Stampin' Saturday 9.12.09

Three cards were demonstrated on 9.12.09 - two "from the past" and one new technique. From the past were the Glitter Window card and the Crayon Resist. The new technique was Faux Cloisonne. After much coaching during class, I can now pronouce cloy-so-nay!

GLITTER WINDOW

So, this first card is the Glitter Window Card. I used a little piece of cardstock the width of the card (folded that little piece in half) so that I could mark the center so I could center the circle punch. The card base is SU! Basic Black and is a half sheet folded in half so that the whole card is black. I marked the center with a pencil down some where I knew it would get punched out.

Then I punched the circle out with the 1 3/8" circle punch. By the way, I typed up the directions for each card station this time if anyone would like me to email them to you. Just let me know.

I thought the Little Boo stamp would work perfect with this technique!

When Laneah sent me a card using this technique years ago, she had a bug behind it and words inside: "Heard you caught a bug!" I loved it!


Before I get into the directions of how to do the glitter window, let me explain how the orange ends are on the Modern Label Punch sentiment. Stamp the "happy halloween" sentiment (from SU!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes - I sure like that set!) on white, then punch out with Modern Label Punch. Also punch out an orange Modern Label Punch. Cut the orange one in half and glue it to the back of the white so that the orange ends stick out to give the white orange ends. Like so:





OK, now for the glitter window. We have the circle punched on the front part of the Basic Black as explained above. Working with the INSIDE front of the card - take a piece of clear packing tape and put it over the hole. I learned, after the first attempt which I stuck to the paper underneath - to do this in my lap so I wouldn't stick it to my grid paper.

This is the INSIDE of the card:

Not shown: After putting packing tape on, flip back over to the actual front of the card - the circle is now sticky where the tape is. Sprinkle Stampin' Up! Dazzling Diamonds glitter, which is a fine glitter, all over the circle and then shake excess off. (The example above does actually have the glitter on the other side.) You now have a glittery circle. Put that aside.

Take a small piece of white cardstock and stamp, in Basic Black, the Little Boo ghost. (Single stamp on page 208 in the Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog). Put adhesive on the corners of this white piece - not close to the stamped image because that image is going to be put so that it shows through the circle. Position the Little Boo circle in the punched circle so that the white margin is even all around and then press to adhere. You can see below the inside front of the card - it is ok if some of the tape shows as well as the white piece - it will be covered.

This is also the inside of the card - first step was the packing tape, second step, shown here, is the white piece that has the ghost stamped on the other side.

Next step, so you won't see the tape and white piece on the inside of the card, is to glue a liner in. See below. A half sheet of white was folded in half and then 1/2" cut off two sides while it was folded. Put adhesive on the back of this. Do not glue together with the pieces lying down - the folds won't work well together if you do that. Pick up the black and hold it mostly folded and then with the white mostly folded insert the white into the black, positioning so that you have even black border, fold together and press to adhere the white into the black. So now the inside of your card is all pretty! And easier to write on since it's rather difficult to write on a black card - unless you have white or silver ink or pen.

The inside of the card all pretty now with the white liner so that you don't see the tape and little piece of white that you glued on the inside front:

FAUX CLOISONNE

To do this technique find a glossy magazine picture or brochure picture that has a wide expanse of color. The color can be solid or it can have variations in it. (The flower above has some orange on the left side.) I like pictures with variation of colors since that is another way of having a variation of color on a flower rather than a solid color like on cardstock. Pictures of sunrises, sunsets, and fire are particularly good for this technique because they have a lot of variations of color. Smaller pictures can be used too - the size just depends on the size of the stamp you're using. (So now everytime I see a magazine picture with an expanse of color I think of this technique!)

This card above used a flower from SU! Embrace Life stamp set. Any line image stamp will work. Fifth Avenue Floral would work well for this also - actually the flower in that set that has a lot of lines would probably work better because you have more lines covering up whatever the picture is you're using. My first try at this I used a brochure that had the Atlanta skyline silhouette in yellows, oranges, and lavender. When I finished, you couldn't tell that the flower was made using the Atlanta skyline!

To do Faux Cloisonne you simply heat emboss (using Versamark pad, gold embossing powder, heat gun) the line image stamp onto the GLOSSY magazine/brochure picture and then cut it out. If the magazine/brochure picture you stamped on is flimsy, you might want to glue it to a piece of cardstock before cutting out to make it stronger. Select colors that coordinate well with it to make your card. On the Faux Cloisonne card above, after stamping the Embrace Life flower, I adhered it to the Dusty Durango strip, then put the Fire circle rhinestone brad in. I put the brad in at this point - had I done it later after the Durango strip was glued to the Crushed Curry card, the brad would have shown on the inside of the card. So after the brad, I adhered the Durango/flower strip to the card. Then I stamped the Happy Birthday to You sentiment (single stamp from previous SU! catalog, p. 208 - presently on Dormant list so still available for purchase) in Dusty Durango. So -- Faux Cloisonne is actually pretty easy!

