Bloggers Challenge - Mother's Day

Bloggers Challenge #46 brings you loads of ideas for last minute creating of your Mother's Day cards.

Both of my cards use the Watercolor Distress Technique from a past issue of the TJNL. On the card with the Iris - after the Iris was stamped, I simply went back and colored in my image with Distress Inks and an aquapainter.

Details:

Stamps - Flourishes Siberian Iris

Ink - Archival Black, Distress Inks Weathered Wood, Peeled Paint, Concord Grape

Card Stock - Eggplant, Black, Vanilla, Celery

Details:

Stamps - Starving Artistamps Silhouette Flowers

Ink - Archival Black, Distress Inks Worn Lipstick, Lavendar, Shabby Shutters, Marigold

Card Stock - Black, Vanilla, Olive, Orange

Wishing you all a lovely Mother's Day

~lisa

TechnoStamper Sketch Challenge

It's Monday, time for another one of MJ's Monday Sketch Challenges....This weeks sketch was a very easy one - I've created 3 different cards to show just how versatile a sketch can be.

For this card, I rotated the sketch on it's side. I used the Burnished Embossing Technique from a past issue of the TJNL, with my Ornate Tooled Leather stamp. I stamped my Silhouette Asters from Starving Artistamps in Blue Bayou Ink on white card stock, then cut out a circle with my coluzzle, I layered this on a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock that I punched with my Marvy Scallop punch, then pierced holes with my piercing tool. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!'s Love & Happiness rub ons.

For this next card, I used the Wedding Party set from Flourishes. I stamped it in black ink on shimmer card stock, added color with watercolor crayons. I added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the body of her dress with my Quickie Glue Pen, then gave her a necklace, and accented her veil and dress with some gems. The sentiment is white embossed.

On this last card I rotated the sketch again, and replaced the circle image in MJ's sketch with a butterfly.

Details:

Stamps - Baroque Motifs, Touch of Nature, Holidays & Wishes

Ink - Pumpkin, Chocolate Chip

Card Stock - Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Other - Dimensionals, Paper Piercing Tool

Color Collage - Where's Waldo?

My current favorite technique has got to be the Color Collage from the April TJNL - what a great way to add a lot of color and images to one project. For this card I used all Ranger Distress Inks (Old Paper, Frayed Burlap, Brushed Corduroy, Shabby Shutters, Dried Marigold, Broken China and Worn Lipstick). Because the Distress Inks stay wet longer, I used white card stock to stamp my images.

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Stamps - Starving Artistamps Cracked Grout, Face 35.05, Leaves P16.04, Sunflower, Butterfly P5.1, Moth P5.8, Words 42.12

Card Stock - White, Black, Guava, Tempting Turquoise

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Paper Piecing

Paper Piecing is a great way to use up your scraps of designer papers. On the following cards I used scraps from Scarlet's Letter Basic Grey to add some texture and color to my vases.

To add my sentiment, I stamped it in chocolate chip, punched it with the word window punch and inserted a jump ring then attached it to my Chocolate Poly Twill.

Details:
Stamps - Starving Artistamps Simple Vases, 'Lil Squares Background, sentiment Innovative Stamp Creations
Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Lovely Lilac, Vanilla, Orchid Opulence
Designer Paper - Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Markers - Lovely Lilac, Old Olive
Other - Sponge Dauber, Chocolate Poly Twill, Word Window Punch, Jump Ring, 1/16" hole punch

Details :

Stamps - Starving Artistamps Simple Vases, Sentiment - Stampin' Up! retired Long Time Friend

Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Vanilla

Designer Paper - Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Markers - Rose Red, Old Olive

Other - Sponge Dauber

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Birthday Blog Candy Winner - Starving Artistamps

Thank you for the birthday wishes and sharing with me some of your favorite images from Starving Artistamps.

Here's a quick card I wanted to share before I announce the Starving Artistamps Birthday Blog Candy winner....



I morphed the Spectrum Roll Technique, by clear embossing my images to give them some"pop".

