Cards Inspired by Dresses

So yesterday, I had some time to create and instead of looking at other peoples cards to inspire me, I decided to look at dresses.  Having moved to tin buck two this last year, I do VERY little shopping. So I went to Nordstrom.com and started looking at dresses.

Ingredients: Kraft and basic black cardstock, I {heart} hearts and Tiny Tags stamp sets, Versa mark, Soft Suede and Basic black ink, black embossing powder, crystal effects, Stampin Write basic black marker, Crystal Rhinestone brad, Stampin dimensionals, Finial embossing folder, Scribbles swirls sizzlit and the Big Shot.

The post from yesterday was also inspired by a dress! What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by and I'd love to hear your comments.

Kelly

Shimmery Vintage Card

I have to tell you that I LOVE the shimmer paint. I hope you can see the glittery effect it has given this card.  I just added a few drops of the champagne mist shimmer paint to a mini mister bottle and filled the rest of the mister with rubbing alcohol.  Then spritz away!  Because you're using alcohol, it dries super quick.  I misted the background piece of creamy caramel completely.  I misted the flowers before I cut them out and I misted the label before attaching it to the card. In person this is REALLY PRETTY! You simple must try it!

Sets used were Vintage Labels (only available FREE with a $50 purchase now through March 31st, 2010) and Vintage Vogue available in the new 2010 Mini Occasions Catalog.

Other ingredients: Big Top Note die, Chocolate chip, creamy caramel, blush blossom cardstock, chocolate chip ink, stampin sponges, gold brads and chocolate chip 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, small oval punch, wide oval punch, and the Big Shot.

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to see your comments!

Kelly

Punch Pieced Bear

Have you seen tear bears? I think they are so adorable, but way more work than I'm willing to put into them. So here's my version of the paper pieced bear using Stampin' Up! (R) punches.


Here's a photo of the pieces and punches used for the bear parts. All were punched from Creamy Carmel cardstock and sponged around the edges with Close to Cocoa Ink with a Sponge Dauber.

To make the cheeks just take 2, 1" circles and holding them together, snip off a little of the circles as shown.

Then when you put them together you'll have those two snips sides up against each other, as shown below.

To finish the bear, glue his cheeks onto the head and use a white gel pen to color in some eyes. Use Real Red ink and a sponge dauber to add color to his cheeks and ears. Use the fine black pen to add some stitching dots down his tummy, and some stitch marks for his fingers and toes, eyebrows and pupils. Color in a nose and give him a few whisker dots. Use a fine line Real red marker for a little smile.

The measurements of the cardstock pieces are as follows:

1. Whisper White, 2 1/4 x 2 ", and a scrap.
2. Soft Suede, 5 1/2 x 1 1/2" for card base, and 2 3/8 x 2 1/8"
3. Real Red, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 " for card base, and 2 5/8 x 2 3/8'
4. Striped pattern from Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper, 5 1/2 x 1 3/4"

Stamps are from the Hostess sets, Christmas Punch and Patterned Pines. Use a Stamp-a-ma-jig to center the greeting on the Whisper white piece. Stamp in Soft Suede. Stamp the same image on a piece of scrap paper in Real red. Cut out from the Real Red image the word Christmas, then adhere on top of the Soft Suede image.

Ink up the poinsettia image with Soft Suede, then using a blender pen, remove the ink from the flower. Use a Real Red Stampin Write marker to fill in the flower image. (Or just use two markers, but I don't have the In-Color Markers and the blender pen removal trick is a great trick to know) Stamp this image in 2 of the corners. ( I REALLY like the Soft Suede and Real Red together on this image!!)

Use a piece of Real Red Ribbon on the edge of the designer striped paper. I was going for a floor, chair rail and wall paper effect with my background (just in case that's not too evident).

Thanks for taking a look, and please leave me a comment if you enjoyed this little bear.

The Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper (#116770, $11.95) is only available until January 4th.

Have a great weekend!

Kelly

Ho Ho Ho Wall Hanging

Don't you just LOVE those sparkly Ho Ho Ho chipboard? I've been wanting to make a wall hanging with them ever since I got them, but have never quite had the inspiration. I'm happy with the results. Do you like??
I used Glorious green (3, 5x5inch squares, round the corners), Gable Green (3, 4 5/8 x 4 5/8 inch squares, use the ticket corner punch), Real Red for the poinsettias (punch 2 5-petal flowers for each poinsettia), and Crushed Curry for the poinsettia centers (use the Boho Blossoms punch).
I used the Berry Christmas Stamp Set from the Holiday Mini Catalog (available only through January 4th, 2010), the Stampin Up Merry Details Sizzlit for the bird, and the Stampin Up Little Leaves Sizzlit for the poinsettia leaves (Glorious Green).
I hung the panels on the 5/8" Real Red Polka Dot grosgrain ribbon with Stampin Up silver brads and put silver brads in each corner.
The Ho Ho Ho On Board Chipboard are only available through January 4th as well...get em soon!
Thanks for looking!
Kelly

Simple Star Card

Again, this card was created to enter a challenge over at Splitcoaststampers. The "limited supply" challenge asked you to create a card with a star and only ribbon as your embellishment and to keep the layers to a minimum. So here's mine...