CRAYON RESIST

The pine branch card above was CASED (although some changes were made) from kellestamps on splitcoast - here.

Click the highlighted "here" above to see her card - I hyperlinked it!

The card front is SU! Always Artichoke cardstock, as is the Large Oval punch under the Word Window. The Merry Christmas sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped in Always Artichoke onto a scrap piece of Glossy White and punched out with the Word Window Punch. We made and glued that sentiment part together and set it aside. The Word Window punched piece fits perfectly inside the Large Oval punched piece.

The white part of the card front is Glossy White cut to size before beginning. It is cut so that it will have a 1/4" Always Artichoke border after adhering to the AA card front. Glossy White cardstock works best for this technique because it is slick. In the bottom right corner - not too close to the edges - you want to come in and up about 1/2" or so (eyeball what looks best, taking into consideration you will also be putting your sentiment in about same area in top left corner so that they balance each other) -- stamp the pine bough from the Autumn Days stamp set in Soft Suede ink. Let it dry a few seconds while you clean your stamp, put it back up, etc.

Then take a light colored crayon - yes, crayon like we used when we were little! (Marbles last month, crayons this month - we're revisiting childhood!) Some directions say use white crayon, but I find that a light colored crayon works better cause you can tell where you colored whereas with white you can't. I colored most of the pine cones - but not the very top of them (note in the picture that most of the pine cones have white in between the whatever they're called, but not the ones toward the top of each cone); I also highlighted just a few of the pine straws (I was looking at kellestamps sample and highlighted like she did).

Then you take a sponge or sponge dauber and sponge Always Artichoke ink over the image til you like it. During class we decided we liked the way using a sponge piece worked as opposed to the sponge dauber - with dauber you see more of the round dauber circle. This picture was of the one where I used the sponge, not the dauber.

After sponging and letting it dry a few seconds, take a tissue or paper towel and rub across your image. You rub off the crayon - leaving white underneath because the crayon kept the ink from getting to the paper. And that is why you can use any light colored crayon - because in the end, you take the crayon off!

Then eyeball the spacing to balance and adhere your sentiment oval in the upper left corner and complete your card!

Below is another example of Faux Cloisonne with a larger image - one of the flowers from Fifth Avenue Floral (the one I talked about above that has lots of lines). They were stamped in Soft Suede also. You don't have to get all the area of the inside of the flower colored in -- you just color it some. Then, instead of sponging, I used the brayer and Crushed Curry ink pad and brayered that ink all over the Glossy White strip with the colored flowers on it. (Do this on top of a piece of scratch paper/grid paper as you will get it on more than just your little strip of glossy cardstock.) As you continue to brayer on the color, it gets absorbed really well by the Glossy White cardstock and is very even - it's amazing how even it gets. Turns out really pretty. Wendy Weaver had a tip here - I'll have to think to remember what it was. Then, after brayering on the color, rub the crayon off the flowers - and you have partially white flowers!

Aha -- a day later - I have remembered Wendy's tip! When stamping on glossy cardstock, your stamp will have a tendency to slide because of the slickness -- so carefully press down to stamp and then bring your stamp straight up.

The Glossy White (now a shiny Crushed Curry from the ink) strip is then backed in Dusty Durango and adhered to Soft Suede card front. Modern Label punched sentiment is again from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

This Crayon Resist technique will work on Stampin' Up!'s Whisper White cardstock also because it has a slick finish - although not as slick as the Glossy White. So it works, although not as well. And note that the brayered Crushed Curry is not quite as even - it doesn't soak into the WW cardstock as well as it did the Glossy and I could see some of my brayer lines. This butterfly is from the God's Beauty hostess set from the Spring Summer 2009 catalog. All other stamps above are in the present 2009-2010 Idea Book and Catalog (except the Happy Birthday to you stamp also in the last catalog/on dormant list).

We've also learned that it is a good idea to keep your brayer in the box as the rubber can get nicked easily as you put your brayer in with all kinds of other tools - and then the place where it is nicked will show up on whatever you are brayering. But -- if that happens, don't throw away that rubber roll that has gotten messed up -- it can be covered with rubber bands to create a rubber band background!

