CCC11 Vintage Butterfly Friend

Hi Stampers!

I wanted to create a card using the Creative Club Challenge CCC11  Color Challenge and decided to ink up a few stamps that I have had for years, but again, they had not seen ink yet…need to start using up my "stash" of supplies :-)

If you have not had a chance to visit the Challenge site, I hope you will find the time to do so- this is a new challenge for me ( I did not see any particular rules to play)....they have a wonderful Design Team as well as tremendous inspiration from their galleries!!

To create this card:

Using Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink, stamp the butterfly and moth image onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock.  Color the butterflies and moths using Stampin’ Write markers- Island Indigo, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Basic Black.  Add a few white highlights using the Chalk Marker.

Also stamp another image onto scrap paper or a sticky note- mask the images and ink the background stamp using Early Espresso Classic Ink (this was my fourth color that I could choose to add :-)) and stamp over the masked images.

Using a Sponge Dauber, add Ranger™ Jim Holtz® Old Paper Distress Ink followed with Early Espresso around the edges to ”antique” the paper.

Using Early Espresso Classic Ink, stamp the splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge to add more distressing.

Mount the panel onto a piece of Early Espresso cardstock, trim and adhere to a piece of Island Indigo cardstock and add the 3/8” Venetian Crochet Trim along the side.

Stamp the sentiment from Choose Happiness using Early Espresso Classic Ink onto Whisper White cardstock.  Use a Sponge Dauber with Ranger™ Jim Holtz® Old Paper Distress Ink and trim the sentiment into the banner shape (use the Hexagon Punch to create the banner points).

With a Sponge Dauber, add Early Espresso around the edges to ”antique” the paper. Huff onto the Gorgeous Grunge splatter stamp to re-moisten the ink and stamp onto the sentiment layer.

Mount the sentiment onto the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals® and add the ¼” Island Indigo Triple Satin Ribbon bow along with the Antique Brad.

Mount the panel onto the Early Espresso card base and finish off the card with Pearls in the corners.

Stamp Sets: Choose Happiness, Gorgeous  Grunge, Tim Holtz® Papillon Stamp Set

Ink:  Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink, Early Espresso; Stampin’ Write Markers- Crushed Curry, Island Indigo, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black; Ranger™ Jim Holtz® Old Paper Distress Ink

Paper: Whisper White, Island Indigo, Early Espresso

Accessories: Sponge Daubers, Hexagon Punch, Masking Paper, ¼” Island Indigo Satin Ribbon (retired), Antique Brad, 3/8" Venetian Crochet Trim,  Pearls

Thanks again for visiting- have a great Thursday my friends!

Beautiful Season- Three in One!

Hi Stampers! 

Are you behind on your Christmas cards?  I know that I feel that I am and Christmas will be here before we know it :-)

I love the colors of this week's The Paper Players PP63 Challenge  (you should see what the Design Team came up with!) and they seemed perfect for a Christmas card, so I decided to create a Clean and Simple (CAS) card  using these colors and combined them with two other challenges-  the SUO27 Ribbons and Bows  Challenge and the CCC11 Splitcoast Stampers Christmas Card Challenge.

To create this card:

Use the Big Shot™ and emboss a piece of Whisper White with Northern Flurry Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder.  Use the 3” Circle Originals Die to cut a circle from Whisper White.

Ink the bird stamp with Basic Gray and stamp onto the die cut circle.  Color the berries with a Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Write marker (I still have not located that ink pad yet) and leave a few white areas as reflections of light.

Use the Blender Pen with Old Olive and Basic Gray ink to color the leaves and bird image.  With a Basic Black Stampin’ Write marker, darken the eye (again leave a white area for the reflection) and sponge Basic Gray around the edges with a Sponge Dauber. 

Adhere the circle to the embossed card front along with two ribbon bows on a diagonal. 

Use the Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Write marker (or ink pad if you have one) to ink the sentiment and trim to the banner shape.  Adhere at the bottom of the card front, mount onto Basic Gray and again onto Rich Razzleberry to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  Beautiful Season, Christmas Greetings

Ink: Basic Gray, Old Olive and Stampin’ Write Markers- Rich Razzleberry and Basic Black

Cardstock:  Whisper White, Basic Gray, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories:  Big Shot™, 3” Originals™ Circle Die, Northern Flurry Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Sponge Dauber, Blender Pen

Thanks again for stopping by- I hope all of you have a blessed week and have a chance to have some fun stamping! 

Another Christmas Card for July

Hi Stampers!  

 I created another Clean and Simple (CAS) Christmas card for the Splitcoast Stampers CCC11 Challenge using the colors from the PP55 Color Challenge at The Paper Players.  

The Paper Players have created some amazing samples and along with all of the other entries just proves that stampers can create a multitude of variety with just one color challenge! 

This card highlights one of the new Christmas Sets, Beautiful Season and since my husband and I love bird watching, I knew that this set would have to be in my collection! 

To create this card:

Use a brayer to apply Crumb Cake ink to the smooth side of the Vintage Wallpaper EF and emboss a piece of Crumb Cake with the Big Shot.  Spray with Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint mixed with 70% alcohol.  

Stamp the bird image using Basic Gray on Whisper White.  Color the berries with a Poppy Parade SU! Marker and highlight with the White Gel Pen.  Use the ink pads and a Blender Pen to color the leaves with Baja Breeze and the chickadee with Basic Gray.

