French Foliage

The card below is one of the projects we did at my stamp camp yesterday.  The set, French Foliage, is one of my favorite stamp sets and I like how this 3-layered card came out.  After we stamped the Whisper White layers, I then ran the layers through the Big Shot using the Woodgrain EF.  I added some leaves that were embossed with Clear EP, some Early Espresso ribbon on a slider, and there you have it!  Here's the details on what I used:

Stamps: French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Soft Suede
Papers: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Accessories: Big Shot, Woodgrain EF, Clear EP, Heat Gun Tool, Slider, Early Espresso Ribbon, Sponge, Dimensionals, Scissors

Stamp Camp Card

I am going to have some creative stampers over on Sunday to do a little stamping, and below is one of the cards I have planned for us to do.  My inspiration for this card is one that I saw on both PI and SCS that C. Weeks did, and you can see her beautiful creation using this SCS LINK.

I have to admit that I love how this card turned out - I had one heck of a time taking a picture of it due to the wind, but finally got a decent picture after several tries!

The images were stamped on a 3-1/4" x 4-1/4" piece of Very Vanilla c/s that I tore at the bottom.  I used some retired DSP that I thought worked well for a background, and then added a saying attached with a safety pin from the Vintage Trinkets collection.  Here's the rest of the details:

Stamps: French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, VersaMark IP
Papers: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Botanical Gazette DSP (retired)
Accessories: Word Window Punch, Distressing Tool, Vintage Trinkets, Regal Button, Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool. Sponge, Dimensionals

LNS - Wood Challenge

This week's LNS challenge is to create a card, scrapbook page, project, or anything else you can think of that uses wood, and below is the card that I created.

First I ran the white c/s through the Big Shot using the new Woodgrain EF, and then swiped the Soft Suede IP over the front.  I like how it turned out - what do you think?  I then stamped the leaves from French Foliage using different IP, and cut them out.  Added a button and banner, and some baker's twine.  Here's the details:

Stamps: French Foliage, Just Believe (saying)
Inks: Soft Suede, Cajun Craze, Gumball Green, Midnight Muse, Pumpkin Pie
Papers: Whisper White, Soft Suede
Accessories: Big Shot, Woodgrain EF, 1-1/4" Square Punch, Designer Natural Button, Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Dimensionals, Scissors

Another LNS Challenge Card

I have been seeing a lot of the three layer cards on Pinterest lately and thought I would give it a try, and below is the card that I came up with.   One of these days I'll have to figure out how to use my iPad to make videos....but in the meantime, Dawn Olchefske has a great video on her blog showing how to make a three layer card, and you can find it HERE.

The dimensions to use when making this card are:

Whisper White c/s: 2" x 3-1/4", 3" x 4-1/4" and 4" x 5-1/4"
Layering c/s: 2-1/4" x 3-1/2", 3-1/4" x 4-1/2" and 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" (scored at 4-1/4")

Here is my card, and a list of the supplies I used:

Stamps: French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Soft Suede
Papers: Whisper White, Midnight Muse, Soft Suede
Accessories: Naturals Designer Button, Word Window Punch, White Baker's Twine, Dimensionals, Sponges, Scissors

French Foliage

Well this is my last week of work and summer break officially starts on Thursday at 1:20pm!!  We all chipped in to buy our supervisor, Mike, a year end gift.  I needed a "manly card" to put the gift card in, and cased a card that I saw on SCS, and you can see it HERE.  But I recently found out that the real artist behind this card is the wonderfully talented Connie Tumm.  You can see her ORIGINAL card HERE I already brought the card into work, so hopefully I can remember what supplies I used:

Stamp Set: French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Inks: Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Midnight Muse, Gumball Green

Papers: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Midnight Muse

Accessories: Word Window Punch, Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Antique Brad, Distressing Tool, Sticky Strip Tape, Sponge, Scissors, Dimensionals, Mini-Glue Dots

June SCS SU Design Crew Challenges!

It's June 1st and that can only mean that it's the beginning of this month's SCS Stampin' Up! Design Crew Challenge!  We have 4 very interesting challenges for you and here they are:

Holiday Focus - Manly Men!
Our challenge was to design a card based on a song by Brad Paisley (and I have to admit that I have never heard of him until now!) and my card is based from the line "when you see a lake you think picnics....."  I don't have any stamps with picnic baskets, but I do have stamps with trees and sail boat, and I created this card for my husband for Father's Day.

To create my card I first stamped the sail boat three times - once on a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock, again on a 4"x5-1/4" piece of white cardstock and again on a post-it-note to create a mask.  I cut out just the sails from the stamped image on the post-it-note  and layered it over the sails on the card front.  I then stamped the trees from the set, Lovely as a Tree, over the masked sail boat.  The trees were colored in with Gumball Green and the grass area was added by using a sponge.

I used the 1-3/8" circle punch to create a mask for the sun.  I did this by punching the circle out at the top of a post-it-note.  I placed the post-it-note with the circle punched out by the trees and sponged in the circle using Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango.  I then took off that post-it-note and placed the punched circle over the sun to cover it, and sponged the sky using Bashful Blue and Midnight Muse.

I cut out just the sails from the image I stamped on the scrap cardstock and watercolored in the edges using Midnight Muse and my trusted watercolor brush.  I watercolored in the waves by the boat with the same color and then sponged Midnight Muse around the boat.  I added the appearance of the sun's reflection by spongingDaffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Tangerine Tango over the blue.

