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


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Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge #43

Last night I decided to play with the TECC43 Sketch Challenge and I made some baby cards.

I have two cousins who just had baby's this last month one a boy and the other a girl and another one of my cousins just announced that she is expecting a baby boy for April so I thought it would be appropriate to make some baby cards using this sketch. Also I have had this set forever, I think it was one of the first sets I bought when I started purchasing from SU and until last night it has never been inked, it's probably been a good year since I got it, so I finally inked it up. About time huh?!!!

The first card I made for a little baby boy, I had to change the sketch from portrait to landscape because it didn't seem to work for the images and sentiment I had, first I changed the sentiment and it still didn't work so I just flipped the card and continued to make it not thinking to go back to my original sentiment from the set, "Welcome Baby," which would have worked better for sending out to my cousins. But it all works out either way.




For this second card I did the same thing, but I thought it would be cute to give the baby feet some dimension so I popped them up with dimension dots.





Now it's your turn to to try the sketch! Taylor will choose the most clever, creative, and cute creation from the submissions this weekend to be the Featured Cupcake Sampler next week. Your design and blog will be featured on Taylor's blog during Cupcake Friday. You're not required to use cupcakes for the challenge, but if you got 'em why not use 'em!? You're welcome to create something other than a card, just stick as closely to the sketch as possible and you'll be eligible for the Featured Cupcake Sampler honors. If you're uploading to Splitcoast use keyword TECC43 (for Taylored Expressions Cupcake Challenge 43). Leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog post or gallery upload so Taylor can check it out! You must have your cards uploaded by Monday, November 24th at 8am PST to be eligible for the featured cupcake sampler.

Stamps: SU Bundled in Love
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack); Aquamarine ColorBox Chalk; Rose Coral ColorBox Chalk
Markers: Copic YR20 Yellowish Shade
Paper: Nana's Nursery Baby Girl, Nana's Nursery Baby Boy,
Other: Green Gross Grain Ribbon; Buttons; Dimensional Glue Dots

Warm and Cozy Wishes...

For the Friday Hanna Stamps challenge over on SCS Jannette's challenge was this sketch.

I was inspired by a card I saw at Rubbah Soul called Knit happens and I thought it would work well with Fluffles.

For this first card I made Fluffles sweater with white flock...and then it got a little messy, I was trying to ink the edge of the stamped image and then it accidentally fell into the ink so then I just decided to go with it and just ink the entire image, didn't come out to bad but that wasn't the look I was going for.




For this second image I went and made Fluffles collar white so that the ribbon at the bottom would match his sweater, and he to got a lil messed up when my fingers were all inked up with red ink but that didn't bother me, so I left it.



Friday Night Stamp Night at Jillian's place was soooo much fun!!!! We had a blast!!! We all stamped, ate, and laughed all night long and we got to play with Chloe you adorable new puppy dog, she had just brought it home last night too so we all got to meet her for the first time, she was so sweet!!! But yes we had a great time and I got to use some of Jillian's stamps, and I stamped myself a bunch of images that I don't own so I'm sure when I get a chance I will share all those images with you. Thanks for a fun night Jillian!!!


Hope you enjoyed, thanks for stopping by, take care!!!

How many...

does it take?? 4 to be exact...So I'm such a perfectionist it's horrible. It has to be the perfect card or I wont send it out. So my neighbors from back home sent me cards today, their always super early so here I am today making fall/Thanksgiving cards.

I picked up some new American Crafts Premier Ribbon at the local Michaels and I thought I would use the colors to inspire the colors for my card. Also the colors are what I see everyday when I go to school, there are so many trees and so many leaves they are everywhere, but right now they are so beautiful because they are all different colors and they are so vibrant. These past days I've been thinking that I needed to use the colors as an inspiration, so here we are.

I made a wreath using the Martha Stewart Maple Punch and I used glue dot to glue the leaves in a circle and I added the ribbon to the top as the wreath holder.


This wreath idea came from Stephanie at the Paper Garden last year as one of her fall free make-and-takes that I attended. The maple punch that was used for the make-and-take was a little bigger than mine so I think that may have made it easier.





Helpful Hint: To give the wreath a good circular look I traced a nestibility on the base and then just lined up the leaves.


Take 1:



Take 2:

(center of the wreath is to big)


Take 3:

(This one is just a scratch sample, I didn't have an appropriate stamp so I thought I would hand write my sentiment, but that didn't work and then I couldn't turn the paper over because the store label was on the back, oh well)

Take 4:

And after 4 tries it finally comes out well...you would hope so after attempting it 4 time.


Oh and lets not forget the decor on the envelope. I traced a punched out maple leave with my glue pen and sprinkled glitter on it.



I'm super excited tonight is Stamping Fun Night with the gals at Jillian Winter's house, wuuu huuu yea, oh and I almost forgot I'm supposed to bring a desert in case someone doesn't want apple pie, good thing I just remembered, I'll have to go get something!!

