Stretch Your Stamps 2 Day 7

I’m sharing a CASE of Debby Hughes’ lovely card from today’s Online Card Classes Stretch Your Stamps 2 lesson. Debby used the smallest diamond in the Avery Elle set and “kissed” it to the Hero Arts woodgrain stamp.

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Day 7

The tricky part was finding inks that I owned that would give Debby’s card justice. I don’t own the inks that she used; her blues were more pool/teal than mine. She is also the queen of adding just the right embellishments to her cards. I hesitated adding any at all! I settled on three, whereas Debby had stars, a clear round dot and colored enamel dots. I need to “beef up” my dot stash!

Supplies: Avery Elle Rounded Diamonds, Hero Arts Woodgrain, WPlus9 Hand Lettered Hello

Penny Black Dazzlers

Today, I’m sharing a summery “hello” card pairing Penny Black’s 30-237 Dazzlers and 30-240 Textures.

Penny Black Dazzlers

I stamped the medallions from Dazzlers in a combination of summery colors. I stamped the woven (burlap-like) texture onto the orange card base for a tone-on-tone effect. The sentiment, one of my favorites, is from the 30-230 Sunny Hello stamp set

I can see using this same design in cooler colors (maybe even silver and gold) with a holiday sentiment!

Stretch Your Stamps 2: CASE of Jennifer McGuire’s card

I was away for a week and I’m now catching up with the Online Card Classes Stretch Your Stamps 2 homework. I’m sharing the first card I’ve made from the class, a CASE of one created by Jennifer McGuire.

Stretch Your Stamps 2: CASE

I made a few changes to Jennifer’s amazing design given my supplies. The Hero Arts damask background stamp is intended to be used for a portrait, rather than landscape, card (the pattern isn’t symmetrical in this orientation), but I don’t own the Tim Holtz stamp she used and I wanted to get going on the card. 🙂 I used silver ink whereas Jennifer used a gorgeous combination of Perfect Pearls.

For this card, I followed Jennifer’s instructions to apply VersaMark to the die cut sentiment and heat emboss it will clear powder. Jennifer did the process three times; I stopped after two. I will definitely use that technique in the future as it gives the die cut extra depth and great shine.

Supplies: Encore silver ink; Stampin’ Up black cardstock; Hero Arts Large Fabric Design; IO Thin Stripes; Paper Smooches Quote Tag; MFT STAX Heart

The Cutting Edge Challenge #7

It’s time for the another Cutting Edge Challenge! Our inspiration this week is an amazing card created by Design Team member Jackie Rockwell.

The Cutting Edge Challenge #7

I was drawn to the horizontal lines and the conversation bubbles on Jackie’s card. I also incorporated the pink and golden yellow colors in her card on mine, and I created a square card like she did. I used the stitched long rectangle from the Blueprints die set to create the horizontal lines. The sentiments, which I stamped and heat embossed, are from Simon Says Stamp sets.

Supplies: MFT Blueprints 1; MFT Say What?

Penny Black Remember This – CAS

Today, I’m sharing a CAS card created with products from the recent Penny Black Pocket Treasures release.

Penny Black Remember This - CAS

To begin, I cut the glasses using a die from the 51-055 Shades set several times, from both black cardstock and from patterned paper. I pieced these together and adhered them to solid cardstock cut with one of the dies from 51-053 A Pocket Full, which I had heat embossed with a sentiment from
30-246 Remember This. I attached the panel to a dry-embossed card base.