Workshop card #2

So yesterday I shared a card with you that I designed for my latest workshop. Here is the first card that I designed for the same workshop. I saw a video for this beautiful paper bow technique and I knew I had to incorporate it into my next project, which at the time was going to be this workshop card.

I love early espresso so I used that as the base of the card. One of the ladies at the workshop asked how one would go about writing in the card if it was a dark color. Here are a few suggested options, in case you're wondering as well. 1) Use a gel pen that has opaque pigment in it or at least a white gel pen if anything. 2) Sharpie or the generic equivalent to it offers a marker that comes in at least silver. Also if not look for the gold or silver pens that students use on their senior photos those work great as well.

The next part of the card was really easy. Again as you can see I used an embossing folder, if you want to give any project that extra added pop or zing the embossing folders for the Big Shot are ideal. This is the petals of plenty (116824) embossing folder. I embossed about 2/3 of the whisper white piece so that the upper part of the card would be embossed. Next I stamped the greeting from the new Hand Penned Holidays (124312) stamp set found in the holiday mini in real red. Next I punched out a piece of early espresso card stock using the ribbon border (119275). That piece was then adhered above the greeting. Next I took a 3/4" x 4" strip of the Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the Holly Berry Bouquet (124004) also found in the holiday mini. I cut one end like a flag and then applied sticky strip to both the front and back sides of the piece. I peeled off the back piece and stuck it on the card above the ribbon border punch.  I peeled off the front piece of sticky strip and then I took the piece of 3/4"x12" DSP in that same design and created the paper ribbon by weaving the paper back and forth as I created the paper loops. Then I created the yoyo or lolly or medallion, it all depends on who you ask as to what they call them. I punched a 1"x8 1/2" of real red card stock using the scallop trim (118402) border punch and scored it in 1/4" increments. I attached the ends using sticky strip and then sealed it using a dollop of hot glue. To finish off the medallion I took a wild wasabi button from the holly berry bouquet designer buttons pack (125636) and  tied a bow using linen thread (104199) then adhered it using a dab of hot glue. The last part to this card was to spritz it with shimmer mist created with frost white shimmer paint (116854) and alcohol. Shimmer mist is a great way to add shimmer and glitter to any project without having to worry about it getting all over the place. One of the ladies exclaimed how much she loved glitter that night, as she was happily spritzing her card.


Well I hope you enjoyed this newest card and I hope to see you again soon. I have a few other projects that I'll be sharing with you soon so don't forget to stop on by.

Till then, Happy Stamping.

Workshop project card revealed

Okay so about a week ago I posted that picture that had the 25 on it. Here is the long awaited rest of the card.

I really wanted to highlight the Christmas Collage (121279) background stamp that I bought last year and used all of once. For some reason I had to have it but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it last year.

This is a gate card so it opens up like a door or a gate would. I kept the color combination very simple and classic in design. The main base is Naturals Ivory, my absolutely favorite paper. I cut two cherry cobbler panels and embossed them using the Vintage wallpaper (120175) Those were stuck straight down onto the doors using snail. Then I stamped the Christmas Collage background stamp onto the piece of naturals ivory cut for the front. I punched a 1 3/4" circle (119850) out of cherry cobbler card stock and then went back over that cut circle using the 2 3/8" scallop circle (118874) to create that scallop circle ring that is popped up over the 25 using stampin' dimensionals.
I stamped the Merry Christmas using the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes (115370) If you don't already own this set you need to get it. It's amazing how often I use this set. I punched it out using the word window (119857) and then punched out a piece of cherry cobbler using the modern label (119849) punch and mounted the greeting onto it using snail. Next I popped that up using dimensionals and put it in the rectangular box on the background stamped piece. Lastly a piece of old olive satin ribbon (117292) was tied into a knot bow over the 25.

The last part of the card was stuck onto the left panel door of the card and voila there you have it.

Hope you enjoyed the finished project as much as I did making it. I love this card a lot.

Come back tomorrow and I'll have another card sample that I came up with for my workshop yesterday.

Till then, happy stamping.

