Psalm 129:8- The Blessings of the Lord be upon you

Hi Again Friends!

Here is the second card that I designed this week using the Joseph’s Coat technique (see the Splitcoaststamperstutorial here)- what a fun, easy technique and great for any bold image stamp!  If you are interested, here is the post for my first card (a Clean and Simple version with a smaller stamp).

I decided to participate in the Splitcoaststampers’ SC591 Sketch Challengealong with the Mix-Ability MIX162 “What Time is It? Time for the Primaries” Challenge and the USEIT2016 Challenge (I have not inked the Sweet Floral retired background stamp image in a year or more) as well as my second entry into the Simon Says Monday "Summer Garden" Challenge.  

If you have not had a chance to visit the above challenge Splitcoaststampers’ galleries or the Simon Says Monday Challenge site yet, I encourage you to do so- wonderful  inspiration from all!!

To create this card:

Use Sponge Daubers, apply Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point and Rose Red Classic Ink to a piece of Glossy White cardstock, blending the colors but leaving some of the true color as well.

Once the ink as dried, de-static with an Embossing Buddy® and stamp the Sweet Floral background stamp using Versamark™ ink onto the prepared panel.

Apply Stampin’ Emboss® Clear Embossing Powder, heat set with the Heat Tool and allow the embossed images to cool.

Once cooled, use a Sponge Dauber to apply Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink over the images, applying multiple coats to achieve the darkness desired (or you can use a brayer as mentioned in the tutorial).

Wipe off the excess ink with a paper towel and trim the panel, mount onto Whisper White cardstock , trim and mount onto the Basic Black card base.

Stamp the verse sentiment from the Our Daily Bread Designs Doily Blessings with Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock and cut out with MFT Stitched Circle STAX dies.

Add a scrap strip of Basic Black cardstock across the panel, adhere the Gold Cord and  mount the sentiment using dimensional foam to finish off the card.

Quick and easy!

Stamp Sets: Sweet Floral  (retired Stampin’ Up! SAB set), Doily Blessings (Our Daily Bread Designs)

Ink: Versamark™, Memento™ Tuxedo Black, Classic Ink- Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point and Rose Red

Paper: Glossy White, Whisper White, Basic Black

Accessories: Sponge Daubers, Embossing Buddy®, Stampin’ Emboss® Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Big Shot™, MFT Stitched Circle STAX Dies, Gold Cord

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by-I hope all of you have a fabulous week!

Bright Sweet Floral- A Color and Photo Inspiration Challenge :-)

Hi Again Stampers!

I decided to get out of my “comfort zone” and create a very bright, summery card using the Pals Paper Arts PPA251 Color Challenge along with the Stampin’Celebration SC104 Inspiration Photo and the Splitcoaststampers WT531 “May Flowers” Challenge (see details here and gallery here). 

Again, I hope you have the time to stop by the above sites to check out the wonderful inspiration from the Design Teams as well as the other fabulous gallery entries!

To create this card:

Ink the retired background stamp, Sweet Floral with Stāz-On® Jet Black Ink and stamp the image onto a piece of Watercolor Paper.

Using Stampin’ Write Markers color the image using Tempting Turquoise for the background, Melon Mambo for the flowers and Daffodil Delight along with Tempting Turquoise for the leaves. 

Spritz with a water bottle and allow the colors to run a bit, if necessary, re-apply color when the image is dry and spritz again.    

Ink the retired script stamp from Notable Notions using Tempting Turquoise Classic Ink and stamp onto the background.

Add accents to the flower centers with the White Gel Pen.

Trim the panel, mount onto a piece of Melon Mambo cardstock and trim again.

Stamp the sentiment using Tempting Turquoise onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock, punch out with the Word Window Punch, mount onto a piece of Melon Mambo cardstock (punched out with the Modern Label Punch), insert the brads with the retired Antique Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware and add ¼” Stitched Daffodil Delight Grosgrain Ribbon.

Mount the sentiment onto the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals® and adhere the ribbon ends to the back of the card panel.

Mount the entire watercolored panel onto a piece of Daffodil Delight cardstock and adhere to the Whisper White card base.

Add the Pearls to the corners to finish off the card

Stamp Sets:  Sweet Floral, Express Yourself, Notable Notions

Ink: Stāz-On® Jet Black, Tempting Turquoise; Stampin’ Write Markers- Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise; White Gel Pen

Paper:  Whisper White, Watercolor, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Water Spritzer Bottle, Punches- Word Window, Modern Label; retired Antique Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware, retired ¼” Daffodil Delight Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Pearls

Thanks again for visiting- I will be sharing a few more cards throughout the weekend 

CAS- Last Two Cards for the Virtual Stamp Night Weekend!

