Tutorial Time - Baby Wipes Technique

I have always wanted to try this technique and finally just did it!  Glad I did!  Love it!  You don't need to buy spectrum stamp pads any more with this technique.  There is no music...bummer!  I just don't like the royalty free music, so you will just have to listen to me.  ENJOY!

Recipe:

Card base - 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 - scored at 4 1/4 to make a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card

Paper - White Daisy cs (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 and 2 x 2), Barn Red cs (2 1/2 x 3 3/4), Goldrush cs (2 1/4 x 3 3/8)

Stamp set - Just Like You, Solo t

Reinkers - barn red, autumn terracotta, goldrush

Ink - buttercup, honey, chocolate

Embellishments - square window charm, autumn terracotta bigger brads, goldrush organdy, barn red sassy strands, goldrush small spiral

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Happy Stamping!

Enchanted Series - Thanks

Here are the last two cards of the six card Enchanted series. Again, I used the Enchanted Level 2 paper pack, coordinating cardstock and accessories to create these cards. Stamp sets - For Every Occasion and Solo T.



Have a great weekend!

Happy Stamping!

February Technique Class

I chose dry embossing as my next technique class in February, because I had a couple of customers ask me how I made a card with this technique. This 6 x 6 technique layout, I showed three different dry embossing techniques and included the written instructions.

In addition to the 6 x 6 instruction layout, we will be creating this card. I think this card is so cute! Dry embossing is not a difficult technique and adds something to make a card pop. I got this idea from Sue Shade, an CTMH independent consultant. I used the Let's Get Together and solo "t" stamp sets. The colors are clover meadow, hollyhock and black. All products used are CTMH.


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Beloved Blossoms Thanks

The stamp set I used as the main image on this card was not a favorite in the 2007 Spring CMTH Idea Book; however, I really liked it. I am hoping that you see how it goes with the Caprice paper pack beautifully. I have had a lot of fun using the same paper pack and different techniques to make a few cards with multiple themes. It shows how versatile one Level 2 CTMH paper pack is to use in both layouts and cards.

This is another 6 x 6 card. I used solo "t" for the thanks sentiment and obviously for the solo letter. This was a 9 x 9 layout from CTMH corporate that I adapted to make a card. As you can see I am into using twill ribbon lately and photo hangers. Hope you enjoy this one too! I am going to feature this technique on the next Technique Tuesday and show you a card made with the same dimensions and theme, but different paper and main image. Stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by!

Caprice Thanks

I made this card for a technique board I am making to display different paper distressing techniques. This shows paper tearing. Now, I have to use a different paper packet, so it will be sent to someone instead of being displayed. I liked how the card turned out with the Indian Corn Blue cardstock base. This is a new paper pack from the CTMH fall/winter idea book. It looks much better IRL, especially when used with the blue paper. The "T" is from the new Homestead Alpha "E" sized set. Hope you like it!

Here is a double page layout that I had posted on the same display board. I am working on replacements with the Free Spirit paper pack.

Page one shows the sanding technique and direct to paper technique.


Page two shows the distressing with black stubble tool and cocoa ink and direct to paper ink technqiue.


On my last post, I forgot to include the stamp set I used, which was Little Girls. I was in a hurry to go to bed early and forgot to write that. Sorry! My wonderful DH put the boys to bed, so I could go to sleep early and I got to sleep at 8 p.m. YEAH! I felt so refreshed in the morning. I think I was a little too peppie for everyone in the morning. I kept singing and dancing around. I had a reason...our wedding anniversary was Tuesday, November 20th (8 years).

I hope to post Wednesday night for Thursday, but I don't think I will have anything for Thursday night.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Thank You So Much

It seems as if I can't throw anything stamped away. I can clean out my cupboards and closets and toss away, but when it comes to stamping...I have to keep anything I stamp. You know, just in case I might use it later. I will be creating teddy bears cards, because before I bought my prismas I stamped several bears and colored them with CTMH coloring pencils and blended with my aquapainter and blending pen. These have been sitting on my scrap table just looking at me, so I had to use them for a card.



In addition, I needed to use a different style of card from the standard greeting card, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I have seen some gate fold cards lately and decided to design one of those. Here is the same card sitting up, so you can see the gate fold design. Notice I cut the baby pink ribbon so the card would open. But when the card is closed (above) the ribbon looks continuous. I fastened the ribbon on the card with a bronze photo hanger. This color looks great with pink. I used my Cuttlebug again on the striped pattern paper. It is hard to see in these pictures, but it shows up nicely in person.

Here I enlarged the embellishment in the upper right hand corner. I used solo "t" stamp set for the sentiment stamped in Hollyhock on Baby Pink cardstock and matted on Chocolate cardstock. I put a flower button in the middle and continued these in the lower left hand corner, so the card would have a "z" flow from the three embellishments used.

Other products used: The Best Way stamp set, More To Adore paper packet and CTMH chocolate marker.

More teddy bears to come!

Happy Stamping!

Technique Tuesday - Kissing Technique

This is a fun way to jazz up your solid stamps with some of your pattern stamp sets. This 6 x 6 layout was made by Theresa Woolworth, CTMH consultant, using the kissing technique instructions and examples.


Kissing Technique

Ink up a background stamp making sure it is inked well. Take another stamp, a bold/solid stamp, place it on top of the background stamp...effectively using the background stamp as the ink pad. Then stamp the image on your paper. You will have a great result. Your solid stamps will have endless pattern possibilities.

I created this thank you card by using this technique on the "t" from the solo "t" stamp set. In addition, I used "THANKS" from this set too. It is harder to see the textured look here than in person. The diagonal strip of paper is White Daisy cardstock stippled with Ocean ink. I finished the card with Ocean pattern paper and Daisy White organdy ribbon.

Try this technique...you'll like it!

Create something!

My First Mountain Bike

I pulled another one from the archives, because I am out of town again. Here is a layout I did at a crop in Chariton, Ia last year for Tate and his first moutain bike. I can't believe this is Tanner's bike now, and Tate does not need training wheels any more. Boy, they grow up fast. I guess that is why we take pictures and scrap!

This is the first time I used the empressor guide and tool. It is the tool that makes the raised lines on paper and then I sanded those. You can see them on the gray cardstock. In addition to gray I used Star Spangled Blue cardstock and ink, and Clove Meadow pattern paper (retired). For stamps, I used Off Road, Solo "t", Festive Alphabet (retired), and Essential Alphabet.

The accessories I used are sassy strands, silver large spiral silver brads, white grosgrain ribbon and Dimensional Elements Classic Alphabet. I used my brayer and Star Spangled Blue ink to apply ink to the M, F and B of the title. The mountain bike is a non-CTMH item.

Have a great day and have fun creating!