Miss You Already

I made this card for a co-worker whose last day was Thursday.  I wanted to do something special to let her know how much I was going to miss working with her.  It's always a bonus when a co-worker turns out to be such a good friend!

For this card I used the Up, Up, and Away stamp set and some of the In Colors.  After I stamped the birds and clouds on the Whisper White layer I sponged Lucky Limeade at the bottom of the card to represent grass and Pool Party on the top of the card to represent the sky.  I popped up the balloon with a Stampin' Dimensional.  I used the technique of "kissing" on the balloon.  That's where you ink up a solid image then place a print stamp on top of that to remove some of the ink and like magic the pattern remains.  Here is a close up of the balloon so you can see the pattern a little better.  It is from the large print image in the Clearly For You stamp set.

Stamps: Up, Up, and Away, Clearly for You

Ink: Concord Crush, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade, Basic Gray, Wisteria Wonder, Soft Suede, Island Indigo

Cardstock: Whisper White, Concord Crush, Pool Party

Accessories:  Basic Rhinestone, Stampin' Dimensionals, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Stampin' Sponges 

 

Black Magic

This card is part of another technique swap I'm doing for the annual Stampin' Up convention.  Black Magic is an easy technique to do!  You stamp your solid image using Whisper White Craft Ink on Basic Black cardstock.  After the ink dries, you simply color over the image using your colored pencils and the result is this:

Supplies

Stamps:  Inspired By Nature

Cardstock:  Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink:  Pumpkin Pie Classic, Whisper White Craft

Accessories:  Colored Pencils, Wide Oval Punch, Pumpkin Pie 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Big Shot, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals

Faux Suede

Today's sample features a technique called "Faux Suede".  I made this card for a swap I'm doing at the annual Stampin' Up Convention I'll be attending later this month.  Both the snow drifts and the circles that make up the snowman are examples of this technique.  You take a piece of cardstock (such as punched circles) between your thumb and a bone folder and curl the cardstock in every direction and on both sides until you break down the fibers in the piece of cardstock and notice that it is starting to separate at the edges.  You carefully peel the piece of cardstock apart and inside is a soft "suede-like" surface.

Here is a close-up of the snowman.   (Remember you can click on the picture to make it larger!)

Supplies

Stamps:  Snow Swirled

Cardstock:  Night of Navy, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red

Ink:  Whisper White Craft, Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write Marker

Accessories:  1 3/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Bitty Circle Punch, Snowflake Punch, Bone Folder, Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Bitty Buttons, Basic Black Brads, Crystal Effects, Linen Thread, Glue Dots

A Technique Card to Share...

Here is a "technique" card I made for a swap at this years Stampin' Up convention. The primary "technique" I used to create this card is called "faux suede". The black strip in the center of the card with the spider web image and the white pieces were all "faux suede". This technique is fairly simple to do. I cut a piece of cardstock and then I used my bone folder to curl it in every direction until the edges of the cardstock looked as if it could be peeled apart. When you pull the two edges apart, the "inside" part of the cardstock feels soft like suede!

The other "technique" I used on this card is heat embossing for the ghost image. This stamp is called Little Boo and is one of the "under $10" stamps featured on page 208 of the 2009-2010 Stampin Up Idea Book and Catalog. The stamps featured on this page are a great value when you don't want to purchase a stamp set! The other stamps I used to make this card were the Web wheel and the letter "o" from the Jumble Alphabet. For the white web piece, I punched out a circle and then went around it with the slit punch.

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