Hi Stampers!!

Here are my final two cards created for the Splitcoaststampers Dog Days of Summer Virtual StampingNight #2 …I decided to make both of these cards, Clean and Simple (CAS) and will need to try the CAS style more often- I am starting to love it! :-)

  

The JUN13VSNL Who Let the Dogs Out is a Word Challenge- use items that spell DOG on your card- accessories, parts of the image, etc.

Ink the Dogwood stamp from the retired set, Nature’s Wonders for the (D) with Early Espresso Classic Ink and stamp onto Whisper White cardstock. 

 

Color the image with Stampin’ Write Markers- Old Olive (O), Pink Pirouette, Bashful Blue and Smoky Slate (using the AquaPainter™ with ink from the ink pad). 

Using Two-Way Glue, apply a few dots to the flower center and add Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (G and D).  Stamp the sentiment using Basic Gray Classic Ink to finish off the card. 

Stamp Sets:  Nature’s Wonder, Botanicals, Love & Sympathy

Ink: Basic Gray, Stampin’ Write Markers- Pink Pirouette, Old Olive, Bashful Blue

Paper: Whisper White

Accessories:  Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

The JUN13VSNP Challenge from Lydia was to create a Mirage.

Directly color the retired background stamp, Sweet Floral with Stampin’ Write markers in Marina Mist, Primrose Petals and Gumball Green.   

Stamp off twice and then mist with water, stamp again onto Whisper White cardstock.

Once dry, stamp the sentiment using Basic Gray and since there was a small smudge (oops!) I decided to add a bit of Basic Gray distressing with the Color Spritzer Tool and Stampin’ Write Basic Gray marker.

Stamp Sets:  Sweet Floral, Love & Sympathy

Ink: Basic Gray, Stampin’ Write Markers- Marina Mist, Primrose Petals, Gumball Green

Paper: Whisper White

Accessories:  Color Spritzer Tool

Thanks again for stopping by- I hope you have a blessed week!

Embedded Embossing- Birthday Wishes

Hi Stampers! 

I created this card for a special friend of mine using the CCMC170Sketch at Create with Connie and Mary and the colors from this week’s HSSCT87Hand Stamped Sentiments Challenge.  Both sites have wonderful inspiration- if you have a moment, check them out! 

I decided to use the Emboss Resist and Embedded Embossing for this card (not sure if Embedded Embossing is the correct name but it seems to describe the technique :-))

To create this card:

Use the Embossing Buddy® to de-static a piece of Pumpkin Pie Designer Series Paper and stamp the Sweet Floral background stamp with Versamark®ink.  Apply Stampin’ Emboss® Clear Embossing Powder and heat with the Heat Tool.  Once the image has cooled, use Sponge Daubers to apply Cherry Cobbler and Night of Navy Classic Ink over the image using circular motions to push the ink into the detail of the embossing.  Gently wipe the excess ink off with a damp paper towel and carefully cut around the image.

Adhere the image to Night of Navy cardstock, trim and use the Big Shot™ with the Square Lattice Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder to emboss.  Mount onto Cherry Cobbler cardstock and add the 5/8” Night of Navy Satin Ribbon and mount the entire panel onto Pumpkin Pie cardstock.

Create the rolled flowers from Cherry Cobbler and Pumpkin Pie using the 1 3/8”  and 1 ½” Circle Punches (cut a spiral and roll up- quick and easy) and insert a pearl into the center of each flower.

Stamp the sentiment onto Pumpkin Pie, punch out with the Large Oval Punch and layer with two Large Oval pieces of Cherry Cobbler.

Add the sentiment and flowers to the card and finish off with the 5/8” Night of Navy Satin bow.


Modified version:  Add the Whisper White carstock layer- punched border at the bottom (punched with the Eylet Border Punch and crimped with the Crimper). 

So which one do you like better?  With the white layer at the bottom or without ( am leaning to the one with the white..)?


Stamp Sets: Sweet Floral (background), Sincere Salutations

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie

Ink: Versamark®, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy

Accessories: Big Shot™, Square Lattice Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Embossing Buddy® , Stampin’ Emboss® Clear Embossing Powder , Heat Tool, 5/8” Night of Navy Satin Ribbon, Large Oval Punch, 1/38” and 1 ½’ Circle Punches,  Sponge Daubers, Pearls

Thanks again for stopping by! I hope you like this card- I had a great time creating it!   Have a wonderful Sunday and 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!