Details:
Stamps - Starving Artistamps Large Silhouette Flowers
Card Stock - Clay Coated, Black, Gable Green, Only Orange
Ink - Pumpkin Patch, Archival Black
Other - Vintage Brad, Word Window Punch, Brayer, Clear Embossing Powder, Love & Happiness Rub-Ons
Tech - Spectrum Roll 06/06 TJNL

I used the random number generator to pick the winner of the Lily & Sunflower Sheet donated by Starving Artistamps - thank you Tracey! Here's the entry that was picked at random

Purplehaze88 said...
Oh Lisa, I love this Lily and Sunflower! The card is awesome! I hope you have a very good Birthday week! Thanks, Shari

Congratulations Shari! Please email me with your snail mail information.

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Thanks for playing! Be sure to check out the other daily Birthday Blog Candy through Friday, March 14th!

Birthday Blog Candy Day 1

I'm celebrating a milestone birthday later this week and thought it would be fun to give my blog readers some presents leading up to my big day! With the help of some generous sponsors, I'll be giving away blog candy for the next 5 days, to celebrate my birthday!

Today's Birthday sponsor is Starving Artistamps . Starving Artistamps offers a great variety of rubber stamps! My current favorite stamp is the Ornate Tooled Leather Background - as I've found lots of uses for this image using a variety of techniques!

Today's birthday giveaway is the Lily and Sunflower sheet from Starving Artistamps!

Here's a sample I've made with one of the images from this sheet

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Details:

Stamps - Starving Artistamps Lily and Sunflower

Ink - Black, Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink

Card Stock - Black, Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink
Other - Sponge Dauber, Rub Ons - SU Love & Happiness

Technique - Triple Mosaic 06/06 TJNL

How can you enter? To enter the giveaway for Day 1, simply leave a comment on this blog entry telling me that you would like to enter, be sure to tell me your favorite stamp set from Starving Artistamps , enter by 11:59pm on Wednesday, March 12th. Remember to leave your name with your comment, as blogger doesn't recognize "anonymous" comments. I will have the random number generator pick one number from the comments to select the winner. Each Birthday Giveaway is separate, so to be eligible for a specific day you must enter that day's giveaway and post to the correct blog entry. Good Luck! One entry per person, per giveaway, please.

Be sure to check back on March 13, to see if you won today's giveaway! Even if you don't win you can still save 10% off your purchases at Starving Artistamps - click here for more details!

Bloggers Challenge 36

This weeks Bloggers Challenge is to create a card using the layout on page 44 of the Stampin' Up! Spring Summer Collection. This is a pretty basic layout - so I thought I would share a few cards this week. If you'd like to play along, please leave a link to your creation here on my blog - or you can upload to your SCS gallery and use keyword BCW36.

Details:
Stamps -Baroque Motifs, Touch of Nature, Holidays & Wishes
Ink - Chocolate Chip, Purely Pomegranate
Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, River Rock, Purely Pomegranate
Other - Tool Kit, Dimensionals, Sponge Dauber, Chocolate Satin Ribbon

Details:
Stamps - Starving Artistamps - Small Silhouette Flowers ,
'Lil Squares Background , Sun Spirit Studio Sentiments
Card Stock - White, Black, River Rock
Ink - Black, River Rock
Other - White Taffeta Ribbon (dyed with River Rock Ink), HP Hardware, Sponge Dauber, Tool Kit

Details:
Stamps - Flourishes Fantasy Floral Garden, Many Sentiments
Card Stock - Bashful Blue, White, Black, Sage Shadow
Ink - Black, Sage Shadow
Other - Dew Drops, Sponge Dauber, Crystal Effects, Two Scoops DSP

Ornate Tooled Leather

I've been using the versatile Ornate Tooled Leather Background stamp from Starving Artistamps with various techniques from past issues of the TJNL. By changing your techniques, you can really get a lot of use out of your background stamps.

"With Sympathy" uses the Acetate Frost Technique 02/06 TJNL

Tech - Abstract Embossing 04/05 TJNL

Ink - Versamark

EP - Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red

Card Stock - Real Red, Black, Summer Sun

Other - Rub Ons - Anchored

Same Stamp...Different Point of View

I used the Ornate Tooled Leather Background from Starving Artistamps as a background on all of the cards shown here - just switched up the techniques and a few other images - all from Starving Artistamps.












