Last Stamp-A-Stack

Hi everyone, this is the last card we made and boy did I have trouble getting a half decent photo of this. The colour is Pool Party but because of all the rain and overcast days it's hard to show you the colour. I had lots of attempts at taking these photos and the colour is better in some than others:





This was quite a simple card to make. We punched a circle out of the front of the base card and then punched a scalloped circle in Whisper White. We punched a circle out of the scalloped circle and stuck on the front of the card, after randomly stamping snowflakes all over the front of the card:



The Polar Bear from the Polar Party stamp set was stamped on Whisper White and coloured with marker pens and then stuck to the inside of the card so the polar bear's head shows through the punched circle.



I used some glitter on the polar bear and the snowflakes too. That was the last card from the Stamp-A-Stack class. The next class is on Wednesday 3rd October and I'll be posting details soon. x 

Serene Snowflakes

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share these Serene Snowflake cards with you:

 

These were very quick and easy to make. I took a 12"x12" sheet of Whisper White and stamped it all over using the Serene Snowflakes stampset and Pool Party, Island Indigo and Not Quite Navy ink. I then cut them into 3" squares.

The card base is 4" square and either Pool Party or Indigo Island card stock. The layer is  3 1/4" square. By using these measurements you can get a lot of cards out of a 12"x12" sheet. Once I had stamped my snowflakes in ink, I stamped some snowflakes in Versamark and sprinkled Heat 'n Stick powder over them, heated it and then covered the snowflake with Dazzling Diamonds glitter and heats set it. This is the same method as I used for the Polar Party cards in my previous post. Here is a close up where I'm attempting to show you the glitter snowflake:

Here's another one. Again, it's difficult to show you the full effect in these photos. I added a few rhinestones in the centre of some of the snowflakes for the finishing touch:

 

The sentiment is from the Polar Party stampset. This is one of the final cards:

I hope you like these cards. This technique of random stamping can be used with lots of stampsets, not just snowflakes so why don't you have a go? I've got some really cute Santa tags to show you next time, made with punches and then I guess it will be Christmas and we'll be moving on to other projects - and the new mini catalogue. Remember to check back for the Santa tags. x

Polar Party Cards - at last!

Hi everyone, I know, I'm rubbish at blogging. I keep promising things and then it takes ages for me to do it. No excuses, but here, at long last are the photos from the last card class. We used the Polar Party stampset and I just love it. This stampset has cute images which you can combine to make your own little scenes as I did for the penguin card:

The photos aren't great as light is hard to come by at the moment (!) but I'll show you lots of photos so you get the idea. The images were stamped with Stazon ink and then coloured using the ink pads and blender pens. I have to confess to finding colouring images on Whisper White cardstock quite hard, but the blender pens solved all my problems. To do this you can either scribble a marker pen onto a plate or other hard surface or you can squeeze the ink pad while still closed, so it picks up some of the ink in the lid. You then use the blender pen to pick up the ink and colour. You can make the colour as light or dark as you want, so it's great for shading. Here are a couple of close ups:

There is a bit of glitter on these cards but the camera just didn't pick it up. Here is each card on it's own with the details below it:

All cards used Indigo Island as the base card colour. I then used Tangerine Tango paper from the Designer paper stack, layered onto Tangerine Tango card and some orange ribbon that I already had in my stash.

For the tree image I used Old Olive paper and Old Olive card. I didn't have any Old Olive ribbon so I used Pear Pizazz seam binding, which actually worked just as well.

The penguins were combined with Rich Razzleberry card and paper. Again, The ribbon was some that I had in my stash.

The greeting for all the cards is part of the polar party stampset.

Finally, I wanted to have a go at something I had seen on Monica Gales' blog. She covered a coloured image with Versamark ink and then with Heat 'n Stick powder. You melt the powder, using a heat gun and then cover the whole image with Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Heat it again and you end up with a fabulous glittered panel but the glitter does not come off as it has been 'heat set'.

I (foolishly) showed the ladies in my class the final result and ofcourse they all wanted to do this then. Much, much glitter later - all over us and the dining room, they all had beautiful, glittered cards and all were amazed at the results.

You really cannot get the full effect in a photo. It sparkles in beautiful colours in real life but hopefully you're getting some idea. If you fancy having a go, let me know. I can arrange a home workshop and demonstrate the technique. If you want to buy any of the products, just get in touch. You can make these cards for next year (it's probably a bit late for this year), and amaze all your family and friends.

I will be back with some more Christmas ideas before Christmas, so keep looking. x