Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Parchment

At SweetStamps blog today our theme is Parchment.  Please join us for a chance to win $20.00 in FREE stamps by entering your Parchment creation in our challenge.  If you enter using a SweetStamps stamp you will be entered twice in the drawing.




For this weeks card I used the 7029 Forget Me Not Heart and the 933 Thank You Elegant stamps from SweetStamps.com.  I stamped the heart on 36# vellum using White Dye ink and heat embossed it in Queens Gold fine detail EP.  From the back side of the heart I dry embossed the berries and the open lines around the heart using a 31412 Etching/Embossing mat and stylus tool.  Also on the back side I colored the flowers using a Dove Blender pen and Pitt Artist pens (#167 Green Olive, #136 Purple Violet, #156 Cobalt Green and #125 Middle Purple Pink).  On the front of the image I used a Straight Grid, 31419 Piercing/Perforating pad and a PFTA001 Single Needle Tool to pierce the open area in the heart.  




To cut out the image I used the Piecing pad and a 10226 4-Split Perforating Tool, I also used the pad and 4-split tool to cut out the center of the heart.  The Thank You is stamped using Forget Me Not Shades Dye ink from SweetStamps.com.  The French Flairs were die cut using the XL13 French Flair Scalloped from Cheery Lynn Design.  I used a Gold Leafing pen to edge the smaller French Flair and used V2 Vellum Adhesive Spray to adhere the heart to the paper.  I attached the larger French Flair to the 5-3/4" x 5- 3/4" purple square and layered the ribbon over it, taping it on the back.  I used Candi Fix foam dots behind the smaller French Flair and layered it over the ribbon.  The leaves and border are glitter stickers. 



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Monday, May 7, 2012

Baby Boy

Front
Back 
Here's a gift tag I made for a Baby Shower
I used the 509 Rock A Bye Baby and 974 Gift for Baby curved stamps from SweetStamps.com.  I stamped the image on 36# Vellum using White Dye ink and heat embossed using Queen's Gold EP.  From the back side I colored in the image using Memento markers (Cottage Ivy, Bahama Blue, Rich Cocoa, Angel Pink, Cantaloupe and Summer Sky).  I hand cut the image and layered it to a circle of white card stock die cut from the XMC4 Classic Circle Window Little Stackers from Cheery Lynn Designs.  The blue doily was die cut from the Nellis MFD020 Flower Multi Frame die, I cut 2, layered them together with adhesive and ran the ribbon through a hole at the bottom and then feed the ribbon from each side through a hole at the top, tying a loop in the ribbon.  For the back I die cut the circle from Cryogen White card stock, stamped the sentiment using Tidal Wave Shades Dye ink and added Nightingale Square Candi adhered using Candi Fix foam dots finish it off.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

For Mom

At SweetStamps blog today our theme is For Mom.  Please join us for a chance to win $20.00 in FREE stamps by entering your "For Mom" creation in our challenge.  If you enter using a SweetStamps stamp you will be entered twice in the drawing.



For this card I used the LR0212 Anja's Rose Border from Marianne's Creatables to make the border on the card.  The image is the 7041 Triple Roses from SweetStamps.com.  I colored the roses with Copic markers and added Tutu Pink Creative Inspirations paint to the roses.  The flowered layer on the front was made using the DL 193 Horizon Coved Rectangle Mega Doily from Cheery Lynn Designs and paper from the 6x6 Authentique Delightful paper pack.  To add a little color to the front of the card I used a course pouncer and Amaryllis Shades Dye ink.  I hand cut the Roses and used foam dots to attach it to the flowered layer, added some pink shiny ric-rac and attached it to the card.  

Inside of Card
On the inside of the card I used some pink paper from the Delightful paper pack and more of the ric-rac.  The stamp is the 9046 Vertical Happy Mother's Day from SweetStamps.com.

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You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway. To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

I hope you enjoyed this weeks challenge.  Please join us next week for our Parchment challenge.