Stamping 101

Hi Stampers!

Tonight was Stamping 101!  We started with one sketch two ways, and no tools other than a paper cutter:

 

Yikes that's an off centre picture!  Sorry about that, but the card is still cute.  It uses Crisp Cantaloupe and Strawberry Slush card stock , the Happy Day stamp set and a little Daffodil Delight ribbon.  The Medallion image is stamped repeatedly in Crisp Cantaloupe to create the look of designer paper, then the greeting, happy day, is stamped in Strawberry Slush.  This stamp set comes with three other sentiments and any of them would look great on this card.

 

Simple sketch take two:

 

Same layout with a single bold image, Christmas Star stamped in Smoky Slate and the sentiment in Night of Navy.   A large Rhinestone is added to the centre for sparkle.

Our last project is not quite as simple, this one used a few tools and is totally worth the extra effort:

 

Love it!  It's a Chapstick or lipstick box!  Super cute right?  Everyone needs one of these in their stocking this Christmas!  It's made with a small pool party box (click here for dimensions) and two dresses cut from the Winter Frost Designer Series Paper Stack using a dress from the Dress Up Framelits and the Big Shot.  We decorated with a small length of Pool Party Ruffled Ribbon and a large Rhinestone.  Scoring the card stock for the box takes a few minutes, but once that's done it's a snap.  This project just makes me happy!

 

Go stamp something!

Diane

Stamping 101

Hi Stampers!

Tonight was Stamping 101!  We made two cards, one all occasion and one Christmas:

We started with this Merry card in Cherry Cobbler.  We used the Expressions Thinlits Dies and the Big Shot to cut out the word Merry, and the Argyle Embossing Folder on the Cherry card stock. We finished off our card with a few little pieces of Season of Style Designer Series Paper.  Cute!

Expressions Thinlits Dies

 

Our second card uses the stamp sets Gorgeous Grunge and Yippee-Skippee!  The card base is pool party, and the next layer is Crisp Cantaloupe.  We used the same colours of ink along with Basic Gray, the 1-3/4" circle punch, 2-3/8 scallop circle punch and presto zesto, we had an all occasion card ready to go!  It only took about 30 minutes to complete both cards!

Deciding is the most time consuming part!  Choose a clean and simple design and see if you can find 30 minutes to craft. I found these ideas on Pinterest and adapted them slightly to suit the supplies I had on hand. It's a great place to find some simple ideas (and some not so simple ones--don't get carried away unless you have lots of time!)

Go stamp something!

Diane

Stamping 101

Hi Stampers,
Today I want to show you the two cards we made at Stamping 101 last night!  The first card we made was a Christmas card: 

 I know you think it's a little early, but it's good to get thinking about these things before the time crunch, when you have the time to enjoy the process.  Wondering where we got that bow?  Paper bows are all the rage right now, and we made ours with a 2" x 4" piece of DSP and an oval punch.  You simply punch out 4 ovals, fold two of them in half (but a soft fold with no crease) to be the loops, cut a notch out of the other two to make the tails of your 'ribbon', glue them all together with Tombo liquid glue or glue dots, then glue a little 1/4" strip around the centre.  Cute! 

We used the Santa image from the Ronald McDonald House Charities stamp set, Tag It. 

We also used Season of Style DSP for the bow and the strip on the left with the tiny triangles.  The card stock colours are Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive.  The Cherry Cobbler piece is run through the big shot with the Stripes textured embossing folder.  Are you also wondering how we got the Whisper White layer that shape?  This stamp set is designed to coordinate with the Chalk Talk Framelits, but I don't have those yet, so we used a framelit from the Lablels Collection and trimmed off the sides a little:



See how we just snipped that bracket shape off the sides?  Sometimes you need to find a way to work with what you have!

 

For our second card we used everyone's new favourite product, washi tape!!

We used seven different designs from the Season of Style, Witches' Brew and Epic Day collections.  We started with the centre newsprint design piece and worked out from there.  This is really fast because you just stick and rip, and because it's not supposed to look perfect, it's even more fun! 

Then we used a framelit from the Apothecary Accents Framelits and the Big Shot to cut out the window and stamped a sentiment from the Feel Goods stamp set on the front of the card base with Jet Black StazOn ink.  LOVE this stamp set!  We used the stamp-a-ma-jig to help us line up the image in the window.  A few dimensionals on the washi tape layer, two candy dots from the neutrals collection and we were done!  Quick and cute with a nice WOW factor!

Thanks to the girls who came to stamp with me last night, it was fun to catch up!  And thanks to you for stopping by the blog today.

Go stamp something!
Diane