Simply Difficult

It has become difficult for me to do really simple cards. I have a workshop tonight. I rarely do workshops and mainly do Stamp Camps and a Stamp Club. Most of the women at my classes are seasoned stampers so I teach them more advanced techniques. There will be some new stampers at my workshop so I needed to keep my projects fairly simple. I am going to do my Rejected Valentine Card and this one. I didn't even use any ribbon. I love the final product, but it was really difficult not to add lots of extras. I had overwhelming urges to add ribbon, brads, glitter and punch every corner with my Ticket Corner Punch. But I fought off my urges, deciding that I really want the new stampers to know how easy it is to make a great card.
I love this stamp set. I just recently bought it and now cannot believe I waited so long. It make beautiful projects so simply.

Stamps Sets: Roses in Winter and Sincere Salutations Papers: Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum and Naturals White Inks: Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum and Mellow Moss

Card Tin

It's been a few days since I have posted anything. I have been working on this card tin. It really did not take a lot of time but actually finding the time to work on it was another story.

I am doing a class for these next weekend and this is my example. We will also do 4 cards to go with the tin but I have not finished my examples yet.




I used the Sarah Designer Papers to decorate it. I also created dividers on the inside as well as a matching pen and pocket to hold stamps and that sort of thing. I modge podged eveything on to make it more durable. You can find a tutorial for these cute tins here.

TLC98

We all have those stamp sets that we bought and later thought... "what was I thinking?"

This week's Technique Lover's Challenge is to dust off your least favorite set and do something with it!
I try quite often to use stamp sets that I have that I rarely use. It helps to keep me (sometimes) from buying more stamps. When I see a card online that uses a set I never use in a cute way I always save it. I have had this card by WAXYO in my faves for a long time. I just loved the whole look of this card. I also needed something else to show my stamp club this Friday. I wanted to do a donut card, preferably square. So I went online and the first card that popped up was this one done by Beate. So I married the two cards together and this is what I came up with.
I sponged both the Ruby Red and More Mustard panels with their coordinating colors to give each panel a little dimension. I also sponged More Mustard onto the Caramel gingham ribbon so that it would not be so stark.
Now I just have to go cut all the paper for the cards I have planned. That should keep me busy for a while.

Stamp Set: Mini Mates Inks: More Mustard, Ruby Red and Basic Black Paper: Whisper White, More Mustard, Ruby Red and Basic Black Accessories: Circle Punches, Sponge Black and Ruby Markers, Black Grosgrain and Caramel gingham ribbon

Scallop Edges

Everyone keeps asking, "How did you do that?" So I took a few photos, because a picture speaks louder than a thousand words. I did not come up with this idea. I simply read about it in the SCS forums. I am posting picture in hopes that it will help all of you who had questions. I did my scallops on a thin strip of paper. This technique will not work for larger pieces of paper. I did find a tutorial, by Natasha aka tashers on SCS, that shows how to do this technique using a corner rounder. I haven't personally tried it but it looks like it would work for larger pieces of paper.


All you need is a slip of paper and a slit punch.







Punch out your first slit. Be sure that your slit will not hit the edge of your paper.









On the next punch overlap onto the previous punch just a little. It is kinda hard to see here, but I tried.











When you have all the scallops you need, you can pull away excess paper.






I hope this has helped you get a visual on how to make your own scallop edges. If this has helped you please post a comment and let me know.

Stamp Club Project

Valentines Day is almost here. I just finished doing a Valentine swap so I guess that got me in the mood. Every other card I do seems to have a heart theme. So, I decided to do a Valentine card for my stamp club this Friday.
I have wanted to teach the ladies in my monthly stamp club the Diamond Dust technique. I have also been seeing a lot of cards with the scallops made from a slit punch and wanted to show them that as well. (You can see the tutorial for Diamond Dust here.) So I went to the gallery on SCS and looked up the only Valentine set I own and immediately found this great card created by Vitality. So I altered a few things like adding the Diamond Dust and this is what I ended up with. I thought about adding more to this card, but I needed to limit myself so that we have time to make another project. In fact I put some detail on the scallops here but I think I will leave it out for my class.

Stamp Sets: Tiny Talk & Happy Hearts Inks: VersaMark, Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose Papers: Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Whisper White & Basic Black Accessories: Rose, Pink and Black Grosgrain; slit punch, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder & Stampin' Dimensionals^®