Black Ink only
Posted: February 19, 2009 Filed under: Baroque Motifs, One of a Kind 10 Comments
It’s challenge #75 with Sharon at No Time To Stamp again and I had a ball with this one. The challenge was to use black ink only, no pencils, markers, chalks or coloured inks, just BLACK!
I have been doing some doodling related art lessons with my children lately so I thought I would do some doodling on my card. I used the flower stamps from Baroque Motifs and One of a Kind to create a row of flowers, then drew all my stems and leaves with a fineliner. I gave a few of the flowers rhinestone centres as well as adding a matted greeting. I punched out a red flower and a stamped black flower and layered them with stampin’ dimensionals to add to the greeting. To make the red lace at the bottom I used decorative edged scissors and a tiny whole punch.
I had a great time doodling and decorating this card, I think I will try a few more along the same theme. Make sure you check out all the design team’s ideas for this one.
Dee, Tammy, Janine, AJ, Jennifer, Becky, Julie and Sharon
Supplies:
Stamps: Baroque Motifs, One of a Kind
Inks: Basic Black
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red
Also: Fiskars Seagull edge scissors, Rhinesones, Pilot fineliner, Making Memories hole punch from tool kit, Boho Blossoms punch, stampin’ dimensionals
Soft Flourish
Posted: February 17, 2009 Filed under: Baroque Motifs, Upsy Daisy 6 Comments
The flourish from Baroque Motifs, is such a beautiful stamp. I rarely add much else when I’m stamping with it because it very stylish alone. For this card I just stamped and stamped off with both Pretty in Pink and Old Olive, added a couple of pale flowers, a greeting and ribbon. I wasn’t sure if I was going to use it at my party the other night but I did and as usual my guests loved the stamp.
That’s it for now, just a quick card and a quick hello.
Supplies:
Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Upsy Daisy
Inks: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink
Cardstock: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla
Also: Olive Grosgrain ribbon, ticket corner punch
Deer at dawn
Posted: February 16, 2009 Filed under: Nature Silhouettes, Stamped Landscapes 1 Comment
I think my title is a little cheesy, but don’t you think this deer is gazing into the brightness of the new day!! With the dark blues and the lack of flowers or hearts I think it is destined to be another man card. Speaking of man cards, check here to see an incredible one.
The background was done on watercolour paper using Not quite Navy and Night of Navy ink, I think. I actually painted the background before Christmas to use for a snow scene, but it just sat on the watercolour pad and I never got around to using it. I was looking at it the other day and decided to make it the sky for the deer under the tree. I turned the watercolour sheet around several times before settling on this orientation with the light in one corner. The images are stamped in versmark and embossed with Black e.p. The colours are not true, I tried several times to get a better shot but the blues are all lighter than they are in reality.
Supplies:
Inks: Versamark
Cardstock: Watercolour paper, Not quite Navy, Basic Black, Cool Caribbean
Stamps: Nature Silhouettes
Also: Black e.p., Black grosgrain ribbon
Peacock Inspiration
Posted: February 15, 2009 Filed under: Ever After 2 Comments
Flourishes released three new sets this week and held a challenge to celebrate. As one of the sets is a Peacock set, the challenge was to use the colours of a peacock feather in your card. I love the blues and greens of peacock feathers, but the picture on the Flourishes blog had a very definite gold in it also so I decide to go with those three colours.
I stamped the heart first on watercolour paper and embossed with gold glory e.p. Then I brushed water across the sheet of paper and squeezed droplets of Garden Green ink and Not quite Navy ink onto the wet paper. It bled across the paper and the colours blurred into each other. I think I will try this technique again but wait for the ink to dry and emboss afterwards; it was hard to get ink into all the little spaces in the centre of the heart.
I used the same technique to do the “From the Heart” greeting on the inside of the card. The greeting was meant to be on the front but no matter how I arranged things I wasn’t happy with it on the front so it got put inside and I added the embossied gold background on the front.
Hope you had a happy Valentines Day, but don’t forget let your loved ones know you love them everyday!
Supplies:
Inks: Versamark, Garden Green, Not quite Navy
Cardstock: Watercolour paper, Not quite Navy, Brushed Gold
Stamps: Ever After, All Year Cheer
Also: Gold Glory e.p.
Valentine Bag Topper
Posted: February 14, 2009 Filed under: Ever After 2 Comments
I held a new catalog party last night and this was the make and take, only just in time for Valentine’s Day. As you can probably see it was very simple to make. The red piece of card is 5½”x4¼” scored at 3″ and the white 5¼”x4″ scored at 2 7/8″. I stamped one red heart in the centre of the larger side of the white card, then without re- inking stamped the hearts either side and the “for you” from One of a Kind. I sliced off the open flap end of the translucent envelopes and popped in ten hearts. To seal the packet I stapled the red piece over the envelope and then stuck the decorated white piece on with adhesive. Last of all I punched a hole through the top and tied a red bow.
