PAPERLICIOUS

Project 100: 18/100: More Peace & Plenty -- and a Giveaway

Edited to Add:  This post is now closed. Random Number Generator picked number  24.  I counted down, ignoring a duplicate post and anyone who did not want to enter the contest and came up with Latisha!  I've already sent Latisha an email. 

Thanks to everyone who shared ideas for stamp sets.  It seems that many of you want sentiments and boy/teen sets! 

Let's get to the Giveaway Details first...

 1. Would you like the Waltzingmouse Peace & Plenty set?  (This is a gift from me, not WM). I just love the images and the sentiment, Wishing You Peace and Plenty, tugs at me. I need to pull out this set more!

2. Post a comment on this post by Friday November 13th at 5 pm ET and let me know what you would like to see in a stamp set. 

3.  Open to anyone.  If you do not leave your email address or do not contact me within 48 hours of notification that you won, I'll move on to the next winner.  Once I have a winner, I'll place the order with WM and the set will come directly from Northern Ireland! I love the internet!

4.  I will use random # generator to pick the winner. 

Can't wait to read what you want in a stamp set.  This should be fun...

Card Construction Details:

1. Stamped the oak leaf cluster (we have about 10 million of these on our front lawn now) repeatedly on PTI Kraft paper with Memento Tuxedo ink.

2.  Colored in clusters with Copic markers.  Hint:  Kraft paper is more forgiving than white if you don't have the greatest coloring/blending skills.

3.  Stamped 5 images from WM Very Vintage Labels Four on Kraft cardstock.  Die cut them and set aside.

4.  Fast forward through 4 false starts on what to do next...

5.  Stamped sentiments from PTI's last free anniversary set on 5 die cuts.  These sentiments fit perfectly into die stamped with the Labels Four set.  Decided to go with the one you see. Set aside others for future brilliant work.

6.  Colored label with a skin colored Copic marker and colored edge with orange and red Copic markers and sponged with Ranger Tea Dye distress ink.

7.  Sponged leaf panel with same Tea ink.  Punched corners.

8.  Added some ribbon (from my last post). It is beige with orange trim and thought it would look good.  Mounted layer on pumpkin cardstock.  Added Ruby Red Liquid Pearls to corners of Pumpkin layer. 

9.  Something needed.  Added white gel pen to outside of leaves.  Forgot about Liquid Pearls and crushed them with my hand.

10.  Gave my Mom her nubulizer treatment and cursed stupidity of ruining card.

11. Carefully removed the edges of the pumpkin cardstock layer and took off ribbon.

12.  Replaced ribbon with black gingham.  Much better.

13.  Matted on Black cardstock. Made note:  running out of black and kraft cardstocks!

14.  Added to white A2 card.  Added label die to center of card with dimensionals, after first putting in some black brads.

Mood when done = happy with card.  Grateful to have peace & plenty (the set and the real peace and the plenty, in no small part due to Veterans).

If you'd like to read more about Project 100, please continue! Otherwise, get stampy!

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.)

Shady Tree Studios Meets Damask Designs

For this card I combined two stamp lines -- Cornish Heritage Farms and Papertrey Ink. 

The flower is Perfect Poppies from the Shady Tree Studio line.  I bought it in February and I've been waiting for an idea on how to use it. 

During one of my Claritin induced insomnia sessions this week, I decided to make a background with Damask Designs on vanilla shimmery paper and then color the whole thing with the same Copic markers I used to color in the flower.   I was unable to take or edit an accurate picture.  The card is more coral IRL and not as bright.  Use your imagination!  The center of the flower is filled with a couple of layers of Liquid Pearls and there are a couple of layer of petals cut out and adhered to the flower. 

I'm not 100% sold on the placement of the sentiment -- which is from Birthday Basics by Papertrey Ink,  but I ended up happy with the overall result. 

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I tried living without the Claritin D, substituting another allergy drug.  By late Friday, I was coughing non stop.  So, back to the Claritin.  I managed to get a decent night's sleep anyway, so maybe my body is just adjusting to the stuff! 

Gina K. Pure Luxury Compared to PTI Stamper's Select

Let's face it -- we are nuts about paper and are always on the lookout for the perfect white cardstock.  So I set out to compare the use of Copic markers on both Gina K's Luxury Paper and Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select.  Keep the following in mind:

1. my photography isn't the best. 

2. you are seeing a difference based on my skills using the Copics.  Others may get a different result.  That said: 

The basics.

Gina K -- Her Luxury 120 lb paper is $6.95 for 25 sheets, or 27.8 cents per sheet (I'm ignoring shipping as you can get free shipping with a $35 purchase in the US.).  Gina also sells an 80 lb. weight but I haven't tried it.  It's worth checking out as it is 25 sheets for $4.95 or 19 cents a sheet.

Papertrey Stamper's Select White $6.00 for 40 sheets or 15 cents per sheet (free shipping with $50 purchase in the US).

So, which is better?

First, (no picture) I stamped SU classic ink with a solid stamp and both came out essentially the same -- excellent.

Then, I made this card with the Gina K paper and Copic Markers Flesh Pink E95, Shock Pink RV04, and Chartreuse YG13 (Flower Garden set by PTI). 

To make the flowers I colored each petal completely with the Flesh Pink, then immediately went back over the lower portion of the petal with the Shock Pink, and then took the chisel edge of the Flesh Pink Sketch marker and rubbed to blend. By the way, I like this card!!

It is time consuming to color all the flowers so I colored only one flower on the PTI cardstock.

In real life, the Gina K flower is more blended and the color is more muted.  The ink does not seep to the back of the card.

Conversely, the PTI paper produced a more vivid color but not quite as smoothly blended. The Copics

seep into the back of the PTI paper. Also, the Gina K paper is whiter than it appears in the picture. You get  better view of the color by looking at the photo of the back of the cardstock.

The PTI cardstock is stiffer and works better as a base, although the Gina K's is a close second.

You can judge for yourself which effect you prefer. (I intend to maintain a supply of both).