Happy Stampin'!

Stampin' Saturday - 8-1-09 - Part 1A - Reinker Spread Technique

The blog posts for the cards and techniques we did on 8-1-09 are spread over about 8 (didn't count) blog posts - the last one is about puppysitting baby Baxter boy. First one is this Reinker Technique.




Also being posted is a blog with the Technique cards - that one will be updated with new technique cards along and along.

Reinker Spread Technique (and 3D variation of Fifth Avenue Floral Rose) on bottom

For tutorial, see http://pattystamps.com/pattys_stamping_spot/2009/watercolor-roses-technique-and-video-tutorial.html

This top card is the card we did at Stamp Club. Others are just other examples displayed during class.

Card is an almost direct CASE (sentiment changed) of a card on splitcoaststampers by jemur posted on 5/5/09. Rose is heat embossed with white embossing powder onto SHIMMERY WHITE CARDSTOCK, then sprayed with water until it puddles. Then, using Aquapainter, you touch the water in the various sections and it spreads. Need to be careful not to touch the cardstock though - just the water. The put aside to dry. If have too much water, can soak good bit of it up with the corner/edge of a paper towel and then set aside to dry. Card base and leaves are Certainly Celery cardstock. Ribbon is Certainly Celery ribbon (retired Sale-A-Bration 2009 item) - 16"; white striped paper run through the Big Shot with the Top Note die is specialty "Bride" scrapbooking paper - beautiful paper! Reinkers used for the Reinker Spread technique were Regal Rose and Apricot Appeal, I think. The original card indicates Regal Rose and Cameo Coral Reinker. Stamp set is Fifth Avenue Floral. Sizzlits Little Leaves die. Sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes stamped onto large oval layerd onto scalloped oval. Rose is from SU! Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set.




There was another card posted later that had a black card base, Whisper White Top Note, and Rose Red was used for the reinker. The black card base made it really pop. See mdoron5131 card dated 8/8/09.

Square card - dimensions: 5 1/4 by 5 1/4


Direct case of a card by cindybstampin posted on splitcoast on 6/15/09


Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set

The technique instructions said use a line image - the flowers in Fifth Avenue Floral work well with this technique. Embrace Life would work well also. Claudia Perry - Stamping in Columbus, GA blog- made a card using this reinker spread technique, but she heat embossed the Tres Chic background stamp (see the top of the two cards above) and Green Galore and Tempting Turqouise reinker. The second variation above is similar to one used on a card by asolven dated 7/6/09 on splitcoaststampers. It uses the Circle Circus set, embossed in white, then card sprayed with water and I don't remember the reinker colors - the card I was CASEing used Melon Mambo and Crushed Curry reinkers - and is a light brighter than what appears above. The cards they made with the two sets above turned out really pretty also.

Go to splitcoaststampers to Gallery and to SU! Only and do a search on Reinker Spread or just reinker -- or Fifth Avenue Floral -- and you will see all kinds of cards made with this Reinker Spread technique. Crystal French was the person that developed this technique.

I did try it with Pixie Pink reinker and it was too heavy a color. I think the lighter pastel colors probably work best with this technique.

This last example has nothing to do with the reinker technique, but is here to show you another way to use the Fifth Avenue Floral rose. This rose was stamped 3 times and two of the images cut out and popped up on Dimensionals. The bottom layer is the whole image, the second layer has part cut off, and the third layer has even more cut off. This would probably have been prettier had I embossed the image, and I don't really like the sponging, but was trying that to give it some more definition so could see the various layers. See example done by raqode7 on 5/8/09.

Stampin' Saturday - 8-1-09 Part 1B - Wiper Card

Wiper Card



See tutorial by Jan Tinklenberg at http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/



Card is a direct CASE of a card posted by susie nelson (post name) on 3/23/09. The stamp set used is Cheep Talk. Cardstock: Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery, White. Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, and Cameo Coral. Turquoise ribbon. Some flowers popped up on Dimensionals.



The instructions indicate put wiper tab about 1/8" from edge. Get a good visual in mind/look at ruler to see 1/8". Card will not work as well if you move it further down.

Wiper part up.

Close up of wiper part.

Front of card with tab down and card closed into A2 size.

Stampin' Saturday - 8-1-09 - Part 1C - Holy Triptych card

Cards made with Holy Triptych stamp set. All images, cardstock and ribbon from Stampin' Up!