Supplies:
Inks: Real Red
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red
Stamps: Ever After, One of a Kind
Also: Red grosgrain ribbon
Simply Monogrammed
Posted: February 13, 2009 Filed under: Designer Paper, Just Rite 5 Comments
It is challenge time again with Sharon over at No Time to Stamp. The challenge is to make anything with a monogram on it so I decided to make a card with my initials. Apparenty I have messed up the monogram order though. I just checked on Sharon’s blog and I should have my surname initial in the centre!! I would fix it but I have no time or light to photograph it. Perhaps I can give it to someone with the right names…if your initials are ATH leave me a comment and I will send you the card!!
As you can see I have used the textured designer paper again, three different patterns co-ordinated with Always Artichoke and Sahara Sand. The letters are the stylish Trompe Script Font from Just Rite. If I had a scallop punch I would have used that for my scallop circle but it’s still on my wish list so I used the scallop edge scissors instead.
Make sure you check out what the rest of the design team have created this week.
Dee, Tammy, Janine, AJ, Jennifer, Becky and Sharon
Supplies:
Stamps: Trompe Script Font from Just Rite
Inks: Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Saraha Sand, To the Nines Specialty D.P., Very Vanilla
Also: Nestabilities circles, circle punch
Muted Silhouettes
Posted: February 11, 2009 Filed under: Designer Paper, Pocket Silhouettes 2 Comments
Here is another card I made using the To the Nines Specialty D.P. The overall effect is quite muted as I stamped the images on Sahara Sand rather than a lighter brighter colour. The images from Pocket Silhouettes are perfect to punch out; I rarely use the whole image. I didn’t photograph the inside this time as I just matted a piece of Whisper white in Sahara Sand and attached that.
Not much to it really.
Thanks for dropping in, and thank you for the encouraging comments you have been leaving, I really appreciate them.
Supplies:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes
Inks: Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Saraha Sand, To the Nines Specialty D.P.
Also: Hemp Twine
A Sweet Little Thankyou
Posted: February 10, 2009 Filed under: Designer Paper, My Kid's cards, One of a Kind 2 Comments
I posted a drawing set decorated by my younger daughter a few days ago. Today I have a little gift bag made by my older daughter. She didn’t make it with anyone in mind, but just thought it would be good to have in reserve. I think she did a beautiful job and it is just the size for a few chocolates or cookies or perhaps some pretty soap. The dimensions are 4½” high, 4″ across and 2″ wide. She made the bag out of Berry Bliss Designer Paper and used Whisper white, Pretty in Pink and Close to Cocoa for the “Many Thanks” panel.
Supplies:
Stamps: One of a Kind, All Year Cheer
Inks: Pretty In Pink, Close to Cocoa
Cardstock: Whisper White, Pretty In Pink, Close to Cocoa
Also: Taupe grosgrain ribbon
To the Nines
Posted: February 9, 2009 Filed under: Designer Paper, Lovely as a Tree Leave a comment
I have been playing with another new product from the Spring/Summer catalog: To the Nines Specialty Designer Paper which is textured and cardstock weight. Like the designer papers there is a different pattern on each side. I know this cardstock does have hearts and paisley on it but I thought it could almost pass as a “male card”. I stamped the trees in Chocolate Chip on the front panel and then without re-inking stamped them on the corner of the inside panel and added the sentiment. I have matted the front with Chocolate Chip and Sahara Sand and the inside with just Chocolate Chip.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Pocket Silhouettes
Inks: Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Saraha Sand, To the Nines Specialty D.P.
Also: Chocolate grosgrain ribbon
Ever After
Posted: February 9, 2009 Filed under: Cuttlebug, Ever After 2 Comments
This card happened a little by accident, but I am very happy with the accident. After I had had all sorts of issues with my previous heart card, which had meant that I had stamped the heart, cleaned the stamp, botched it and then stamped the heart, cleaned the stamp, botched it… the stamping scrub was tinged with red ink, so even when I cleaned the stamp I didn’t do a good enough job. I inked up the heart withTsukineko Wheat Versamagic chalk ink, which I had never used before, and stamped it on vanilla cardstock. The colour of the heart was the pale salmon colour in the card above, not wheat. It just happened to match beautifully with Blush Blossom so a few layers and a cuttlebug embossed matte were all that was needed to make this wedding card.
As the card is 5¼” square the cuttlebug matte needed to be wider than the embossing folder. I put it through once and then moved the folder over to the unembossed strip down the side of the square and carefully fitted the folder partially over the already embossed part of the square but also over the rest of the square. Sharon actually explains how to do it with pictures here.
Thanks for dropping in.
Supplies:
Inks: Tsukineko Versamagic chalk ink- Wheat
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Blush Blossom
Stamps: Ever After
Also: Textile cuttlebug folder
Heather Telford 