New To You Stamps Happen Santas

Still getting out those old images to use, while incorporating some of my new 'stuff'.  I had several images of the Santas With Stars by Stamps Happen.  I decided to make a couple of cards with them and the fact that I usually layer really made it more appealing to me.  The only place I could find the stamp for sale was on EBay, etc.  I am also unmounting all of my woodblock stamps to make more room, so it worked well for that reason too.

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1. The Santas W Stars was stamped on white cardstock 6 times with Brilliance Gold, heated to dry the ink, painted with twinks, used a black Sharpie for the eyes, then fussy cut for the front, back, and envy, leaving a thin white edge around the images.  Fussy cut 3 of the stars on one of the other images for the cardfront and 2 sides on the back.
2. The Merry Christmas from the IO Merry Tree die was used with Bazzill deep pink cardstock.  I cut a 1.25 X5.5 piece of the cardstock.  Tape was placed on the die and paper on top to hole it in place.
3. The Santas had been painted with twinks and were mounted as shown.  The stars were embellished with Stickles Buttercup glitter glue.  Flower Soft/Glossy Accents was used for the fur on caps and Viva Decor Ice White Pearl pen was  used for the beards and hair.
4. The ribbon is from my stash and the Czech glass heart bead was added to the pearl corsage pin.

CARD FRONT/BACK AND ENVY:

1. They were created using Spellbinders Enchanted Labels 28 largest die.   White Laid cardstock was used for the front and regular white cardstock was used for the back.
2. All images were placed on the die cuts first.  ATG tape and was used to place the centers back to back, and the Glossy Accents was used on the 4 corners.

HINT - Someone asked about the needle nosed bottle for the Glossy Accents.  It has worked well for me for about 8 years.  It has only plugged up a couple of times.  I found leaving the bottle on its side keeps it from doing that.   When it did I used a long beading needle to unplug it.  If you have more questions don't hesitate to ask.

As you can tell, life is still taking place here, even more so with the cool weather for this time of year.  See you soon I hope and will be hopping your blogs to see your wonderful creations!!  Thanks for stopping by to look and share.

 Shirley

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Easy Fold With Impression Obsession Yummy Cake!

Tara Caldwell Cake - H16000

I have a friend who likes purple, green, and chocolate, and her birthday is coming up!  This card is a really simple easy card fold and great when you don't have a lot to say!!

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1. Stamped Cake 3 times on white cardstock with Rich Cocoa.  Stamped envelope image by inking just that area of stamp. 
2. Painted images with Twinkling H2O's.
3. Trimmed around flowers, embossed all from back side with stylus, and mounted  with 3D pop-dots as shown.  I use the 1/16" thick ones most of the time.  On the cake for the inside I removed the bottom layer and added the cake dish.  Added the butterflies to the lower right-hand side.
4. Added embellishments using Viva White Pearl, Spica At You glitter pens, Stickles yellow and orange glitter glues, added Glossy Accents to the cake dish.

Card Front:

1. Did die cut with Polka Dots largest die.
2. Stamped CAC Dotted Argyle with Rich Cocoa  on white cardstock twice.
3. Used inside of Polka Dot die as a template, traced, cut out, and placed on die cut.
4. Threaded outside of die cut with lavender ribbon and made a bow.

Inside Base: 

1. Cut a piece of cardstock 4"x5.5".  Fold at 2.75".  
2. Mount to back of card front.
3. Mount a 4"x2.75" piece of Dotted Argyle to the left side of inside card base.
4. Made a bow.

I have a question for any of you who use a feed reader to follow their blogs.  I am not happy with Googles current way of doing it.  I would like something that lets me know in my sidebar, without email, when someone posts on their blog.   Also, when I have read a post I would like to be able to delete or it deletes itself.  I probably want too much, huh?  That's what the old Google reader did.  :-(  TIA if you know of one!!!  If you really like yours, tell me anyway.  Who knows...it might be just what I need!

Thanks for stopping by to look and share. 

 Shirley

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Romantic Bouquet With A Fun Technique Too!

I actually had half of this card done before I knew what my main image would be.  I did another card similar to this for IO Tuesday Tips and Techniques last week and couldn't decide whether to use a pink or beige background.  So if you want to a photo tutorial of how I did the Faux Distressed Background, I am going to ask you to look HERE.  Below is a photo of the exact same background, only done in pink if you want a close up of it:

I was inspired to use the die after seeing Jenny Gropp's card HERE.  I used the left over from both backgrounds for the inside and the envelope.

A lot of people don't realize all of the things that can be done with Tsukineko Brilliance inks.  This tutorial will include a couple.

BACKGROUND:

• Inked CAC Thick Stripes with Memento Desert Sand and stamped on white cardstock.
• Inked CAC Floral Lines with Brilliance Moonlight White.  After stamping the ink was covered with Stampendous White Detail Embossing Powder (I keep my powder in a plastic sandwich container.  I can put the leftover powder right back into the container as I shake it off the cardstock.  I have a little scoop I use to apply it.)
• I heated the embossed areas.  Later you will see that Brilliance ink has a semi-fast drying quality.  So some areas are embossed and other are not.  It gives it shiny and flat white areas (A FAUX LOOK).
• Next the largest Spellbinder's largest Romantic Rectangle was put through the Cuttlebug with White cardstock for both the die cut and embossing.
• The die was then placed over the Faux Distressed background and traced.
• It was then cut out and set aside.

