Apr 15, 2007 | rubber stamping
This card uses Flower Fest which I pulled out when prepping for a workshop I had this AM (thanks, Alison!). I haven’t used this set as much as I should! This card is based on the card we did in the workshop, but I used green ribbon on the corners (we used blue this AM) and I added "thank you" from Wonderful Words, since I needed a thank you card! That would be the joy of having word sets – one design, many possibilities – the other words in this set are: friendship, love and celebrate. I also popped up the flower portion with stampin’ dimensionals.
Card Recipe:
Stamp Sets: Flower Fest, Wonderful Words
Cardstock: Whisper White, Bashful Blue & Barely Banana
Inks: Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue and So Saffrong
Accessories: Stampin’ Dimensionals & Celery Grosgrain
Apr 8, 2007 | rubber stamping
Made this cute bunny card for a friend. Card is naturals white, so it has little flecks in it, which I thought made the bunny stand out a little more. I punched out squares of the various Easter-like colours for the background. The bunny itself is made from many punches, and was inspired by bunnies I’ve seen hopping around various blogs & websites, including Splitcoast Stampers (that’s probably where it was first seen, I’m guessing).
Anyway – head is the large circle punch, ears are the 2 oval punches. Smaller circle punches for the eyes, nose & ummm….upper lip? snout? what’s that area called on a bunny? I added a dot of white to the eyes with the white gel pen (love that pen) and drew in (rather badly…further evidence as to why I’m a stamper, not an illustrator) whiskers with the stampin’ write black marker.
This card was also photographed rather than scanned. Any feedback? Prefer one method over another? Feel free to leave a comment & let me know…and thanks for the input!
Apr 8, 2007 | rubber stamping
Here’s a few shots of a trifold Easter card that we did in class this week. I took pics with my camera vs the scanner because the scanner is acting up, plus I think a picture gives a better idea of how the card "works".
This first shot is the card closed (I actually had to use some Dotto temporary adhesive to hold it shut for the photo!).
This next shot is the card slightly ajar so that you can see that the pink tag bunny is actually on the middle layer.
I pulled out my crimper to do a strip of lavender lace for the edge of the trifold – I like it!! I think it looks like a little ruffle.
All the colouring on the bunnies was done with blender pens & Stampin’ Pastels. Another tool I hadn’t used in a little while – so time to pull the pastels out again!
The open card. The sentiment is stamped in versamark & lavender lace pastel is dabbed onto it. I love how all the SU colours coordinate – makes my life so much easier, and that’s VERY important to me!!
Hope you all have a Happy Easter. I have one more Easter card to share, will schedule it to "publish" later ‘today’ (since it’s verrrrrrrry late here)
Apr 5, 2007 | rubber stamping
This is one of the cards we did in the spring class. Using Doodle This with stazon jet black ink, watercoloured with aqua painters & reinker. One drop of pink passion reinker did 6 cards (and probably could have done at least 6 more?!)! Hey – I could use this as a Frugal Friday tip! LOL. The reinker means that even with the watercolouring technique, you can still get quite vibrant colours if you wish. I am veering towards this colour combo a lot lately it seems. I really like the bright pink & green together (Can you tell I’m a child of the 80’s with these preppy colours?!), and brilliant blue is one of my favourite colours anyway. This card was scanned, but I’m going to try photographing cards soon, as I find the scans don’t seem to do the cards justice.
OK off to watch my PVR’d Survivor!
Apr 4, 2007 | rubber stamping
I’ve finished uploading a few more swaps into the spring mini photo album. Burlington spring card class was this evening, tomorrow is Hamilton & I’ll post our class cards soon thereafter….don’t want to spoil the surprise for the class attendees. So until then!
This card uses Flower Fest which I pulled out when prepping for a workshop I had this AM (thanks, Alison!). I haven’t used this set as much as I should! This card is based on the card we did in the workshop, but I used green ribbon on the corners (we used blue this AM) and I added "thank you" from Wonderful Words, since I needed a thank you card! That would be the joy of having word sets – one design, many possibilities – the other words in this set are: friendship, love and celebrate. I also popped up the flower portion with stampin’ dimensionals.
