Sunday, January 25, 2015

Card club... Monday, January 26, 6 p.m.

Here are the cards we will be making...

The first card is a gate fold card.
Stamp sets: C1600 Happy Birds, B1462 Lovely Birthday
Paper:  Confetti Wishes
Card stock: white daisy, thistle
Ink: pacifica, thistle, pear
Shinhan markers: golden yellow, marine blue, leaf green, peony purple, turquoise blue
Other: Wink of Stella Black brush marker


The second card uses the embedded embossing technique.  After embossing, it was distressed using the sanding block.  The heart was distressed, then mounted on a white heart and raised.
Stamp set: D1627 Your Own Kind of Wonderful
Paper:  Heartstrings
Card stock: hollyhock, white daisy
Ink: Versamark watermark stamp pad
Embossing powder: Recollections Detail Embossing Powder Snow
Embossing folder: heart
This could be further embellished using your white gel pen!



Please bring your scissors and adhesives.  Bring your Shinhan markers if you don't want to share!

Happy stamping!

Saturday, January 24, 2015

A special request...

From SueAnn!  These are some Valentine's cards we (or I) made last year...





Sunday, January 18, 2015

Let's start the new year out right!

Or... I want to start the new year out right... and get caught up!  Our stamping group has completed quite a few cards, and I have posted very little the last few months.  I will post these as a reminder... if you need more info for the card, let me know!

December 2014 stamp of the month and heartstrings...


Brushed paper... patterned after a card Patti made...


Brushed paper... a lesson in keeping your sample card behind cellophane so it doesn't fall in the ink...

Alphabet with heartstrings paper...

Heartstrings paper with bargello technique...

Alphabet with heartstrings paper...

Copied from a card by Maureen OSullivan at Somethingtoscrapabout-maureen.blogspot.com...

Tri-fold card with heartstrings paper...


Pathfinding paper with lattice technique...

Rain or Shine stamp set... pop-up card...


Thankful Heart stamp set...

Pathfinding paper and Have A Happy Day stamp set...

Probably some other cards we made I missed... I probably mailed them out!  Will make a better effort to post weekly, and stay up to date!