Archive for November, 2007
Clearly Beautiful Acetate Snowflake Card
Posted: Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 | Comments
This card was a serious challenge to photograph, but worth the effort. I made it back in August, and is featured in my August "Stamp-A-Stack of Stuff" class. Unfortunately I have since lost the original card (it was probably ‘borrowed out’ grrrr…). Doesn’t the card center appear to float on the middle?! I now have my class outlines (supplies needed, finished photo and step by step) available for purchase now on my ‘Class Outlines’ page and this is in the August ‘07 one.
I used overhead transparencies (Office Max) and cut them to 6×6 cards (that will fit in Stampin’ Up!®’s 6 1/2 x6 1/2 envelopes) and stamped the snowflakes in white StazOn® on both the front and the back so that that you will always see snowflakes even with the card open but none of them ‘overlap’ each other when closed. (That’s a little OCD problem I had with it… but it worked out!). We sell StazOn® in white, black and brown and (yeah, finally… the StazOn® cleaner, yeah!).
I have shown (left) the card (well, what is used as the card base) before adhering the front and inside layers. The card ‘front’ has both a panel on the front and also the back of the front inside (to hide the monoadhesive). The inside greeting was carefully adhered with mono in each corner so that I didn’t have to put another layer on the very back (what me, lazy?).
I used the beautiful Sleigh Bells Ring set and the new Snowfall set. Most of the main image was sponged with sponge daubers and then touched up with markers for an ‘early winter morning’ look to this peaceful landscape sketch.
Elegant Holiday Card… with photo insert
Posted: Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 | Comments
This elegant card is made with Season of Joy which is available in the Holiday Mini Catalog, but only until November 30th! AND it was a card featured in my September "Stamp a Stack of Stuff" class which you can now purchase online (the photos, recipes and directions) now!
The base card is Always Artichoke and the top layer is River Rock with Bravo Burgundy stamped and crimped, all stamps are from the Season of Joy set. The satin ribbon is also a limited time accessory in the Holiday Mini. I embossed the tree in Always Artichoke crafters ink and crystal clear embossing powder for a fabulous glassy look.
This is also one of the 60 card class (with a 30 card option) that you can see dates for and register for on my class calendar HERE, I have just added Saturday, December 1st, 10am-2pm as one of the class offering days/times.
On the right you can see the ‘photo insert’ which is a MS Word document (4 inserts per page) that I created it with. The document is a "table" of 2 columns and 2 rows of fixed height & width. I drop the photo in one ‘cell’, put the words around it and then replicate it the other 3 times. I print it out and cut it into four just slightly smaller than a quarter sheet. It is printed on photo paper. Confused? Okay, enough of the torture, you can download the Word document HERE.
This is more personal than just a photo post card, but it also allows for a photo for those special people who you don’t see all year long!
Lovely as a Snowy Tree
Posted: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 | Comments
I absolutely love this card!
I got the inspiration for this card in Chicago this past weekend from a card that I received from Mary Robin Nowack and this is one of the cards that will be featured at my ‘Stamp a Stack’ of stuff tomorrow evening (repeated Friday morning)! See my online Calendar for all the information… Mary’s card was done with Vanilla crafter’s ink and Vanilla coordinating cardstock but of course… wh
ere is my Vanilla pad??!!!(grrrr…). The green is Always Artichoke and while I used Basic Brown ink, I used Chocolate Chip cardstock. Of course my perennial favorite ‘Lovely as a Tree’ is the main set. Anyhow, I made do with white crafter’s ink which is more ’snowy’ looking, so I added the tiny ‘crescents’ of white on the branches of the tree with the edge of the sponge dauber (okay, okay… so I dropped the dauber the first time and it looked like snow on a branch LOL!). So, while Thomas Kinkade (the artist "painter of light") won’t be getting nervous about competition, I was pleased with the result. I added light glitter after photographing (as glitter doesn’t photograph well–well, for me anyway). The side fold is one of my favorite ways to do a card and you can see that I used the Weathered background stamp and sponged more brown on the edges of the card to add to the ‘weathered’ wooden appearance. I haven’t decided on the greeting and while it is winter, it is such a peaceful card, it can be really used for any occasion and is definately appropriate as a masculine card… So, how did I do? **Remember my customer challenge for feedback on my blog–win free product!**
Designer Paper Magic
Posted: Sunday, November 11th, 2007 | Comments
This is an adorable ‘coaster’ calendar with altered ‘jumbo clip’ and matching ‘pocketbook’ which is actually a Junior Mints box covered with the ’Porcelain Prints’ designer series paper which are part of the Designer Series SPECIAL this month! By the way, the covered coaster calendar with altered clip was inspiration from a gift from Trisha Wampler who gave me one with a post it note pad on it (too stinkin’ cute!) and I made it with tiny calendars I got from www.Vippies.com.
Come to my class this coming Thursday (see my class calendar to RSVP) and get the chance to make them and some very cool holiday cards!
Sorry for the delay in posting my weekly idea, I am just back from Chicago and the ‘StampersInStitches’ all team meeting of Stampin’ Up demonstrators where I presented my ‘envelope tricks’ to a wonderfuly welcoming group of demonstrators under the fabulous and famous Glenda Travelstead (top demonstrator and advisory board member). I’ve decided that I have to come up with some other way to get myself invited to present again!
And lastly, THE WINNER IS… I presented a challenge to my customers to join my Feedburner email reminders list by November 1st and the winner is Kim Scheffler for not only joining but giving me feedback! Contact me for your $15 in free product Kim!
