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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!

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

 

Pencil on Kraft

First the card, then the chatter.  I saw a tutorial somewhere (perhaps the Hero Arts blog??) on using prismacolor or other colored pencils on kraft cardstock.  Well, since I'm up to my eyeballs in kraft cardstock, I thought I'd give it a go.

Card Construction Details:

1.  Stamped flower from PTI's Garden of Life in Memento Tuxedo ink on PTI Kraft cardstock.

2.  Colored bits of petals with a Prismacolor White pencil.  Colored rest with Pure Poppy pencil.

3.  Added white dots between flowers with white pencil.

4.  Had NO idea what to do with this and pondered taking entire stamp room and donating it to someone with gratitude and/or talent.  Decided to add strip of kraft stamped with SU white craft ink and PTI's Polka Dot Basics.

5.  Added polka dot strip and stamped sentiment from PTI's Birthday Basics in black ink.

6.  Hand circled the dots with Pure Poppy pencil, sealing card as definitely hand made.

7.  Added white ribbon tied with bit of ecru embroidery floss.

8.  Used SU corner rounder to -- ta da -- round corners.

9.  Stamped A2 Licorice Memory Box card with Polka Dot Basics and Versamark ink.  Inside of card is white, which is sweet...

10.  Adhered kraft panel with SU dimensionals.  

Mood when done = I've seen worse.  Hey, I've made worse.

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So I quit facebook.  Sorry, especially for not giving advance warning to my relatives!!  Am in -- frankly -- a funk.  Too much internet and too much tugging at heart strings over child in college.  I'm taking as much of a break from life as my job, husband, mother, son and mortgage will permit.   You will find me buried in a book or in my stamp room! 

Project 100 3/100: Blue Flowers

I hereby decree blue flowers suitable for a male card. 

Card Construction Details:

1.  Fast forward through several false starts.

2.  A2 (5.5 x 4.25) card from Papertrey Ink White cardstock.

3.  Stamped dotted border from Impression Obsessions Border set in SU Not Quite Navy classic ink onto PTI Kraft cardstock.

4.  Masked off edges with Eclipse masking tape and stamped large flower from PTI's Beautiful Blooms in SU Craft White Ink.  Stamped centers with NQN (same set).  Trimmed and rounded corners.

5.  Stamped sentiment from PTI's Friends Til the End twice.

6.  Stamped flower on NQN cardstock and trimmed and stamped center on Kraft.  Punched center with 1/4" circle punch.

7.  Adhered.  Rounded corners of white card.

8.  Decided card "needed something."  Added blue dots with SU NQN marker.

Mood when done:  Medium Well

 

For Alice/Lunch Couple...

My Mom was talking the other day about Alice.  Alice is one of her few friends who is still alive.  Alice had a stroke and moved to a (nice and expensive!) retirement facility.  Then Ted Kennedy died and my Mom spent all day watching the clips of his and his family's life.  By the time I got home from work, she was all teary eyed.  "I just watched my whole life." 

Not exactly.  Don't remember living in the White House, but I do understand.  She's watching her life in the mirror.  So, I told her I'd make a card for Alice. 

A woman in her 80s is going to get a very traditional card -- no trends here!  No stamping on a leaf or wrapping the card with burlap.  No dark cardstock on the inside.  Everything simple and basic and pretty and nice and evoking Grace Kelly.  Just like that "greatest generation."

Card Construction Details:

1.  Bella Blue paper from SU (retired), hand stitched with regular needle and thread straight from the sewing basket. 

2.  Stamped French Script from SU (retired) in Versamark on the Bella Bleu paper and on the oval.

3. Stamped sentiment from Damask Design, oval from Oval Borders and Corners and swirl from Rectangle Borders and Corners, all PTI.

4.  Edged Bella Blue piece and oval and card with Copic marker and Ranger Linen Distress ink.

5.  Embossed oval with Ultra Thick Embossing Powder.

6.  Cut Not Quite Navy (SU) piece with nestability die.  Added pearls from stash.

7.  Wrapped twice with ivory silk ribbon.

8.  Punched corners from NQN layer.  Adhered everything.

Mood when done = grateful and feeling quite spoiled

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Ok, the lunch table post is cracking me up.  I've had almost 2000 hits on my blog since I posted about the lunch table couple yesterday!!  I guess it's not the cards, huh? LOL

No more info to report today, other than my co workers are amused by your amusement. 

I've got a plan to find out a bit more, but too busy at work to actually do any thing about it!

Make A Wish

I offered to make a birthday card for a friend's mom and decided that kraft paper and white ink just didn't cut it for this particular woman.  I wanted a more traditional look.  And what's more traditional than flowers?

Card Construction Details:

1. Stamped smaller flower and little stamp (not sure what to call the frill) from PTI's Friends Til the End in Memento Tuxedo ink onto PTI white paper.

