Bloomin' Heart P ink PirouetteWedding card

Pink Pirouette is such a girlie color- living with all boys I really love a little pink every once in a while.  I wanted to use this die for a wedding card- a little pink behind the die is a really subtle way of adding a bit of color.  added some pearls to add a little sparkle.  the sentiment from Suite sayings stampset was stamped with Pink Pirouette and diecut with Project Life Cards & Labels die with a layer of Pink Pirouette diecut with the small oval from Ovals collection Framelit.  The whole thing was layered over the 5/8"  whisper white satin ribbon.  More pearls on either side - very bridal I think.

Victorian Dress Up

 I was gone for several weeks with no access to my stamping supplies so I took my catalogues and I sketched what I thought I wanted to do and this is one of those sketches come to life.  
I do have a thing for mannequin dies and stamps.  When I saw this die I really liked it and the sweet heart neck line dress die.  Not so sure about the stampset but as a bundle it was too good a deal to pass up so I bought the bundle anyway.  I love the die but I wanted a longer dress with a wedding dress /victorian dress feel so I diecut the dress in vanilla and then the bottom layer a bunch more times to the desired length, embossed the whole thing all at once with the lacy brocade embossing folder (although I did fussy emboss the bodice part to mimic a collar).  I diecut the mannequin just waist up since it was going to be hidden anyway in expresso.

This was one of the projects for the class I had and I just gave people a quarter sheet of vanilla cardstock and this is what it looked like after they were all done.

I put a small piece of 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon in vanilla and then added a piece of 5/8 inch vanilla flower trim and small pearl trim on the mannequin neck.

The dress seemed to get lost on the background when I did the pool party or some other color. So took pool party cardstock and die cut with apothecary accents and then pierced it with coordinating paper piercing pack, stamped the celebrate in expresso on the scrap piece of vanilla, then diecut using bitty banner framelet and slid it under the dress as shown.

Now that I am home, I just have to put the rest of my ideas into action. More to come....


Lynda

Lots of Scallops challenge

 Nothing like a challenge to get my mojo going on a Monday morning.  Even though daylight savings time is on, my body still has not adjusted and I woke up at 5 so I had some time to kill.  The splitcoast sketch challenge SC409 was turned sideways and WT399 to use no fall colors and TLC402 today was to use Layered Scallops and I was off.  Basecard is whisper white diecut with large scallop and embossed with edgelet delicate designs.  I stamped the flowers with pink pirouette then melon mambo, leaves are celery then limeade.  I layered pink pirouette and melon mambo CS diecut and scallop embossed again.  Used the Scallop rectangle Sizzlet (all SU) to add another layer of scallop. The sentiment is from the Trust God set.  I love this saying and bought the set because I loved this single stamp.  Layer it with melon and then pink pirouette.  Add another layer with scallop ribbon and seriously it was a easy peasy 10 minute card that don't look it......  Enjoy!     Lynda. 

Holiday Frame with stippled blossom

I think this Stampin Up Holiday frame is so pretty, I did not want to relegate it to just holiday cards.  I just got my Stippled blossoms set that I have been wanting so I used it to accent the frame.  Base card is pink pirouette embossed with the holiday frame and then I stamped the flowers in pink pirouette and melon mambo on whisper white and then embossed the oval from the Designer Frames Folder, then diecut it with one of the classic oval die from Spellbinders (which just fit the outer oval perfectly).

 I then stamped the sentiment from Made for you and stamped the little bud. The leaves are Celery and Limeade, punched it out with the Oval punch  (of course it matches perfectly on the inside ) and except for the cutting of the flowers, it was perfect.  I am working on my projects for my next workshop and I will post some of them after the party in a few weeks.

After I stamped the flowers, I wiped away the inside with the blender pen to add chocolate chip stamens with a marker to get an extra pop.

Lynda

 

Inspiration Challenge

I need to take a deep breath and go to my peaceful place right now. Last night I got home to have Tyler tell me that Kyle kicked the computer off the table and this morning the screen won't work and my brilliant IT brother thinks that the backlight is blown and my laptop is now toast. I have to take a deep breath and try not to kill my own child.

