May 10, 2019

Coffee for Two

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Oh my goodness! The As You See It Challenge post has hit our 200th challenge! This is amazing!!

The challenge theme is “two” for how many hundreds we’ve completed! So, I decided to do a card that also says a fond farewell to one of my favourite stamp sets that will be retiring at the end of June.

If you like the Coffee Café stamp set and the coordinating Coffee Cups Framelits, go to my ONLINE STORE and order them today! They won’t be available much longer!

You can make this card with a little playfulness and some elbow grease! It takes a bit of time, but you can do it! Start with a piece of Whisper White cardstock and stamp the coffee cup to the left of center using Gray Granite ink. You can go ahead and stamp the lid on that cup, too. Next, stamp the coffee cup and lid on a scrap piece of paper or a piece of Post It Note. You can lay those over your stamped cup to cover it up. (weird… why would we want to do that?). You will need the brick mask from the Pattern Party Decorative Masks and lay that over top of your Whisper White cardstock and the stamped image with the die cut Post It Note. Make sure it isn’t going to move – tape down the edges! If you have a Stamparatus, you can place these layers on it and use the magnets to hold it down. (well, aren’t we clever!)

This part is kind of fun: place a small amount of Embossing Paste, like about a teaspoon, on your Silicone Craft Sheet and add one drop of Lemon Lime Twist re-inker. Mix well with one of your Pallette Knives. Then smear that over the brick mask where you want it. Fun, right!? Mine has a bit of variation in the colour – I have a feeling my mask had some blue ink on it from another project, so this may have tainted my sample. I think the variation in colour looks pretty good. Lucky!

Carefully lift the mask and remove that Post It Note to reveal your work.

Okay. Now, while the embossing paste dries, go and clean your tools and put the lid tightly on your paste and put that container in a plastic Ziplock bag, just for extra assurance that your paste will be protected from the air in there! (Tip: I use baby wipes to clean my mask and Pallette Knives.)

While your paste sets, you can stamp your second coffee cup on another piece of Whisper White cardstock. Yup, stamp the lid too, but this time separately, because you are going to die cut those two pieces with the Coffee Cup Framelits by Stampin’ Up!. Now for another fun part: you are going to stamp your words using multiple colours. Normally, I would just use markers to colour my stamps for this look, but because you’re using a photopolymer stamp set, I find markers don’t always give a smooth image. Instead of markers, try using your Stamparatus. Get your paper and stamp set up in your Stamparatus, then add Night of Navy ink to the “happiness”. I inked it directly with my ink pad, but you could also ink it using a Sponge Dauber, or if you have a Stampin’ Spot, those are super handy for this sort of thing. If you find that some of your ink got where you don’t want it, just use your Simply Shammy or a baby wipe to clear away the ink you don’t want. Then you can go ahead and flip the hinged plate over your paper and stamp the image. It will only stamp the “happiness” that you inked. Flip the hinged plate back up again, clean off your stamp with your Simply Shammy or baby wipe again, then apply ink to only “is a cup”. I used Tranquil Tide ink (retiring colour, by the way). Remember to clean off any excess ink from your stamp, then flip the hinged plate and stamp your image again. You’ve got the idea now! Keep going with the next colours: Old Olive, Granny Apple Green, and Lemon Lime Twist. Phew!! Looks great!

That was the fussy part. Now you mostly just have to assemble! You can use the Coffee Cup dies again and cut and emboss the coffee cup sleeve. Tie a bit of Linen Thread around the sleeve, then attach that to your background coffee cup. You can grab one of your Pearlized Doilies and ink up the non-pearly side with Night of Navy ink. Attach that to your cardstock on the lower right side. Some Granny Apple Green 1/2″ Textured Weave Ribbon looks great when you attach it like a swoosh with some Glue Dots. Finally, you’re ready to attach your second coffee cup and lid with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Yaassss!!

At this stage of the game, you can feel pretty confident and attach your mostly complete Whisper White cardstock with two cups and the decoration, to a mat layer of Gray Granite cardstock. Then you will want to attach that to the Night of Navy card base. It’s looking awesome!

