Here are a few of my favorite samples using my current favorite a la carte stamp from our current Summer mini catalog. I forgot to update those images and links so they are now updated and available for your viewing pleasure.
This first card took me awhile to come up with a design. I had picked the stamp before I had even gotten it. We had a group swap for the summer mini catalog and I wanted to use the stamp because I thought it had lots of potential.
I used a few products from the new mini as well as several of my old time favorites. First I stamped the sailboat in early espresso classic ink onto naturals ivory. I let it set up for a few hours before coloring it in. I used the water color crayons along with a blender pen to fill in color where I wanted. For this scene I used cherry cobbler for the sail, early espresso for the boat itself and bashful blue for the waves. Our water color crayons are so light and easy to use and it makes coloring things in a breeze when used in combination with a blender pen. Next I inked up the En Francais background stamp in early espresso and lightly stamped it as the background to this card. It adds another dimension to the card itself. This piece was then mounted onto cherry cobbler card stock. I then added a strip of Night of Navy card stock towards the bottom and added some of our silver brads to the bottom to give it a sort of nautical feel to it. Brass might have been nice too but I used the brushed silver. Then I used the thinking of you greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes and stamped that in early espresso then I used the new postage stamp punch to punch out the greeting. I wrapped some of the new cherry cobbler bakers twine around the front and back of the postage stamp to give it a little something. Then mounted this onto a punched square of early espresso. This entire card was held together with stampin' dimensionals only yet I'm not sure you can tell by this photo.
This second sample I did for a shoebox swap and I wanted to use a similar idea. I needed to come up with an idea for a Father's Day card and I didn't really have a lot of sets that were very masculine looking but I thought of this stamp again immediately. I decided to use a different background stamp for this one though. I used early espresso to ink up the scene and stamped it onto very vanilla card stock. I used marina mist and baja breeze to color in the sail on this one. This time around I used the early espresso bakers twine and punched holes at the top of the sail and the bottom of the boat itself to create an extra layer to the card itself. Then this was mounted on baja breeze card stock The DSP used in this sample came from elegant soiree. Unfortunately this paper is no longer available. The idea though is that you can use any colors you see from a pattern of DSP to create your card. I stamped Happy Father's Day from Teeny Tiny Wishes in early espresso and punched it out using the word window punch. Then I punched out a piece of baja breeze card stock using the modern label punch. I used silver brads on this card as well to finish it up. My friend Mary loved my card so much she took it home to finish it. We only do card fronts when we swap cards to help keep the costs down. Thanks to my friend Holle for lending me copies of the photos she took of my cards. If I haven't already mentioned this before, I misplaced my digital camera. :( I am fortunate enough however to have a new cell phone with an 8MP camera so I will be using this from now on to update my blog. I hope to have some new pictures up soon.
Thanks for stopping by and happy stamping till next time.
