Happy new year to you all! Thanks for your patience with me. I was hoping to stamp more this week, but I was in a car accident on the 26th. I'm mostly miraculously fine, but my stamping mojo seemed to get knocked right out of me. Luckily for me, my friend Patty posted a great challenge yesterday that helped me out.
Today's card combines two Dirty Dozen challenges from SCS. One challenge was to use a holiday theme, and the sketch is the other challenge. Theirs was a scrapbook page, but I modified it to use for a card. I really like it!
This card also has not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 sneak peek items from the Occasions Mini and Sale-a-bration. Both catalogs start on January 5th. The scallop trim border is a new style of punch, and you can get it absolutely free during SAB! There is also a coordinating corner punch in the new mini catalog. The flower is cut out from a piece of Sending Love DSP from the new mini. Notice all of the glitter on the flower? It came that way on the paper!!! Each sheet of DSP has glitter images on one side, and the other side is non-glittery. It is AWESOME! The Chocolate Chip satin ribbon is also new in the mini, and the satin ribbon comes in 9 colors. It's fairly stiff, but it ties very nicely!
The last new item is the background image on the card. It's from a new set in the mini called Vintage Vogue. Notice how nicely I stamped all of those images? That's because I got this set in the new clear mount style. It's the same high-quality rubber we are used to, but it comes with cling mount on the back instead of regular adhesive so it can stick to an acrylic block. That way, I can line up my images more easily. The clear mount also takes up much less space since there are no wood blocks. Each stamp set comes in a DVD-sized case with the images shown on the front of the case as well as on the spine so you can easily find any single stamp.
More details on my card: The flower stem is from True Friend. For the flower, I cut it out of the DSP then used the scoring blade in my cutter kit to score along the curved lines to give the flower some dimension. The sentiment was intended to be lined up straight, but after the 2nd one didn't line up, I decided to alternate them to make it look intentional. I like how it turned out!
Happy new year, and happy stamping!
I brought some stamping stuff with me to CA, but my supplies are limited. That requires some creativity! For this week's workshop wow, I decided to offer up a limited supply challenge: use stamps, paper, ink and one accessory..JPG)
This project is a cello bag holder. It's pleated at the bottom so it can stand up.
This is a Sending Love Note from the Occasions Mini. I think it would make a great piece on a card front. The glassine envelopes are in the Occasions Mini also.
The card on the left is one that I made at Regional. I wanted to do it at Wednesday's workshop, but I don't have the Old Olive buttons. I have Tempting Turquoise buttons, though, so I redid the card in a different color combo to use the buttons I had. The color combo (from the color coach) is Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery and Apricot Appeal (plus Soft Suede). Everyone loved it!
For this week's workshop wow challenge, we are doing the sketch from the January Stampin' Success magazine. I thought it was just perfect for the Vintage Vogue set from the Occasions Mini! One of my co-workers is moving on to a new position in the company, so I made this card for her. I got the color combo from another blog; I wrote down the colors but not which blog it was, sorry!
Here's another card made with Vintage Vogue from the Occasions Mini. Having this set clear mounted made stamping that border so easy! For the flowers, I used the masking technique. Just stamp the flowers onto a sticky note, making sure part of the flower is where the "sticky" is. Then cut out the flower. I keep mine inside the stamp case to use over and over.
Check out this gorgeous DSP! I hope you can see the glittery flowers on it; they are beautiful! I wanted to use as big of a piece of the DSP as possible; I think it ended up being about 3 1/4". I got the color combo from the SU color wheel. I know my friend Rhonda will be proud that I used Sage Shadow because I really don't like that color, but I'm trying to go outside my comfort zone a little. The ribbon is actually covering up a little booboo; I accidentally got a dot of Perfect Plum ink on the paper. I tied a knot in a piece of Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon, but it wasn't substantial enough so I tied another piece around the knot that was already there.
Here is what the new clear mount stamps look like. This is the front of the case.
This is the back of the case so you can see the actual stamps.
Here is one of the stamps on an acrylic block. I put the labels on my stamps so they aren't quite as clingy as they would be if I left the labels off. I press the block onto the stamp for a few seconds before using to help it stick better.
Happy new year to you all! Thanks for your patience with me. I was hoping to stamp more this week, but I was in a car accident on the 26th. I'm mostly miraculously fine, but my stamping mojo seemed to get knocked right out of me. Luckily for me, my friend Patty posted a great challenge yesterday that helped me out.