Relax, chill, it's just a computer! In 20 years I will have forgiven him but for right now I am so mad I am boiling from inside and have to make some cards to keep me calm......

Well, I have been toying with the idea of a cake card made of beautiful SU ribbon and for Saturday's Inspiration challenge they had Elizabeth embellishments and thought I would make it in honor of this card http://www.elizabethsembellishments.com/Wedding-Cake-Kitchen-Towel.html. The basecard is melon. Celebrate everything in melon ink as well-and layers of ribbon sewn down the middle and little bitty flower punched with pearls in the middle. Easy peasy card but I thought pretty. See? I am feeling better already. Who needs a psychiatrist? Not me. a handful of stamping supplies and I am so happy..... I am less mad already!

Hope your day goes better.

Lynda :-(

Owl Week- the Newlyweds

I have had so much fun this weekend playing with my owl punch- I have a really fun week planned for you with a different holiday owl every day.

We're starting with the Newlywed owls. The base card is whisper white with pirouette pink CS embossed with vintage wallpaper embossing folder using the selective embossing technique I described before using the oval frame to create the center clearing. The owls are punched in black and melon mambo with white center and Sending Love DSP (retired) belly for the vbride and pattern repeated in her eyelids, his lapel flower and bowtie (freehand cut). Instead of punching out a large spectacle like eyes, I just punched another circle same as the white (the smaller circle) and layered it to peek out a little - red on the groom and sending love DSP on the bride. The bridal veil is a piece of organza ribbon, gathered at the head using sticky strip and accented with pearls from the new bling set from SU. The top hat is free hand cut using little strips of black and used the glue pen to add a little line of dazzling diamond glitter. The leaves are from the large bird punch. The sentiment is from Teeny tiny wishes set on a 1/2 strip of whisper white folded into a banner. So sweet.... Tune in tomorrow for the next surprise owl card.


Lynda

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Blissful Bride again

I must have weddings on my mind- when splitcoast put up their sketch challenge for this week I could not help but think of this again.

The base card is whisper white with pink pirouette embossed with elegant lines and stamped with sentiment from everything nice (partially inked and stamped) in black and used pinking hearts border to heart out the bottom.

Took 2x2 squares of retired Sending Love DSP ( it is so pretty with all its glittered lines, I will save every scrap! ) and put it around the 1 3/8 inch square punched white CS that I stamped 3 different ways. I wanted the middle bridal dress to pop out some so I put a 2 1/8 inch square white around it and mounted it with dimensionals. I layered the squares a little different than the original sketch but hey, that's just how the ball rolls sometimes!

I did color in the image with pink pirouette daffodil and Bliss Blue marker, sponged the edges with a little bashful blue to add a tad bit of color, used 2 way glue pen to add some dazzling diamond glitter here and there. I tried to add some pearl and bling but it seemed too much so I held back ( and you know me, how hard that can be....) .

Happy hump day!

Blissful Bride

I have seen some really cool ideas for brides everywhere and wish I could redo my wedding invitations to make it more unique. Embossing folders, punches, adhesive pearls, so much stuff to choose from....

I do not have any weddings coming up or a bridal shower to go to but this image was so beautiful I wanted it in my collection of images to use later just in case (there are some stamps that I am eyeing and when they retire, I am so sorry that I did not just get it!) With the new elegant lines embossing folder and the pearls, it is just begging to go to a wedding!

Take whisper white CS and run it through the elegant lines embossing folder using the big shot. wrap pretty in pink satin ribbon around so that the edges are behind the central image in the front. Stamp the bridal dress in basic black. Color in the ribbon using the pirouette pink marker. Apply 2 way glue pen to the ribbon you just colored and apply dazzling diamond glitter. Add the pearls in 3 different sizes as the flowers appear. Punch the heart border on the bottom. Mount it onto a textured pirouette pink CS and a really simple but pretty wedding/bridal card.

Thanks for looking! Lynda

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CAS75 blushing bridal card

This is a variation on the card that I made last year here http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6045247360039791736&postID=3254932463239847824 I am making for the SCS challenge CAS75.