Technique - Magic Pattern 02/08 TJNL
I morphed the technique and used Twinking H20's instead of watercolor crayons
Stamps - Starving Artistamps: Iris, Ornate Tooled Leather Background

Technique Pastel Detailing 12/07 TJNL

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps:

Ornate Tooled Leather Background, Sympathy Set

Burnished Embossing 12/07 TJNL

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps:Ornate Tooled Leather Background, Large Silhouette Flower

Cracked Glass Shadow Box Flowers

Here's a quite and realtively easy card that uses 2 1/2 sheets of card stock. Directions can be found here.

Here's a close up of the cracked glass

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Fern Leaf Tooled Leather Background, Large Silhouette Flowers FS10

Technique - Cracked Glass 02/08 TJNL

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TechnoStamper Sketch Challenge 4

It's Monday and that means it's another sketch from my friend Mary Jo over at TechnoStamper - she'll have the sketch posted at noon CST along with a link to some of the other players blogs - be sure to check it out. If you'd like to play along -just leave a comment here with a link to your creation - if you're uploading on SCS, please use keyword TSSC4. Now on to this weeks sketch...

I've decided to turn my cards for this weeks sketch - yep, I like this sketch so much, I made two of them!

For this first card - I did a little paper piecing. I stamped my focal image onto Scarlet's Letter designer paper by Basic Grey, and cut out my iris pieces. I then stamped my image onto SU's wild wasabi textured card stock, and cut it out. Then I stamped my image on very vanilla so that I had something to put my images onto , then I began putting my pieces together - sorta like putting together a puzzle. Here's the end results...

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Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Iris

Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter from StarvingArtistamps

My next card also uses the Scarlet's Letter paper from Basic Grey, here I've teamed it up with some images from Innovative Stamp Creations Friendship sheet. My image is stamped on SU's shimmer white card stock, and colored with markers.

Have a great Monday!

StarvingArtistamps Flowers

I just recently received a bunch of the new release flowers from StarvingArtistamps - these images work wonderfully with some of the techniques from the TJNL. On a few of the samples I've also used Basic Grey's Scarlet Letter Designer Paper (purchased from StarvingArtistamps). Click here to see how you can save 10% on your orders from StarvingArtistamps.

Details:

Stamps -StarvingAritstamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS8

Ink - Old Olive, Rose Red, Chocolate Chip

Card Stock - Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, White

Tech - Cracked Glass 02/08 TJNL

Other - UTEE, Basic Grey Scarlet's Letter DP

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS5

Ink - Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Lovely Lilac, Cameo Coral

Card Stock - Confetti White, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Technique - Warhol TJNL 02/05

Details:

Stamps -StarvingArtistamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS1

Ink - Black

Card Stock - Black, Chocolate Chip, Summer Sun, Old Olive, Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Creamy Caramel, Baroque Burgundy

Technique - Warhol 02/05 TJNL

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Iris

Ink - Olive, Lovely Lilac Markers, Versamark

Other - Black EP, Spritz Bottle

Card Stock - Watercolor, Black, Olive, Lovely Lilac

Technique - Marker Wash 10/07 TJNL

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Large Silhouette Flowers FS6

Ink - Rose Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip

Card Stock - Black, Artichoke, Confetti, Rose Red

Basic Grey - Scarlet's Letter Designer Paper

Technique - Cracked Glass 02/008 TJNL

Faux Cracked Glass Tutorial

The latest TJNL covers the Cracked Glass Technique. Last year when I was at the annual SU Convention they showed us how to do cracked class without having to wait for it to cool, hence the name Faux Cracked Glass. Here I've done the Faux Cracked Glass using the Cracked Grout Mosaic stamp from StarvingArtistamps.

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On to the how to of the Faux Cracked Glass - apply your UTEE just as if you were doing the cracked glass, but on your last layer, while your UTEE is still warm press a background image into your UTEE, let it sit until cooled, then lift off. (I like to put versamark on my image before I press it into the UTEE that way it's easier to lift off.

