Flight of Fancy -- AFSS23

While watching morning cartoons with my kids I remembered that I bought (had to have) this stamp set from Sassafras Lass, Oliver & Friends. This was part of my Mother's Day gifts. So finally I broke it out. It's perfect for Allison's weekly challenge featuring things "Up in the Air".

A couple of notes of what I did here. I've learned the hard way that you can't get a great imprint with dye ink with clear stamps so I used my craft inks mostly. I don't have a huge supply of craft ink so I improvised by first inking up the stamp with VersaMark and then stamping into the color I wanted. Then I thought Why not emboss them too so I embossed with clear (owls and saying). The clouds are embossed with white. The green scrap of paper was just a silly thing that I wanted to do. I told my friend Misty that I could use up a leftover scrap of paper that she was going to throw out. So here's the last piece. I'm sure she doesn't even remember.


Stamps: Oliver & Friends, Make it Count (hostess)
Card Stock: Kraft, Soft Sky, The Green Scrap
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip Craft, White Craft, VersaMark, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: White ep, Clear ep, and pink dimensional glue


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Shoe Box Swap for Convention

This next month will definitely be spent working on things preparing for convention. So I'm sorry if some find that boring! This is the finished product of the card I'm providing for a Shoe box swap with some other demos that I signed up for. The hard part is coming up with a project with non discontinued colors, accessories (esp when we don't get that list for two more weeks), and stamps. I think I did ok in that department, so here's hoping they don't get rid of the Cosmo fine glitters!

One of the requests of the demos putting this on is that we don't do any embossing. and you have to have an embellishment on the card. So I for this I stamped one of the flowers and went over it with 2 way glue pen and sprinkled the Teal colored glitter over it. I usually pat it down with my finger to make sure it stays put. What takes longest is that we have to provide 23 finished card fronts and all the pieces for 20 more. I have to count everything over and over. But I think I can safely say I'm done.


Stamps: Ginormous Flowers, Hugs and Wishes
Card Stock: Whisper White, Take with Teal, Old Olive, Certainly Celery
Ink: Take with Teal, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Stampin' Dimensioals, Silver Brads, Cosmo Fine Glitter
Tools: Paper Piercing Kit, Boho Blossom Punch

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So Tired Today

I've been working on swaps for Convention (SU of course) and this is one I came up with while reading yesterday. I'm making 45 that's all I can really handle of one card and my fingers were feeling a little burnt from embossing the layered part. I should have just taken a few minutes and grabbed the tweezers. Oh well I'm lazy.

This particular detail (below) doesn't show up as well but I used my piercing template again to dry emboss with. I was thinking this card would also qualify for Allison's challenge this week which was to use any flower stamp set. Not a hard thing for me!

Experimental

Hello finally. It's been a busy week. I haven't had time to sit down and blurf or even blog. I have stamped though. I'll post some recent pictures this weekend hopefully.

This card is one I made for a boy's birthday party a few months ago. I thought I would mess around with the chalkboard technique but a little differently. This time around I stamped with acrylic paint and then went back over the image with my SU markers. Totally basic but it was fun to experiment.

Stamps: ABC Images, The Wheel Thing (retired), Short Order Alpha

So many Circles

This card was made the same late night as the last one. So forgive the mess ups and all. The inspiration behind this card was the left over punched out pieces that were perfectly good for something else. (What a run-on) Any how, I glued those on and then made a different card. Then I thought, this is one of those cards that just needs a sentiment as the focal point. Then the focal point was boring so I tried the ticket corner punch, and it just needed something else. And then I thought, I could dry emboss circles with the piercing guide! So that is where the border came from. Add 3 brads and finis! Hopefully this post is legible, I have a perfectly good excuse. I am just recovering from a weekend migraine. See you soon with whatever I make for Allison's next challenge.

Had to play one more time...

I had lunch with a banana because the voices told me to...

if you want to play go to Lacy's blog.

Burnt Card

I've had a bout of stamper's block lately. That is not unusual when I have an upcoming workshop. For Allison's challenge this week we are supposed to burn the edges of our image or just incorporate pyromania into our card making. I honestly did feel a little bit like a kid playing with [lighter] but I just stood under the hood of the stove with the fan on hoping I didn't wake the family with the fire alarm at 12:30 am. The effect is really cool. Thanks for the suggestion Allison!

I figured I should break out the Fresh Cuts stamp set since there is a promotion about a sneak peek at the next catalog and all. You know, if this is any indication of what is coming up in the next catalog then it should be really cool. The note cards are really nice, I have a couple of ideas that once they are on paper and they turn out I will post them shortly. The piece of Really Rust card stock was distressed by my children and I just helped it a little further along. I found five sheets of a new pack in my daughter's room and the other side has orange crayon on it. {Sigh}
Oh and I also used some walnut ink to fill in on the background, just with a paintbrush. The funny thing about the embossing being green is I thought I was grabbing black. Oh well I was way too tired to think about it.




Stamp Set: Fresh Cuts
Card Stock: Creamy Caramel. Really Rust, Whisper White
Ink: VersaMark, Basic Black, Walnut ink, Stamp 'n Write Markers
Accessories: Lighter, 5/8" wide grosgrain, Emerald F0rest EP

Fun game

I'll play along:

I had lunch with a banana because I'm cool like that.

visit Lacy's blog if you want to play along and make your own cool sentence.

Peacock Pal

This double page LO was in the works for a couple of weeks. Partly because we went out of town for a week and I had just started the first element. I started with the large matte with the larger flowers stamped on it. I thought "I wonder if I could stamp with rubber cement?" hmmm... well you can. And that makes a cool mask. BUT it doesn't come off of the rubber. Kind of.

So on to the rest of it. I stamped with Versamark the flower images along the bottom. When that dried I made the faux stitches with my UniBall signo white pen. The other thing I found out is the areas I stamped on the chocolate chip CS with chocolate chip craft ink, didn't show up as well as the places I used VersaMark. The classic ink would have shown up too. So I learn.




Stamps: One of a Kind also one by Heidi Grace
Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Naturals Ivory, Brilliant Blue and Garden Green
Ink: Chocolate Chip Craft, VersaMark, Glimmer sprays
Accessories: Eastern Elegance Rubons Rubber Cement, Uniball Signo White pen, Galaxy Markers by American Crafts

* Get Ready * Scrapbook highlighting

I used the highlighting technique for this picture in my son's scrapbook. I just printed an 8.5 x 11" of this picture with a white border then printed a cropped version in color and framed it with the teal scrapbook paper. I finally busted out the acrylic letters by KI memories that I stocked up on and finished it off with a chipboard arrow. The background paper is from K&co Amy Butler Lotus pack. By the way I just used my crystal effects glue to glue the letters on. You can't see it at all when it dries.

Monthly Swap

For this month's swap I wanted to use a set in the SU catalog that is for sure not being discontinued. Also I've been wanting to use this color combo since I got my new Banana Republic card last year. Ha! So here's the summer sun + white card. The flower is pieced with 1" punched circles and the 1 3/8" circle for the center. The stamped flower is embossed in white along the side and it is probably hard to see but along the pierced stem I stamped "for you" with VersaMark.

P.S. For any SU! demos that might happen by this --- I will have a few for swapping at convention.