I saw this embossing folder in the new catalogue and with the little pearls thought would make a perfect combination. The base card is whisper white with blushing bride (what else?) cardstock dry embossed with elegant lines embossing folder. The 2 layers were held together while punching out the oval with and a piece of acetate window stamped with stazon on black with sentiment from the Everything Nice set ( I only used half the stamp to fit inside). Sticky tape th whole thing around the blushing bride CS back, center the words so it looked even around and stuck it on and then wrapped a little organza ribbon and stuck it to the whisper white base card. Then the little pearls.....OOOH I just LOVE them! What bride would not just LOVE to get this card! To tell you the truth I think this color combo and theme would make a lovely ensemble for the whole wedding.

Happy Summer!

Lynda

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Elements of Style Play

I was playing with the elements of style cards from the IC238 challenge and had this little piece left over. I have so much of little scraps that I keep saying -" I'll do something with it later..." but later usually does not come. So, I have this gigantic pile of things I want to do- uh... something - that is taking on a life of its own in my little room that I am making a challenge not to have any left overs- or put the left overs back in the proper color folders so I do not have this big mess in my room.

So, this is my scrap card. Took a melon mambo basecard, ran it through the big shot using the square lattice folder. Wrapped a piece of polkadot melon mambo ribbon backwards around the corner then slapped the piece onto the base card using sticky strip. I wante to add some flowers but the images I tried all looked "flat". Then of course, I had to do something un-flat so the 3D flowers. The flowers are in pretty in pink and edge sponged in melon. Little pearls are from the pretties kit- applied to the center using multi-mono glue- it's the best for this. Stamped the leaves from God's Beauty- retired hostess set- in artichoke onto olive and cut out. Very sweet I thought.

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White on White butterflies- play with texture

I was making an anniversary card for my parents and came up with this card - all white on white- textures galore. First the base card of whisper white. Another whisper white embossed with perfect polkadots is layered on top. The butterflies are diecut and attached with mulitmono - and same glue used on the big butterflies to add clear microbeads to add even more texture.


The whole thing is then sprayed with vanilla smooch spray to add a beautiful sheen (hard to see here though). Take a 1 3.4 inch strip of another whisper white CS, borderpunch eyelet on one side, pinking hearts on the other.

Pierce the bottom with piercing tool to add even more detail. Added the white ribbon, then tag stamped with sentiment in versamark (for the Newlyweds from the same set also works beautifully! ) emboss with silver EP, then used glue dot to attach the half round pearl from the pretties kit. Texture upon texture upon texture- Sort of over the top but the ideas in it can be used to make lots of simpler cards.....





Lynda

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stampset: Teeny Tiny Wishes 115370 $36.95 woodmounted
paper: whisper white 100730 $7.50 for 40 sheets
ink: versamark 102283 $7.50
accessories:
Perfect polka dot embossing folder
Vaniller Shimmerz spritz
eyelet border punch
pinking hearts border punch
butterfly diecut
corner rounder punch
white half round pearl-from pretties kit
lots of tags sizzlets for big shot
white organza ribbon

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SCS CC268 Old Banana Ballet

I had a load of work to do but this card kept creeping up on my dream last night and I had to whip it up this morning to post it.

It is the SU Sizzix Daisy diecut- the smallest of the 3 flowers diecut 6 times in white- I did it 3 layers at a time so it went really fast. The old olive leaves- another one of my favorites- I think I will have to buy one as spare in case this wears out in the future- The center of the flower is my old friend Liquid Applique in yellow gobbed on and heated with my heat gun to create the raised center like a really flower after raising them up on dimensionals. I actually had a big giant hole inside the flowers and stuck the dimensional underneath with the sticky showing but the liquid applique will cover it all up with no indication of what is underneath so don't worry about that.

The sentiment is from the Everything nice SU set- I LOVE this set- it is so sweet!- the banana oval cut with my old Coluzzle, mounted on the BAllet blue cs and thne on whisper white base card. It just calls out to me and makes me smile. With the mountain of work I have to do today, I need that! Have a happy hump day!

