Hybrid Valentine

Valentines Day has come and gone and I'm only finishing this post now.  Sad, but better late than never. Hopefully, you get some inspiration for an anniversary or wedding card with this one.  I'm still pleased with the final result.


This is my hybrid card - a combination of paper crafting and digital crafting.  The heart and the "love forever" are images from My Digital Studio which I sized and positioned to print on whisper white cardstock.  My printer doesn't print colours very true, but it worked fine. 

 

This layout was one I saw done by another demo named Tessa Wise and thought it was uniquely attractive.  The background image is inspired by her card as well.  I started with a piece of Close to Cocoa cardstock and very lightly and unevenly sponged it with Close to Cocoa ink.  After using my embossing buddy over the entire piece of cardstock (this step prevents embossing powder from sticking where you don't want it to), I stamped my French Script background in Versamark ink (this background stamp is retired, but very similar to the current En Francais stamp).  I embossed the background stamp with clear embossing powder, then thoroughly, but still unevenly, sponged chocolate chip over the entire image.  The ink doesn't stick to the embossed image, leaving it lighter coloured than the paper.  The effect is lovely, though not captured well in this photo.

Supplies:  Real Red CS, Close to Cocoa CS, Chocolate Chip CS, Whisper White CS, Border Punch, My Digital Studio (Images from "Always" and "Fundamental Phrases"), French Script stamp, sponges, Chocolate Chip ink, Versamark ink, embossing buddy, clear embossing powder, heat gun, mini library clip, White organza ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, adhesive.

Hoping for Spring Snowglobe Card

Here is my version of a snow globe card. I got the basic layout from my downline and worked my own style into it.  The bird was stamped with stazon on white cardstock, then coloured with blender pens and ink.  After I finished colouring it, I covered the entire image with versamark using my versamark pen and embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I sponged my background over the bird. The clear embossing resists the ink and the colour of the bird can stay true. 

Supplies:

• Little Leaves sizzix die
• Leaves are cut from SU Designer paper in old olive and sponged with old olive ink
  
• little bird is only available for demonstrators to give as gifts
• Bird: black stazon, blender pens, Pacific Point ink, Apricot Appeal ink
• Sponging: Soft Suede, Old Olive, Sage Shadow
  
• white stazon
• SU Medium Window sheet
• Snowflakes from Serene Snowflakes set
• Soft Suede ribbon
• black mini clip
• Rich Razzleberry CS
• Soft Suede CS
• Whisper White CS
  
• Versamark ink
• heat gun
• Clear embossing powder (for bird)
• Black embossing powder (for sentiment)
• sentiment from Heard from the Heart stamp set.
  

Clearly Inspired

I just love acetate cards and am really pleased with the combination of Dusty Durango and Bravo Burgandy. The picture above shows the front of this 6x3 card. The picture below shows the inside left of the card. Hope you like.

supplies:
Window sheet
white stazon ink
dusty durango CS
whisper white CS
Bravo Burgandy CS
stampin dimensionals
sticky strip
Bravo Burgandy ink
Organza Ribbon
Baroque Motifs stamp set
Inspired by Nature stamp set
versamark ink
clear embossing powder
heat gun
sponge

Robotic Well Wishes

A simple card, but a cheerful colour combination to brighten someone's day just a little bit.

Supplies:
Burmuda Bay CS
Crushed Curry CS
Soft Suede CS
Kraft CS
Basic Black classic ink
Stampin' Dimensionals
Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon
Paper piercing tool
Mat Pack
Lots of Bots stamp set

Bumble Bee in the Window

I just love this little bumble bee from the Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set.

Supplies:
Soft Suede textured CS
Crushed Curry CS
Medallion stamp
Versamark ink
Clear embossing powder
Heat Gun
Soft Suede ink
sponge
Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set
White stazon ink
Stampin' Dimensionals
Soft Suede ribbon
Sticky strip adhesive
Fresh Cuts stamp set

Bleached Suede Christmas

This card is done with real red, soft suede, bermuda bay and very vanilla. The snowflake background was done by first sponging very vanilla cardstock quite heavily (especially the edges) with soft suede ink. Then I put some bleach on a folded up piece of paper towel (in a flat bottomed container - the plastic box that holds your stamp sets works well) and used it as an "ink" pad. The snowflakes are from the Serene Snowflakes stamp set. After the bleached images were stamped, I stamped a few more snowflakes in Soft Suede ink.


Other supplies used include:

Spiral Punch, Corner Rounder punch, Tag punch, Heard from the Heart stamp set, Soft Suede ribbon, jumbo eyelet, crop-a-dial, stampin' dimensionals.

Hope you like it!

Jolly Christmas Cheer

This card was one I found on the Splitcoast Stampers website while I was perusing ideas. I slightly adapted the original to develop my version of the card.



Whisper White, Real Red, Always Artichoke and Chocolate Chip are the colours used to make this 5x5 card. I used the "Christmas Punch" hostess set and used my squares and circle punches to punch out the images. The center sentiment was stamped after using my Real Red and Chocolate Chip SU Markers to ink up the rubber stamp while covering the parts of that stamp with masking tape that I didn't want to stamp onto my paper. And, of course folks, this gal used stampin' dimensionals to pop up the circle image in the center. I wonder how often I actually don't use any on a card. hehe.