A La Cards: Bright and Beautiful stamp set

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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy New Year!!

Happy 2015!! I hope you rang in the new year with someone special last night! Today I have a card made just for this occasion that just happens to work with this week's challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments...

New year's card featuring the new Hello You Thinlits and the Happy Hour stamp set.

I went with a monochromatic look, sticking with silver and gray for my colour scheme. I stamped "New Year" from the sentiment in the Bright and Beautiful stamp set by inking just that phrase with my Basic Gray marker. I used my Stamp-a-ma-Jig to position it just right. The background panel is Silver Foil Vellum layered on a piece of Whisper White card stock. I used Silver Foil card stock to mat the focal panel, which I trimmed with some All is Calm Washi Tape. The word "happy" is die cut using the new Hello You Thinlits, available in just 5 short days in the Occasions catalogue.

The champagne glasses are from the Happy Hour stamp set. I stamped them in Basic Black ink and then fussy cut them out. I added some silver glimmer champagne in each glass. Of course, I needed more bling, so I added a few rhinestone bubbles floating up from the glasses.

On the inside I used more Washi tape and stamped the sentiment from the Happy Hour stamp set in Smokey Slate ink.
I hope 2015 finds you filled with hope and anticipation for what is in store. I wish you all the best the new year has to offer!

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The Extravaganza Continues!

The big sale continues all this week! To view all of the amazing deals click the flyer below! Remember...sale pricing is only while current stock lasts. Once it's gone, so are the deals!

http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/CategoryPage.aspx?categoryid=2014

Now for a new project! I still have one of the projects from my November techniques class to share with you. I saved my favourite for last! It uses the Stampin' Mist Ghosting Technique as well as the very first stamp set I ever bought: Lovely as a Tree...

Christmas card featuring the Lovely as a Tree stamp set, along with By the Tide and a sentiment from the (retired) Good Greetings set.

I love that the background on this one looks like frosted glass. I had originally planned on going a whole different direction with this card, but when I saw the way that background turned out I had to make it a wintry Christmas card. Here is how I got the look:

I sponged a piece of Whisper White card stock with the following ink colours (in this order): Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Smoky Slate & Island Indigo.
Then I spritzed the coral image from the By The Tide stamp set with Stampin' Mist so that it was quite saturated. I stamped the coral in the four corners of the sponged card stock.
Once the ink and mist were dry I covered the entire piece of card stock with Versamark and heat embossed with Irridescent Ice embossing powder. Wow...does it sparkle!

I matted the card front on a piece of Lost Lagoon card stock before adhering it to a Smoky Slate card base.
The trees, from the Lovely as a Tree set, were heat embossed in silver and then die cut using the largest of the Festive Flurry (retired) framelits. The sentiment is stamped in Island Indigo ink. The snowflake embellishment was the last of my stash from last year's Holiday Catalogue...loved those things! I added some silver cord I have also been ~~hoarding~~ saving, as well as a few Frosted Sequins.

Inside view with sentiment from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set.

On the inside I heat embossed the sentiment from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set in silver and added the week pine branch from Lovely as a Tree, stamped in Smoky Slate ink.
I have to admit that this is one of my favourite cards I've designed in a while. It is definitely going to someone very special this Christmas!

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Seeing Stars

Today's post will be a quickie. I am up to my eyeballs in school work this week, but wanted to show you this pretty card I designed for my Holiday Head-start card buffet coming up this Friday. Check it out:

Holiday card featuring the Bright and Beautiful stamp set.

Lots of sparkle and shine on this one! Here is a quick run-down of the products I used:

Bright and Beautiful stamp set
Stars Framelits
Confetti Stars border punch
Lucky Stars TIEF
gold embossing powder
metallic gold ribbon
gold glimmer paper
Baked Brown Sugar card stock
Very Vanilla card stock
Soft Suede ink
Versamark ink
Big Shot

Here's a close up:

And the inside view:

Now for this week's Weekly Deals...there are a few items on here that I am ordering for sure! Remember, sale prices are only good till Monday at midnight ;)