I hope you enjoyed, 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!!

More AmyRS46

So I thought I would play a little more with the AmyRS46 Sketch and use something other than snowflakes, so I dug through my stamp drawers looking for other stamps that could be used for this sketch, and here is what I came up with. Enjoy!!!






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Feeling Inspired

So I was inspired by some Super Simple Snowflake Cards from Prairie Paper and Ink. Amy made some beautiful cards for her Friday Sketch! #37 so I thought I would try out her idea with the snowflakes that I have. Well mine didn't come out as nice as hers but here they are.







Hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by!!!

Just being creative

So I thought I would play a little more with my new Elzybell Christmas stamps and play a bit with embossing with my Nestibilities and make a one layer simple card. I had a little bit of trouble with it but I think if I know how to fix the problem next time. My Nesties are not centered well and they aren't even, they tend to move once you start to slide them through the Cuttlebug so next time I'll have to tape them down before rolling them through. Also, if you look at the third picture, my glue ink pad and glitter got a little messy and then I tried to fix it with my glue pen and that just made it look worse.

Elzybells Nativity

Sorry about being MIA, school is getting to me, I should be reading right now and playing catch up but I went to the Paper Garden today for a make-and-take and and I couldn't help but splurge, I was actually looking for another Christmas Elzybell but Stephanie says that Elzybells are no longer being sent to the US so I had to get these before they were all gone...well they well be sent to the US but you have to order them directly from Elyzbells and it is very expensive to get them shipped to the US.

Any ways here is the card that I made.




It's a slider card and while at the Paper Garden Ken inspired me to try it out and I had the idea to slide the three wise kings towards Joseph and Mary, so I had to make the card before I forgot the technique. I knew I wanted to do use the technique so I stamped everyone and then colored them but then I had no idea what to do with the background. Then I had to make several slider parts because the slider was to long on the "Oh little town of Bethlehem" showed and then when I fixed it and you pulled the tab the whole saying wouldn't show so I had to stamp it on top of each other. The background isn't what I had in mind, I couldn't think of anything, so I think it came out alright. What do you think? I'll have to play with the idea some more, and play with the background colors more.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!! Thanks for stopping by!!

New Technique

So I found an awesome technique from Amazing Paper Grace by Becca Feeken.The technique is to make a circle frame or a medallion which can be used for anything. It involves a corner punch and a circular piece of paper. So here is her video with the tutorial of how to do the technique.



And here are some of my sample circle frames/medallions that are unfinished. I was just playing with the idea to see how it worked. Sorry I haven't posted in a while school assignments are just piling up and finals are around the corner, but I'm sure at some point I will make time for card making...I have to make Christmas cards, they cant be like my late halloween cards. That was bad.



Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!!

Stamping in Your Jammies Challenge #3

So here is my project for the third and final challenge at Paper Pretties PJ Party, which was to make a tag!!





I think they were thinking Christmas tags but in my mind I was thinking like a food gift tag like something you could put on a batch of cupcakes for the neighbors or something. But here it is.

I used the Sweets for the Sweet stamp set over at Paper Pretties and just used my Nestibilities for the oval and scalloped oval and colored it with red Copic marker and added some Sukura glitter and some liquid pearls and that was it.

Don't forget Paper Pretties is having a HUGE HUGE HUGE sale. They will be moving soon and do not want to move everything with them so this means HUGE savings for you!! Almost everything in the Boutique is 75% off.....the only exceptions are the Pretties stamps and the Swarovski Crystals!!! So get on over there and start shopping!!! And while you're there don't forget to check out the sets that were released on Saturday!!

I hope you all have a great Monday!! I appreciate you stopping by...

Stamping in Your Jammies Challenge #2

Here is my card for the second challenge over at the Paper Pretties Stamping In Your Jammies party!


Charmaine challenged us to make a card with NO CIRCLES...it took more than the hour given to make my first card so I cheated and I used a card that I had already made, but I edited it...I didn't remake it to have NO CIRCLES but I digitally edited it to fit the challenge. Click Here for the original card that I first made back in May.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Don't forget to stop by Paper Pretties...there is a big 75% off sale!!! Head on over!!!

Stamping in Your Jammies Challenge #1

So tonight I joined in the fun at Paper Pretties Pajama party. It was supper fun and definitely challenging. I usually stand back in the shadows and just listen to what everyone is chatting about and look at the pretty things they make but this time I decided to participate. Definitely a good idea!!!The first challenge of the night issued by Charmaine was to make a gatefold card. It looked easy and maybe quick. I got my idea together and started and it got hard and then I ran out of glue, yikes, and then my paper wasn't fitting just right and then I lol decided to cut it so on the right panel you can see it's a little messed up but it was just a little fun project and next time I'll know what to do and make it better, right, a good lesson learned and a fun challenge done. Yeahh!!!






I'll post the next challenges later.

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