ISS Method Monday - Embossing Digi Images

Happy Holidays!!!

I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful time of the year!! I have a little tutorial for you all today. If you have been over to the InStyle Stamps blog you have already seen this post. I was the host for Method Monday and I thought I would do a tutorial on embossing with digital images.

 For the longest time I thought I could only emboss with stamps because I had the ink pad but then I discovered the VersaMarker which you can use to emboss. So that is what my tutorial from yesterdays Method Monday over at InStyle Stamps was all about.

Check it out and Enjoy!!!

Embossing with Digital Images

Supplies: VersaMarker, Embossing Powder, Embossing Heat Tool and an image of your choice

I decided that I wanted to emboss Kimi's wings.

1. Use your VersaMarker and outline the area that you want to emboss.


2. After outlining with your VersaMarker, pour a generous amount of Embossing Powder over the area that was outlined.

3. After added the Embossing Powder, shake the excess amount off and clean any that may not be in the location that you want it.


4. After shaking off the excess powder, heat the area with the embossing powder. You will notice as you are heating that the powder with kind of melt, at that point you want to stop heating, to avoid over heating.


How simple is that, and it's always such a great touch!!

Recipe:

Card Size: 5 1/2x 4
Stamps: Kimi by InStyle Stamps, Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Messages sentiment

Paper: DCWV Holiday Stack

Ink: Copic Markers

Accessories: Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, Ribbon, Button, Embroidery Floss, Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Border Punch, SU Large Oval Punch, SU Round Tab Punch, Gold Rhinestones (Michaels)

I hope you enjoyed my simple tutorial!!! Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

Wedding Invitation #4

Hey there,

Here is Invitation #4, not quite my favorite but I needed a variety to show the bride. This layout also came from an invitation website, probably the same website as invitation #3, but I have no idea what website. I think if I were to do this invitation again I would put a layer of white between the velum and the bluebell cardstock, I think it would help make it look a little better. Just an idea.

So here it is. Enjoy!!!



Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
Stamps: Impression Obsession Hydrangea Sprig,
Ink: VersaMark Water mark stamp pad, Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell, Velum
Accessories: Judi Kins Pastel Embossing Powder, Sheer Ribbon

Wedding Invitation #1

Hey everyone,

So I promised you all I would share the many wedding invitations that I made. I made some 11 different wedding invitations and a little milk carton favor, which could use a little bit of help. So here is the deal, since I'm on summer vacation and this coming week is my birthday and I'll be heading out to Pismo mid next week with my boyfriend, his brother and sister-in-law and some 8 other friends to hit the dunes and ride quads, which I am super excited about because I've never ridden on the dunes. I can't wait!!! So while I'm enjoying my vacation, I will slowly try to share my wedding invitations and a few other random things.



So here are some random details about these invitations and the wedding. The bride's color for the wedding is indigo which is a very dark purplish blue color like this dress to the left, which isn't easy to find in paper or ribbon.




She also wants the flowers at the wedding to be hydrangeas and she wants them to be as close in color to this hydrangea here.
So when it came to choosing paper colors I had a choice between three colors that were no where close to the color she wanted. There was a purple that had a burgundy tent and then there was a very dark navy blue color and then there was this Bluebell color that I thought was a good choice because it is kind of a hydrangea color, and the bride agreed. So my next step was to look around for matching ribbon which was another complicated task and I managed to find some matching ribbon at a Joanns Super Store in their wedding ribbon section. I also used a Hydrangea stamp by Impression Obsession since the flowers at the wedding are going to be hydrangea and I figured it would be a nice decoration on the invitations.

I first started with the super simple invitations and moved my way up to the more time consuming invitations and the ones that in my opinion are the prettier ones. I had no idea what the bride had in mind so I made a little bit of everything and when I presented them to here I told her that if there was something she liked on one card but she didn't like it we could put it on the card that she liked and vice versa. There are so many options and things that can be changed up and added.

From the 11 she choose one, one of the prettier ones, which I'm very glad about, I'm not a big fan of the super simple and the usual, I like the unique and pretty ones. Although it's going to take a lot of time for me to put them together I wont mind, they will be absolutely gorgeous when they are all done!! I will share the one that she choose last so you may have to wait for it because I still have to take 4 more pictures and a picture of the favor, so with everything that I have planned for next week Im not sure when I will be able to take those last pics and post them. I'll try my best to get them up in a timely fashion.

So enough with the blabing, here is the first invitation. I've blurred information out for privacy reasons, but the idea behind the invitation is still visible. Enjoy!!