I added some brads at the bottom, stamped Happy Father's Day on a scrap piece of cardstock and cut it out using the Modern Label Punch.  I used the CAD to set some Night of Navy eyelets and then tied some Early Espresso Baker's Twine through them.  I used the set, Teeny Tiny Wishes, for the saying.  I am so glad that I purchased this set - it has a ton of every day and holiday sayings and I find that I reach for it constantly!

I like how it turned out and I hope he does too!

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Sail Away, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: Basic Black, Soft Suede, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Bashful Blue
Papers: Whisper White, Midnight Muse
Accessories: Modern Label Punch, Vintage Brads, Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Night of Navy Eyelets, CAD, Watercolor Brush, Paper Piercing Tool, Sponge, Dimensionals, Post-it-Note, Scissors

Card #2 - Happy Anniversary DSP/Color Fucus
For this card challenge we needed to make a card using only White, Basic Gray and one new In-Color.  I went with Raspberry Ripple and like how it goes with the Basic Gray.  This is a card for my in-laws who are celebrating their 67th anniversary this coming Friday!

This was a pretty simple card to make - I started by stamping the leaves from the set, French Foliage, along the edges using Raspberry Ripple ink.  Next I stamped the background image and saying in Basic Gray; then I distressed the edges and added some gray along the edges as well.  I stamped "Happy Anniversary" using an old SU stamp, and cut it out using the Apothecary Accents Framelit.  Added a pewter brad and some Whisper White Organza Ribbon and there you have it!  Here's a list of what I used:

Stamps: French Foliage, Happy Anniversary (Retired SU Stamp)
Inks: Raspberry Ripple, Basic Gray, Whisper White
Papers: Whisper White, Raspberry Ripple, Basic Gray
Accessories: Big Shot, Apothecary Accents Framelit, Whisper White Organza Ribbon, Going Gray Brads, Paper Piercing Tool, Pewter Eyelet, CAD, Distressing Tool, Sponge, Dimensionals

Challenge #3 - Catalog Focus
This challenge was to use one "new item" in combination with an "old" item - my new items is the In-Color, Raspberry Ripple and my "old" item is the stamp set, Elements of Style.  This card is actually a case from the new catty (page 113) and I changed it up a bit.

I stamped the flower image using a the new Basic Black inkpad - which by the way, I love!!!  I watercolored in the flowers with Raspberry Ripple and leaves with Basic Gray (keeping with the white, gray, new in-color theme).  I then ripped the paper and layered it over the rectangular design frame.  Since I don't have any Raspberry Ripple ribbon yet, I dyed some scrap pieces of Whisper White Organza Ribbon to using a sponge and a Raspberry Ripple inkpad.  Here's a list of what I used:

Stamps: Elements of Style
Inks: Raspberry Ripple, Basic Gray, Basic Black
Papers: Whisper White, Raspberry Ripple, Basic Gray
Accessories: Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper EF, Designer Frames Folders, Whisper White Organza Ribbon, Pearls, Sponge, Scissors, Dimensionals, Mini-Glue Dots

And last but not least, Challenge #4 - Scrapbook Focus
Did you know that June is national strawberry month?  So in honor of this important observation, our challenge was to make a scrapbook page that contained elements based on Classic Strawberry Shortcake.  Our pages needed to have: the colors Real Red, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla, one group of three items (three layers, pictures, etc.), and something soft (a torn edge, ribbon, lace, etc.).  The groups of three that I used were: layers of Real Red, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla, I layered 3 flowers together, 3 sayings together and 3 buttons together.

I found a picture that my mom had of my daughter, Chelsie, when she was 4 days old and built the page around the picture.  I have to admit that I struggle with scrapbooking, but did enjoy making this page.  Maybe I put too much pressure on myself that every page has to be a "wow" project with a lot of "zing and bling".

Stamps: Betsy's Blossoms, Warm Words
Inks: Real Red
Papers: Real Red, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Real Red DSP, Summer Smooches DSP
Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note Die, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Paper Doily Sizzlits, Boho Blossoms Punch, Blossom Punch, Modern Label Punch, Bird Builder Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Real Red Buttons, Very Vanilla Buttons, Crumb Cake Buttons, Real Red Brads, Very Vanilla Brads, Crumb Cake Brads, White Baker's Twine, Dimensionals, Mini-Glue Dots

Another Masculine LNS Challenge Card

I made another Father's Day card using the set, French Foliage.  I just got this set and am wondering why I didn't get it sooner!  This was a pretty simple and fast card to make.  I used the new In-Colors, Midnight Muse and Gumball Green, and added some Soft Suede in the mix.  After stamping the images, I distressed the edges with a distressing tool, and then sponged the edges with Soft Suede and a sponge.  I crinkled up the cardstock and then layered in a piece of Gumball Green.  I then tied some Early Espresso Baker's Twine around the front and attached the saying and a Natural Designer Button.  Here's a list of the rest of the items:

Stamps: French Foliage, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Soft Suede
Papers: Whisper White, Soft Suede, Gumball Green
Accessories: Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Natural Designer Button, Modern Label Punch, Distressing Tool, Sponge, Dimensionals, Mini- Glue Dots