Category: Sunday Stamper

Challenge: Oh You Pretty Thing

1/10/2016

The Sunday Stamps, Week 370, as hosted by Hels Sheridan on her blog Ink on My Fingers, is to make something “pretty”.

I did a blog hop yesterday and saw a card that really intrigued me. I tried to come up with something similar (different colors, different stamps). but I didn’t have a photo of the card at hand* when I started stamping so I just winged it….

I started with an image in Archival “Jet Black” on Ranger’s Speciality Stamping Paper, cut to size. I then makes off a white tag, blended “Abandoned Coral” and “Carved Pumpkin” Distress Inks onto it and them removing the mask, stamped the same image on the tag as on the card.After I attached a word band and some satin ribbon to the tag, I mounted it on the card, aligning it with the image on the card, using glue dots so it was raised slightly off the card:

*(My version is missing a little something something, and now that I have looked back at the original, I can see it needs some contrast between the card and the tag! The original used a coordinating colored cardstock for the base card…Oops!)

Products used in making this card:

Stamps: Close to My Heart “Lovely Daisy” (C1264)
Papers: Ranger Speciality Stamping Paper, Paper Reflections Medium tag (white)
Inks: Distress Inks “Abandoned Coral” and “Carved Pumpkin”; Archival “Jet Black”
Embellishments: Idea-ology Word Bands (TH 93000); Affray 1/8” sating ribbon in orange
Adhesives: Scor-Tape; Pop Up Gluedots

P.S. I tried this with the MISTI and it didn’t work. I suspect the stamps were at fault since they tended to stick more strongly to the papers than to the MISTI cover itself, moving the papers (and once, tearing the speciality stamping paper!) even against the MISTI’s strong magnets. I couldn’t get a clear or complete image. So after several tries, I abandoned the MISTI and went back to my trusty acrylic block and foam stamping pad.

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Challenge: Christmas: No Stamping Needed

12/23/2015

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The Sunday Stamper Challenge, Week #369 , December 20, 2015, was to make a Christmas piece, no stamping required. I decided to play with paper scraps, ribbon and some stickers and embellishments in my stash. Indeed, I didn’t not stamp on this card!

The Products used in making this cards were:

papers: s.e.i. 8.5 x 11 Cardmaker Paper Pack (“Holiday Traditions”); Paper Pizazz “Metallic Silver”; Heidi Grace “Glittered Floral” (the glitter got covered up by the sentiment! Oops!); scarp red card stock
Embellishments: Paper Bliss holly leaves; s.e.i. 8.5 x 11 Cardmaker Paper Pack sticker (“Holiday Traditions”); Blue Lupine Ribbon

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Challenge: Peace

12/9/2015

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The Sunday Stamper Challenge - Week 368, over at Hels Sheridan's blog Ink on My Fingers, is "peace" and boy, can this world use a little of that these days!

I wanted to make something peaceful and serene and wintery and cold so I opted for white and silver as my color scheme and decided to play with texture and layers, something I find hard to do as a rule. I have one stamp that is the word "Peace" which I decided to use as my focus.

First of all, I took some of Ranger's Textured Surfaces corrugated card and painted it with Ranger "Snow Cap" acrylic paint (which was pretty much dried up in my bottle so I had to water it down and basically spatula it on! Note to self --- buy more, that jar is toast!) and, then when dry, with Distress "Brushed Pewter" paint:

Next up in the layers was a sheet of Maja Design "Vintage Frost Basics" card, trimmed to fit, mildly distressed and randomly embossed around the edges with WOW! super fine metallic silver embossing powder:

I stamped the word "Peace" on a piece of scrap white card and embossed it with WOW! super fine metallic silver as well (it was later trimmed to form a banner):

Finally, I experimented with adding embossing powder to a Prima Marketing flower:

Not entirely successful --- next time I'll try using glitter instead!

