Fresh Vintage Cards

Here are  three cards  that using Fresh Vintage stamp set.

These two I have CASED from other Demonstrators. This Black and White is  card is so classy, I couldn't resist having a go at making it.

This is the end result.  Dawn of dostamping.com has a terrific video on how to make this card.

 

I spotted the card at the side  and thought I just have to do that one I loved it, but I have no idea where I saw it first. So I cannot credit it's creator.

Now this one I don't know if this my adaptation of the side card or whether I have seen something similar some where else  and unwittingly reproduced it. I guess that is the problem one has when one spends time blog hopping.                                                                                   

Stamp a ma jig Tutorial

This was  a fun video to make.  But my  battery died before I had the time to  say the imaging sheet  comes with a blue sticker in the centre.

 I  strongly recommend that you leave this sticker on the sheet. You very rarely need to use the centre of the sheet for positioning your stamp. So it doesn't affect your work.  What it does do however,  is helps you find it.

Being an opaque  plastic square it is hard to see, especially if your work space is as messy as mine. I have spent many hours trying to find this sheet during and after a crafting session. (I have a tendency to use the it and  put it down rather than put it back in it's box)   When looking for it now I  look for the blue sticker rather than a opaque plastic square.

 One last thing I am curious to know why I sound like I have a lisp on this video, I didn't have one before on the original  recording, Perhaps you get a free lisp with every video uploaded on blogspot. lol

punch art owl card

I think this guy is kind of cute.
He was created using the owl punch and the scallop circle punch for the wings.
I daubed the edges  with chocolate chip ink and then put the owl together. 
I added the leaves and  a flower.
The bark effect was created , by inking up the inside of a bark embossing folder  with a darker ink than my card stock and running it through my Bigshot. This  gives the bark slightly more definition.

Scalloped Easle Cards for Kids

I have really got into these scalloped edge easle cards , they're so easy when you know how to to create them. on this one I used one of the dinosaurs from the Dinoroar stamp set from stampin' up. This stamp set is just so cute. I love it.

For the next card I used a bunny from the new easter stampset from stampin'up called happy easter everybunny.  I punch a flower and glued it to the base of my card as a stopper to prevent thecard from sliding down.

This one is not quite finished but I thought I would give you some ideas of stamp sets that work with this design of card. I used the cupcake from  the crazy for cupcakes stamp set again from stampin' up.

I was asked to  make a princess card, Not having a princess stamp set I decided to draw my own, I then scannned her into the computer , so I can now print her off any size I like. I can also print her off using a laser printer so she can be hot foiled either before or after she has been coloured. This is a practise one as the little girl I am  doing this for loves pink. I will post that when it's finished.

Amanda s card.

As promised here is the lovely card sent to me by my upliner Amanda.

Amanda has used the Artistic Etchings stamp set to create this card with a touch of the Victoria lace and a few sticky back pearls .

Brightly Coloured Cotton Reels

I have to say this card required a lot masking and a lot of colouring. I have to be in the "mood" for lots of colouring and today I wasn't so my colouring is not brilliant in places. But all in all I enjoyed playing.

I used four or five cotton reel masks and just kept stamping until I had covered the entire piece of card.

Actually it does require a little bit of thought. I wanted the reels going in different directions. and different parts of each reel showing and overlapping in different places.

I started by stamping the Reels that appear to be on the top then masking them off and stamping the reels below. I then set about colouring them with my Stamp and write pens.

Once all the reels were coloured in, I filled in all the remaining white gaps in design with a black pen. This was when I found out my black pen had gone fluffy at the end making colouring in the small spaces very difficult.

I have to confess my colouring was so diabolical in places I had to stamp a couple more reels coloured them cut them out and stuck them on top of the bodged reels.

The words inside for this card will say "Sew Much" not very original but appropriate.

Salty fish card

This card was a bit of an experiment, using

re -inkers, glossy card and rock salt, it didn't work out as well as I would have liked or expected.

Oh well, I guess a blind man would be glad to see it.

Anyway the instructions for this are are as follows..... should you wish to try it for yourself.

You spritz your glossy card with water, lay on the ink with a paintbrush in any fashion you like, then sprinkle rock salt over the wet card and leave to dry. When completely dry brush the salt off.

The effect did look a little watery so I just had to stick one of my fish on it and stamp a some under water plants .

It does leave your card tasting salty too. Yes, I tasted it . lol.

Christmas card

Final one for this weekend is another one I have cased.
I came across this one one another demonstrators website and again I had to try it. I am totally useless at remembering who created what and where I found it.  So if I have cased a card that you designed  please take as a compliment. It means I love your work.
For this card I inked up the new parlour prints  background stamp from S.U with versamark ink and  heat embossed using gold embossing powder.
 I then cut a strip of designer paper and mounted it onto a piece of choc chip card which I had already punched the edge using  the lace edge punch from S.U.

 I used very vanilla seam binding  to create the pleated ribbon effect before adding the greeting.
The greeting came from one of the Stampin' up Christmas sets which I think is now discontinued. NOT sure on that one.

Creative elements in Rich Razzleberry

This card was made using the Creative Elements stamp set from S.U.
I also used Rich Razzleberry ink along with Basic Grey ink and a blender pen to draw the ink from the petal edges into the centre of the petals.
I used a jewelled brad as the centre of my bow instead of tying a bow.
I used the flourish stamp to create the background.

Lou's Moving house card.

A lady I know is moving  house tomorrow,  so this evening I made this card for her and her family.
The stamp set I used  is a discontinued set called "good neighbours" from stampin' up.
I have had this stamp set for ages and not used until  recently. The foregound I daubed with old olive ink the sky with bashful blue ink.
I used Stampin' up's designer paper on the base of the card and stamped the top half of the card using one of the tree tops from the trendy trees stamp set. 

DVD Case Notebook

Something a little different here.
I have called this a dvd case because it is the same size and type of case your dvd's come in.
But with one big difference, it doesn't have the molded section that houses the  dvd.
You'll  find  99% of dvd cases have a  back cover that has been molded to hold the dvd in place,  so your note pad will not lay flat.
This one however, does not have that molded panel,  so it is perfect for this project. Please don't do as I did and rush out and buy two packs of cases only to find they are no good for this project.

I used the  Vintage springtime doublesided paper/card from stampin' up,  
Always artichoke and Very vanilla card stock.

Old olive ink, 
Versamark ink, gold embossing powder and baroque motif stamp set from stampin' up  for the  flourishes. The flowers were stamped using versamark ink. I chose the large oval, the lace edge  and one of the label punches from S.U. to decorate.....oh and of course a little Rich razzleberry ribbon.

As I used double sided paper the inside was basically decorated for me.

I just had to add the pen and notebook.

Now hubby said just stick the note book  down with doublesided tape....... well,  makes perfect sense and that would be the easy Option. 

But me being me had to do it differently, because I want my note pad holder to be used again and again without having to apply acres of new sticky tape each time the note book  ran out.

So  I placed a small cutting mat in between the thin outer cover of the case and the harder shell and cut a series of small slots through the shell, the cuts are just wide enough for the grossgrain to slide through. I taped the overlapping ends of the grosgrain together at the back quite tightly.  Then repleated the process for the pen holder.

Now I can just slide a new note book under grosgrain band and it's ready to go again.

Fun and fast notes

Here's a nice and easy one and very quick too.

Using the Fun and fast notes stamp set I stamped the star and coloured it in.

I used a corner rounding punch to round off the layers.

The brads are faux brads using the technique shown in a previous post.

I punched the bottom layer with stampin ups lace edge punch , tied some daffodil delight ribbon around it then mounted it on to the daffodil delight card stock.