2. Colored with copics in between taking care of Mom and running craft sale! 

3.  Fiddled with assorted papers, ribbons, and ended up using PTI Berry Sorbet and SU Yo Yo yellow.  Colored the Yo Yo with a copic to tone it down..  Used Fiskars punch to get cute scallop trim.

4.  Stamped sentiment from PTI's Mega Mixed Messages, made tag and attached with twine.

5.  Added gingham ribbon in order to ensure trend stays alive.

5.  Remembered to stamp birthday sentiment inside the card.

Mood when done = more than satisfied

I'm not happy with the photo. It's a bit washed out. So here's a close up of part of the card.

BTW:  I'll post the results of my in home craft sale when I've recovered!!

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A personal note:

Thank you.  I'm sitting here trying to add to that sentiment but words fail.

Purple Bloom

And may I just say how nice my readers are!  Enough fawning....

Card Construction Details:

1.  Stamped large flower and small leaf (3 times..) from Papertrey Ink's In Bloom onto PTI White cardstock with Memento Tuxedo ink.

2.  Colored flower in with Copic markers.

3.  Cut flower.  The large flower was too large and the small was....you get the pic.  So, in keeping with brilliance, cut the large flower into a medium size flower.  Just call me Goldilocks.

4.  Curved sentiment from PTI's Around and About on block and stamped with SU Artichoke dye ink.

5.  Colored leaves with SU Celery and Artichoke markers.  Cut out leaves.

6.  Decided that the sentiment wasn't heavy enough for the left side of the card (I'm sooo arty I can't stand myself) and in a leap of faith, hand drew a black line under sentiment for the ever mysterious "balance." 

7. Glued leaves and adhered flower with a dimensional.

Mood when done = bloomin' tired

Getting Krafty

I had so much fun making my last card with PTI Kraft cardstock that I just kept stamping.

Card Construction Details

1.  Stamped a 4.25" square card with Cornish Hertitage Farms' polka dot background. Used SU Craft ink.  Set aside.

2.  Found scrap of SU Pretty in Pink textured cardstock in "scrap bin" and stamped large flower from PTI's In Bloom with same white ink.

3.  After trying out several ribbons, twine and buttons, settled on this button and SU gingham ribbon; adhered with white twine colored with pink Copic marker.

4. Stamped sentiment from PTI Mega Mixed Messages with Memento Tuxedo ink.

5. Decided upper corner needed more black and punched piece of black cardstock with 1" square punch and placed behind the corner.

6.  Faux stitched with a black pigment pen.

7.  Adhered pink panel with SU dimensionals.

Mood when done = Dotty

HELLO

I was going to wait and post this on Monday because there isn't as much blogging on the weekends.  But then I thought.

What am I waiting for?  I had fun making this and I want to share it.

I'm not selling a thing (EXCEPT FOR A TON OF STAMPS ETC NEXT WEEKEND AT MY HOUSE -- STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFO). 

So, here's a fun 4.25" square card!

Card Construction Details:

1.  Instead of getting ready for my MAJOR stamp/craft sale next weekend, made square card with PTI Kraft (lighter than SU's).

2. Rounded corners with SU corner rounder punch.

3.  Stamped flower from PTI's Beautiful Blooms with SU Craft White Ink.  My ink pad dries fairly quickly and gives excellent coverage.

4.  Threaded buttons with PTI's Rustic Button Twine. 

5.  Stamped HELLO with PTI's Fresh Alphabet with SU Real Red ink.  On PTI's Kraft, the ink stays red; on SU's the red ink turns burgundy).

6.  Adhered buttons with glue dots.

7. Used SU 1/4" circle punch to make half circle slots for the ribbon to rest.

8. Wrapped SU Real Red gingham ribbon.

Note:  I designed this card so that the sentiment would be on the side, but when it was done, decided to turn it.  Works either way!

Mood when done = Krafty

Floral Fusion on Vellum Window

This is another card made with Papertrey Ink's Floral Fusion.  I based it on a card made by Nichole Heady, which you can find here. 

Card Construction Details:

1. Followed Nichole's instructions, substituting supplies.  My supplies were:  PTI Hibiscus Pink cardstock and ink and bitty dot ribbon; SU Garden Green and Vellum cardstocks; SU Garden Green dye ink; 1" and 3/4" square punches to make the photo corners; rectangle nestability die, and some unknown self adhesive pearls.  

2.  Stamped the green stem first and then followed with the pink flowers.  Took paper towel and gently blotted flowers, moving towel to clean spot each time.  This evened out texture on petals. 

2.  Debated whether to sneak in sentiment on outside of card, but left as is, and put sentiment inside.

3.  Inside of card (behind the image) is covered with another layer of vellum. I'm not sure how Nichole adhered her vellum piece, but mine is a larger piece than the window and the ribbon goes over it in the back.  Decided it needed to be cleaned up a bit.  Isn't perfect, but isn't the first thing that the recipient will see. 

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