Sketch Challenge Mother's Day Card with The Stampsmith

Hi Dreamers!

Time for a new Stampsmith Challenge!   Val came up with a really cool sketch to challenge us.  

Lots of possibilities with this sketch.  You will have all month to create a project following the sketch and using a Stampsmith stamp.  Head over to the Stampsmith Challenge site and link up your creation.  A Random winner will receive a full sheet of rubber!!!  And top picks will be showcased next month.   Here is what I came up.

Since Mother's Day is fast approaching, I made my card for Mother's day.  I used a super sweet image from the full sheet called  

"Thank Heavens for Little Girls #1".   

This little sweetie is stamped with black dye ink on white glossy CS.  I added some CS layers and a pretty DP from Stampin' Up.   

Here is a peek at the inside.  I repeated the layers and added another sentiment.  I have plenty of room to write a nice note.  

Hope you will join the fun and take the Challenge!  Can't wait to see what you come up with.  Have a super fun day!! Love ya.
Karen

PS: I have updated my Published Work page.

Emboss Resist Technique Challenge with Blockheads

Hi Dreamers!
Busy week here.  I will be taking a nice long vacation in May and have been trying to work ahead a bit.  I will schedule some posts to go live while I'm gone so you won't miss out on any craftiness.  Today's post is to announce the new Technique Challenge with Blockheads Paper Arts.  This month, Colleen has chosen the Emboss Resist Technique.  Since Mother's Day is fast approaching, I used the mother and baby stamp from the Grunge Collage Half Sheet.

Here is my Mother's Day card.

Materials List:

Stamps: Grunge Collages, Sentiments are from the Flowers-Daisies Half Sheet

Inks: Black Pigment

Onyx Black Versafine

Cappuccino Delight Kaleidacolor Pad

CS: Tan, Black, Brown, and Blue

Tools: Stipple Brush

Clear Embossing Powder-Ranger

Ribbons, Pearls, and Lace

Following the Emboss Resist Technique instructions, I stamped  the main image on tan CS with Black Pigment ink and heat embossed with clear powder.  I used a stipple brush to add the ink to the stamped piece.  Dab the brush on the Kaleidacolor Pad and pounce the brush onto the CS.  Repeat until all the CS is covered with ink.  By using the Kaleidacolor Pad, gradation of color occurs automatically.  Too fun!

The rest of the card is a breeze from here.  Make the card base from brown CS.  Layer the stamped piece with black and blue CS.  Add some lace and ribbon.  Stamp the sentiment with Onyx Black ink on a scrap of the stippled CS.  Never throw out the scraps.  LOL  Layer the sentiment with black and blue CS and add to card front.  Add the pearls.  Almost done now.  But, don't forget the inside!

Stamp the sentiment with Onyx Black and add the stippling.  Layer away and now we are done.  I have plenty of room to write a nice note.

This is such a versatile technique and of course I could not make just one.  I will share the other with you in a short while.  I will schedule that one for you to look at while I am on vacation.  Oh, I guess I can give you a sneaky peeky.

What do you think??  Now, don't forget that you have to copy and paste the linky thing at the bottom of your Technique Challenge project.  It is very easy.  Just go to the Blockheads web page Tutorial and copy the HTML and paste it onto the bottom of your post.  There are prizes and lots of fun.     So have fun and let's see your creation!!


I also would like to enter my card in the Simon Says Stamp Anything goes Challenge!!

Have a super weekend!  Love ya.
Karen

Magic Metal Goes Asian

Good Afternoon Dreamers!
Here I am again with the last card in my collection of projects for the Magic Metal Technique Challenge.
The Challenge will be open for a few more days.  Let's see your projects!  There is a gift certificate up for grabs too!!!  For this project, I used images from Blockheads Paper Arts.

Materials List:

Stamps:

Japanese Musicians

Chinese Princess-Coins

Verses: Special Delivery (Sentiment)

Inks:

Stream Adirondack Ranger

Back Soot Distress Ink Ranger

Versamark

Gold Embossing Powder

Cardstock: Teal and Mustard

Gold Cording

Make the Magic Metal Ornaments following my Tutorial.     Make a card from Mustard Cardstock.  Stamp the Japanese Musicians with Stream Ink on teal CS.  Add to card front.  Glue the Magic Metal Ornaments to the card front and add the cording.

On the inside stamp the Musicians again, but stamp off once first.  Stamp the sentiment with Black Soot Distress Ink on teal CS.  Wasn't that fun!!??

Well, that's it for me today, I think.  I should get out and work on the garden clean up.  Lots of work to do there.  Have a super day!  Love ya.
Karen

Magic Metal Technique Challenge - More Ideas

Hi Dreamers!
I am back today with another fun project that I made for the Blockheads Technique Challenge.  The Challenge is open for a few more days and I would love to see your take on the Magic Metal Technique.  See all the details on my original post.  This card is a bit humorous.  It is made with one of Di's fun loving images available at Blockheads Paper Arts.