This card is a direct CASE from a card by "inkpad" on splitcoaststampers. Original card dated 9/9/07. This is the card that we did in Stamp Club. The card base and the wise men panel is Naturals Ivory. Darker panel is kraft cardstock. Stamp sets used Holy Triptych and Baroque Motifs. Kraft Taffeta ribbon. Stamp-a-ma-jig used to place the frame over the Wise Men. All images heat embossed in gold. This top one was my favorite, the kraft paper is less expensive (and I like kraft cs) than the brushed gold below if you're going to make a lot, and I like the kraft ribbon better.

This card is similar to one above, except Very Vanilla cardstock is being used and Brushed Gold. Vanilla ribbon. Direct CASE from card done by darkahry posted 10/5/07 on splitcoast.

Direct CASE of card by Kathryn W. posted on splitcoaststampers on 10/25/07. The filagree part on the left was a challenge - it is just the filagree part of the frame stamp in Holy Triptych without the frame part. So the top had to be masked off and then the sides trimmed to get the side part of the frame off. Then versamarked and heat embossed in gold. White and Night of Navy cardstock used.

I've always thought this was a really elegant set, and wanted to showcase all 3 images of the set -- the Holy family, the Wise Men, and the angel. And this card is not CASED -- it was designed by me! The images are heat embossed in gold on Vanilla or Naturals Ivory cardstock and then layered onto Bravo Burgundy (retired color). The card base is 5 x 7 I think - needed to be bigger than A2 card size in order to hold all 3 images. Below the 3 panels is a strip of Handsome Hunter.

Stampin' Saturday 8-1-09 Part 2A - From the Past - OSW One Sheet Wonder

One Sheet Wonder

8 1/2 x 11 white cardstock stamped in Melon Mambo with Circle Circus

This technique is called One Sheet Wonder (hereafter called OSW). This is a quick and easy way to make a bunch of cards quickly. The cards below started off on an 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of cardstock. And some solid Melon Mambo cardstock is used when completing the cards as you will see below. The stamp set used is Circle Circus, and the different stamps are stamped in Melon Mambo ink. Note that the set has different sized stamps in it -- notice the two smaller size stamps. This also incorporates a very basic stamping lesson -- stamp off the edges, and I also tried to stamp in multiples of 3. (I did lose count after a while on these.) The sheet does need to be very busy - you will see why later in the cards. The smaller stamps help make the sheet busy. I also realized in the process of doing this to not alway try to put a stamp evenly in the middle of two other like stamps. With all the different stamps, it works better if you don't try to do this - it leaves room for the other stamps.





One this is done, I cut it up into 4 A2 cardfront size pieces. Then with each of those 4 A2 pieces, you cut them up differently. One was cut diagonally so you end up with two triangles. You will see this on cards 5 and 7 below. And putting the card vertically or diagonally makes a different effect also. I could have used the second triangle vertically on another card in the same or opposite corner like #5, but instead I turned the card to landscape position and made it horizontal - see #7.





Other quarter panels were cut into strips of various widths. Card number 6 shows why the original stamped image needs to be busy. If it was not busy, then there wouldn't be much on these two narrow strips.





There are several templates one can find on splitcoaststampers (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/). Click on forums and then do a search on One Sheet Wonder and work your way through the various posts. Some variations have 3 squares glued on the cardfront, etc. Not all the parts of the template were used below - not even sure if I used all 4 quarters. I just put together what I was in the mood to put together. Kinda looked at one of the templates, but I didn't follow it exactly. Sometimes I might not have the time or patience to stamp the whole 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock so I will just stamp a half page (as most of you know, I have most of my white cardstock already cut into half sheets.) And sometimes I might just stamp a quarter panel and then just cut that one piece up.



Sally tried this and came up with some variations of her own with small squares or rectangles placed various ways on some of the cards.

Card #1

Also uses Curly Label Punch and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set

Card #2

Also uses Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.

Card #3

Card #4

Card #5

Also uses scalloped oval, large oval and small oval and Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment stamp set.

Card #6

Card #7

Stampin' Saturday 8-1-09 Part 2B - From the Past - Marble Roll background

Another one of the "From the Past" things we did on August 1 was make a Rolling Marble background. Yes - the kind of marbles some of us played with when we were little. Remember shooting marbles, cats eyes, etc.?

We didn't two any make 'n takes with this technique - I just explained it. I did two sample cards to show - both using Mellow Moss reinker. One was done on vanilla cardstock and the other done tone on tone -- on Mellow Moss cardstock. I think I like that one the best. The stamp used is from the Eight Great Greetings set. When Laneah first showed us this technique, she used Mellow Moss, and I really liked that color. So that is why I chose to use Mellow Moss reinker and cardstock. The one with the tone on tone is one of my favorite cards of all done that day. And ---- it was not CASED. Helen created it!

