We have a grandson who’s birthday is April 1st. Since we’re celebrating on Sunday evening I decided I’d better get a card made for him today. 😁
I used many different supplies—-Lawn Fawn pop up die and add ons, Stampin Up Hey Chick stamps and coordinating dies from multiple chicken related sets, Creekbank Creations Farm stamp set and a silhouette die.
2 new greats were born since the first of the month and I finally got cards made. Sadie Mae joined our niece Rebecca’s family and Eric “Jase” joined a niece Camela’s family. So happy for these two families, I pray they will raise these 2 precious children to love God.
Have you ever made your own DSP paper? I have a few times, there’s a YouTube channel called Artful Stamping with Ruth that I enjoy watching from time to time. She is a master at homemade backgrounds, she had an artistic eye for putting together many different types of backgrounds, you should check it out.
This was made with the brayer, Soft Sea Foam, Lemon Lolly, and Pool Party inks, and the Easter Lilly stamp set from the mini catalog all Stampin Up products. I watched her make one then pulled out my supplies and made my own, I thought it turned out really nice. I need to do this more often. These 4 cards were made with that background😊. I was playing around with the Easter set and die, trying to be different, what do you think?
I should have taken a picture of the 8.5x11 piece I made before cutting it up. Maybe you’ll be able to see it.
I have been somewhat working on sorting and labeling my non Stampin Up stamps. I have a small container that holds my Altenew and Pinkfresh stamps and stencils. In the process I came across these beautiful florals that I hadn’t used in a long time. I believe these are from the stamp set called Pen Sketched. I have spooked at many cards made with the flowers embossed with gold and wanted to try that. I was also playing around with a Jennifer McGuire technique for faux letterpress and foils. I made a few card front panels. I don’t own any kind of a foiling machine and she showed this as a substitute.
I inked up the cutting side of my dies with versa fine pad
ran them through the bigshot so they did not cut just left the impression in the card stock (different sandwich than when cutting)
Added gold embossing powder and the heat set it.
I’m not sure you can see it real well in the pictures but it is like a Letter pressed look. The embossing doesn’t set on top of the card stock it is “sunk” pressed into it.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner- are you ready???
Here you go and it even shows two sides of your designer series paper. 1. Cut your base piece of card stock at 5.5 x 8.5 2. Now cut your 8.5 side down to 6 inches (optional save what you cut off for embossing front left edge decorative piece). 3. Cut your Designer Series Paper (DSP) I did the piece at 6” then a piece that was 3” wide, cut it down to 5.5 and used the 1/2” strip on the inside. (If you don’t want to do that just cut your DSP at 5.5 x 3) 4. Adhere the DSP to the front flap lining up the right side with the card back edge. 5. Front left decoration -Cut your extra white strip to 5.25 x1 emboss than adhere. Decorate front and inside as desired. I made the back inside layers 5 x 3.5, 4.75x3.25 then added the 1/2” DSP strip. (I saw this card fold on a Susan Campfield video)
I’d love to see your take on this card, you could get 8 cards from one DSP piece of paper with NO waste!! 😄. They would make a lovely little gift for a family member or friend!
I enjoy watercoloring with my stamps. I pulled out the Mountain Air and the Snow Front Stampin Up sets and decided to do some scenic cards. I used watercolor paper, lots of water, lots of different colors of ink, my aqua painters, lots of drying in between the layers and here they are.
Maybe it’s time to pull out one of your old Stamp sets that you loved. If there’s a stamp said that we really love and wanted to keep then that means we should be using it. Sometimes we get so caught up in what is new that we forget about the old. So my challenge is - pull it out and use it. 😊
This is my first play time with this lovely stamp set and embossing folder bundle from the SAB catalog. I thought it turned out quite lovely. I used a new to me Fun fold card design, I like how the DSP is displayed on the back section but the front 2 sections I used for stamping. Not sure you can see it real well in the picture but I embossed the thin piece of plastic from the stamp set. When I put my stamps in their case and then added the heavier piece of plastic onto the front of them I thought to myself hey couldn’t I emboss this little thin piece of plastic, so I did using the new embossing folder that came with the stamp set. 😊 I put it over the sentiment piece, taped onto the backside. It wanted to “bow out” quite badly andI didn’t want tape to be showing through. Anyone know if there is an adhesive that won’t show through clear plastic🤨). On the back of this piece I put dimensionals in the middle and some tape on the outside edge to adhere it. That made the plastic flatter to the stamping. I also embossed 2 panels to go behind the 2 thin sections of the card base to add some pretty texture. It doesn’t stand out since it’s white on white but adds just the right amount of “bang”… hmmm wonder what embossing the DSP would have looked like maybe I’ll try that next time.
Thanks for stopping by, happy stamping😊
We have a grandson who’s birthday is April 1st. Since we’re celebrating on Sunday evening I decided I’d better get a card made for him tod...