Materials List:

Stamps: Harried Housewives-Carpool from Blockheads

Inks: Tuxedo Black- Memento

VersaMark

Gold Embossing Powder

Copic Markers

Cardstock: Solar White Neenah Classic Crest; Red and Mustard

Heat tool

Ribbon

Spellbinders die

Create the Magic Metal Ornament following the directions on the Tutorial.     Make a card base with Mustard CS and layer with Red.  Tie ribbon in a bow around card.  Stamp the Harried Housewife on Solar White CS with Tuxedo Black ink and color with Copic Markers.

Cut out image with Spellbinders die and add to card.  Stamp the sentiment (also in the stamp set) and layer with CS; add to card front.  Layer the Magic Metal Ornament with CS and add a ribbon tab.

All done!  

I would like to enter My Harried Housewife in the Cute Card Thursday Challenge-adding metal

The Graphic 45 Operation Write Home Blog Hop

Stayed tuned for one more Magic Metal Project!!!

Have a super fun day.  Love ya.

Karen

Anniversary Card with The Stampsmith

Hello Dreamers!
Today, I have a card made for my parents' anniversary.  I used an adorable stamp from the "Thank Heaven for Little Girls #1" from The Stampsmith.    The card is made with a background I created using teal inks, sprays, and a Crafters Workshop Template.  The ink and spray is from the Ranger Adirondack line and is called Stream.  I decorated the envelope too.

See my tutorial on creating the background here.   Add the background piece to a card base made from Taken with Teal CS (Stampin' Up).  Cut two circles from Pool Party CS (SU) and dry emboss the smaller circle.   Distress the circles with Broken China Distress Ink.  Add both circles to the background.  Stamp the sentiment (My Sentiments Exactly) with Stream ink; cut out and add to card front.  Tie ribbon around card.

Stamp the photo stamp (The Stampsmith) with black dye ink on white glossy CS.  Layer with black and Taken with Teal  CS and add to card.

I also added some paper flowers from Michaels.  Isn't this couple too, too, sweet??!!   And, here is what the inside looks like.  The sentiment is from Victorine Originals.

I thought you might enjoy some photos of the Spring flowers in my yard.  I went out to do some clean up work and thought that this corner looked so lovely with all its soft blooms.

The blue flowers are Forget me Nots.  The white are some kind of small poppy.  The purple in the very back left are Lamium.  Should have Peonies next month.  The weeds sure are doing well too and need to be pulled.



Okay, I think my parents will like their card.  I will be back later with the Magic Metal cards.....
Hope you are enjoying your lovely Spring day.  Get outside and breath in the exquisite fragrance of the Spring blooms.  Love ya.
Karen

Vintage Pitcher and Basin

Hi Dreamers!
I'm back with two vintage style cards.  I used a gorgeous stamp from Serendipity Stamps - Pitcher and Basin.
Both cards were made using a emboss resist technique.  I colored the backgrounds with Distress inks.  Here is the first card.

The image is stamped with brown pigment ink and heat embossed on Bordering Blue CS (SU).   Add the Distress inks with a Ranger Ink Application  tool.  I added small pearls and a sheer ribbon.

On the second card, I stamped with light blue pigment ink and clear embossing powder on white CS.

The CS is from Bazzill and SU.  The DP is from K&Company.  I added pearls and sheer ribbon to this card too.
My Vintage Basin and Pitcher are entered in the following Challenges:
Stampin' Sisters in Christ: use something transparent..I used sheer ribbon-that't transparent.
Paper Sundaes: Anything goes
Stamptacular Sunday: anything goes

I'll be back tomorrow with the Magic Metal projects.  See you then.  Love ya.
Karen

Borders into Backgrounds

Hi Dreamers!
It has been a busy week, but I am back today with some more card making fun!  All of the designers on the Blockheads Team are going mad for border stamps this week.  Each of us has come up with some really interesting and different ways to use Border Stamps from Lost Coast Designs .    I used one of the borders to create a striped background.  Any one of the border stamps could be used in this way.  I added some of the Alice in Wonderland images to my cards.  So here we go with the first card!  I call this one "Alice Ponders".

Materials list:

Stamps: Alice and Border from Lost Coast Designs

Inks: Ranger Distress Inks -

Fired Brick

Victorian Velvet

Tattered Roses

Black Memories Dye Ink

Card Stock: Pink, Cherry, Medium Pink, Black, and White

Spellbinders dies

Paper Flowers

Ribbon

I stamped the border stamp in a group of three coordinating ink colors.  I used a Pink/Red combo for my projects.  But, I also tried the Distress ink green and brown color groups and that looked great too.  I plan on using that in future projects.    I stamped from dark to light.  After stamping (and it took several tries to get the rows straight-LOL) I trimmed the CS to fit my dark cherry colored card base.

Alice was stamped on Pink CS with Black Memories dye ink.  Die cut Alice and a piece of dark cherry CS with Spellbinders Oval dies.  I added three paper flowers and a white satin ribbon.    I also decorated the inside.   I used  my scraps here.

This card could be used for a birthday, TOY, hello, or anything else your heart desires.  And, now onto card number 2.

I used the same ink colors on this card, but changed the order.  I went light-med-dark-med-light.  The Queen is stamped with Fired Brick and layered with Black CS.  I added a pink polka dot ribbon that extends off the edge of the card.

Now head over and check out  all the other design team members  projects.  You will wonder how you ever lived without Border Stamps in your life.  LOL!!


 Have a great day and talk to you later!  Love ya.
Karen