fresh & fun

Julia picked a great topic for today’s Way to Use it challenge: Glossy paper. Mine doesn’t see the light of day too much. I had bought glossy black paper at least 1 1/2 years ago in Stamp Antonio. I was really excited when I found it and thought I would write lots of tutorials with it. LOL … NOT!

I started by sanding the black glossy cardstock first horizontally , then vertically with a sanding block from Stampin’ Up! to acchieve the Faux Linen look. Then I used my new VersaMagic Dew Drop ink to stamp the flowers and leaves on top of the background.

You are asking where I got the Dew drops?…Well…I will tell you tomorrow morning. You can find all colors at Eclectic Paperie and buy them there individually. I heard you can also buy them in four packs at JoAnn’s.

The card base is a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of whisper white cardstock folded in half. The glossy cardstock piece is 3″ x 4 1/4″, the old Olive and Basic Black layers were always each 1/4″ bigger.

The flowers are from the Petal Prints set. I still LOVE this set. I went totally crazy when it first came out in whatever mini catalog that was. The saying is from the set Brighter tomorrow. I thought it was kind of fitting to have this saying on such a dark background.

Random org picked #100. That poster was

Kimberly Says: March 21st, 2007 at 1:54 pm eI am new to stamping but so far my favorite technique has been using watercolor crayons. Watercolor wash, and wet watercolor crayons are a lot of fun. I also learned crayon resist last night and love the look….I am new so I love it all! LOL

Kimberly, please contact me so I can send the candy out to you!

Thank you all for telling me about your favorite/most used technique. Some of the most picked favorites were: Heat Embossing, Paper Piercing and Faux Stitching, Paper piecing.

Have a wonderful day. Hugs and smiles

I made a second challenge card yesterday. This challenge is for yesterday’s layout challenge, Monday’s technique challenge, which was using only brown tones and the technique challenge three weeks ago called Blurred vision.

I used Chocolate Chip cardstock as my card base. I stamped the 2 1/2″ x 5″ natural ivory cardstock with Chocolate Chip flowers and doodles from Doodle This and went over the stamping with my aqua painter to blur the lines. I sponged the edges of the cardstock to give it a softer look.

The Close to Cocoa scallop border is made with the corner punch. If you haven’t seen how that is done yet, check my tutorial here. I then added doodles with the chocolate Chip Marker.

The saying is from the Stamp set Brighter Tomorrow. It is stamped in chocolate chip on a natural ivory circle and layered on a Close to cocoa marvy scallop circle punch out. Again I sponged the edges of the natural ivory circle lightly.

I finished it off with some paper piercing (what else) and Stampin’ Up! organdy ivory and chocolate grosgrain ribbon.

I received this card from Susan Liles on my BEST MAILDAY EVER back on Monday! Check out her fun blog SusieStampaLot.

I love this sweet card. Susan used Like a Latte from the winter mini catalog. The designer paper is from the Rebecca pack. The heart and the steam are sparkly! And check out that ribbon! It’s soooo fun.

Thanks again Susan! I LOVE it!