Next was assembly, using foam squares to pop up various elements in the layers. For more texture, I added a Venetian lace corner and a string of clear "pearls" for bling:

Products used in making this card were:

Papers: Textured Surfaces; Maja designs “Vintage Frost Basics”; scrap white yardstick
Stamps: Art Impressions I-2124
Inks: Adirondack Acrylic Dabber “Snow Cap”; Distress Paint “Brushed Pewter”, Versamark
Emossing Powders: WOW! “Metallic Silver Super Fine”
Embellishments: Prima Marketing “Tessitura” (562762); Venician Lace corner; Modern Romance "Clear Pearls” (MRT-462-112)
Adhesives: Multi Medium Matte; Glossy Accents, Foam Squares

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Challenge: An Altered State

11/23/2015

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On Frilly and Funkie’s challenge for November 18, 2105, we are to “transform something [we] have sitting around or can pick up for a song and make it one of [our] works of art. It could be a frame, a bottle, an old cigar box, a discarded CD - the list is endless. Just make sure [the] final transformation is vintage or shabby chic.”

OK, doable. I had this plaque (top surface 4" by 6") left over from a Compendium of Curiosities Challenge way back in December of 2014.

Also in my “leftover file” were some branches on brown card made from the “Festive Greenery” die and leaves of various fall colors from the “Fall Foliage” die made this past October 12.

Seems like “sitting around” to me!

First step was to prep the plaque. I gessoed it. When dry, applied some texture paste to the top. Twenty-four hours later, I brushed a wash of four colors of Distress Paints on the plaque:

Eventually, I added “Vintage Photo” Distress Ink around the edges with a blending tool.

While all these steps were drying, I took some of the leaves and branches and sprayed them with Distress Spray stains, and overstamped them with leaf patterns from an old (circa 2000) Stamping’ Up! set I had in three colors of Distress Inks:

and finally blended the edges with a blending tool and “Vintage Photo” Distress Ink. (This was based on a technique demonstrated by TIm Holtz on his blog for making "distressed leaves")

I took a piece corrugated card from Idea-ology “Textured Surfaces” and painted it with a wash of four Distress Paints:

and cut an irregular shape from it. I also took a sheet of DQWV paper and tore a strip to mat the textured surface. From that same sheet of paper, I cut the word “Autumn” and layered the paper and textured surface on the plaque, using Multi Medium Matte, and rubbing the paper so it fit into the texture of the texture paste:

I searched through my stash of burlap flowers and selected one from Spare Parts, applied Distress Paints to the petals and fluffed the flower to add dimension.

Assembly included arranging the leaves (I ended up only using six of the largest leaves from the dozens of leaves I had prepared), two lengths of sheer brown ribbon and the flower on the plaque and sticking them down with scor-tape and Glossy Accents:

The flash really makes the Tarnished Brass spray stain shine --- it isn't that obvious in real life.

It looked a little too “matte” to me, once I finished so I added a few sequins here and there for some bling.

I’m also entering this project in the Ink on My Fingers Sunday Stamper Challenge - Week 367 - Vintage

Products used in this project were:

Stamps: Stamping’ Up! “Autumn” set
Inks: Distress Spray Stains “Festive Berries”, “Fossilized Amber” and “Tarnished Brass”; Distress Inks “Vintage Photo”, “Ground Espresso”, and “Hickory Smoke”; Distress Paints “Ground Espresso”, “Fossilized Amber”, “Carved Pumpkin” and “Crushed Olive”
Papers: miscellaneous scrap die cuts; Idea-ology “Textured Surfaces”; Die Cut With a View “The Fall Stack” (CP-002-00372)
Embellishments: Spare Parts “Burlap Flowers” (#879981); Offray “Simply Sheer” medium brown (946190); Bits & Pieces squint gold
Media: Liquitex Acrylic Gesso; Ranger Texture Paste, Multi Medium Matte, Collage Glue Stick, Glossy Accents; Scor-tape 1/8”

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Challenge: “Imagine”

11/9/2015

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The Sunday Stamper Challenge, Week # 366 is to use the word “Imagine”.