Lynda

frost white shimmered fancy flower card

This is a very simple card I had at my workshop to show how simple it is to use the frost white shimmer paint. You know me- can't stand to make too much of a mess- I get enough of that from my three active boys-

Take a whisper white CS and stamp the small flowers and stem on the top using so saffron. I did not even stamp off to make the flowers, I just stamped it straight and it still looked fine. Take Sahara Sand CS strip and run through big shot using perfect polka dot folder ( I can't get away from this folder- I love it so )

The accent flower piece is made by inking the solid flower image with the So saffron classic pad and then BEFORE you stamp, take a dauber, take the frost white paint, shake it up then take the lid and dab a little bit of paint off the LID using the dauber and using the dauber to dab some shimmer directly onto the rubber with the saffron color underneath it to add a subtle shimmer then stamp on the whisper white cardstock. Stamp the outline with so saffron as usual and cut the flower out.

The ribbon is a stay put ribbon, punch a hole where you want the ribbon to come out and tie it- the ribbon will not move, no need to glue it in place and you use less ribbon to boot!

Mount the flower with dimensionals. It is a subtle card and it is hard to see the shimmer here but I thought it was lovely.

I like this technique because you don't have all the little pans of color laying about and you can make ANY color pad into a shimmer pad with no mess. Make sure to wash off the stamp between inking to not contaminate your classic pads though- I used a baby wipe in my class between inkings and it worked great. The daubers can be rinsed off to use with another color as well.
Lynda

Milk Carton Bride and Groom

I saw this little darling milkcarton on the splitcoast website: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1610798?&cat=all&si=milk%20carton and CASE'd it to make these.

The tuxedo is just black cardstock shaped into the milk carton. For the collar, just cut out another black piece to fit over the side, split it down the middle But not all the way and fold over to make the collar and slide a smaller piece of white underneath to mimic the shirt. Add black brads, black 1/4 " grosgrain for the bowtie.

For the bride, I did wheel the Love wheel onto the white CS with versamark and used iridescent ice to emboss it to create a subtle sparkle. I closed it with a library clip and tied the organza ribbon and a string of pearls (I got this at J*anne's in the dollar bin many years ago) and secured it onto the library clip using a gluedot. Any body planning a wedding any time soon? What an adorable way to serve up almonds or other candies or birdseed to sprinkle at the wedding!

Lynda

Faux Crocodile Clutch

I meant to post this a while back and forgot, so here it is for those of you who had been waiting... sorry about that!


I saw this technique at the Seattle regional I attended last year and Fredrique one of my stamping friends made an adorable clutch with it for a swap. I loved it so much I used it for a workshop and people just loved it. I made the clutch a little taller and in passion pink but the technique works for any color cardstock. It will come out the color of whatever color cardstock you use so you can go hog wild with any color you desire!



Here is Fredrique's celery version. Isn't it sweet?

This is what the inside looks like open.

These are the piece you need for the clutch. I figured out that the whole thing takes one 81/2x11 sheet of CS.

You will use the box #2 die without the top and the top note 3 times. You have to make the height of the 2 top note pieces on the left at least the same as the height of the box height.

Score the sides of the box as shown to help form the clutch shape and form the box.

Use the versamark inkpad to rub the cardstock all over then sprinkle clear embossing folder over the whold thing as shown on top.

Use some tool- popsicle stick, end of a chopstick, scoring tool, bone folder to make some irregular lines to mimic the crocodile texture.

Whatever loose embossing powder should be THROWN AWAY as it has versamark attached to it. Do not put it back in your clean embossing powder.

Heat the whole thing with your heat gun and watch the faux crocodile texture appear. So COOL!

Fold the Complete Top note piece in half after scoring in half to make the top of the clutch. Attach a decorative brad to accent. A large crystal brad would be pretty too.

Put sticky tape on the back and the front of the box and attach the 2 partial topnote diecut pieces

You should have something like this.

Punch a 1/8 inch hole on the side of the box and tie a ribbon loop around to make the handle putting the knot on the inside.

Attach the back of the top to the back of the clutch using sticky tape. Place a velcro closure (both pieces) behind the brad attachment and close the purse to get the right placement for the velcro.

Here is your final piece. So cute and so easy!

It fits some hershey's kisses, cash, pair of earrings, even a gift card, whatever you wish to bestow on your recepient. You can also just use it as an ornament. What girl would not want one of these hanging from a tree with something special inside......


