Priceless Butterfly

Sunday’s featured stamper at Splitcoast was Danielle. I chose this card to CASE and created a spring theme rather than a winter one. In order to make the butterfly and flowers sparkle I inked the stamps with versamark before the classic stamp pad colours and then embossed with Iridescent Ice embossing powder. The butterfly is cut out and stuck over one I stamped underneath for the 3D wings effect.

Supplies:

Stamps: Priceless
Inks: Certainly Celery, Versamark, Almost Artichoke
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Whisper white, Celery Designer paper,Almost Artichoke
Also: Celery grosgrain ribbon, Iridescent Ice e.p.

Pretty & simple

I finally found some to stamp again and pulled out the retired set Paint Prints. It is so easy to make pretty cards with this set. It isn’t very clear but I did some flowers in rose red on the rose red background from the bottom right hand corner to the top left hand corner.

Supplies:

Stamps: Paint Prints, Hugs & Wishes
Inks: Rose Red, Bravo Burgandy, Mellow Moss
Cardstock: Rose Red, Very Vanilla, Mellow Moss

Last Christmas card

I believe this will be my last Christmas design for this year, although I will probably be making tags on Christmas Eve! I might have a couple more candles to show too. This card is made from textured cardstock I had in my stash which matched Handsome Hunter exactly.

Supplies:

Stamps: Sleigh Bells Ring, Fundamental Phrases, Background Basics
Inks: Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Handsome Hunter
Cardstock: Handsome Hunter, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Also: Bashful Blue Taffeta Ribbon, Watercolour pencils, blender pens

Two more boxes

After I had made the box I in the last post my girls made some of their own. My younger daughter A11 used the snowman stamp from Festive Favourites and coloured with Stamping Markers, then used bold ribbons to decorate her white box.

L13, my older daughter used some Cerise designer paper with real red cardstock to make a small box which she filled with red and white candy canes and peppermints. Her tag and box motif were done with stamps from Polka dots and Paisley.

Box & candle

Weeks ago I saw this box at No Time to Stamp and decided it would be my December Stampers’ Club project. I also wanted to stamp some candles so I came up with a candle in a gift box for everyone to make.

To make the box I used a 12×12 sheet of cardstock and a 12×12 piece of designer paper for the lid. I scored the cardstock 2 3/4″ from the bottom and then turned it and scored it at 2 3/4″ intervals across the opposite way making 4 panels with a narrow strip left over.

I cut the corner piece out where the narrow strip was and then cut up the four parallel score lines to the 2 3/4″ line.

After that it is quite straight forward to stick it together.

The lid follows exactly the same procedure except that you score 2 7/8″ from the bottom and across the piece at 2 7/8″ intervals leaving you a smaller flap to stick the lid together.

To decorate the candle stamp the image you want to use on tissue paper the same colour as your candle. Then cut out the image you have stamped.

Position the image on the candle and wrap a piece of waxed paper over it, holding either end of the waxed paper on firmly on the other side of the candle.

Holding the wax paper firmly heat the area of the stamped image with a heat tool. It doesn’t need to be heated for long, just long enough to see the wax over the image glisten as it melts into the tissue paper. Peel off the wax paper and repeat for another image on a different section of the candle.

I finished the candle off with two strips of cardstock, a piece of co-ordinating designer paper and a ribbon.

Supplies:

Stamps: Perfect Presentation, Bold Snowflakes roller
Inks: Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla, Wintergreen Designer paper
Also: Candle (IKEA), square punches, Spring Moss grosgrain ribbon, Olive organza ribbon (retired)

 

Birthday bike card

I’m sorry about the lack of cards here but I hope to post the December Stampers’ Club projects soon. While I am getting that done I wanted to show you this very clever little card my daughter made for her brother’s birthday. It is all paper piecing except for the wire spokes on the wheels. I was very impressed with the attention to detail.