Wouldn’t you know it, I don’t have a single stamp with that word featured, even in a minor way! But I do have a die and so that show I went. I didn’t mean to (or want to) copy Hels’ card exactly but I do love butterflies and I did have a stamp/die set that would work…

My first task was to create a background for my butterflies. I “smooshed” four colors of Distress Stains by loading them onto an acrylic block and then pulling the block across a piece of scrap watercolor paper. I then stamped three butterflies from the Sizzix Framelits set “Limitations” and used the dies from that set to cut out the butterflies and four rows of stars.

Then I applied the Sizzix Movers & Shakers die “Imagine” on ivory card so that the word would appear at the bottom of a top-fold card. I backed the die cut with a scrap of red (and LOTS of Scor-tape!). I used a strip of score tape to arrange the rows of stars below the word and the thee butterflies above. Finally, using the Distress Marker Spritzer, I spritzed the card with three colors of Distress Marker.

You can't tell from this angle but the back two butterflies have their middle wings glues flat to the card face while their outer wings are lifted up; the middle buttferly is attached only by its body, leaving both wings lifted.

Products used in making this card were:

Stats: Sizzix Framelits stap/die set “Limitations” (660189)
Dies: Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shakers “Imagine” (657202)
Inks: Archival “Jet Black”; Distress Stains “Fossilized Amber”, “Twisted Citron”, “Abandoned Coral” “Cracked Pistachio”; Distress Markers “Twisted Citron”, “Fossilized Amber”, “Abandoned Coral”
Tools: Sizzix Alterations “Base Tray” (657007); Sizzix Magnetic Platform (656499); Distress Marker Spritzer; Scor-tape 1/8"; Ranger Collage Glue Stick

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Challenge: "Freedom!"

10/29/2015

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Week 365 of the Sunday Stamper Challenge over at Ink on my Fingers is “Freedom”. We are to make a little something; a card, canvas, ATC, a piece of altered art and add some stamping, and then comment on the blog with a link. Easy peasy — except what exactly connotes “Freedom” to me? I didn’t want to go the route of Independence Day or the “freedoms" specified in the Bill of Rights (and so willingly abused by our citizens). Sooo... after some mulling about, I decoded I would go with freedom to move about, to travel, to explore new places. Something that I wish I had the money to do, but …

I stamped some images in Archival “Jet Black”, colored them with Distress Markers and a blending brush, spritzed a few clouds with shimmer spray, and fussy cut them before layering on a “Russian Sage” prefolded card base. I then stamped words with Color Box “Frost White” on black card (run through my Xyron to create stickers), embossed with clear embossing powder, and added them to the card front as well to create my sentiment.

Products used in the making of this card:

Stamps: SnapStamps Mini-Formal Alphabet (00377), SU! “Wish You were here”, PSX Pixie “Travel”
Inks: Color Box “Frost White”. Archival Jet Black”, Psst! Sheer Shimmer Spray “Sparkle”, Distress Markers “Gathered Twigs”, “Squeezed Lemonade”, “Festive Berries”, “Iced Spruce” and “Spun Sugar"
Embossing Powder: Deep Impressions “Clear”

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Challenge: Forever Autumn

10/5/2015

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Week 364 of the Sunday Stamper Challenge over at Ink on My Fingers is "Autumn".

Another challenge I regularly contribute to is also using "Autumn" as a challenge topic, I decided to play around with the theme, using autumnal colors (in Distress) and various leaf stamps from my oft-neglected wood-mounted stash. What resulted was two cards so I will enter my simplest and most experimental (for me ---actually some free-handed work in this one!) in this challenge.

I stamped a nearly-bare tree in "VIntage Photo" on ivory card, used Distress markers to add in some leaves and swirls (for the wind which is CONSTANTLY blowing around here where I live) and used a water brush to blend the ink of the leaves on the ground to form a base for the. Addition of a sentiment, again in "Vintage Photo", completed a clean-and-simple card:

Products used in creating this card were:

Stamps: Inkadinkado 707 97162-DD; Hero Arts "Autumn C-3039
Inks: Distress Ink "Vintage Photo"; Distress Markers "Wild Honey", "Ripe Persimmon", Brushed Corduroy", Vintage Photo

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