ROCK AND ROLL TECHNIQUE - This is the first card demonstrated that day to demonstrate the Rock and Roll Technique. This card was CASED from poster Petal Pusher on splitcoaststampers. See her card there. Stamp set is SU! Upsy Daisy and for the sentiment a new set -- SU! And Many Mower. Almost all of my cards have folded white as the card base; next is a layer of Kraft, then a layer of white that has alternating stripes of Riding Hood Red and Summer Sun with just smidge of the white showing in between. Note that the middle Riding Hood Red has been Cuttlebugged with the Swiss Dots Folder. The card I was casing had white polka dots instead of the embossed dots. Then there is a layer of Kraft, a layer of Riding Hood Red, and the image of white. I did realize as I was preparing the class not to cut out the white beforehand because it is then too difficult to place your stamp in that small square. Stamp the image on white and then cut it down. Also the dots to the side are a double layer of 1/2" circle out of Summer Sun. The card being cased had the Summer Sun corduroy buttons here. I did a double layer of those circles because I felt like it gave a little more definition. As a matter of fact, on one of our Shoebox Swaps, Sally had done a large snowflake where she glued several layers together (more than two) -- it looked and felt like chipboard to me. (Aha - new technique - faux chipboard!). I also realized Saturday morning -- and cut 3 of these out quickly to show -- that I could have used the Sizzlets button die from the SU! catalog in my cuttlebug and we could have had paper buttons!
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I think there is a way I should be able to just type "here" and hide the address, but we'll save that for another Helen's blog learning!
Most important thing to learn and remember about Rock and Roll is to use your lighter ink first and then the darker ink -- so that you won't mess up your lighter ink pad!
BAPTISM DRESS - Next thing we did was a simplified Baptism Dress using white textured cardstock. I thought it was sooo pretty when I saw it on splitcoast. Reference the card cased here from : http://stampwithstef.blogspot.com/2009/03/baptism-card.html based on the tutorial here:
Rub-Ons -- Wendy W. had asked about rub-ons a while back, so we played with a simple rub-on. You just cut the image you want out of the sheet of rub-ons (if you try using it from the sheet without cutting it out, you run the risk of rubbing on part of another image that you don't want, so that is why you cut out desired image). Remove the backing and place the vellum image on your cardstock in desired location - after you have determined what else you will stamp on the card front or whatever. Then, using a popsicle stick or your bone folder, rub the image. You can kind of tell when it has left the vellum and adhered itself to the cardstock. When you have finished rubbing, peel the vellum up slowly, looking at the image as you do. By peeling up slowly and looking to see how well image transferred - if it was a detailed image and you missed rubbing a spot, you could lay the vellum back down and rub some more. If you just quickly pulled your vellum up, it would be too difficult to try to reposition it to rub on a missed spot! After rubbing on the image on upper left, then we stamped a sentiment in the lower right of the card -- that was a quick card! I didn't take any pictures of those. If you order rub-ons at any point in time -- read the information with the item -- I think generally there are two sheets -- one on which the images are black and one on which the images are white -- or they could be in color. I did pick up in my splitcoast computer reading that if you do rub on a piece of rub on that you don't want (like if you had a circle that had some writing in the middle and all you wanted was the cirlce and not the writing) that you can remove rub ons with your Adhesive Remover.
Using Sponge Daubers - Erin had asked about sponge daubers earlier, so we had a quick lesson on what to do with sponge daubers also for those that weren't familiar. I showed how the daubers fit on your fingertip. I used SU!'s Upsy Daisy stamp again and the Summer Sun and Riding Hood Red ink pads and daubed the dauber in the Summer Sun ink first and onto the stamp and then another dauber in the RH Red and daubed that onto the edges of the stamp. It is another way of getting two (or more ) colors onto a stamp. The effect is softer than the Rock and Roll Technique. One can also use the chalks instead of ink pads and dab chalks on. I have learned though to be careful how hard press on chalks - they will crack. I shared that I have read that the daubers can be washed; I've read where some people put them in the little containers made for small things for the dishwasher and washed them that way. I found a case for mine a while back and had some very small white labels -- so I've been labeling mine by color and putting them in the case. I did a search recently to see if I could find the cases again -- which I did. Google Sponge Dauber case and I think you will find some if you are interested. They were reasonably priced. Sponge daubers could also be used for sponging edges of cardstock like we've talked about in the past -- to give definition. A video I was watching recently shared that sponging cardstock edges with daubers gives one a little more control over how much is sponged as compared with using a sponge piece. This is one of those things that it is up to the user as to what they like - what suits them.
Window Sheets - In the new Occasions Mini-Catalog that came out April 1 and which lasts through June 30 -- there is a new product called Window Sheets, so I did a quickie demo on those also - we didn't make cards with them - I just showed my samples. There are some preprinted ones and then there are plain ones. The plain ones come in two weights. I ordered the preprinted ones and showed the group what I did with those. See pictures below. The window sheets came two to a pack. There are 4 card fronts on each 8 1/2 x 11 window sheet - so you get 8 card fronts. One of the images had Thank You sentiment; the others just had the dandelions or the leaves. On those two you could add a sentiment if you wish by using a rub-on or with Staz-On ink. (Staz-On ink made to use with non-porous materials like window sheets, glass, etc.) Since the window sheets are transparent - you either have to not let it bother you if the mini-glue dots show, adhere just some mini-glue dots and hide them with a ribbon or piece of cardstock (see book binding example below), or adhere with brads. I did learn that if you use brads, particularly if larger ones like flower brads -- to come in further to position peircing your hole (with paper piercer or large push pin) so that the brad looks good and also so that the brad posts don't show off the side of the card (again, experience is a great teacher!)
Note the top left picture with dandelions. I had four mini-glue dots. You can see them showing at the bottom just a little bit. I covered the other two up with ribbon. I was experimenting with these cards about adhering window sheets, so this was a learning process. Then I went back and covered up two of the dots with the white taffeta ribbon. So -- I could have just used those two dots to adhere the window sheet and hidden them -- I didn't have to use the other two. The Thank You window sheet was adhered with 4 white brads; The upper right window sheet had white polka dots. I hid those glue dots by folding in this instance, two pieces of cardstock punched on one side with eyelet border punch before gluing together, then I put that fold over the left side fold and glued down -- like you would if you were putting a tape binding on a book. That does a really pretty job of hiding the glue dots I think. As I looked at this polka dotted window sheet with white polka dots, I wondered how it would show up with white cardstock (as opposed to black) underneath it. I tried it and it shows up! I thought it would actually make a pretty wedding card with white cardstock underneath and the binding done in gold and the stamping done in gold (or as I realized recently - River Rock in color from last year has a goldish tint to it). Haven't tried it yet, but I think that would be quite a dressy card! I used the new Oval All stamp set for the greeting, punched it out with large oval punch and then backed it with Perfect Plum scalloped oval punched with new Scalloped Oval Punch. I also realized recently -- if you stamp your image and then punch it out and put on card front -- you don't have to worry about if you are stamping it straight or good on your (usually, especially in my case) almost completely finished card. You stamp it and then turn your punch over and sight your image straight in your punch. Then you don't mess up your 99% finished card with a crooked or wonky placed sentiment.
This card was cased from Reddyisco at this address:
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