January 2012 Stamp Club

January 7 and 9, 2012
Happy New Year!

Before I begin talking about the cards --
Some tips I recently learned and shared in Stamp Club:


- Use Dawn dishwashing soap to get clear blocks clean and help them to be cling friendly.

- With solid images that sometimes don't stamp evenly

1. Clean the stamp with Staz-On cleaner, dab with paper towel; then clean with Stampin' Mist and cleaner pad. That's a tip you've heard from me before - I really think that helps immensely.

2. Ink the stamp by placing the stamp rubber side up and dabbing the ink pad on it (i.e., opposite from the way we usually ink up a stamp.)

3. Then, if there are still some not evenly inked areas -- push in the top of ink pad (ink pad closed) so that you get an ink palette on the inside of the cover. Pick up ink from here with a blender pen and fill in the less inked areas. And I think I remember that it works better if you go in circles than in lines. The ink pad palette and blender pen create a softer look and work in much better than if you try to fill in the less inked areas with a marker. This idea came from Mary Fish at www.stampinpretty.com on her 12/28/11 blog post.

- With the Framelits and Edgelits - I replaced the card they come on (the are adhered to it with doublestick tape) with Magnet Sheet I ordered out of the Idea Book and Catalog.  I just used the cardboard they come on as a guide to cut the magnet sheet.   I thought about putting them in the clear cases like the stamps come in, but I think I am going to like the magnet sheet in the clear envelope that the Framelits and Edgelits come in - I'm trying both ways.

Love Tree Card
CASED from Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration 2012 catalog

Stamp Set:  Easy Events

Stamp Set:  Word Play

Edgelit Card
Designed by Helen!

The hearts are made with two different embosslits dies that both cut and emboss the cardstock.
The decorative edge is from the new Edgelits die and the coordinating Adorning Accents embossing folder.

Just Believe with Cork Card
CASED with changes from Ilina Crouse

Stamp set is Just Believe.  Cork is from the Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.

Several of us decided to forego the crochet ribbon and make the card more masculine.  We found out we could punch circles out of the cork with the regular hole punch - like the kind you use in an office.

I found out that regular Classic Black ink worked best with the Cork.  I tried Staz-On and it did not do well.  Staz-On is made for non-porous surfaces ... cork is definitely not non-porous!

The cork oval was cut out with the Oval Frame Die and the Big Shot.

This one has Crumb Cake (I think) Taffeta ribbon.

This one has Vanilla Grosgain ribbon.

Labels Framelit Card
CASED from Kate Coffman but with different stamp set.

Stamp set is P.S. I Love You in the Occasions Mini 2012.
The sentiment stamp set is Heard from the Heart from the main Idea Book and Catalog.
Shapes are made using the new Labels Framelit die in the Occasions mini.