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Project 100: 17/100: Fuzzy Winter Wishes

I wanted an easy to mail inexpensive card -- no ribbon, no embellishments.  But I also wanted something interesting on the card.  Notice the fuzzy cardstock? It looks and feels like felt.  Very easy to achieve this effect.  Read on!

Card Construction Details:

1. Took piece of white cardstock.  Split layers at corner with fingernail and gently separated the layers.  What is left is what you see above.   A nice felt-like, thin, cardstock.

2. All images are from Sewing Box - Christmas from Waltzingmouse Stamps.  Stamped snowman 3 times -- once on PTI Aqua Mist and once on the fuzzy cardstock and finally inked up the hat and stamped on Prism paper.

3. Cut both layers of snowman and hat.  Set aside.

4. Stamped PTI Kraft cardstock with large and small snowflakes from the set, with SU Real Red (looks cranberry on kraft), PTI pigment (new formulation) Aqua Mist ink, and SU Craft White ink.

5. Cut white cardstock with Making Memories wavy trimmer and stamped small snowflakes.  Stamped sentiment from same set (it's 3 separate words) with Adirondack Cranberry ink.

6. Trimmed and edged kraft piece with white gel pen and rounded corners.

7. Adhered everything.

I have several more snowmen already stamped and cut, so stay tuned for variations on this card...

Oh, almost forgot to upload the card!  Here it is:

Silent Night

I pulled out a Technique Tuesday set -- Peace, Joy, Love -- the other day and whipped up this card. Ok, that's a lie.  I fiddled around and made a big mess, but eventually settled on this.

Card Construction Details:

1.  Stamped dove and sentiment on SU Bashful Blue cardstock.

2.  Colored in bird with clear embossing marker and embossed with white powder.

3. Trimmed blue cardstock, punched border on edge.

4.  Punched spot for ribbon. Tied silk bow.

5.  Matted to black cardstock.

6.  Adhered at angle to A2 white card.

Mood when done = remembering that the song, Silent Night, has a lot of memories....I feel a post coming on!

Holiday Thanks -- Before & After & After

The card above is "before". The card below is "after."

Card Construction Details:

1. A2 PTI Kraft card.

2. Repeatedly stamped thanks sentiment from Technique Tuesday Thanks for Everything set with Memento Tuxedo ink. Set aside and made dinner.

3. Colored in sentiments with Copic markers in Mom's room, listening to her trying to remember what she had just read in People Magazine. "He's a tennis player with a spanish name. He played with Andre Agassi. Come on, you know who I mean!" (Still no clue.)

4. Stamped small snowflake from Papertreyink Rustic Snowflakes with SU White Craft ink.

5. Wrapped card with red and white flossy twine from I Heart Papers. Thought card would be ok, but snoozefest.

6. Stamped larger snowflake from same set. Cut circle. Layered on red circle. Added red Liquid pearls. Set aside to dry.

7. Ate dinner.

8. Made first version of card. Ugh. Cord is twisted and it still doesn't sing.

9. Added green circle mat, fixed cord. (Make sure cord is knotted off at end or it will unravel).

10. Adhered circle with dimensionals.

Mood when done = glad stamping is such an awesome distraction. Card? Meh.  Snowflake and cord look a little bit like a bolero tie. (Thanks to Nancy for correcting my grammar!)

11.  Cut off twine tails. Version 3 below.

Mood when done = satisfied

 

Merry Christmas

How's that for a clever title?  I swear I've run out of them! I've posted over 1200 posts on this blog, and that doesn't count my first one!

In any event, here's a fun little Christmas card made with 2 Waltzingmouse sets -- Sewing Box-Christmas and Off Beat Backgrounds -- can you see the faint checkerboard underneath my tattersal pattern?  Yes, I split the 2 plaid making stamps so that I have a wide one and a narrow one apart from each other. I could hear the screams clear across the Atlantic!  Hope Claire doesn't mind!

I've no time for chatter or a list of supplies, so I'm doing a PAR "post and run"!  Later!

