I wanted to make a card that looked like a quilt, but I didn’t want to really sew. I noticed on several blogs that people were actually stitching on paper. Since I gave my sewing machine to my daughter-in-law, I figured that I would never sew again. I got one of those little cheapy jobs that were advertised for sewing on paper, but couldn’t make it work. So here is my representation of “faux” quilting. I used two stamps. One is from Magenta, the other from Outlines. I stamped and colored several squares, then cut them out and glued them to black cardstock. I topped them off with Spellbinder’s fleur de lis pendant in white and then two circle Nesties layered and elevated with foam tape. The message is from a Hero Arts clear set. I think my grand-daughter will enjoy this creation for her birthday card this month. Then I had an extra square and an extra piece to the fleur de lis. So I made a little 3″x3″ love note with these parts. A green gem finished it off nicely. I hope you get inspired by these little quilts.
Faux Quilting
Cardstock: Paper Cut
Quilt Stamps: Magenta & Outlines
Word Stamps: Hero Arts
Nesty Circles & Pendant Diecuts: Spellbinder
Markers: Copic
Quilt Love Note
Cardstock: Paper Cut
Quilt Stamp: Magenta
Pendant Diecut: Spellbinder
Markers: Copic
Gemstone: Hero Arts
For the Stamp Express birthday celebration on Saturday, June 26, I will be doing 4 demos of various techniques for cards. Below are two of the planned ideas. They were cased from Gina K on her Stamp TV site. The first is my version of cropped circles. Use layered die cuts from circle Nesties and after adhereing them to a layer, crop the edges. Of course you could try the same technique with ovals and other shapes. The second card has curly-Q hinges at the sides of an oval Nestie. The hinges are created with 4 swirly diecuts from Sizzix. I will also include two projects not pictured here. One is a paper lace flower using a Martha Stewart punch. The other is a distressed background made from an old book page. Come to the store Saturday and see these in person. If you are interested, but can’t make it, just e-mail me for further directions.
Cropped Circles
Flower stamp: Just Rite Stamps
Word stamp: Unknown
Prismacolor pencils: Sanford
Circle Die cuts: Nestabilities from Spellbinder
Cardstock: Paper Cut & Core’dinations
Sponged ink: Marvy Matchable inkpads
Curly-Q Hinges
Stamp: Just Rite Stamps
Oval Diecuts: Nesties from Spellbinder
Flourish Diecut: Sizzix
Swiss Dots Embossing Folder: Provo Craft
Cardstock: Paper Cut & Core’dinations
Markers: Copic
Special Copic Paper: Stamp Express
So many cards, so little time. If you have needed to make a multitude of cards recently, you know there just isn’t time to spend an hour on each creation. Here are two uncomplicated cards I made for Father’s Day and our son and daughter-in-law’s anniversary. The Dad’s Day card is simply strips of designer paper, matted, and a greeting embellished with a matching button. The anniversary card is a window cut out with Nesties, some stamping with a little coloring, tag with ribbon and some glitzy gems. I hope you and they enjoy them.
Fathers Day
Cardstock: Paper Cut
Designer Paper: Bo Bunny
Stamp: Hero Arts
Button: From my stash
All Things Grow With Love
Cardstock: Paper Cut
Nesties & Tag: Spellbinders
Stamps: Hero Arts
Markers: Copic
Gems: Hero Arts
Ribbon: May Arts
Right now butterflies are very popular. Stickers, stamps, digis, die cuts, and papers are fluttering around at high speed. Below are the winners in the Stamp Express butterfly challenge. The Grand prize was awarded to Brenda Trimmer for her unusual butterfly shaped book. It features quotes about butterflies on one page with pictures and scientific facts about each species on the following page. Very cool!
The #1 card was designed by Pat Knecht. She used Outlines stamps and a discontinued butterfly stamp from Stampin’ Up for her project. Tracy Myers took 2nd place with teabag folding surrounded by various butterflies on vellum. Sheila Roos has a photo card with her new grand-daughter’s picture. So clever for the 3rd place winner. Then Betsy Gibney punched and layered the 4th place card. And Jan Vick submitted the 5th place card with a vellum butterfly and scalloped Nestie. Enjoy these cards. They’re like a breath of Spring!