Spritz with a Crumb Cake SU! Marker using the Color Spritzer Tool and mount onto Baja Breeze cardstock. 

Use the Basic Gray and the Poppy Parade SU! Marker to color the sentiment, stamp onto Whisper White and mount onto Baja Breeze.  

Create a folded ribbon with the Baja Breeze Seam Binding and put an Antique Brad in the center.  

Stamp Sets:  Beautiful Season

 Ink: Basic Gray, Baja Breeze, SU! Markers in Basic Gray, Poppy Parade

Cardstock:  Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake

Accessories:  Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Antique Brad, Baja Breeze Seam Binding, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint, Brayer, Color Spritzer Tool

Thanks again for visiting- have a great weekend!

Christmas in March?

Hi Stampers! 

This is the third card for my 2011 Christmas card collection- see the Splitcoast Stampers Christmas CCC11 Challenge.  Again, the goal is to create 10 cards each month through November (obviously I am a bit behind :-).

I have been holding on to a few padded envelopes that have a shiny aluminum-type coating (see picture at right) and was hoping to be able to use them to make a card in the future .  This week’s "Recycling" challenge at The Paper Players seemed to be the perfect chance (see http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com/  ) !

To create this card:

First cut the padded envelope with the Big Shot and the Snowflake #2 die.  Next emboss a piece of Whisper White with the Vintage Wallpaper EF and a piece of Bashful Blue DSP with the Finial Press EF. 

Lightly sponge the Whisper White with Marina Mist and spray with Frost White Shimmer Paint. Lightly sand the Bashful Blue with the Sanding Block to show the white core. 

Layer onto the card, stamp the sentiment with Basic Gray and punch the lower edge with the Eyelet Border Punch.

Adhere the ribbon above the sentiment and mount the background layer onto Basic Gray.  Punch a piece of Whisper White with the Snowflake Punch and attach to the larger snowflake with a Silver Glimmer Brad.  Mount to the card with Dimensionals.   

Stamp Sets:  Christmas Greetings

Ink:  Basic Gray, Marina Mist

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Bashful Blue DSP (retired Hostess set)

Accessories:  Big Shot, Finial Press and Vintage Wallpaper EF, Sanding Block, Sponge, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Snowflake Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, Glimmer Brad, Gray Satin Ribbon (non SU!), Padded Silver Envelope, Dimensionals

Thanks again for visiting- I had a great time making this card- now I need to go and make the other nine! 

Christmas in March- Part 2?

Hi Stampers! 

This is the second card for my 2011 Christmas card collection http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/christmas-cards-f47/ccc11-february-t514100.html).  Again, the goal is to create 10 cards each month through November.

I used My Digital Studio again for the focal image and the sentiment- “mirrored” the image (the couple is skating toward the right versus the left).

I punched the image out with the 2 ½” circle punch and used the Circle Cutter Plus to cut a 3” circle from Cherry Cobbler.  I distressed the image with Crumb Cake ink¸spritzed with a Cherry Cobbler marker and mounted onto retired SU! Christmas DSP.

The snowflake is Whisper White cardstock cut from the Northern Flurry Die with an Antique Brad (distressed with Crumb Cake ink).  My Digital Studio (MDS) allowed me to reduce the size of the Heard from The Heart sentiment and “distressed” this piece with Crumb Cake as well.   A bit of Victoria Crochet Trim and Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding finish off the card. 

I hope you like this as well--  I still have to design March (hopefully we will see this one before April).

Christmas in March?

Hi Stampers! 

This is the first card for my 2011 Christmas card collection (I signed up for the Splitcoast Stampers Christmas Card Challenge this year - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/christmas-cards-f47/ccc11-january-thread-t514091.html).  The goal is to create 10 cards each month so by November you will have created 110 cards  (then you can concentrate on mailing the cards, baking cookies and other fun Christmas activities and not the stress of making all of your cards at once)!  Here it is March and I have just finished my January and February.  We will see how I progress…

This card was created using My Digital Studio- I know, I have not forsaken stamping but it is so easy to resize the images and also, in this case, “mirror” the image (the cardinal is facing toward the right versus the left).  And when you are making multiples, need I say more??   If you haved not invested yet, now would be a good time with Sale-Bration:-)

After I colored the image with SU! Markers in Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Wild Wasabi, I distressed it with Sponge Daubers using Crumb Cake and Early Espresso ink.     After the distressing, I used the Color Spritzer Tool with the Crumb Cake marker and then sprayed the image with Frost White Shimmer Paint spray.  I touched up the eye and the top of the berries with the White Gel Pen (did not photograph well). 

The Very Vanilla piece was embossed using the Big Shot with the Square Lattice EF. lightly sponged with Early Espresso ink and the center patterned piece is a scrap of fabric that a friend of mine had discarded- of course, I had to rescue it and I have enough for the 10 cards! 

The Cherry Cobbler embossed and punched panel was from my stash (already spritzed and embossed) and the sentiment is also from MDS (used the Medium Oval and Modern Label punch).  Of course, had to add the pearls to finish off the card. 

I hope you like this card- I will be posting February shortly and will have to start on March.

Thanks again for looking-I hope each of you have a wonderful  week!  Don’t forget, Christmas is right around the corner (Oh no!  I did not just say that, did I? :-)