Antique Buffalo Birthday- Faux Burning

Hi Stampers! 

Boy, it has been another busy week at work but I wanted to take a moment to share a card that I created for this week’s PP92 Paper Player’sSketch Challenge.  I love this sketch- it has a clean and simple layout yet you can "dress it up" if you like as well.  If you have not already visited their site, check out all of the Design Team entries as well as the other submissions (they are amazing!)…

I have had this stamp set on my wish list for a while and just received it (it will be retiring).  I wanted to create a very aged, antique looking card with the buffalo image- I know it may not be your style, but I find taking pristine white (or in this case vanilla) cardstock and aging it is very therapeutic :-)  

To create this card:

De-static a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with the Embossing Buddy® and ink the buffalo with Versamark™ ink, apply Stampin’ Emboss® Brown Embossing Powder and heat with the Heat Tool.  Once cooled, color with the Aqua Painter and Early Espresso ink (directly from the pad). 

Tear the edges by hand and use Sponge Daubers to apply Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Early Espresso ink until you reach the desired "antique" or "faux burned" effect.  Use the Color Spritzer Tool with the Early Espresso Stampin’ Write marker to further distress the image.

Mount onto a piece of Well Worn DSP (embossed with the Big Shot™ and Herringbone Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder).  Adhere this entire panel onto Very Vanilla (again, sponging the edges to “antique”) and attach the panel onto another piece of the Well Worn DSP (this piece looks like a barn panel and has been embossed with the Square Lattice Textured Impressions™ folder).

Tear the layers of Very Vanilla cardstock and crumple the paper by hand.  Apply the Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Early Espresso ink in the same manner as above until you achieve the look that you desire. Use the Crimper Tool to achieve further distressing and mount onto the buffalo panel.

Add the embossed strip of Chocolate Chip cardstock with a scrap piece of the Well Worn DSP (same as the panel behind the focal image).  Add the Hemp Twine, Antique Brad and tag detail.  Adhere all onto an embossed panel of Chocolate Chip to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  In Wilderness, Petite Pairs

 Ink: Versamark™, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso

Paper:  Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Well Worn DSP (retiring)

Accessories:  Big Shot™, Herringbone and Square Lattice Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Sponge Daubers, Color Spritzer Tool, Crimper Tool,  Heat Tool, Stampin’ Emboss® Brown Embossing Powder (retired), Aqua Painter, XL and Large Tag Punch, Antique Brad , Hemp Twine (retiring)

Thanks again for stopping by!  I hope you like this card- I never seem to have enough masculine cards on hand :-).  Enjoy the remainder of the week and have fun stamping and creating- God Bless! 

Sweet Floral- Final Swap Card Attempt

Hi Stampers!  

Well, originally after several attempts and an extremely hectic week, I had thought that I was going to forgo creating a swap card for the quarterly Joyful Hearts Demonstrator Meeting on August 6^th, but on Friday evening at 9 pm, I decided to give it one more try and use the new background stamp, Sweet Floral. 

In my first attempt for a swap card (see previous post) I had incorporated one of my favorite techniques, Emboss Resist with Dry Embossing, but that card was a bit too involved to recreate multiples in time for the swap.  Since I seem to gravitate to the Emboss Resist technique, I decided to use it again for this card :-)

To create this card:

Ink the En Francais background stamp with Early Espresso ink and stamp onto a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.    

De-static the stamped piece of Very Vanilla with the Embossing Buddy and stamp the Sweet Floral background stamp using Veramark ink.  Apply Clear EP and heat emboss with the Heat Gun.  Using Sponge Daubers, apply Island Indigo and Early Espresso ink, sponge over the entire image.  Remove the excess ink over the embossed images with a moistened paper towel.  Tear the upper and lower corner by hand and sponge more Early Espresso ink to create the faux burned edges.

Stamp the sentiment with Island Indigo and punch out with the Decorative Label Punch, sponge the edges with Early Espresso.  Punch another piece of Early Espresso with the Decorative Label Punch to layer behind the sentiment label.  

Attach the 5/8” Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon bow and adhere the sentiment under the ribbon. 

Use the Crimper Tool and crimp the upper right and lower left corner of the Crumb Cake background piece.  Lightly sponge Early Espresso over the crimping and along the edges. 

Layer the focal image onto the Crumb Cake layer to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  Sweet Floral, Sincere Salutations

Ink: Island Indigo, Early Espresso, Versamark

Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake

Accessories:  Heat Gun, Clear Embossing Powder, Sponge Daubers, XL Decorative Label Punch, 5/8” Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Crimper Tool

Once I created this card, I decided that this finally be the one for the swap and proceeded to create the additional 25 cards (six hours later finished the 25 cards and finally in bed by 5 am- meeting was at 8:45 am, but who needs sleep?) 

Are we addicted or what? :-)).

Thanks again for visiting- I will be working on another project and will post again soon!