Wintery Songs....

I started doing something I have always wanted to do since I was a child yesterday... taking piano lessons. I played two instruments in highschool and continued playing them in college some but never learned the piano. Well two years ago I talked my DH into buying me a piano and here it sat. I started my first lesson yesterday and guess what I can play some Christmas music already...

So today I went over to CPS and with the music all in my head I decided to pick the stamp set that reminded me of Christmas music. Sleigh Bells Ring. This weeks sketch worked perfectly with my ideas....



Doesn't it remind you of Jingle Bells. I took out my retired background stamp Musical score and stamped it on the soft sky cardstock. I water colored a few things in the main image and then took some iridescent ice ep and made the whole image sparkle. Here is a closeup of the image...



Well I'm off to go see what else I can come up with for tomorrow happy Stampin everyone...


Supplies:
Stamps: sleigh bells ring, musical score BG
Ink: soft sky, versamark, basic black
cardstock: blue bayou, soft sky, creamy caramel, cardstock vellum, papertrey white
Accessories: prima flowers, halfback pearl from pretties kit, iridescent ice ep, snowflake cuttlebug folder....

Workshop fun...

I had such great fun today at my workshop. The hostess had 8 guest and it was so much fun meeting all these ladies. My best friend Kelly was there and she was a great help for me. I was so nervous. These ladies Had fun making their own versions of these three Christmas projects.

My small project I think was the big hit. It is a chap stick card. Here is the outside of it...



And here is the inside of it...



Supplies: purely pomegranate cardstock, always artichoke cardstock, natural ivory cardstock, silver embossing powder, versamark inkpad, purely pomegrante inkpad, always artichoke inkpad, silver brad. Stamp sets: snow flurries, baroque motifs, holidays and wishes

The next cards were done showing off the use of crystal effects.

Supplies: I used petals & paisley designer paper on this card along with wild wasbi texture cardstock and so saffron cardstock. Stamp sets for this card were Aida cloth background and give thanks. Ink was so saffron inkpad and stazon jet black. Image was colored using aquapainters and Watercolor wonder crayons.



My last and final card was from my faux metal technique tutorial which can be found here.



I had a wonderful morning with these ladies and hope they enjoyed the morning too... well off to bed I go... have a great night everyone.

Saturday Fun...

Saturday I had company with me to stamp. My mom, my aunt and my friend Kelly all came over and got some Christmas card ideas and technique ideas. I think they had a great time. We got to play with my heat gun and my faux metal technique. And we got to play with the Holy Triptych set from the holiday mini. Here were some card ideas I gave them that day....






Supplies for these cards can be found Here.


For the Holy Triptych cards I let them choose the image to play with the sketch... They all pick the angel and I made these two. I enjoyed the day and had a great time. It is always fun stamping with friends.

humm...

Today I have been working on my monthly swap card I have to turn in in a couple of weeks and the challenge was to use one of the new Christmas sets out of either the big catty or one out of the holiday mini... well I haven't been able to order out of the holiday mini as of yet so I went with Sleigh bells Ring out of the fall and winter catty....



This swap group is supposed to be upscale so I through in two different techniques on my card. I used my faux metal tutorial and dazzling diamonds. The dazzling diamonds is hard to tell in this picture so I took one more inside and hope it would show up...



Supplies: Sleigh bells ring stamp set, party punch stamp set, buckaroo blue cardstock, soft sky textured cardstock, wintermint designer paper, whisper white cardstock, white taffeta ribbon, iridescent ice embossing powder, silver embossing powder.

Well I have to get to work and finish cranking out 12 of these babies... off I go to get this swap done. Have a great afternoon...

Oh boy!!

I have been stampin away today... SCS Dare to get Dirty challenges are fun an awesome.... Here are the submissions I have done today.


Supplies: Sleigh Bells Ring stamp set, red fun flock, whisper white cardstock, real red cardstock, real red ink, heat stick powder, and taffeta ribbon


Supplies: Wing it stamp set, warmest regards stamp set, blue bayou textured cardstock, wintermint designer paper, soft sky ribbon, embroidery thread, diamond stickles, purely pomegranate inkpad


Supplies: On Angels wing stamp set, blue bayou textured cardstock, wintermint designer paper, silver embossing powder, encore silver ink, basic black ink, silver brads


Supplies: Give Thanks stamp set, riveting stamp set, watercolor crayons, lavender lace inkpad, black stazon pad, always artichoke textured cardstock, lavender lace cardstock, elegant eggplant cardstock, taffeta ribbon, enchante designer paper, aquapainter

Well I have to start getting the kids ready Jonathan has a soccor game tonight. Have a great night.

Faux Metal Tutorial....

This is my first time writing my own tutorial but after posting my faux metal post I felt that their might be a few people that come to my blog and would not know what exactly I am talking about so here goes.....


First off you will need the following in supplies:
A versaMark pad, a heat gun, Silver embossing powder( gold or bronze may be used also), a piece of scrap cardstock( this is a great way to get rid of those extra pieces laying around), a shape punch( the one I am using is Stampin Up's designer label punch), a stamp image.




1.
Place cardstock into the versa mark....

Press firmly into the pad so that you cover the entire piece with versamark.

2. next you want to grab a piece of printer paper or a powder pal. Place cardstock piece versamark side facing up on your paper or powder pal.

Cover it with embossing powder. Tap off excess powder onto paper or powder pal.

It should look like this once you have taped off the powder.

3. grab your heat gun and begin to heat up the paper....

It will start to look like this... and after it has all melt it will look like this...


4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get a piece that should look like this....


5. Take your stamp and press it into the versamark pad to keep it from sticking to the paper....

While your paper is still hot... If it has cooled take your heat gun and heat it up for a few... take your inked up stamp and press it into the paper. When you lift up you will have a image somewhat like this...


6. Take your shape cutter and place your faux metal into it. Line it up so you can see the image.

And then punch your image out. It should look like this...


7. Place on your desired project...

Supplies for card: Buckaroo blue ink, soft sky ink, versa mark, Blue Bayou textured cardstock, whisper white cardstock, whisper white taffeta ribbon, silver embossing powder, party punch stamp set, soft swirls BG, Sliegh Bells Ring stamp set, Aida Cloth BG.

Faux Metal....

I got my new stamps and stuff today and had this idea in my head to try with the new level 1 hostess set Party Punch. It is called faux metal.

I will be making more of these cards for Christmas this year.

Supplies:Buckaroo blue cardstock, whisper white cardstock, buckaroo blue in color ink 07, versamark ink, silver embossing powder, party punch hostess set, Sleigh Bells Ring set, floral Background stamp

Here is a close up of the faux metal.


This card turned out prettier than I though it would. Faux metal was one of the techniques that Stampin Up showed us at regionals in April and I have not been brave enough to try it until today. It is really an easy technique. Have a great afternoon and I might be back with more latter you never know.