The Art of Inking

Happiness Always!

  Finally, I got the chance to play again in Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge!

This week's colors were Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Pink Pirouette & Whisper White.

For the background I used the pink polka dot paper from the Bella Rose designer series paper. The sentiment comes from the Inspired from Nature stamp set. I used a small chocolate felt flower from the Flower fusions and a rhinestone brad to add a little bling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  The main embellishment is the butterfly die cuts from the Beautiful butterflies bigz dies and is cut from patterned paper from Bella Rose dsp and textured Close to cocoa cardstock. I added 3 half pearls from the Pretties kit and twisted some wire for the antennas.

The piece of Whisper white was put through the Big Shot machine with the Texturz plates.

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How Sweet!

  This is a design from a recent card class that I taught. I used Riding hood red cardstock and the Bella rose designer series paper, which was cut using the Big shot and the Top Note bigz die. I used the Kiwi kiss/Very vanilla double sided satin ribbon to cover the seam.

 

 

 

 

 

  The main image was stamped in Riding hood red using the Cute & curly stamp set which is part of the Curly label punch bundle. It's punched with the Curly label punch of course. I added a small flower cut from the dsp paper to the edge with a tiny rhinestone brad. The sentiment comes from a retired set called So Very.

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Mystery Hostess Projects!

  These are the three projects that everyone made on Saturday night at my Mystery Hostess Party.

This card was made using creamy caramel & whisper white cardstock. The patterned paper is the Parisian Breeze specialty paper, which is textured, cover-weight cardstock. It's double-sided and comes in gorgeous designs. I used the Simple salutations stamp set, the Designer label and the Wide oval punch and the Chocolate chip double stitched grosgrain ribbon.

 

Everyone also got to try the Big Shot machine. We used it to create the small dots on the whisper white using the Texturz plates. Then we also used the Simple flower embosslits to cut out & emboss the main image. We used the sponge dauber to add a little color to the flower. Then added a button from the Button Latte collection.

 

The next project is a Ribbon bookmark using either the Baja breeze or Kiwi kiss striped grosgrain ribbon, the Scallop circle punch, the 1 1/4" circle punch and the Five petal flower punch. The flower image is from the Sale-a-bration stamp set called Polka dot punches. A silver brad was added to the center. The designer series paper used was Urban garden. At the end of the ribbon they could have chosen between the Filigree or Flower designer brads.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last project was a 6 X 6 scrapbook page using the butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz dies and the Big Shot machine, the Polka-dot punches stamp set and the Delicate Dots designer series paper, which is a Sale-a-bration freebie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The colors used were Certainly celery and So Saffron.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Playing in the Rain!

  This is a recent layout I made featuring the pictures I took of my three daughters-Jillian, Elaina & Danielle and my niece, Lauren, when they played in the rain in late August. Yes, they are just big kids at heart! They had so much fun dancing around while I took pictures from under an umbrella!

I used Bashful blue for the background and Brilliant blue and green galore for the layers. "Rain" was cut with my Cricut.  I used some random accents that coordinated.

 

 

 

I used my Big shot to make the clear plastic flowers layering them with punched cardstock & brads.

 

The raindrops are the pieces of clear plastic that popped out of the flower in the previous photo. Isn't that a cool idea?

 

All supplies are from Stampin' Up! except as noted.

Mr. & Mrs. Twigster!

  Aren't they adorable??? I knew I had to make a Mrs. for Mr. Twigster so he wouldn't be so lonely. She is made by inking Mr. Twigster's head with a marker and then adding her body, legs & arms from the All in the Family set. I drew on her hair & eyelashes. I colored them both in with markers.

I actually made this card for an upline's challenge as described in the previous post. I used Old olive cardstock for the card. I layered the Top notes Big shot die on the Urban garden designer series paper. I tied the Baja breeze striped grosgrain ribbon around the card & tied it in a knot.

The sentiment comes from the hostess set, Best Yet and it's punched out with the oval punch which is layered onto a designer label punch and attached with s Stampin' dimensional. Some Felt Flurries were adhered with a silver brad and Dazzling diamonds glitter was added with Tombow adhesive.

 

 

 

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Introducing Mr. Twigster!

  Ok, I have fallen in love but don't tell my husband! Mr Twigster is the cutest little guy I have seen in a long time! This is the first of 3 cards I have made using Mr. Twigster for an upline's monthly challenge. The requirements were to use a stamp set from the Holiday mini catalog, any designer series paper and at least one punch.

I used the Kiwi kiss side of the Bella Rose dsp on the background and also with the oval punch. The other punches I used were the Designer label punch and the Word window punch. The sentiment comes from the Warm words stamp set that is on the dormant list but is stll available.

The main piece is cut from Whisper white & Riding hood red on the Big shot machine using the Top Notes Die. The edge of the whisper white was cut on the perforated line in order to layer it on the red.

 

Mr Twigster, the tree & presents were stamped with Black stazon and colored in with markers. Snowflakes were stamped very lightly in bashful blue and the edge of the Top Note was sponged with kiwi.

The Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla satin ribbon were threaded through the double rectangle punched holes and tied into a bow.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up!

Big Shot Scallop Circle Scrapbook!

 

I made this scrapbook for my Big Shot open house! It's made with the Scallop Circle Bigz die. I cut 2 scallops out of chipboard for the covers. Then cut 4 scallops using the printed paper from the Petal Party Simply Scrappin' kit. Since they are cut with the same die they fit perfectly over the chipboard covers, no need to trim edges or use a sanding block!

For the pages inside, I cut 5 scallops out of the coordinating textured cardstock that comes in the Simply Scrappin' kit. To embellish the pages, I used the self adhesive die cuts.

For the cover, I stamped the image from the Hostess level 1 set, "Punches Three" in Pumpkin pie, then punched it out with the Scallop square punch and attached it with Stampin' Dimensionals. A hole was punched with the Crop-a-dile so a ring could be added to hold the album together. Some coordinating ribbon, that I had in my stash, was tied on the ring.

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Playing with my Big Shot!

  For my Big shot open house I made some sample projects showing the versatility of die cuts! For this scrapbook page, I not only used the Sizzlits Sparkle die-cut but also the piece of cardstock that is left when you pop out the die-cut.

The cardstock colors are Apricot appeal, Green galore, Gable green & Tempting turquoise. The designer series paper is called Rainbow Sherbert.

 

 

 

 

 

This is a close up of the 3 Sparkle die-cuts. I attached them to the page with snail adhesive but the 2 way glue pen also would have worked.

 

 

 

 

This closeup of the other element on the page shows how I layered the negative piece of the die-cut onto Cuttlebug embossed cardstock. The center circles were adhered with a Stampin' dimensional.

All supplies are from Stampin' Up! except as noted.