The paper used was Soft Suede textured cardstock for the base and the stars were cut from Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Mambo Melon, and Bermuda Bay. The stamp set used was Hello Again from the Stampin Up! 2009-10 Idea Book and Catalog. The ribbon is Soft Suede polka dot 1/2" grosgrain. I cheated on the stars, tag and star texture by using a cutting and embossing tool that is not Stampin' Up! But, honestly, it was kind of nice to get those out again today. I absolutely LOVE Stampn' Up! products, but do have tons of other stuff from my "before SU" days.
I borrowed the layout and color idea from the new Occasions Mini Catalog that comes out in January. The catalog has these darling little butterflies instead of my stars...can't wait to get that sizzlit. It cuts and embosses at the same time. So cute!!
Thanks for visiting!
Kelly
12/14/2009 Oh my! I'm so excited, this card was chosen as a CAS (Clean and Simple) Favorite over at Splitcoaststampers.com. this week. Thank you!!! (I'm not sure exactly what that means, because I'm very new at SCS but I'm excited anyway!)

Snowman Cocoa card! Too Cute!!

Are these too cute, or what?? This tutorial was sent to me from Tami White, Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator. She sent out a Holiday Helper e-mail last week with this project and I think they are so adorable. I'm sending one to each of my niece and nephew for Christmas. Hope they enjoy. Tami's instructions said to use the scallop circle die cut for the Big Shot and I don't have that die, so I manipulated my digital cutting program to create this scalloped circle. It's about 2 1/2 inches wide. I was able to then punch the appropriate 1 3/4 inch SU circle punch for the window for the Sweet Treat Cups to fit through and again used the digital cutting machine to cut out 2 1/4 inch circles for the back so my marshmallows didn't fall out.

To create these, you just seal a Stampin Up Whisper White Medium envelope and then cut off 1 1/2 inches of one of the side ends. You use the part you cut off to apply your hat parts to and this will then slide over the large part of the envelope to act as the lid. When you crimp the envelope, it makes it smaller, so the part you cut off will have no problem sliding over the whole thing. The dimensions of the hat pieces are 2 x 3 3/4 inches and 1 1/2 x 4 3/8 inches. The eyes were made with Stampin Up 3/4" circle punch and 1/2" circle punches. Paper used was basic black, pumpkin pie, bashful blue, real red and glorious green. I also used a white gel pen, a Stampin Write black journal pen and Stampin Pastels (Real Red) and a Stampin Sponge to create the rosy cheeks.

The flower is the Stampin Up 5-petal flower punch, the leaves are Stampin Up Little Leaves Sizzlits die and the snow flake is from the Stampin Up Sizzlits 4 pack dies, Snowflakes set #2. The Stampin Up ribbon is the 3/4" Polka-dot grosgrain ribbon and the 1/4" Real Red grosgrain ribbon.

The stamped Merry Christmas image is from the Four the Holidays stamp set found in the Holiday Mini Catalog (good only until January 4th, 2010)

Please let me know if you have any questions about this project. I'm happy to provide more detail.

Thanks for looking!

Kelly

Silent Night Inspired Christmas Card

I got another challenge done today...must be because I don't have any events I'm frantically working on. :( That's OK. I love this business and the flexibility it allows me.
Todays Splitcoaststampers Thursday challenge was to use a Christmas song to inspire your project. I decided just to add the song right to my card. I was inspired to do this by Tim Holtz. One of his 12 Tags of Christmas has some music on it. So here's my version...

I started by inking the edges of all my papers, my base card was Chocolate Chip, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches folded in half and creased with a bone folder. Night Quite Navy, 5 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches, and Mellow Moss, 5 1/4 x 4 inches.

Then I stamped the tree row image from the Lovely as a Tree stamp set in Not Quite Navy ink along the bottom edge of the Not Quite Navy paper and the snowflake trio image from the Snow Swirled Stamp set (Holiday Mini Catalog). I found a copy of Silent Night in an old song book and printed it out on ink jet vellum paper, tor around the edges and then inked the whole thing, paying special attention to the edges with Creamy Caramel ink, using a Stampin Sponge. I also sponged Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (LOVE this stuff) around the edges of both the music and the Mellow Moss cardstock layer. THEN...this is really fun, I spritzed the music and ALL my cardstock with some shimmer paint that I put in a little mister bottle with some rubbing alcohol. The ratio was about 20 to 1 alcohol to paint. It only takes a few drops of paint in this tiny little mister. Shake it up and spritz. I used my heat tool to dry the vellum music because my ink started to run, but you don't have to do that with the cardstock because the alcohol dries very quickly.
Isn't that pretty? I used a pencil to roll the vellum around to create the roll on the bottom edge.

Then I stamped the Peace On Earth image from the Four the Holidays (Holiday Mini) stamp set with Encore Gold ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and free hand cut out the banner shape. I inked the edges of the banner with gold ink. I used gold chord to wrap the Mellow Moss and Not Quite Navy layers and attached the music with gold brads. I stamped the snow flake trio again on Very Vanilla, cut out 2 of the images, and inked them with Not Quite Navy ink around the edges, layered and added a gold brad. I placed the snowflake cutout on top of the gold knot with a stampin dimensional. I used Mono Glue for a nice strong hold to glue the Peace On Earth banner to the vellum.
Thanks for taking a look! If you have any questions, please let me know!

Kelly