Square chocolate treat holders

I got this idea from a fellow stamper friend, Kimberley Morris, a couple of years ago and stumbled across this swap that I'd done of hers just recently as I was sorting through the swaps that I've done over the years. Every so often I like to look through them to get inspired. Also I have a bag of Ghiradelli chocolate squares that needed a cute little receptacle to display them in.

This project only uses a 3"x8" piece of card stock to create the base and you score at 3 3/4" and 4 1/4". I like it because it's super simple and fairly quick to put together and they are super cute.

 I pulled out one of my favorite stamp sets Cottage Garden (120003). This color combination struck me as something I wanted to try so I used old olive, more mustard and poppy parade. Everything was stamped using these colors and I really like the way they work together.

First I punched out the front section of this project using the word window punch (119857). I stamped the tag and used the large tag punch (119876).

 I used the larger end of the crop-a-dile (108362) to punch two holes in the top of it. I tied a piece of 1/2" stitched poly ribbon in poppy parade (119263). I punched the large tag punched piece with the smaller end of the crop-a-dile and then I put a piece of linen thread (104199) through it. before tying it to the ribbon

Then I stamped the greeting and flowers using the same colors and markers in the same colors. The greeting was mounted onto more mustard and then popped up using stampin' dimensionals (104430).

The nice thing about this project is that there are a few different brands of chocolates that could be used. I just happen to use these because they're my favorite. ;)












Hope you enjoyed this little treat. Don't forget to come back next weekend when I show you the rest of the card that you got the little sneak peak of. I'll also share the rest of the workshop projects with you then.

Till next time, happy Stamping!

Always busy stamping, Not always enough time to blog

Here's a little sneak peak for you of a project I'm working on for a workshop I'm doing on Saturday.

I was sitting here in my stamp room watching the snow fall and the wind blowing around most of today and while talking to my friend Kathy, on Skype, I was trying to come up with another card design. I thought I'd already had my projects designed but I wasn't happy with one of them so I needed to come up with something new. This does utilize our fabulous Christmas Collage (121279) background stamp. I love it because you can layer it in so many different ways. This card just made me smile once it was done and I'm sure it will do the same for you. I hope you are enjoying your day, wherever you may be and I hope if you have cold temperatures outside, that you're enjoying warm temperatures inside.

Come back and see me soon.

Till then, Happy Stamping!

Some more hauntingly cute treats

Each year I try to come up with something nice and exclusive to give to my daughters teachers for the holidays. This year was no exception. My good friend Kathy and I were on Skype sharing the different project we were working on for our kids classes and for their teachers. I shared how I still hadn't come up with an idea and she showed me what she was doing. This great little witches hat was made using our petal cone die (121810)

I embossed the pieces using the vintage wallpaper embossing folder (120175) yes there's that folder again. The I created a pull tab so that you could remove the contents of the hat and still keep the hat afterwards. So the base was made using the scallop circle die (113468). At the time I had totally forgotten about our larger circle dies.

Up close I used the rich razzleberry 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon. It just retired in June, which is kind of a bummer but any of our other great ribbons could have been substituted including cajun craze (125055) or basic black (115615)

The greeting was stamped using house of haunts (111574) and the web comes from wicked cool (120600) This was my first year using house of haunts though I've had it for a couple of years now. It saw a lot of ink this year though. I used a running stitch along one end of the ribbon and joined it together to create the finished look and then just to give that ribbon a more seamless finish I used sticky strip (104294). The greeting was stamped on whisper white using rich razzleberry and then the web was stamped in basic gray. I punched it out using the extra large oval punch (119859) and then punched out the decorative label punch in basic black to go behind it. I also used the round tab punch (119864) on the bottom to create the pull tab portion along with the bottom of the hat. That was mounted onto a 2 1/2" circle punch (120906) and I put a hole 1 3/4" big in both the bottom of the scalloped circle die and the larger of the two circles in the scallop #2 circle die (113469). The finished hats were spritzed using shimmer mist to create that nice shimmery effect.

I love using my big shot. If you're still thinking about becoming a demonstrator for the discount or to do this as a full time job or even just as a way to make a little bit of extra cash here and there and still want the big shot our big shot recruiting special has been extended through November 11th. I hope you'll take advantage of this special offer.

Till next time, Happy Stamping to you.