Artistamps.

Materials Used:

• Stamps: Butterfly (sm. freak 1.6); Daisy (FS-9) ; and Phil. 1:3 (Faith Sentiment Set); Baroque Motif (SU!);
• Paper: Sprout DP (Memory Box); Pale Plum (SU!);
• Ink: Warm Violet Fluid Chalk Ink (Colorbox); Shabby Shutters, Peeling Paint and Milled Lavender Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Ranger);
• Accessories: lace (Wal Mart); corner rounder (EK Success); Coluzzle (ProvoCraft); Stickles and Perfect Pearls (Ranger); Sponge

Thanks for stopping by!

Music and Flowers

I got little bits of time here and there to stamp this weekend. This started as a birthday card for my mother-in-law, but it turned out not to be her style. (So I will try again tomorrow).

I played some more with Tim Holtz Distress Inks--mostly Broken China and Peeled Paint. They coordinate well with Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean, Old Olive and Certainly Celery (yeah--my favorite combo).

I stamped the flower (Queen Anne's Lace) on the main image three times (misting after each stamping) on watercolor paper. Then I stamped the music staff slightly above/overlapping the flowers). The edges of the main image and the patterned paper were sponged with Old Paper.

The mat was spritzed with a Broken China-Perfect Pearls (copper)-water spray and then edges were sponged with Broken China. Then dotted with Liquid Pearls (baby blue).

The hinges are Grungeboard painted with a Copper Adirondack Paint Dabber then a Willow Paint Dabber. I filled the holes with the Liquid Pearls.

The patterned paper (Paper Loft from Hobby Lobby) is stamped with Baroque Motif (stamped off) and misted with the Broken China mist.

The black base was stamped with the music staff inked with VersaMark and clear embossed.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Thanks for stopping by~

Rethinking a card

Have you ever finished a card, perhaps even posted, the card and thought...."Nah, that isn't the way it is supposed to be!"?



I do...OFTEN.



But this time it was an easy fix.

This is the card I made (5 x 7):

I went through a few drafts of the penguin (Magenta--they don't sell their wood mounted stamps anywhere on line--so check your local brick and mortar stamp store) before I got the results I was looking for. He is stamped in Jet Black StazOn (on Whisper White paper), colored with black, cool greys and vermilion (feet). I stamped the asterisk (Everyday Flexible Phrases) and the small flower (Baroque Motif) with VersaMark and embossed with white EP. I masked the penguin and the horizon and sponged on Regal Rose then Pretty in Pink Dye ink. I added some shadow in cool greys and some sparkle of snow with some Diamond Stickles.



He is cut out using the Coluzzle template system as well as the Regal Rose mat. The designer paper is from American Crafts and is black and white, but I brayered Pretty in Pink dye ink on it. It is matted with Basic Grey cardstock cut with my dd's decorative edge scissors.



I stamped the Baroque Motif flourish with Going Grey ink and the small flower with Pretty in Pink ink on Pretty in pink cardstock and sponged the edges. It is matted with Regal rose cardsock and Basic Grey cardstock. The ribbon is some bits and pieces I pulled out of my scrap box.



Now here is where I made my mind change. I originally put the Making Memories eyelet word with the snowflake sequin in the corner. I was not happy with the placement (remember to measure twice and punch once) OR the dull finish of the word on the sparkly card. So I yanked off the eyelet word (leaving a good sized hole) and replaced it with a couple of the large sequins layered with a cardstock circle and a jewel.



And Voila:


I am so much happier with the end result!!



I wish all of my "stamper's regrets" could be such easy fixes!!

Just playing...

Sometimes I just like to play. With no particular goal (no challenge, no event, no recipient) in mind.



That is what I did here--just played.

I used a baby wipe to make my own rainbow pad. I used Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean, Creamy Caramel, More Mustard, Really Rust reinkers on a baby wipe , and used my brayer to do the background. I should have used glossy white, rather than whisper white paper, and the colors would have blended together better. But as I said, I was just fooling around.



I was inspired by a sunset that we saw driving to my mother-in-law's after picking my daughter from camp.



Though the results are far from perfect--I certainly had fun doing this. I have BIG plans for the next card.



Materials (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise indicated):

• Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, Baroque Motifs


• Ink: Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean (retired), Creamy Caramel, More Mustard, Really Rust, Close to Cocoa, StazOn Jet Black


• Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Really Rust, Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean (ret.)


• Accessories: Turquoise Stickles (Ranger), Gold Ribbon (Michaels), Dotted Orange Organdy (WalMart), Gingham Grosgrain, Hodgepodge Hardware Clip, Jewel (unknown), 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1/16" hand held punch, Sm. Corner Rounder

Thanks for stopping by. (note: this month, post are likely to be few and far between--I should be back in full force in August)

First Baroque Card!

My birthday stamps came yesterday (though my birthday is not till early July). My mom gave me money for stamps this year and early since Stampin' Up! was having a sale for Demonstrators. The set I have been most excited about is Baroque Motifs. Ever since I first saw the Fall/Winter Preview Brochure, I have been in love with this set.

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig (SAMJ) to line up the "stars" on the border strip. I learned to do this from Lori's blog, Make a Difference. It went very fast--I need to pull out my SAMJ more often.

I just love these colors together and I am very happy with how nicely this stamp set stamps. This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!




Materials (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted):

• Stamps set: Baroque Motifs
• Ink: Whisper White and Taken With Teal Craft (pigment) Ink, Taken with Teal Classic (dye) ink
• Paper: Taken with Teal, Whisper White, Cool Caribbean
• Accessories: Jewel (Wal-Mart), Stickles (Ranger), Winter White Embossing Powder, Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Thanks for stopping by!! Hang on for more cards and projects with stamps from Stampin' Up!'s new Fall/Winter 07 Catalog!!