Love You! Three Pears Stamp

I learned this simple technique from Rubbernecker.com.

I used the following supplies:

• Distress Ink Pads in Mustard Seed, Shabby Shutters and Tea Dye
• Distress Ink Pens in Shabby Shutters, Forest Moss, Antique Linen
• Versa Mark Pad and gold embossing powder
• Ivory cardstock for card (scrap for mask)
• Staz-On black for stamp
• Yellow polka Dot organza ribbon

Close Up!

This is a picture of the three pears stamped onto my ivory card base before the ribbon.  You can see a smudge on the lower right which I was able to take out with a damp towel (lucky!).

Technique:

1. Stamp your card front with your design.
2. Make a mask by stamping onto a piece of cardstock the same size as you card front. You want it this size to protect your card surface from ink. Read on before you cut!
3. Cut only the far right pear out of the mask with an xacto blade or scissors. Save your cut piece.
4. Place the mask on your card surface. Everything should be covered but the far right pear.
5. Using a blending tool and Shabby Shutters, blend the green along the right side of the pear, making sure to get a darker green along the edge.
6. Now take a blending tool with Mustard Seed and blend this color (starting at the right) all over your pear.
7. Take a blending tool and using the Tea Dye, blend it onto the bottom of your pear.
8. Take your cut piece of your mask and retape it onto the mask.
9. Now cut the center pear out. Save the cut piece.
10. Follow steps 4 through 7 for the center pear.
11. Do the same for the left pear.
12. Cool, huh?

 Cute little dollar stamp, embossed in gold - just the right touch! Also, the stamp had nice detail so it wasn't a struggle trying to figure out what to color.

Hope you try this out too!

Lis

Love - A Simple Card to Make and Give

I have some older embellishments that I am trying to use up.  Example: the brads you see below.  All of the small elements on my card are brads.  I really like the cute tag brads.  But what to do with them?

I decided to send my dad a card.

I was going to put letters on the tags but I thought it would be too much so I left them blank.

Close Up!

I cut the "LOVE" cross stich pattern from  a scrapbook page. I outlined it in gold so that it wouldn't get lost on the background paper.

Thanks for stopping by!
Lis

Hello Card with Fringe

Today's card is a simple card using some torn paper and a fringed ribbon.  I used:

• a pumpkin-coloered card base and a lighter mat
• distress ink to edge my torn paper(purple! I'm not sure THAT worked out! LOL)
• gold mirrorcard as the accent
• black letters so that it would show up

Close Up!

I really like the fringe. It makes the ribbon much more interesting.

Hope you enjoyed my card today - Come again!
Lis

Coloring Embossed Patterned Paper

I was sitting looking at some paper I bought.  It had this very pretty resist embossed design on kraft.  Unfortunately it looked flat.  So, I took my distress markers and started coloring.

Below on the right was the card I started with.  On the left is the same card, colored.  Pretty cool, huh?
I colored over the lines (the embossed parts will resist the color) & I used a paper towel to BLOT up the excess ink.  This left the kraft paper colored. (Not a new technique I know, but nice to see again).

The kraft paper muted the colors I was using so I needed to use darker colors to get them to show up. I used my darkest colors (blues) on one of the center designs as my focal point.

So, pull out some of your embossed papers and try a little coloring.

Lis

Friend Card

Hi everyone!  I haven't used my film strip ribbon in a while so I pulled it out.  I looked through the letter stickers I have and found some that fit!  Here are the steps for this card:

1. Cut a smaller piece of cardstock using the three staggered 1.25 inch precision die (Frantic Stamper)
2. Color the edges and inside the square cuts with Peacock Feather Distress ink
3. Stamp a butterfly (also from Frantic Stampers own Line) in Peacock Feathers
4. Overlay the cut out portion onto patterned paper so that a corner pattern shows through
5. Attach overlay with mounting tape
6. Add film strip ribbon with "Friend" (or whatever word you want) on the right
7. Attach with Tiny Attacher (Tim Holtz)
8. Add flowers and gems

Close Up!

I like the way the white rose shows through, paired with the blue silk flower and gem center.

Thanks for stopping by, Lis