Choosing a tree
Posted: October 8, 2007 Filed under: Loads of Love Leave a comment
I had fun with this little truck from Loads of Love. Each time I started a card, I considered colours to make the truck, but red seemed to be the only option. Perhaps if I wasn’t making Christmas cards it would be different. When I finished this one, my daughter commented that it must be “choosing a tree in Australia as there is sand on the ground not snow.” I have chosen trees from Christmas Tree farms in both Australia and Canada and it is a very different experience, that’s for sure!
I stamped the truck on Real Red c.s. and cut it out before stamping the whole piece with the versamark and embossing with clear e.p. The wheels were stamped on white and coloured with watercolour pencils.
Supplies:
Stamps: Loads of Love
Inks: Basic Black, Wild Wasabi, River Rock, Versa mark
Cardstock: Real Red, Wild Wasabi, River Rock, Whisper White
Also: Red gingham ribbon, Watercolour pencils, sponges
Lovely as a Pine
Posted: October 5, 2007 Filed under: Lovely as a Tree, Rollers 1 Comment 
My design for this one is inspired by Laurie’s card which also features a stamp from Lovely as a Tree.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Pine bough roller
Inks: Handsome Hunter, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Handsome Hunter, Bashful Blue, Blue Bayou, Very Vanilla
Also: Hunter grosgrain ribbon
Five snowmen
Posted: October 4, 2007 Filed under: Festive Favourites 1 Comment
Even though my yard is covered in leaves and hopefully the snow won’t be coming any time soon, I have made a snowman card. It’s the first of my Christmas designs.
Supplies:
Stamps: Festive Favourites
Inks: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Basic Black
Cardstock: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Whisper white
Also: Watercolour pencils, red gingham ribbon
Last sunflower
Posted: September 27, 2007 Filed under: Serene Sunflowers 2 Comments
Not the last sunflower ever, just the last for now, as I believe it will be Christmas cards, tags, etc from now until December! I have several events I need to be planning for so I hope to start designing soon. I made the sunflower tiles by punching them out, stamping the Versamark pad straight on the squares and then embossing in clear e.p. Next time I’ll try glassy glaze e.p. to see if that makes them even more like tiles.
Supplies:
Stamps: Serene Sunflowers, Fundamental Phrases
Inks: Ruby Red, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla
Also: Olive organdy ribbon, Clear e.p.
Golden grasses
Posted: September 26, 2007 Filed under: Garden silhouettes 1 Comment
This is the last one to post from the party the other night. (I did demo one other but it is already posted here ) It will also be the last from Garden Silhouettes for a while, unless I work out how to use the set for Christmas cards!
Supplies:
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes
Inks: So Saffron, Garden Green,Mellow Moss
Cardstock: Garden Green, Mellow Moss, Naturals White, Metallic Gold
Also: Gold e.p., Moss Grosgrain ribbon
Gold Leaf
Posted: September 25, 2007 Filed under: With Gratitude 1 Comment
This was a card for the Splitcoast featured Stamper challenge a few weeks ago. It was inspired by Heather’s card here. I embossed the gold leaf and then used a blender pen and the stamp pads to get the orange and rust colour.
Supplies:
Stamps: With Gratitude
Inks: Summer Sun, Really Rust, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust
Also: Chocolate ribbon, Gold e.p.
September Stampers’ Club
Posted: September 25, 2007 Filed under: Serene Sunflowers, With Gratitude Leave a comment
Tonight at Stampers’ club we used the Sunflowers that I have been enjoying playing around with lately. I tried several techniques for creating a watercolour effect with the sunflowers. One was spraying the watercolour paper first and then stamping on it. Alternatively I stamped the sunflowers and then sprayed the paper afterwards. You can also ink the stamps and then spray them before stamping them. Unfortunately I can’t remember which technique I used here!? I think it was spray the paper first stamp after, but you may as well try each technique yourself. I added the dots to the paper with a Stampin’ marker.
Supplies:
Stamps: Serene Sunflowers, With Gratitude
Inks: Ruby Red, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke, Burgandy and Artichoke Stampin’ markers
Cardstock: Ruby Red, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke, Naturals White, Watercolour paper
Also: Antique Brass brads
For the other card I started with half an 8½x11 piece of vanilla cardstock and randomly stamped leaves all over it in Basic Black ink. Then I coloured with watercolour pencils in a range of colours which would match the earth elements cardstock. I added some leaves in earth elements inks, stamping several times before re-inking to get the variety of shades. At this point I showed my samples but encouraged everyone to cut whatever size and shape they wanted out of the leaf sheet and matte it to make their own card. I had twill tape on hand to add and the THANKS greeting. There was a little bit of complaining about having to design their own cards, but as usual they did a beautiful job.
Supplies:
Stamps: Fundamental Phrases, With Gratitude
Inks: Basic Black, Close to Cocoa, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red, Summer Sun
Also: Twill Tape
Supplies:
Stamps: Fundamental Phrases, With Gratitude
Inks: Basic Black, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie
Also: Twill Tape
Sunflowers
Posted: September 22, 2007 Filed under: Serene Sunflowers 1 Comment
This was another one from the party the other night. When I first saw this set in the catalogue a few years ago I was inspired by the samples they had stamped. To show off the set someone had created attractive lables for kitchen canisters. I ordered the set. I have never been really happy with my sunflower creations until last weekend when I spent some time playing with the set again.
Supplies:
Stamps: Serene Sunflowers
Inks: Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Summer Sun, Bravo Burgandy, Always Artichoke, Naturals white
Also: Burgandy ribbon
Falling leaves
Posted: September 18, 2007 Filed under: With Gratitude Leave a comment
The fall colours are starting to appear outside, so they are appearing here too. I have a stamping party for a good friend tonight and this one is the make and take. I will try and post the others soon also.
Supplies:
Stamps: With Gratitude, Fundumental Phrases
Inks: Always Artichoke, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Really Rust
Cardstock: True Thyme( I thought I picked up Artichoke but it was Thyme from last years In Colours by mistake), Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Really Rust
Also: Twill Tape, Hodgepodge Hardware
Watering the grass
Posted: September 15, 2007 Filed under: Garden silhouettes 1 Comment
Yet another green card using the Garden Silhouettes. First I embossed the grass with clear e.p. on watercolour paper and then stamped same stamp in several different colours . I sprayed it with a mist of water to blur the images and when that had dried stamped the same stamp a couple more times. A little sponging in green completed the soft effect .
Supplies:
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes, Fundamental Phrases
Inks: Garden green, Wild Wasabi, Not quite Navy, Versamark
Cardstock: Garden green, Wild Wasabi, Not quite Navy, Watercolour paper, Whisper white, Vellum
Also: Clear e.p.
Heather Telford 