Stamping With Juanita

September 2008 - Scrapbooking in Clarksville TN

Here is one of the pages we did at out Scrapbook Class this last weekend. Again, the letters and numbers were cut out using the Go Go Boots Alphabet Die set and the Big Shot. The page background is from Banbury DSP. The stickers are from Love Stories Simply Scrappin' Kit.

When I do a page where much of the center of the background is covered up by another piece of DSP or card-stock, I tend to cut out the center of the background to use somewhere else. We used that center piece on another one of the pages for this class. The card-stock is Pirouette Pink, Certainly Celery and Old Olive. The Old Olive was a two-inch strip the was used with the Swirly Die and run through the Big Shot. The swirly vine was used on a different piece. But I wanted to use the remainder for something, too and this page was what I came up with to use one of the strips.

Be sure to come back to see more pages from our class.

Bella Rose DSP & Big Shot

 

Most of the pages I've been doing lately, other than the ones for my classes, have been doing using my older Stampin' Up! stuff. Then it hit me! I could use my new Stampin' Up! stuff for pages, too, and not just cards. So I'm back to sharing what I love to do most - scrapbooking!

This page was made using the Bella Rose DSP for the background and for the letters. The frames were Riding Hood Red and Pirouette Pink card-stock. I did use a little Chocolate Chip card-stock for the shadow on the word "Germany" to make it stand out a little more from the frame. The red flowers were also punched out of the Bella Rose DSP with a small white flower and a small white pearl from the Pretties Kit for the center of the flower.

The letters were cut out with the Go Go Boots Sizzix Die and run through the Big Shot. As you maybe can tell from most of my more recent entries, I love my Big Shot and look for ways to use it.

If you would like to purchase the Big Shot, Go Go Boots Alphabet Die set or the Bella Rose DSP, go to my Online Ordering site and click on the Shop Now button.

And don't forget to check back tomorrow to see the start of the pages from my scrapbook class this last weekend.

Spooky Spider

Contact me now to order your own Spooky Spider or go HERE to order online. The then click on the Shop Now button and look at the Decor Elements.

Eastern Blooms

I just got this stamp set yesterday and just had to make something with it. It is one of the new stamp sets that are being discounted until the end of this month. I had seen where someone else had punched out some little flowers and put them over some of the flowers that were stamped and I thought it looked so neat. So I decided to try it. I also love using the Top Note die, as you can probably tell from all of the samples I've done with it.

Anyway, for the branch, the flower centers are colored with a Summer Sun marker while the blossoms are colored with a Ruby Red marker and the branch itself is colored with a Chocolate Chip marker. You have to make sure when you color your stamp with markers to huff on it before you stamp so that you get the ink moist, again. The flowers on the corners of the Chocolate Chip card-stock are also from Eastern Blooms and stamped in Very Vanilla Craft ink. The greeting is from Best Yet and stamped in Chocolate Chip. I used the Ruby Red marker go make some faux stitches along the perforation line for the Top Note. The flowers are punched out of Ruby Red card-stock using the Boho Blossoms punch. The centers are punched out of Summer Sun using the 1/4" circle punch. After attaching the flowers and centers, I gave the center of all of the flowers some dimension by adding some Crystal Effects.

If you would like to buy this stamp set while it's still at the discounted price, go HERE, and then click on the Shop Now button. The name of the stamp set is Eastern Blooms. You will see more samples from the stamp set in the coming days.

ABC Challenge - 2nd Try

Well, I decided that I wanted to take another shot at the challenge from Late Night Stamper's Convention. This is kind of plain. But to be honest, I only have two current stamp sets that start with A, B, or C. So most of my letters came from the colors that I used. The buttons were made using the Big Shot Button die with Chocolate Chip and Apricot Appeal CS. Then there is cord (gold), threaded through the holes. The background for the card is Bashful Blue, with a piece of Banbury DSP across the top. I used Apricot Appeal Grosgrain ribbon across the bottom. The markers I used to color the words were Chocolate Chip and Brilliant Blue. And I used brads. I did sneek in a small piece of Whisper White, mainly because I forgot to change it out to a different color. Oh, well.

See what you can come up with for this challenge and leave me a link to your creation in the comments and I will check it out and leave a comment on yours.

ABC Challenge

This week, the challenge for Late Night Stampers is an ABC card. Everything, card-stock, ink, embellishments, had to start with a, b or c and we had to have all three letters covered. This card uses Always Artichoke CS, Blush Blossom CS, Certainly Celery CS, Confetti Cream CS, Always Artichoke DSP, Certainly Celery ribbon, brads and the Best Yet stamp set. It's not the most imaginative card around, but it didn't come out too bad.