But wait, there’s more!! (I say that with much tongue in cheek, by the way)

The final touch is to add some sequins from the Metallics Sequin Assortment. Use your Fine-Tip Glue Pen with the help of the Take Your Pick Tool, and attach those sequin however you like. Maybe you have a couple of minor ink smudges on your card that need a little embellishing, like I did.

By golly, I think your done! Don’t forget to put a piece of Whisper White cardstock on the inside of your card, so you have space to write something.

Remember, if you like any of the products used on this card, you can go to my ONLINE STORE and purchase them there. You will also be able to see what other products you can get your hands on.

If you like this card, don’t forget to comment. I like to know you stopped by!

April 12, 2019

Sweetest Berry Burst

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It’s time for another As You See It Challenge post. The challenge today is a sketch and I chose to use the Sweetest Thing Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! for this sweet card.

But first, here’s the sketch:

Stampin’ Up! is coming close to a new annual catalogue and with that, there will be some products retiring to make way for new products. I’m so excited to see all the new things this weekend at the Stampin’ Up! OnStage Local event for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators in Vancouver, BC, Canada!

My card today, shows off two of the In Colors that will be retiring at the end of May: Berry Burst and Powder Pink. I will be sad to see them go, but am excited to see what the new In Colors will be!

The candy jar image, the gummy bears, and the label image are all from the Sweetest Thing Stamp Set. I used the coordinating Jar of Sweets Framelits dies to die cut the jar and the label. It’s so awesome to have dies that work with your stamps! The jar image is stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock in Berry Burst ink and coloured with the use of a Stampin’ Up! Blender Pen and a little bit more Berry Burst ink to create a soft watercolour effect. I stamped the label image on Very Vanilla cardstock with Versamark ink, and heat set it with Basic Black Embossing Powder and my Heat Tool.

At the top of the jar is some Black Glitter Organdy Ribbon tied with a bow in Basic Black Baker’s Twine. Behind the jar are loops of Silver Metallic Thread.

I used the Subtles Textured Embossing Folder and my Big Shot to add texture to my Basic Black banner. The Pearlized Doily was coloured on the non-pearlized side with Soft Sea Foam ink. After attaching all of that to the Sahara Sand and Powder Pink cardstock, the final touch was to add the Gingham Gala Adhesive Backed Sequins.

And there it is! A sweet card for the As You See it Challenge. You know what? You should play along. Why not! You can totally come up with something awesome using the sketch and I would love to see what you create!

You can still order the retiring products, but remember that they can sell out quickly. The retiring list will be out soon, but don’t wait. Just order now and avoid missing out on the products you know that you love!

April 5, 2019

Watercolour Tissue Paper Technique

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Have you ever used tissue paper on your hand made cards? There are a few fun and creative ways to work with tissue paper, some of which you may remember from elementary school crafts! I wanted to share a technique that I recently found online. It’s a bit messy, but definitely worth the trouble. My method primarily follows the instruction from a crafter named Loll Thompson, though I do a couple things differently.

Here’s one of the cards I made using this technique.

I used Pineapple Punch, Calypso Coral, and Mango Melody with the tissue paper technique. After crumpling and pressing the dry tissue paper onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock, I used my embossing buddy over the surface, then gently tapped the Versamark ink on the wrinkled tissue paper so that it would only touch the tops of the wrinkled bits. Then I used Silver Embossing Powder with my Heat Tool to create this awesome and unique background.

The Stitched Rectangle Framelits Dies were used to create the Whisper White frame. I die cut the hot air balloon from a piece of the Black Foil Sheets from Stampin’ Up! and carefully adhered it to the frame and the banner, which are both attached to the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The sentiment from the Lift Me Up stamp set from Stampin’ Up! is stamped on Whisper White cardstock with Flirty Flamingo ink to coordinate with the results of the watercolour effect.

The card with the cupcake from the Hello Cupcake stamp set (no longer available for purchase), shows off the colour combination of Blueberry Bushel, Call Me Clover, and Pineaple Punch ink with Copper Embossing Powder. You will find that this technique gives you different results every time!

Check out the video and find out more about how to do this watercolour tissue paper technique.