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Iris, Cracked Grout Mosaic

Ink - Black, Versamark

Card Stock - White, Black, YoYo Yellow, Garden Green

Other - Watercolor Crayons, UTEE, Heat Gun

Reinker Splash Seeds and Leaves

Reinker Splash is a fun technique in the February `08 TJNL, no two cards will come out the same, some cards may be very intense, others more subtle. I used caramel, ruby and rust reinkers to go with my "fall like images" from StarvingArtistamps.

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Details:

Stamps - Seeds - images by Red Castle distributed by StarvingArtistamps, Leaves P16.04

Ink - Black Archival

Reinkers - Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust

Card Stock - Black, Glossy, Ruby Red, Creamy Caramel

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Exciting News...

I was recently asked by Tracey at StarvingArtistamps to move from Guest Designer to a spot on the regular Design Team. Here's a card I created using some of the Red Castle Flying Seeds images available at Starving Artistamps. I used the Pastel Detailing technique from the 12/07 TJNL.

Under my focal image I used this really cool mulberry paper - also from StarvingArtistamps

Bloggers Challenge

This weeks Bloggers Challenge was to create a Sympathy Card. This is always something no one likes to do, but everyone has to send them. I decided to create 3 and share them with you....

This first cards uses all SU products.

Stamps - Time Well Spent, Baroque Motifs, Hugs & Wishes, and A Beautiful Thing (flower center)

This next card uses stamps from Flourishes - I just love the Flourished Words Set, and the Flower is from Fantasy Floral Garden. The DSP you see is from SU's new DSP, Bali Breeze. Flourishes has just released some great new sets - be sure to check them out!

The last card I have to show you uses the Artful Inkables Blossoms & Petals and the sentiment from SU's Hugs & Wishes. To create the BG, I pressed glossy card stock to my Marker Wash card shown here, then let it dry, and stamped my images in basic brown ink.

If you'd like to join this weeks challenge and create a sympathy card - be sure to leave a link in this post, so I can check it out!

Have a great weekend!

~lisa

Design Team Samples

I just finished up my Design Team samples for StarvingArtistamps. To see more samples created with StarvingArtistamps - you can search the SCS gallery here.

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps - Mosaics - Cracked Grout - P22.05, Butterflies/Dragonflies P4.20

Dazzling Glass Tech from the TJNL

Details:

Stamps - StarvingArtistamps, Fern Leaf Tooled Leather Background

Flower - Artful Inkables

Details:

Vanilla Double (10-05) TJNL

Stamps - Starving Artistamps - Sea Shells 58.01,Thinking of You 46.08

Bloggers Challenge

Here it is, week 24 of the Bloggers Challenge! This weeks challenge was to use watercolor crayons on your card or project. There's so many great ways to use watercolor crayons, I could have made a ton of samples to share with you.


This first sample uses the Embossed Watercolor Crayon Technique from a past issue of the TJNL. Can you see how the letters were colored with watercolors - see how they shine...










When you open this up, you'll see the gift card on the inside. I made these to fit inside the Gift Card Envelopes.





Details:
Stamps - Big on Christmas, The Snowflake Spot
Ink - White, Red, Versamark
Other - WC Crayons, Black EP, Clear EP, Sticky Strip, Word Window Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, Sponge Dauber
Card Stock - Real Red, Confetti, Glorious Green




My next sample uses the Technicolor Watercolor Technique from the 12/07 TJNL. I just love the Fern Leaf Tooled Leather Background stamp from Starving Artistamps. I stamped the background image on my confetti with Night of Navy and sponged around the edges with my navy ink. I used shades of blue watercolor crayons to create my Technicolor Watercolor, and stamped my background with Navy ink, again I sponged around the edge. The flower image is also from Artful Inkables . I colored the flower image with markers, stamped on my confetti and sponged the edges with Navy ink.

Details:
Card Stock - Navy, Confetti, Bashful Blue
Ink - Navy
Other - WC Crayons, Markers, Sponge Dauber
Stamps - Starving Artistamps - Fern Leaf Tooled Leather Background
Flower - Artful Inkables




Have a great weekend!

~Lisa