Tip on Getting Clean Image with Clear Stamp

Clean image hint. 

I have the Scor Pal with the mat and LOVE the product.  LOVE it. Even though it was a gift I give it the 100% DP buy recommendation. 

However, I've found that I often do not get clean images when the mat is in the Scor Pal and I stamp on it, especially with clear stamps. 

Maybe it is just the way I stamp, but here is an example of what I mean. 

This post is a bit lame, but I found it after I received several comments and emails asking me if everything was ok. Yes and no. Yes in the big sense, no in the sense that my back/hips have been hurting enough that I've lost several days of work and precious days of stamping.

I hope to be back soon with some stamping and a discussion of the new Federal Trade Commission rules on blogs and endorsing products. (I kind of hate to come home after a day of wrangling with Federal regulations and make dinner and then commence wrangling again, so I'm avoiding this! The regs do not go into effect until Dec 1, so I have a few days to read them.)

Going Dotty

This non traditional grid of dots is a Christmas card.  It must be, the sentiment says so.

Card Construction Details:

1.  Using 5/8" circle punch, punched 12 circles from Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses.

2.  Adhered in grid format on olive cardstock, popping up some of circles with dimensionals.

3.  Trimmed olive cardstock, leaving room to add trendy plaid strip. 

4.  Scallop trendy plaid with nestability long die and adhered to olive.

5.  Wrapped with pink tafetta ribbon.

6.  Stamped sentiment from PTI's Merry and Bright in Versafine Crimson Red ink. Trimmed

7.  Corner chomped bottom of tag.

8.  Glued on tag. 

9.  Mounted with dimensionals to PTI A2 White Card.  Chomped 2 corners.

10.  Bottom of card looked blank.  Added 1/4" circle punch olive dots.  No.

11. Added dew drops on top of olive dots.  Tried coloring dew drops with pink Copic, but no effect.  Decided good enough.

Mood when done = ok is the best I've got.

Not Very Vintage

Funny how a vintage set can go in an entirely different direction.

Card Construction Details:

1.  A2 white card.

2.  Stamp long decorative element from Waltzingmouse Very Vintage Christmas in rose ink.  Yes, slightly addicted to this line of stamps.

3.  Stamp thin line from same set in celery ink.

4.  Stamp sentiment in black ink.  Crooked.  Argh!

5.  Decide to use this card as guinea pig.  Turn over and repeat 1 - 3 and this time slow down and stamp sentiment straight.

6.  Stamp holly outline on card.

7.  Stamp long decorative element a few times on "mistake side" of card. 

8.  Stamp holly outline on stamped cardstock and cut out leaves.

9.  Color in holly berries and adhere leaves with dimensional pieces.

10.  Had heck of a time getting good photo.

Mood when done = versatile

And, just for fun, here's the back side of the card, with the ever so slightly crooked sentiment.  I hate when that happens!  Guess I won't be mailing this one, but I will be making a dozen or so for Christmas, substituting various sentiments from the set.

Does This Bow Make My Card Look Fat?

Card Construction Details:

1.  Cut 5 and 1/4" x 4" PTI Kraft cardstock.

2.  Stamped the snowflake (love this!) from Waltzingmouse Very Vintage Christsmas with  Tsukineko Blue Frost Kaleidacolor spectrum ink pad (try saying that twice) over the kraft cardstock.

3.  Stamped small flower from same set with Stampin Up White Craft ink.  Set aside to dry.

4.  Stamped twice tag image from Very Vintage Christmas with same Blue Frost ink on kraft.

5.  Hand cut oval center.  Stamped center with snowflake and white ink.  Sponged edges. Set aside.

6.  Sponged Blue Frost over edges of kraft background, with more in corners.

7.  Stamped sentiment from same set with the darker portion of Blue Frost ink.

8.  Sponged white cardstock with Blue Frost ink and adhered tag to white cardstock. Trimmed to form layer under tag.

9.  Mounted oval with dimensionals onto tag. 

10.  Needed something.  Added Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearls to centers of snowflakes and to sides of sentiment.  LOVE this product. 