Recipe:Card Size: 5 x 7
Stamps: Impression Obsession Hydrangea Sprig
Ink: VersaMark Water mark stamp pad
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell & Pearl
Accessories: Judi Kins Pastel Embossing Powder, Sheer Ribbon

Challenge 10 - Minimal

Todays challenge over at the Creative Card Crew has been set by their newest team member the lovely JOEY. This week Joey has set the challenge MINIMAL.

The prize for this weeks challenge is TWO Country Cousins stamps by Sugar Nellie, these have been kindly donated by LINDA.

So I decided to go super simple and quick since I should be studying for tomorrow mornings final exam but as you see I have fixed my blog since I managed to mess it all up last night and erase a lot of things that I had so I've spent most of my day fixing my blog so now I quickly made a card for the Card Crew then it'll be time to hit the books.

I hope you enjoy and sorry for the short post, I'll be back strong sometime after Thursday of next week when Summer vacation begins, Yeahhhhh!!!




Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 4 1/2
Stamps: Studio G "damask" $1 Michaels
Paper: Whisper White
Ink: Pitch black (Adirondack), Versa Mark Water mark ink
Accessories: Stampendous PEARLustre AMETHYST Opaque embossing powder, Cuttlebug, Nestibilities

Thanks for stopping by, see ya soon.

Verve - Mother

So I believe that I saw this card on Splitcoaststampers but I managed to track it down to Heather Pulvirenti blog at {Witty Title Here}, but either way, I fell in love with it and I thought I would give it a try. I switched up the colors and I made it into a square, and then when I was done I looked at it and didn't like it as much as Heathers, but as it sat on my desk for a few day in front of me I grew on me but it just wasn't for my mom.

So here it is. I hope you enjoy and Thanks for stopping by!!




Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Verve Because of You
Paper: Michaels Paper Slab
Ink: Pitch black (Adirondack), SU Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Stampendous Black Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Nestibilities, Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Stylized Flowers, SU Large Oval

What I call, a little sneak peak

So I figured I would give you guys a little sneak peak of some cards that I've been working on. I've been creating like a mad woman trying to get the perfect mothers day card using the Verve Because of you set. There were some great ideas out there using the set so I decided to CASE a few until I got the perfect one for my mom. I had to make 5 before I made the perfect one. It was perfect in its layout and colors but I needed to shrink it down a bit because there was to much extra space, so I made 6 cards to make the perfect mothers day card.

So stay tuned to check out those cards. I will be posting one each day, plus some other cards that I've made in between.

Thanks for stopping by.

Mojo85 - Fifth Avenue Floral

First Monday of the month means Mojo Monday Contest so I've decided to participate. With mothers day around the corner I need to get some ideas in so what better than to start with a lil mojo.

I figured I would use SU's Fifth Avenue Floral, I can't get enough of it, it is so pretty and so fun to make 3-D, so this time I made the rose 3-D, it's such a great effect. I used the Urban Oasis paper and then I stamped the rose of Baja Breeze with white ink, and you might as why I didn't us the paper with that look, well I like to hoard my paper, I don't like to use it, lol I'm weird what can I say. I have a ton of paper but it's just to pretty to use, I know there are more of us out there lol.



This picture is to show the dimensions, I used 3-D dots to lift up the image for a 3-D effect. I just love the 3-D effect it gives your cards a whole different look, and it makes it fun to play with.

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by and don't forget to scroll down and play along for the Mojo Monday Contest.

Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: SU Fifth Avenue Flora
Ink: SU Baja Breeze, VersaMarker, ColorBox Pigment Ink Frostwhite
Paper: SU Urban Oasis, SU Cardstock Baja Breeze and Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: Martha Stewart Cornice Edge Punch, Stampendous Embossing Powder "Kaleidoscope", Brads, Ribbon, 3-D Adhesive Dots

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Mojo Monday Contest - Week 85

It's a new month, and that means it's CONTEST time!

The Prizes: We'll have one winner for every 50 entries, up to a max of SEVEN winners!!!

And what might you win? Well, that would be a Verve Stamps set of your choice (up to a $24 value).

How to play: Just upload a project using this week's sketch to your online blog or gallery. Then leave a link to your project in the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post. If you're linking to a blog, please be sure to link directly to the specific post where we can view your project, and not just to your blog. That way if it takes a few days for us to get to your card, we don't have to hunt around to find your card. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword MOJO85.

