Birthday Challenge Cards

One of the stamper's groups I'm in posts a weekly challenge in which members may opt to participate. This particular challenge was for a birthday card, which we make and send to our assigned person. I posted mine here and here is the card I received from Pat Huntoon, a beautiful two pocket card done with the Always set and the Porcelain Prints Designer Paper. I do like this paper! Funniest thing, this is the same paper I used for my challenge card I sent to Amy! LOL!

Pat is the founder and publisher of the Technique Junkie Newsletter, a newletter with online tutorials for paper techniques for rubberstamping and scrapbooking. The pattern for this particular fold can be found in the Oct/Nov 2007 Technique Junkies newsletter (the Online Bonus). If you're not a subscriber, go to http://www.techniquejunkies.com/ for more information about subscribing and tell Pat I sent you. I am in not affiliated with Technique Junkies except that I am a charter subscriber and I've known Pat in a small online group for about ten years. She's a very talented and fun lady.

One cool thing about this fold is the fact that you can put two tags in it with designs and messages too. The card is folded from one sheet of paper (can you believe it?!) which allows you to see and appreciate both sides of the double-sided paper. The flowers and pearl are from the Pretties Kit. Isn't this gorgeous?!

Thanks Pat, for a wonderful card!

Happy weekend everyone!

Margaret

Two Pocket Card

At our April demo meeting we made these clever two pocket cards. They are a perfect use for the double-sided Designer Series Paper as both sides of the paper will show on the finished card. The pattern can be found in the Oct/Nov 2007 Technique Junkies newsletter (the Online Bonus). See http://www.techniquejunkies.com/ for more information.

I used this design from the Bali Breeze Designer Series Paper which has flowers on one side and an Old Olive print on the other. You can see the olive in the upper righthand corner and side. Two cards fill the pockets, which is fun because you can decorate them with stamps and still have plenty of room for greetings and personal messages.

I used the Always set which is one of my current favorites. It has so many images that make it so versatile.

The last picture shows the back portion open; a variation is to adhere it closed and put the brads through that layer also.

Sets: Always

Paper: Bali Breeze DSP; Groovy Guava, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock.

Inks: Old Olive, Groovy Guava

Accessories: Round Tab and Three For You (flowers) punches; bone folder, Cutter Kit (distressing tool), Earth Elements brads, Signo White Gel Pen.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Margaret

Tulsa Regional!

Saturday I attended the Stampin' Up! Regional meeting for demonstrators in Tulsa, OK. What a fun day! We had informative and inspiring presentations, took pictures, ate chocolate, received a new stamp set and also got to stamp! We made several cards and two scrapbook pages! I'll be sharing those with you soon!

Here's our group during the Make 'n Take stamping. L to R is Kimberly (Robin's upline), Robin (my daughter and upline), myself and Stacie, my downline. What an enjoyable day!

This is the card I made for a Splitcoast swap at the Regional using one of my favorite sets, Always. It was a small swap but fun, and I got to meet some ladies in person that I had "seen" online, so that was a great treat! Stamping is all about relationships so what fun to meet new stamping friends, and some actually live fairly close to where I live! We talked about getting together and stamping sometime!

Don't you just love the filigree on this bird stamp? I embossed him in White ep to give him shine and dimension. The background rectangle is white glossy cardstock done with embossing resist: Stamp in VersaMark on glossy cardstock, emboss in clear, brayer or apply color with sponge then stamp again with the darker ink. Easy technique!

Set: Always. Wheel: Baroque Border. CS: Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Glossy White. Inks: Versamark, Rose Red, Certainly Celery. Other: 1/2" circle punch, BoHo Blossoms punch, White embossing powder, Embossing Buddy, White Taffeta Ribbon, brayer, sponge, alcohol.

Hope you've had a good weekend and didn't lose too much sleep with the time change!

Keep on stampin'!

Technostamper Challenge #3

It's time for week 3 of the Technostamper Sketch Challenge already! Here's this week's sketch Mary Jo sent us:


Here my card using one of my favorite new sets, Always.

Set: Always, Tres Chic, Stitched (both background stamps)
Cardstocks: Purely Pomegranate, River Rock, Whisper White
Inks: Purely Pomegranate, River Rock
Accessories: Corner rounder, 1 1/4", 1 3/8", and 1/2" circle punches, stitched Pomegranate grosgrain ribbon, Dimensionals, Crafter's Tool Kit or Mat Pack, Signo White Gel Pen .

I stamped images from the Always set then punched them out and layered them. The River Rock background is stamped with the Stitched background stamp in River Rock ink which makes for a subtle backdrop for the rest of the card. The Tres Chic stamp is on the Purely Pomegranate cardstock and the words and designs are visible, readable yet still not competing with the focal point, which is the four image circles. Use of the layering circle punches makes this come together quickly. The corner punch is used to make the scalloped edge and the white faux stitching with the white gel pen repeats the stitching in the ribbon.

This was a fun sketch! Thanks, Mary Jo! Check out her blog for a list of links to the other stampers in our sketch group. Can't wait to see what they did with this sketch. Even better, use the sketch to make a card yourself and post it on your blog or Splitcoast gallery and link it to either mine or Mary Jo's blog here! Play along with us every week if you want!

Happy Stamping!