Just 25 more days to Christmas.

Lynda

Razzle Dazzle Window Card

Isn't this a clean and simple card? I cased this from a card on SU website from Jackie Topa and I loved the sneak peek window. This card is pink passion base CS with whisper white on top. The white CS is punched with eyelet punch on one side and stamped with razzle dazzle in pink passion. The front pink passion and the white CS is punched together with scallop oval. Take a 2x3 transparent window sheet - You can get a lot of them from just one sheet of 12x12- stamp your sentiment - here from together forever set- in white Staz-On and sandwich the transparency, centering your sentiment between the white and the top pink passion CS to make a window as shown. It's a really simple card that I think looks really elegant and this technique could be used for so many different themes and punches- the ideas are rolling in my head.... If only I had infinite time to make them all into reality! If each day had 30 hours, I may finally get caught up with my life!

metal embossing

I had requests for bridal cards from both my sister and my stamping group and I was thinking about a design and I thought silver and blue would be so pretty. When I tried to use brushed silver paper it was just a little too "flat" for the delicate background I wanted then I remembered aluminum foil embossing so this is the final card that came out. The dress template was made up by folding a paper in half and playing with the cut until I thought the dress looked not too skinny and not too fat- it took a little doing but at least now have a pattern that I can use over and over again.

The dress is also made using a texture plate- cut the design out first in shimmery white CS and then place on texture plate face down so that it would be a symmetrical pattern, wrap a little piece of blue taffeta ribbon and glue dot down a flower from the pretties kit and a half dome pearl from the same kit. Place on card with Stampin' Dimensionals.

The sentiment is from All Holidays set, stamped in Bliss Blue on white, word window punched and then mounted on Bliss blue CS punched with the new modern label punch from SU and accented with a clear rhinestone brad.

The foil embossing is easy peasy- I would recommend that you cut the piece of heavy duty foil to the size neede so you manipulate as little as possible after embossing. It is a little too thin to emboss as is and does better with a piece of CS on top before layering as instructed and shown.

This is what it looks like after you run it through the Big Shot. All the wrinkles will magically disappear. Just lick your finger and slide the paper off the texture plate. Have your mounting surface all ready and put the tape onto the paper you will mount the foil. Be generous with the tape and I would use SNAIL or some smooth tape as one of my stampers found out with one of her "bumpy" adhesives left little bumps on the foil after mounting. This is a very delicate card and the foil can be marred with lots of handling.

This is what the final card looked like. It is really fun and easy project that looks like a million bucks. I've seen cards with less work on it at stores selling for upwards of $8 plus.

If you want something more heavy duty, I would consider using heavy tin or here I used a soda can that I cut out with my heavy duty craft scissors. Wash out the can and cut out the side of the can. I've been flattening it out under my old sizzix and a year later, it still has quite a curl. Oh well.

This is so thick that texture plate does not do well with it but with the embossing folders, it does a beautiful job that really holds its shape and is perfect for rough handled cards.

This is what the embossing folder did to soda can tin to the left and aluminum foil to the right. I like the heavy duty aluminum foil with texture plate because it really smooths out the wrinkles and if you screw it up, run the same foil in the texture plate and it will come out new. But with embossing folders, there are still lots of wrinkles which I did not like as much although in a pinch I would not complain- it's still pretty cool.

This is what the back of the embossed can looks like- I have no bad habits except for one can of diet Dr Pepper that I have every morning. I tried to give it up once after reading that aspartamate may convert to neurotoxic chemicals that can aggravate migraines but my migraines were no better and I REALLY like it so I am back- just could not save enough cans to get ready for my stamping workshop to have one for everyone. Take caution- the edges are sharp and you can cut yourself if you are not careful.

This is my card using the embossed soda can with the cuttlebug Embossing folder. Base card is the new In-Colors from SU- soft suede stamped with same color with the nuts and bolts from the set Lots of Bots. Mount the embossed metal with lots of sticky strips. Crushed Curry strip stamped and edge sponged with soft suede again. Circles cut out with the new circle cutters and I used paper piercer to add a little extra detail. The screw brad on the side from Michaels.

Give this a try- it is SO MUCH FUN!

Lynda