11.  Used Stampin Up punch to make corners on kraft background (the tag already has corners).

12.  Cut SU Night of Navy to mat; added more Liquid Pearls to corners.  Tap card to get liquid pearls to form smooth circle.

13.  Adhered all, tag is on thick dimensionals.

14.  Tied bow and adhered. 

Mood when done = Pleased

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Life:  work is busy in a weird it's still a new administration kind of way.  My Mom is ok.  My husband is fine.  I have NO idea how my son at college is because, apparently, communication is a ONE way street.  I wonder if he'll call if his bank account reaches zero?

Argh. 

Christmas, Vintage Style

Here's one more card for the stash!

Card Construction Details:

(Honestly, I wrote this whole post and accidentally deleted it so this is going to be short!).  

1.  A2 white card.  Trimmed front bottom with long rectangle nestability die.

2.  Patterned paper from Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses 6x6 paper pack.  (Love every piece of paper in this pack).  Trimmed bottom with long rectangle nestability die.

3.  Stamped image from Waltzingmouse Stamps Very Vintage Christmas twice -- once in Versafine Crimson Red and once in SU Old Olive.  I don't recommend Versafine unless the stamp is very detailed -- the ink on this image isn't as crisp as the SU Classic, but the color was perfect. 

4.  Cut out sentiment in red and set aside.

5.  Adhered patterned paper to card.  Sponged with Ranger Linen Distress ink.

6.  Added piece of silk fabric, cut to ribbon size from stash (someone sent me this, can't remember who -- cut on bias and therefore, easy to ruffle edges.)

7.  Sponged more with distress ink.

8.  Added red pearls.

9.  Popped up sentiment on dimensionals.  

10.  Cut image and scallop with nestability dies.

11.  Put all together.

Mood when done = Merry

Review: Making Memories Felt Stickers

Review:  Making Memories Sticker Felt Alpha

This product shouts "trendy."  It has texture, color and it's not expensive ($4.99).  The two sided package comes with 127 thin (more on that later) lower and upper case alphabet and other shapes stickers.  The stickers come on a nice sheet of polka dot paper that can be re used for projects -- the paper is coated so that the stickers do not leave a residue behind.

 Reasons to Buy

• you need a reason to buy stuff?

• adds texture and dimension

• comes with adhesive already on it

Reasons to Think Twice Before Buying

• very thin; loses shape and tears easily

• name is backwords -- Sticker Felt Alpha instead of Felt Alpha Stickers

If you look closely at the letters in this card, you'll see that they are not perfectly straight.  This is because they do not hold shape when removed from the backing sheet.  When I tried to fix the N, the left side of the letter tore a bit.  Despite this significant flaw, this is a fun product.

Card Construction Details:

1.  Sick of Kraft and looking to make "kitchen sink" card. Placed felt stickers on white cardstock.  Trimmed cardstock.

2.  Drew swirly border by hand with black pigment pen (swirly to go with not perfectly straight letters).  Hint:  draw border first.

3.  Removed n (it was the lower case) and replaced with upper case on punched out old olive cardstock adhered to PTI paper punched with SU scallop punch.  Popped up with dimensional.

4.  Added strip of polka dot paper and punched border.  Adhered to A2 Real Red card with dimensionals.

5.  Added red and white striped ribbon -- yes, after panel was mounted. (Hint:  don't do that.)

6.  Printed out 2009 on typing paper, punched with Martha tag punch.  Punched scrap of white cardstock and adhered typing paper punch to cardstock.  Tied tag to ribbon with red embroidery floss.

7.  Added red eyelet with Crop a Dile.

8. Showed card to Mom "too much red, add some green."  Amazingly, agreed with Mom.

9.  Colored in swirly border with SU Old Olive marker.

10. Removed red and white striped ribbon and substituted green ribbon. Retied tag.  

Mood when done = eyeballs tired; desire for cleaner cards returns