See what you can come with for this challenge and leave me a comment with a link to your creation.

This was another very simple birthday card. This was one that we made at my Open House. It doesn't show up very well in this photo, but we used the Priceless Brass Template and did some dry embossed flowers. The little pink dots are the centers of the flowers. The card is Whisper White with Pretty in Pink dots done with a Stampin' Write marker. The DSP is Bella Rose. The Riding Hood Red strip is punched with the Scallop Edge punch. Then a two lines were drawn with the VersaMarker and they were embossed with Clear EP. I wanted to add a little elegence to the strip so it didn't look so plain.

The Scallop Circle is punched out of Pirouette Pink. The 1-3/8" Circle is Riding Hood Red. The 1-1/4" circle is Whisper White. And the words are from Everyday Flexible Phrases stamped in Pacific Point.

Everyday Flexible Phrases gives you so many options for your greeting on your card. If you would like to order it, go HERE, then click on Shop Now to go to my online shopping.

Faux Chipboard Birthday Card

I didn't seem to have much inspiration today. I could only come up with a very simple card. But of course, there is nothing wrong with simple. When I added that Birthday tag, it looked too plain. So I added some layers of cardboard to it to make it into a faux chipboard tag. It gives it some dimension. This card is made with Pirouette Pink card-stock, Holiday Happenings DSP (Level 3 Hostess), Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribon, Double Rectangle Punch, Square Scallop Punch, Whisper White card-stock, Pacific Point Classic Ink and Punches Three stamp set (Level 1 Hostess).

Try the faux chipboard and see how it adds dimesion to your page.

Faux Metal Birthday Card

I really love my Big Shot and I look for any way that I can to use it when I make something. For this birthday card, I folded my Whisper White card-stock in half and placed the fold near the edge of the cutting blade on the Top Notes die. I made sure it didn't go all the way past the edge of the blades so that the fold would still be there, but it would be cut a little by the blades. Then I ran the VersaMarker along the edge of the card and embossed it with Silver EP.

The flowers are done using Pretty in Pink punched out with the Scallop Circle punch. I sponged them a little with Pretty in Pink ink and then clipped them towards the center to make the flower petals.  The centers are DSP from Love Stories Simply Scrappin' Kit and punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch. The leaves are from Love Stories, also, and punched out with the Small Oval punch, folded in half and run through the crimper at and angle. The background for the card and the tag is the same paper as the leaves.

For the tag, I inked up some Whisper White card-stock with VersaMark ink and then embossed with Silver EP. I did three layers of the embossing. Then I inked up the greeting from Sincere Solutations with VersaMark ink and heated up the EP again. Then I stamped the greeting into the hot EP. The VersaMark ink keeps the embossing powder from sticking to the stamp. I then punched the greeting out with the Key Tag Punch. The faux metal tag still looked kind of plain, so I punched a couple of pieces out of the same DSP that I used for the leaves and background to layer behind the tag.

I've always wanted to try this faux metal technique but was afraid to try it for fear it wouldn't work. To be honest, it didn't work the first time I tried it with this one because I didn't have the EP hot enough. So I put another layer of EP on, melted it and then held the heat gun over the strip to keep it heated up while I picked up my stamp. Then I quickly turned off the heat gun and stamped the greeting. It worked perfectly this time.

Give it a try. It's not really as hard as it sounds. And it makes a great addition to your card or scrapbook page.

123 Card Challenge

I belong to a Yahoo group called Late Stamper's Convention 2008. The design team for this group challenged us to make a 123 Card. We were to use 1 stamp set , 2 embellishments and three colors, which included card-stock and ink and we could use as many punches as we wanted. In fact, we were encouraged to use punches.

Anyway, this is what I came up with for the challenge. The stamp set is Baroque Motifs. The embellishments are Silver Brads and Night of Navy Grosgrain Ribbon. The colors are Night of Navy, Bashful Blue and Whisper White. The punches I used are the Square Scallop, Small Oval, Large Oval and the Double Rectangle punch. I also used the Top Note Bigz Die.

I had a hard time trying to figure out what to do for this challenge. I don't have a lot of stamp sets that have words and other designs in the same set. Then once I figured out what set I wanted to use, it was a matter of figuring out how I wanted to put it together. The nice thing about challenges like this is that they make you think and they get you trying different things that maybe you didn't think of before.

Now see what you can come up with using the same criteria for your card.