Deadline: The Mr. Linky form will close at 8PM MT on Sunday, May 10 so all entries need to be in before then. Winners will be announced on Wednesday May 12.

deck the halls...with Fluffles

Hope everyone had a good black Friday. I only went to Michaels to buy my mom some Chirstmas stuff and that was it, did feel like fighting the crowd to much.

Anybody start putting their Christmas stuff up. Im going to help my mom put her things up this weekend and then when I head back up to school on Sunday Im going to start decorating my apartment for Christmas too. Super Excited!!!

Here are some cards that I made, I was just playing with Fluffles and here is what I came up with... The ornaments and lights on all the cards were given dimension with a glaze pen so they are shinny and when you touch the card it has a little bump where the glaze is on all the oranments.

Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by have a good weekend!!!!








Recipe:
Stamps: Stampendous Fluffles Garland, Michaels $1 Lights Stamp
Paper: Michaels Christmas Slab
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Markers (Copics)
Accessaries: K&Company Adhesive Gems, Silver Brads, Red Gross Grain Ribbon, American Crafts Premium Red Sheer Ribbon, American Crafts Premium Solid Christmas Red 5/8 Ribbon, Sukuro Glaze Pen, Spica Pen, Heat Tool, Stampendous Green Tinsel Embossing Powder

Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy the rest of you day.

Fun Embossing Technique

Scrapnextras featured Technique Tuesday; Fun with Embossing Powder. Well she wasn't joking it really was fun!!! :-D I had a blast, it was cool to see all the colors come out after heating it, it was amazing lol, I could go on for days about how cool it was and how nicely it looks when it's done, beautiful and simple.

I only had a hard time lining up my background stamp because my card was bigger than my background stamp so I had to attempt to line it up again and make it look nice. The first time I failed and then I tried attempting it a different way and I succeeded. Hurray for me, looks great.Thanks Laura for the great Technique!!!

Enjoy!!!!








Recipe:
Stamps: Sentiment Tree (Hampton Art, Hero Arts Holiday Cheer Messages, Inkadinkado
Ink: VersaMark Watermark Stamp pad
Ribbon: Red Gross Grain
Accessories: Stampendous Embossing Powder: Jeweled Gold, Red Tinsel, Green Tinsel, Midnight Black, Heat Tool, Paper Piercer


Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Let it Snow!!!

So I really hate winter, I'm such a summer girl and I love the sun, but right now I'm really feeling winter, probably because it's not really acting like winter here. I hate rain so I don't want it to rain but I want it to be cold so that I can snuggle up by the fireplace and drink some hot chocolate and watch movies, how fun, but winter isn't coming, oh well huh, I'll just pretend it's winter with my cards, lol.

These first two cards I was again inspired by Amy at Prairie Paper & Ink. She made some beautiful Peace and Joy Cards so I thought that I would try out her idea with the supplies that I have.

For this first card the saying is "Let it snow" which you can't really see.




For this second card I decided to go all glittery, love glitter!! I used a technique that Jillian taught some of us at her SU Stamp Club, it's to change your brads either make them glittery or make them soft with flock so I chose to glitter my brads up. The technique is to use your heat tool to heat up the brad, I used a pair of tweezers to hold the brad, heated it then dipped it in SU Heat n Stick Powder, heated it again to make the powder sticky, dip the brad in the glitter and then heated again to seal the glue and glitter. Pretty simple just be careful not to burn yourself, the brad tends to get very hot.



This second cards was inspired to me by Jilian at Ink, Stamp, & Scrap. Her idea was to make her own Designer paper so I thought I would do that with the snowflake stamps that I have and I decided that I wanted to use lots of glitter so I inked the snowflake in two different blues and then on top I used glitter embossing powder to make random glitter snowflakes on top. It came out a little abstract, and at first I didn't like it but the look is growing on me.




Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy the rest of you day!!

Valentine's Day Cards

These next four cards are very diverse and can have any sentiment, but for this occasion they are Valentine's Day cards.















Just playing with some ideas.















The sample below is a Shaker Card.







Some Whinne-the-Pooh Valentine's Day Cards























This one was the Whinne-the-Pooh card that I sent out. I've had this stamp since before I ever knew I was going to begin stamping, a long time, I love pooh so I knew it was going to be my Valentine's card. It was time to ink it up, after so long. I tried so many ideas as you see above but to me they were all to much, so I had to get really simple to make the perfect card. They all came out alright but this one was the best (below).







The stamps that I used for the above sapmles.







Some stamps I purchased after Valentine's day that I'll have to play with when it get some extra time.