November 2nd, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
Even though I personally did not have a reason at the time to create a couple of sympathy cards (the members of our extended family have been relatively healthy lately, knock wood!), I couldn’t resist trying out the new “Thoughts & Prayers” stamp set I ordered this summer…
I find the tree stamp is just stunning and have incorporated it into other projects as well.
Little details…
Materials & Techniques:
Cardstock: mostly Stampin’ Up in Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Blush Bride, velum, and white.
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Pink Passion.
Stamp Sets: Thoughts & Prayers, Art by Design (brackets).
Embellishments: Felt flowers, buttons, beads, glitter, top clear cover from SU’s “Build-a-Brad” Kit, jumbo brad in Whisper White, So Saffron ribbon from the Fairy Tales set (SU).
Methods: Inked edges, paper piercing, matted cards, flowers with buttons and beads as centers. For the center of the jumbo brad, I added some glue to the cardstock underneath, then sprinkled some glitter into the hole and then placed a clear brad cover on top (like a marble sticker).
As of right now, both cards are still available for sale, so please feel free to visit my Card Store to order them if you are interested (or just e-mail me or comment). 
July 16th, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
This blog post was written for (and first published on), the blog Ideas for Scrapbookers. I was super thrilled to be one of their Friday Featured Artists! I hope your find some scrapbooking ideas in this 1-page layout created for my son’s kindergarten section of his school album….
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I think part of the reason I’m dawdling on my son’s school album layouts is that since he’s my “baby”, once I am done all of his Kindergarten layouts, I’ll never be able to do those kindy layouts again! There are certain stickers and embellishments that really don’t apply so well in those later school years, so I think the last layout in his Kindergarten years section will be an entire montage of classroom-themed items from crayons to counting aids!
At least I did finally get started on his first layout of Senior Kindergarten (also known as “kindergarten 5″)… I continued to keep some of the colours and themes consistent with the rest of the album (bright colours, white rub-ons, geometric shapes, buttons, and contrast), while still giving the new layouts their own look.
This layout, for the First Day of Senior Kindergarten, starts out with a great background that has squiggly lines in primary colours. On the left side, two matted 4×6″ photos (one cropped a little to show more of the frame), with an embellishment of a scalloped circle with layers on top – a paper-pierced orange circle that’s “popped” out with dimensional adhesives, and a green inner circle with a white rub-on star. I wanted to keep the picture of my son and the bus un-cropped because it really shows the size difference!! He is still so teeny tiny compared to that big huge bus, even with his special hat to make him a bit taller (that was the school’s way of identifying which kindergarten class each child was in, based on colour). The journaling block in the bottom left corner has white rub-ons for “First Day” and the numbers in the blue circle, and a black rub-on letters for “SK”. The journaling is in white gel pen. The tiny green button is a cute little accent. In the right corner we have the third matted 4×6″ photo – you can barely make out my son’s little face in the 2nd window.
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May 12th, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I’ve been really enjoying playing with my Floral Fusion die cut set (almost as much as the scallop edge punch). So of course I incorporated some punched flowers into the cards I made for Mother’s Day!
I did not have any tissue paper handy in order to try out the tissue paper flowers technique I’d seen, but I did have vellum handy so that’s what I used…
To make the flowers, I sent the die cut and vellum through my Cuttlebug to get one of each size flower per card. Then I inked onto the velum (with cotton – you could also use whatever ink dabber you have) in different colours. I used Green Galore, Lovely Lilac, and Pixie Pink because they coordinated well with the card colours (Pirouette Pink, Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace, and white).
Other materials & techniques used: 1/2″ brad (made by me using the Build-a-Brad kit and the small flowers and centers of the Beautiful Thing stamp set!), purple ribbon, green rhinestones, scallop edge punch, two-step-stamped butterfly in Whisper White and Lovely Lilac, Flight of the Butterfly stamp set
BTW, have you heard about the upcoming colour changes for Stampin’ Up?? They will soon be adding some new colours AND a bunch of favourite “In Colours” to their permanent products (very excited about this!). At the same time, they will also be retiring other colours (less excited about this, but it’s understandable they have to clear some out to make space for new ones). This blog post (by my Demonstrator’s upline) has a copy of the charts available to see which colours are being added or taken away…
I’m sad to see some of the pinks, purples, and greens go (many of the inks and papers used in the cards above are on the chopping block!) but am keen to see the new colours Early Espresso and Cherry Cobbler. And I’m thrilled that they are adding Pirouette Pink and Riding Hood Red to the collection because I’m almost out of those two papers that I’d bought a full pack each of!
Who knew that colour changes could bring on such a mixed bag of emotions? 
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