IMAGE, SENTIMENT, AND EMBELLISHMENTS:

• Next I stamped the IO Romantic Rose with Brilliance Galaxy Gold 3 times.  Once for the card front, once for the inside, and once for the outside.  I will use parts of the image for each while including pieces of the background too. 
• They were painted with Twinkling H2O's, turned over on a Pergamano mat and embossed with a stylus to give them depth.
• Viva Decor White Peal pen was used to accent the tiny white flowers.
• Another Romantic Rectangle die cut was used for the sentiment,  Just For You, from All Occasions I clear stamp set.
• The lace and buttons are remnants from my stash.  The ribbon is from the $1.00 bin at Michael's.

CARD INSIDE TO FIT THE FRAME (Again if you want pictures go to the IO Tutorial HERE:

• The die cut was lined up with the right-hand and bottom margins of the cardstock.  The open areas were used as guides for the edge of the card being created.
• The open spaces on the left and top were used for guides for marks with the stencil
• The left marks were used to cut the height of the card.
• The penciled marks at the top were used to find the middle fold and scored with the Scor-Pal.
• After folding the excess was trimmed to match as shown.  Then the Rounded Corner Punch was used on the corners.

So that's it.  Pretty quick the second time around because I already had the background done.  I am so far behind in blog hopping!!!  Hope to see you all soon!  Thanks for stopping by to look and say HI!!

  Shirley

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Meet You At The Mistletoe

Okay, I have to admit, I am in love with A2 Twisted Easel cards.  HERE is my pictorial tutorial.   I also love Flourishes stamps and was looking for the Sunflower set when I found their Mistletoe sets.  The main site was out of the Sunflower and I found it and the others HERE.  It was a great buy and free shipping over $60.  She also has a great selection of dies for Cherry Lynn, Heartfelt Creations, Joy Crafts, Maryanne Creatables, and Nellie Snellen.  I have hunted all over for these in the states.  The service was extra fast.   She is in Las Vegas and I am in NC.  I had them in 3 days.  If you find what you want, tell her I sent you.


For my main image and sentiment, I used Flourishes Christmas Candles.  For the border trim and the bottom sentiment I used Flourishes Meet Me Under The Mistletoe.  All were done on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock.  All were stamped with StazOn Jet Black and painted with my Niji waterbrush and Twinkling H20's. I stamped the candle twice, cut them out, turned them over on my Pergamano embossing mat, embossed the bottom and candle with a stylus, and then layered the top over the bottom as shown.  I highlighted the berries on the lamp base with a Viva Decor Ice White Pearl pen.

After the sentiments were stamped they were put through and embossed with the Cuttlebug and Spellbinders Lacey Ovals dies.  The die was used as a stencil and a Round Stencil brush was used with Buttercup Twinkling H20's to do the edge around the sentiments.  In the photo it looks light orange when it is actually a pale shiny yellow!

The card front was done using Bazzill Dotted Swiss Irish Eyes DP as the base.  The Mistletoe border was stamped on Neenah Classic White Solar Crest and then put through the Cuttlebug using their  D'Vine Swirls embossing folder.  The candle and sentiment were mounted on top.  The bottom of the easel was done with the same cardstock and DP as shown.  The supports stops for the twist easel card front are Mark Richards Crystal Sticker 10mm pearls.

May Arts ribbon was wound and then threaded through the loops.  The bows were done with the Bow-Easy.   The stick pin is a corsage pin and Czech beads.  The tiny heart above the 'i' on Merry Christmas was done with Twinkling H2O's Garnet and Glossy Accents.  The lower left hand corner of an envelope was also stamped with the border mistletoe and painted.

This did not take long at all.  I love these sets and will be using them more.  Thanks for stopping by to look and share!!  Have a great weekend you all!!!

 Shirley

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Old Fashioned Santa Easel Card

It was so hard to get a good picture of this.  I used glitter on the snowflakes and snow on the image in places.  The image, Checking His List by Stamps Happen, Inc., was stamped twice with StazOn Timber Brown .on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb. cardstock.  The image was painted with Twinkling H2O's. The first image was cut out, turned over on an embossing mat and used a stylus in the areas I wanted to raise. Then I painted and cut out his Holly crown with Cardinal, arm and hand, squirrel, rabbit, and list, and mounted as shown with 3D pop dots.  Flower Soft Polar White was used for Santa's fur trim.  Viva Decor Pearl White was used for the trim on his sash.  The ribbon is May Arts used with a Bow-Easy.  The pin was made using a Corsage Pear Pearl pin and Czech beads.  I always lay a little bit of Glossy Accents along the pin near the top as I slide each bead on and let it sit.  It holds them in place.

The card measuares 5"X5".  I created the fold using White cardstock according to the directions you can find HERE using my Scor-Pal.

The Background card front is from Bazzill Dotted Swiss Clover Leaf and Irish Eyes cardstock.  The next layer was done using my Mega Mount and Impression Obsessions Cover-A-Card Pine and Stampin' Up Classic Old Olive, with Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb cardstock, that was embossed using Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Snowflakes, added off center at the bottom.  Deco Arts Glamour Dust Crystal was added to places on the snowflakes and snow using a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.

The base is the the same card stock assembly as above.  The Snowflakes are die cuts from Cuttlebug Snowflakes #2 and are highlighted with the same Deco Arts Glamour Dust Crystal added to places on the snowflakes with the Sakura Quickie Glue Pen.  The die is from Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two and cut from Bazzill Dotted Swiss Clover Leaf cardstock.  The die was then used as a stencil on Neenah Classic Crest Solar White for the center. The sentiment is StazOn Blazing Red with Hero Arts Merry Christmas.  Hero Arts says this stamp is limited.  :-(

I have made a 5.25X5.25 box for this card, but I am patiently awaiting more of the Dotted Swiss cardstock to finish it.  :-)

That's my card for now.  I hope you enjoyed.  I am off to try and finish some more for Christmas, so I should be back here soon.  Have a great weekend everyone, and thanks for stopping by to look and say hi!!

 Shirley

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