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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Whisker Graphics Blog Hop

Welcome to the Whisker Graphics Blog Hop. We are having lots of fun playing with the bags, tags and twine that they sent us! I hope you enjoy their products, too. Of course, to that end, we have prizes.
Prizes

With all the fabulous inspiration that we will be sharing from both design teams we thought some of you would like to play along with these great products too, so there are PRIZES! Just comment along the hops each day and leave a thoughtful comment for the designers. Winners will be announced Monday, May 9th.

Three prize packages consisting of one each –

Divine Twine Diva – Crushed Lavender Solid
Divine Twine Diva – Crushed Lavender Stripe
Divine Twine Diva – Dried Celadon Solid
Divine Twine Diva – Dried Celadon Stripe
An assortment of bags in a variety of sizes and patterns.
Winners choice of a Stampendous Cling Rubber Stamp Set and Matching Dies (from available stock)

These three winners MUST have a US mailing address (or territories or military).

But wait! Additionally, we will give away one prize to an Australian winner courtesy of our distributor there – The Stencil Specialist – which will consist of distributor’s choice of one stamp, one stencil and a surprise goodie.

I decided to do things simply today. In honor of "Teacher Appreciation Week", I chose the Whisker Graphics bags with the loose leaf pattern on them. Then, I traced the Owl Buddy, Large Chunky Art Tools and the Large Apple Stencils onto these bags with a Micron Pen. I colored them with Spectrum Markers. I created the tassel on the second card byt wrapping twine around an acrylic stamp holder and tying it off. I put the twine through two holes that I punched into the envelope.

You can see that the small bag is the PERFECT size for a gift card! It actually goes all the way in, but I wanted you to see a little for comparison. Easy peasy!

Want another easy idea? Do what I did above. Just glue any extra pieces of projects that didn't work out right to the bag. On the left I have an extra pasting I had made of the Horses Stencil. It was colored with Spectrum Markers. On the right, I glued a "debossed" and colored image of the Rooster Stencil to the bag. The rectangular shape that is underneath the rooster image was actually already on the bag.

So, these were the projects I created for today. Leave me a comment for your chance to win, and visit the rest of the hop today:

Whisker Graphics Blog

Friday, January 8, 2016

CHA, The New Catalog, and One of My Favorite New Creations--The Running Horse Card

This week, in addition to the Imagine Crafts Blog Hop (see my post from yesterday), the Stampendous Design Team is introducing some of their favorite creations for the new catalog. This is one of mine:

Materials:

HorsesStencil DWLL559

Dreamweaver RegularEmbossing Paste

Dreamweaver PaletteKnife

Removable Tape
Wood Background Rubber Stamp

My Colors Card Stock in Chamois, Café Ole, Charcoal and Winter Lake
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Spectrum Markers IG10, IG8, IG4, GB8, GB10, PN8, EB5, EB8, and TN8

Prismacolor Pencils in Dark Brown, Bronze, Burnt Ochre, French Grey 20%, Copenhagen Blue,
Blue Slate and Light Cerulean Blue

Distress Ink in Vintage Photo

Ink Blending Tool

Craft Sheet

May Arts Twine

Adhesive

Instructtions:

1) The base card is 8 ½” by 5 ½” with a top fold.
2) Lightly color the blue card stock with the blue and gray pencils, gliding gently over the texture to create a "denim" look.
3) Use the removable tape to tape the stencil face up on the blue card stock. Tape all the way around.
4) Pick up some embossing paste on the back of your palette knife.
5) Place the blade of the palette knife on on the left side of the stencil, with the back, holding the paste, facing the open parts of the stencil.
6) Pull the knife gently across the stencil, treating it like a squeegee and filling all the holes of the stenicl.
7) Put the remaining paste back into the container.
8) Carefully remove the stencil, and let the pasted image dry thoroughly.
9) Stamp white cardstock using the Memento ink.
10) Color the image using colored pencils.
11) Cut the wood image and mount on dark brown card stock, leaving room for the horses and a mat edge.
12) When the paste is completely dry, color the horses with the Spectrum Markers.
13) "Distress" all the edges using the ink, ink blender and craft sheet.
14) Assemble the rest of the card, using the May Arts twine to create knots on the front for added interest.

Thanks for stopping by to see my new card today. Here are all of the posts for today:

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Mousey Mischief and Dreamweaver

The theme this week is "Mousy Mischief" and, of course, this is Dreamweaver Thursday, so what is a girl to do? Combine the House Mouse with a lovely Dreamweaver background.

To create it, I used the LJ 902 Black Eyed Susan Stencil with Dreamweaver Regular Embossing Paste. I stamped the Potted Mouse Stamp on the Mixed Media Paper with Memento Ink. When the paste was dry, I colored it and the flower and stem on the stamped image with Spectrum Noir Markers. Then, I colored the rest of the stamped image with my Prismacolor Colored Pencils. Then, I simply mounted them on card stock and assembled the rest of the card.

Now that you have seen what I have done, check out all the rest of the participants today:

Friday, October 17, 2014

Sandy Claus is Coming to Town--Day Five

SANDY Claus is Coming to Town!

Yes...SANDY Claus! All of this week, the Stampendous and Dreamweaver teams are playing with a mix of their products, along with some wonderful, SAND-ABLE papers from Core'dinations. Join us as we sand our way to the "core" of all things Christmas and the Holiday season. Of course, there will be prizes, and we give away the best...this time with a mix of fun Core'dinations products as well. To be one of three prize package winners, follow the posted link lists each day, leave a comment, and winners will be selected from these comments at the beginning of next week. Here is what you might win:

Here's what I'm showing off today:

This card was much easier than it looks. The LS 92 Merry Christmas Stencil and the LX7027 Quatrefoil Stencil were run through the Cuttlebug with my Rubber Embossing Mat and sanded. It took a little effort, but Wow! did I ever love that chalk effects Core'dinations card stock! It really made everything pop.

For the flower, I stamped the Stampendous Jumbo Cling Rubber Poinsettia Stamp three times on the alcohol ink friendly variety of Core'dinations Card Stock with Momento Ink. I also stamped it once on smooth green card stock. I cut the leaves out of that and colored them (and the yellow flower insides) with Derwent Inktense Pencils. The flower itself was colored with Spectrum Markers. I them fussy cut it and adhered it down, allowing the tips of the petals to overlap the card edges. I cut additional petals from the second and third image and raised the outside edge of the petal with foam while adhering the insides flat.