Today’s card features the Mosaic Tile technique. The concept is simple: cut apart a stamped panel and put it back together with small gaps. You do this in with squares, rectangles, or even in a brick pattern. How to make the card below: Start with a 3¾” x 5″ piece of Very Vanilla card stock and stamp your images using Memento Black Ink. Color images in your choice of colors… Read More »
Ok – – – I know you have some designer series paper just laying around wanting to be shown some love – well today I have for you three simple designs to help use some of that paper up to make room for the new designer paper your going to want from the Stampin’ Up! 2018 – 2019 Annual Catalog available June 1st. First card has three designer series paper… Read More »
Happy Monday, Hope you had a nice weekend. Anyone play an tricks on you yesterday since not only was it Easter but April Fool’s Day? Today’s card features the Brusho Watercolor ink crystals – Sprinkle them directly on water-washed paper and watch the colors burst! Each package includes 5 pots – 1 each of – Brilliant Red, Gamboge (orange), Moss Green, Prussian Blue and Yellow. For my card, I stamped… Read More »
Happy Sunday, today I will be meeting with my Sunday stampers and here are the cards we will be making. Two of the cards feature Sale-a-Bration items, available until March 31, 2018 – Springtime Foil Specialty Designer Series Paper ($50 USD item) and Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder from the Blossoming Basket Bundle ($100 USD item). The third card features the Picture Perfect Birthday Photopolymer Stamp set &… Read More »
Hope you are having a good week, last night was the monthly dinner with the “76er’s”, a group of people who graduated from North Hills High School in 1976. Each month on our Facebook group a dinner spot is picked and those who are interested meet for dinner and conversation. We always have a great time! Today’s card features a technique called “Swoosh” featured by Lisa Curico. This technique is… Read More »
This past Sunday my Sunday Stampers met for our monthly stamping session, the first since the new 2017 Holiday catalog started. We made two cards using new stamp sets and one by request, a baby card – which came in handy as I needed one for a neighbor having a baby this fall. The first card we made is an Eclipse card – just like the one the other day… Read More »
Today is my niece Maya’s birthday and I thought I would share the birthday card I made and sent her with you, an eclipse card – where the image is stamped, then a word die cut and when the letters are added back, they are backed with foam adhesive strips for added depth. It’s hard to believe Maya is a teenager now, seems like just yesterday she was a little… Read More »
Happy Saturday, hope your weekend is off to a good start. Today’s card features the Retiform technique. I’m sure some of you are asking what exactly is Retiform – well according to my Webster dictionary Retiform is “composed of crossing lines and interstices”, that’s rather technical but does explain the lines used to separate the different sections. For my card, I used Post It Notes to block off a section,… Read More »
Today I’m sharing a technique I was reminded of now that Stampin’ Up! is selling Glossy Card stock again. Glossy card stock is 8.5″ x 11″, comes 10 in a pack and has a glossy finish on one side, matte finish on the other and not acid free. For this technique you need glossy card stock, re-inkers (2-3 colors), two cotton balls and rubbing alcohol. Take one cotton ball, add some… Read More »
Lately I’ve seen a lot of buzz online about “masking” and thought I would share with you a couple cards I’ve made using this technique. It’s a rather simple technique, were you create a “mask” to hide a portion of the paper or image and stamp on the open area. For my cards, I die cut a circle using the Layering Circle Framelits and a piece of copier paper to create the… Read More »
