Non Winning Artisan Project #5

Lots and lots of pictures to share with you since my last card entry was a trifold one.  I even used a little piece of velcro to close it and made it more like a book or mini album that way.

 



 

The focus of the card was on the Storytime designer series paper.

 

I added a little chalkboard technique to the inside using the From My Heart stamp set with the idea that this could be a teacher thank you card.

 

Supplies:

Just Believe, From my Heart, Distressed Dots stamp sets

Storytime dsp

Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze, Basic Black, So Saffron card stock

Riding Hood Red, Old Olive classic ink

Craft White ink

Labels collection framelits

scallop punches

Decorative label punch

Window punch

Modern Label punch

Perfect Polka Dots folder

Woodgrain folder

Tags and More Tags

 

At Late Night Stampers this week, our challenge is to use retiring colors in our projects.  While these tags don't all use retiring colors, there are a few in there.

 

 

The first one is made of layered labels and I used Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose (retiring color), Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Soft Suede as my colors.  The stamp sets are Everything Eleanor and Just Believe (also retiring).

 

On the second one, I used some Polka Dot Parade dsp, Real Red card stock and Marina Mist ink with the Quintessential Flower stamp.  It can be hung on a gift bag with some Essentials Designer Fabric (retiring).  The Two Tags die that was used to cut this tag out is also retiring :(  I use that one so much!

 

 

The last one has a base of Lucky Limeade (retiring) and the star is punched out of Not Quite Navy (retiring).  I embossed the base with the Vintage Wallpaper folder (retiring) and added some Print Poetry designer paper, a silver designer button and a decorative label punched sentiment from Word Play (retiring).

 

While I will really miss a lot of the retiring colors and products, I look forward to the new things we can soon play with!

 

Hope you play along with us this week!

More Best of Flowers

 

Here are a couple more cards I made with the pile of sentiments I found the other day.  I have used the Best of Flowers set in the background and the plant image from Just Believe on the side. 

 

 

The ribbon is retired and on the top card I had a scrap of Naturals composition specialty paper that I added behind the sentiment.

 

 

Thinking of you

 

I found that I really like this color combination Primrose Petals, Baja Breeze, Lucky Limeade and Early Espresso.  On this card I used Just Believe, Distressed Dots, and Thoughts and Prayers in these colors.

 

 

If I made this one again, I might stamp off the Distressed dots before I stamp it on my card stock so that the sentiment is a little easier to see.

Tea for You

 

The fun quilt like patterns in the Tea for Two designer series paper are great to get the ideas flowing for cards.  This one is fairly simple using the Just Believe stamp set.

 

 

Supplies:

Just Believe

Very Vanilla, Island Indigo, Crumb Cake, So Saffron card stock

Crumb Cake classic ink

Tea for Two dsp

scallop edge punch

modern label punch

word window punch

 

Crumb Cake Thank You

 

I played around with a few different stamp sets on this card - Everything Eleanor, Just Believe and En Francais.

 

 

I used some 7/16" natural trim ribbon behind my flower  image that is an upcoming item in the Occasions Mini catalog.

 

Supplies:

Everything Eleanor, Just Believe, En Francais

Crumb Cake, Early Espresso classic ink

Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and Island Indigo card stock

7/16" natural trim ribbon

modern label punch

word window punch

 dimensionals

Treasure Hunt

I am re posting this so you make sure to take a little time to enter the $150 Stampin' Up! product give away!  Just read past my card post and join the fun!

 

This care uses Crumb Cake, Raspberry Ripple and Whisper White (and some Early Espresso ink).  Very simple to put together, but I like the way it turned out.

Supplies:

Just Believe

Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple classic ink

Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Raspberry Ripple card stock

Stitched satin Raspberry Ripple ribbon

white gel pen

circle punches -- 1 1/4" and 1 3/8"

Elegant Bouquet folder

I am taking part in the Late Night Stampers Treasure Hunt this time around.  It is like a blog scavenger hunt and here is what you need to do:  Start by finding the clue on my blog and then, find 50 clues from now until October 31st on other blogs in the LNS web ring.  When you have your 50 clues, e-mail them to me at ksobolik@hotmail.com with Treasure Hunt in the subject line and include your clue and on which website you found it.  You will then be in the running for $150 in Stampin' Up! merchandise.  One person who has submitted their 50 clues will be drawn from all the participants and they will get to go shopping!! 

The winner will be notified by e-mail and will then pick their goodies!

The contest ends October 31st so you have time to search, but the earlier you start, the easier it might be to find the clues!

My clue is Basic Pearls...one of my favorites!

Happy Hunting!

 

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Just For You

Another Artisan Award entry card today, this one using the Just Believe stamp set.  I started with Faux Mother of Pearl on the inside panel and the two pieces on the front with stamped images.  Before I stamped them, I added some Pear Pizzazz spritz and then stamped with Soft Suede.

For the background I used the Vintage wallpaper folder and then started sprizting with Silver smooch spritz and Vanilla shimmer smooch spritz that I added a few drops of Soft Suede reinker to; next, I added some Pear Pizzazz spritz.

Notes and Flowers

Spring is here and this week at Late Night Stampers we are celebrating with Spring themed projects.  For my first one I chose music notes and flowers in some muted colors.

The background is the music notes wheel in Crumb Cake and I added some images from Field Flowers in Pretty in Pink and Rose Red. 

Supplies:

Field Flowers, Just Believe

Crumb Cake, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla card stock

Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Garden Green, Perftect Plum classic ink

Stitched Velvet Vanilla ribbon

color spritzer tool

sponges

music notes wheel

Doily Birthday

Well, we are in the middle of a snow storm today, something we haven't really seen all winter!  It will be a quiet day at home I guess.