Basically what you do is take a plastic case like your SU! stamp sets come in and, with removable tape, tape your cardstock on the top of the box. Then put 4 - 6 marbles in the bottom of the box. Then drop a drop of reinker in two different spots on the bottom of the plastic case. Then roll the marbles around so that they get ink on them from the two reinker spots. Then you flip the box over and either roll the marbles back and forth on your paper (which usually makes streaks) or shake the box vigoroulsy (which usually makes splashes like shown on these cards).

The plastic case I was using was almost exactly A2 card front size, so the marbles didn't go all the way to the sides of the paper - which was fine cause I cut it down to layer it, but I think in future I will use a bigger container.

Everybody there learned a lesson from Helen's experience -- hold the case tightly with your hand - with your hand over the side of the case where it opens. There was excitement during the lesson as I was shaking the case and it came open -- and I slung inked up marbles across the table. Thankfully no one got ink on them - I was horrified til I checked everybody out. Whew! It was good for a laugh!

Stampin' Saturday 8-1-09 PART 3 of 3

This blog posting will be posted in 3 parts since it's long. And I am remembering to start with what I want on the end first.


As those who were at Stampin' Saturday know, Earl and I were grandpuppy sitting that weekend for Candi and Mark's bulldog puppy, Baxter. So I'm uploading some pictures of baby Baxter. Actually, he is a toddler -- I remembered to ask Candi how old he was -- 4 1/2 months ... she said he was born March 17. He is just sooo cute now, we think - course we're biased! I just wish he would stay this cute and lovey. And he smells good -- like puppy - you can bury your nose in his fur. (Or at least I can - don't think it would be a good idea for Earl to do that. Earl has gotten along pretty well with him as long as he doesn't rub his face or eyes.) (Earl is snookered with baby Baxter too.) Earl commented he hadn't ever seen a dog sleep on its back before - so he took some pictures of Baxter sleeping on his back, snoring away. (Baxter snores a lot when he is sleeping.) Am uploading some of the pictures we took -- and one we took at Candi and Mark's the following weekend - cause I didn't get any "sitting pretty" pictures while he was here. Oh - forgot to say -- Candi and Mark took him to the doctor for "that" surgery (for "tutoring" as Nora's joke said) and then they left for a fun weekend, and left Earl and I to pick him up. He cried on the way home from the vet, and told me to tell Candi: "Mommy -- that was NOT doggie day care like I thought it was!" (He had been to doggie day care a time or two when they were not going to be able to be home to take him out midday -- when she first took him to doggie day care, he trotted right off from Candi to play - hurt her feelings it did cause he didn't cling!) He was fine when we got him home, and with the laser surgery, the incision was hardly visible. It didn't bother Baxter at all. We werer supposed to keep him on less activity -- that is not easy with a puppy. Earl and I did commence to spoil him, giving him a treat every time he went to the door and went to potty. So we had him trained when they got back to "let's go outside, just so we can come back inside and get a treat!" Most of the time we gave him part of his dog bone treats, sometimes a few of his kibbles food, and sometimes ice cubes -- he likes ice cubes for treats. He would take them in the den and chew them up, just like chewing up a bone. The brown fuzzy thing, which I think you will see in the pictures, is a big stuffed dog Mark gave Candi for some occasion -- until they could get a real dog. It is named Arby. Baxter loves to sleep on Arby, and also kneads and sucks on it -- wonder how soon Baxter got taken away from his Momma? Anyway, Candi said he does that when he gets tired - it looks just like he is nursing. (I'm wondering if I should write this -- Baxter is a he, after all, and a bulldog -- but it is really cute to watch him. (We took video). The next weekend, August 8, Baxter boy started school. They had to play catch up from missing the previous Saturday when Baxter boy was with us and Candi and Mark were at Amelia Island for a "together" weekend before football season with its long, long days starts.


So, here are our Grandpuppy pictures from August 1 and the "sitting pretty" one from August 8. Just a few. Course if you rreeaallly want to see more, Candi has lots of pictures on her kodakgallery and Earl and I are collecting quite a few of baby Baxter pictures too. (Just kidding.)














Baxter "sitting pretty" above on August 8, 2009.

Baxter taking a nap on back - August 1, 2009 -- while with Helen and Earl.

Baxter with Arby "nursing."

Baxter looking up at Mommy Candi after they came back August 1.

Baxter taking a nap August 2 on Arby.