Butterfly Mini Book - Grand Prize in Butterfly Contest
All Those Butterflies - 1st Place Card in Butterfly Contest
Teabag Butterflies - 2nd Place card in Butterfly Contest
Butterfly Kisses - 3rd Place card in Butterfly Contest
Embossed Butterfly - 4th Place card in Butterfly Contest
Best WayTo the Future - 5th Place card in Butterfly Contest
When The Greeting Farm stamps came in I could hardly wait to stamp them. So far I have stamped them all, but only have had time to color these two. Soooo adorable! The Greeting Farm stamps are red rubber, unmounted, with a cling ability for use on acrylic blocks. The only drawback is that you need to trim them yourself. But the designs are so very cute with “fat faced kids and teens” basically. Anya and Ian are the stars of the line. We will show you more as we get caught up with our cardmaking. The first card features one of Ken’s favorite Nesties, the labels #1. He cut a window out of the label with a scalloped rectangle where the words show through.The second card uses the peony Nesties as background. I shaded them just a bit by airbrushing with Copic markers. Below is a list of Ken’s 5 favorite Nesties. Enjoy!
Ink: Tsukineko Memento
Markers: Copic
Cardstock: Paper Cut
Designer Paper: Creative Imaginations
Word Stamp: Hero Arts
Winter Girl Stamp: The Greeting Farm
Nesties: Spellbinders
Flowers & Ribbon: from Jackie’s stash
Ink: Tsukineko Memento
Cardstock: Paper Cut
Designer Paper: Daisy D’s
Markers: Copic
Word Stamp: Penny Black
Anya Hippie Stamp: The Greeting Farm
Nesties: Spellbinder
KEN’S FAVORITE NESTIES
Labels One
Labels Four
Curved Rectangles
Scalloped Ovals
Peony
I wanted words, and dimensional flowers, but felt like I needed a large leaf or pumpkin, or some fall related item to go with them. Below is the card I came up with. First I stamped the pumpkin from an Impression Obsession clear stamp set. Then I stamped it on scrap paper and cut out. Cut on the lines or a little bit inside. If you leave paper around the image, you’ll get a halo when you mask. Attach this scrap pumpkin over the stamped image with removeable tape. Then stamp the words with the flowers from a different Impression Obsession set. Remove the scrap paper mask and it looks like the flowers are behind the pumpkin! Color and blend. I stamped mine on a diecut of Nesties curved rectangles. Then I cut out the next size smaller curved rectangle and used it for a mask over the entire image. I attempted to airbrush the exposed edges with the Copic markers. I need more practice at that, but it is presentable. The tiny flowers are from Hero Arts. I stamped, colored, and mounted them on pop dots. Put the card together with layers and eyelets, and you have a great fall greeting.
Harvest Card
Pumpkin stamp & word stamp - Impression Obsession
Small Flowers - Hero Arts
Curved Rectangle Nestabilities - Spellbinder
Memento Rich Cocoa inkpad - Tsukineko
Alcohol Ink Markers - Copic
Eyelets - Creative Impression
Designer paper - Karen Foster
Cardstock - Core’dinations & Paper Cut
Tools - Scor-Pal, Crop-a-dile, Copic air brush system
Of course you could score with a ruler and stylus or bonefolder. But once you try the Scor-pal you’ll never go back. What a wonderful tool. You can fancy fold cards, make bags and envelopes, boxes, and folders easily. And the Score-tape holds everything in place without letting go in an hour, day, or week. Here is a card we created for our free make-it/take-it table at the store last week. We scored diagonally on a piece of Core’dinations cardstock in two directions, Then we sanded for an unusual background.
You’re a “Tweet” Heart
Card: Lt Blue Cardstock from Paper Cut
Layers: Core’dinations Cardstock
Scalloped Ovals: Nestabilities dies by Spellbinders
Bird Stamp: All Night Media
Tweet Heart Stamp: Impression Obsession
Bird colored with Staedler watercolor pencils & Dove blender pen
Flower: Prima
Rain Dots are falling on my cards! Rain Dots by Cloud9 Design are the easiest embellishment you will ever use. Whether you add them for water accents like we did for the umbrella kids and mermaid Anya, or just use for artistic accents like we did on the shopping girl you’ll love them. No punching, hammering, or glueing, as these are gel stickers. They are self adhesive. Available in various shapes, sizes, and colors. But, best yet—you can achieve just the right shade by coloring with Copic markers. We have a good selection in our store as well as other sample projects using them. ” I’m Singin’ in the Rain”
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Stamps: Stampavie and Azadi Earl
Ribbon: May Arts
Designer paper: Creative Imaginations
Dies: Spellbinders Nesties
Markers: Copic
Rain Dots: Cloud9 Design |
| Stamp: The Greeting Farm
Flower: Prima
Designer paper: Creative Imaginations
Markers: Copic
Rain Dots: Cloud9 Design |
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Stamp: Stampavie
Designer paper: My Little Shoebox
Dies: Spellbinders Nesties
Markers: Copic
Rain Dots: Cloud9 Design |