This is one of the cards we did at our Stamp a Stack yesterday, I know I have seen this idea in lots of places so don't know who to give proper credit to, but can say I didn't create the original.

Supplies:

Hey Doily, Just Believe, Bring on the Cake

Very Vanilla, Concord Crush card stock

Concord Crush, Pool Party classic ink

Vintage wallpaper impressions folder

vanilla taffeta ribbon

Fresh Vintage CASE

I cased this card from Maureen Merritt and used it as my second make and take card last weekend at my workshop.  It uses the rock and roll technique and the Fresh Vintage stamp set from Sale-a-bration.

The senitment is from the Just Believe stamp set and we added some basic pearls and a strip created with the scallop ribbon border punch.  The impressions folder we used on the bottom portion is the Square lattice.

More Stamp Camp projects

As promised, here are the other projects we worked on during our Stamp Camp last weekend. 

Lisa's card features the labels collection framelits and the Sale-a-bration stamp set Fresh Vintage and the designer paper, Everyday Enchantment.

I just love these stretchy bookmarks!  We let the group choose their design and ribbon for these.

More Stamp A Stack cards

These are the final two cards I used in my Stamp A Stack last week.  The first uses the upcoming Sale-a-bration designer series paper called Everyday Enchantment along with the Love and Sympathy stamp set.  It is a Z fold card and was actually very quick and simple to make.

The last card is one I CASED from Maureen Merritt and altered slightly.  I just love her cards!!

The stamp sets used on this one are Just Believe and Friendly Phrases.

Friends

I used the Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder again on this card - I need to

grab another one next time, LOL!

For this card I used my Soft Suede classic ink pad and inked up the side of the impressions folder that

does not have the raised image before I ran the Crumb Cake card stock through it.

What you end up with is a look similar to if you had double embossed.

In the close up, you can also see that I cut a really thin piece of Pear Pizzazz and threaded it through my ribbon instead of using thread.

Supplies:

Just Believe

Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede, Cumb Cake card stock

Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede classic ink

neutrals buttons

decorative label punch

lace ribbon border punch

sponges

Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder

dimensionals

Another sneak peek!

We are almost ready for the Holiday Mini catalog and here is another sneak peek for you!  I used both the Spice Cake designer series paper and the Spice Cake fabric on this card  for you (and another one of those fun little flowers!). 

The stamp set is Just Believe and I also used the Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder on the Pool Party card stock.

Just a close up of the texture and the flower.

Supplies:

Just Believe

Spice Cake DSP and fabric

Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Soft Suede and Pool Party card stock

Old Olive and Soft Suede classic ink

dimensionals

Vintage wallpaper impressions folder

regals button

modern label punch

word window punch

August Stamp Club projects

It is that time again for our monthly Stamp Club, I can't wait for tonight!!

This month I chose a masculine theme for the layout using the Daring Adventure stamp set and Well Worn designer series paper. 

I punched out some elements and then ran them through the crimper tool (actually my son, Wyatt did this for me - he loves to punch and now also loves the crimper!).

I apologize for the blurriess of this page, I seem to have trouble photographing the layouts sometimes.

This card was CASED from one that Robin Merriman did on her blog here.

And the final card uses the Beau Chateau designer series paper along with the Just Believe stamp set.

VC Rocks Blog Hop

It's the first VC Rocks blog hop of the year!  You may have come from Deborah Robb's blog and at any time you may go to the VC Rocks blog to see the full list of participants.

We are using the theme, Color My World, and I have chosen to use watercolor crayons

and markers in my projects. 

My first project is a card using watercolor crayons.  I stamped my image on watercolor paper with Black Stazon ink and then colored in the flower and leaves with Not Quite Navy and Old Olive crayons.  I blended the colors in with my aqua painter and then added some Perfect Plum to the flower and used the aqua painter again. 

After I had everything on the card, I spritzed a mixture of rubbing alcohol and Champagne mist shimmer paint over it all.  I always have a hard time getting that to show up in the photos.

Supplies:

Because I care, Just Believe stamp sets

Framed Tulips impressions folder

Old Olive, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla and Watercolor paper

hemp twine

Black stazon ink

watercolor crayons

aqua painter

dimensionals

basic pearls

word window punch

modern label punch

champagne shimmer paint

My next project was a super quick and easy one that would work well as a little gift too.

I picked up a frame at Target with 2 - 4 x 6" openings and just added some simple panels.

The left side is a Certainly Celery base that I ran through the Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder and on top of that I added some Whisper White card stock that I embossed with the Flower Garden impressions folder.  There are a couple butterflies cut out with the Beautiful Wings embosslit on it as well attached with glue dots.

The right side has a So Saffron base that was also embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper impressions folder.  I used my markers to add some flowers to the Whisper White layer using the Love and Care hostess level 2 stamp set in the Summer Mini catalog.  The sentiment is from the Refuge and Strength stamp set and I punched it out with the scallop oval punch and popped it up with dimensionals.

Supplies:

Refuge and Stregth, Love and Care stamp sets

Flower Garden, Vintage Wallpaper impressions folders

Beautiful Wings embosslit

Big Shot

So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Peach Parfait, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette card stocks

Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink markers

Baja Breeze classic ink

scallop oval punch

dimensionals

And now for some blog candy!  If you leave a comment, I will put your name into a drawing for this stamp set...

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed the projects!  Your next stop to Color Your World is at Ellen Kemper's blog - enjoy!