Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Well the the calm after the storm is here.

Well the the calm after the storm is here. I hosted an all Occasion Stamp A Stack this past week and things are very calm today. I still have some things to catch up on but I'm not feeling rushed and I think I might have come down from the natural high I was on.My SU upline Chrys and I hosted the SAS together. We really work very well together. We had 32 people come between the two sessions and we were definitily hopping both days. WHEW! We did 4 sets of 4 All Occasion cards. I Design two, one was an Adult Birthday and the other was a Thinking of you/Sympathy and Chrys Design two, hers were a Kids Birthday and a Thank you. There were a total of 16 cards made. Chrys did the favors. We did the pin wheels using the scallop punch and putting a peppermint patty in the middle and I did the door prizes which were coaster calendars. We put a red circle label on the bottom of 2 of the patties and whoever picked the favor with the red dot won the door prize. We raffled off 2 each session. Check out below for Pictures and more info on my creations for the SAS. Thanks for checking in. :)

Door Prizes from the Stamp A Stack I hosted

Here's the three door prize choices I did. It's a coaster calendar. I got the coasters form http://stamponthis.com/. For the one in the middle I took two square coasters and covered both sides with a piece of 4x4 Spring Silhouettes DP. I ran the Dp through my xyron to make them stick. I sanded the sides with my Stampin up sanding block. and used my crop-a-dial to make the holes for the ribbon to go through. I found the calendar info here: 2008 Calendar

Stamps: Embrace life

paper: Spring Silhouettes DP, Whisper White and computer white

Ink: Soft sky, Blue bayou and Black Stazon

Accessories: Blue bayou stripped ribbon, liquid Pearl, 2008 calendar, crop-a-dial, sanding block, staple, pop up glue dot, 4x4 square chipboard

Technique: Watercoloring, cutting, coaster calendar

For the one on the left:
Stamps: Time well spent.
Paper:Ginger Blossoms DP, whisper white CS, white computer paper
Ink: Grean Stazon for flowers, prisma pencils for flowers, ruby red for the heart on the calendar.
Accessories: Groovy Guava Stitched ribbon, pop up glue dots, 2008 calendar(see above), crop-a-dial, square 4x4 chipboard, sanding blocks
Technique:coaster calendar.

For the one on the right:
Stamps: Embrace life
Paper: Ginger Blossom DP
Ink: Green Stazon, Prisma pencils for the flower top, Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon, Groovy Guava Stitched ribbon, 4x4 square chipboard, crop-a-dial, "2008 calendar(see above) and crystal effects over the flower to give it a raised look.
Technique: coaster calendar

Thanks for looking & have a Great Day





Stamp A Stack Cards


Here's a close up of the cake!!



These are the SAS Cards I designed. The first one is the Adult Birthday. I decided on making it a feminine card this time around. I used the Eat cake set from Stampin up and to make it look more Feminine I used the faux shaving cream technique on the cake part.
I got these instructions from Beth the host on splitcoaststampers. It was from the tlc110 we did a while back. Thank you Beth.
Here is how to do it:
Ink up a solid stamp, either with your brayer or just by tapping it on the ink pad. Take a small stamp (1/2" to 1") and touch it to the inked surface of the solid stamp and then twist. Repeat the touch and twist motion all over the solid stamp. "Huff" (breathe) on the solid stamp to remoisten the ink if necessary and then stamp it on your cardstock. The result is a beautiful mottled look.Variation: ink up the smaller stamp with a contrasting color before touching/twisting. This will introduce another color into the swirls. I also used the crystal effects, I made a line going through the center of the cake and put micro beads on the top. What a cool look. I was really pleased the way it turned out. lastly I want to tell you about the scoring I did too. I took the White piece and using my fiskers cutter. Using the scoring attachment I scored 1/4 inch all the way around the CS to make it look like a frame I then did my paper piercing in the corners. I also did the scoring on the bottom of the card. The lines are 1/4 inch apart.


The Second card is the Thinking of you one I did. This one is really an easy card to put together. I tapped off the leaves stamp and then stamped the flower on top. I watercolored in the flowers using the blender pen. to Make the vase, I took Stampin up large oval punch and after I punched out the oval I cut off the bottom of the oval to make it flat and then used the ticket punch on the top. Last I sponged all over it to give it a real look. I was really plesed with this one too..

Birthday wishes recipe:

Stamps: Eat Cake, sincere salutations.
paper: Groovy Guava, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper white.
Inks: Elegant Eggplant, Groovy Guava, White craft for the BG on the base part of the card.
Accessories: Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon, micro beads, crystal effects, dimensionals, Score blade from my fiskers cutter and a 1/8 circle punch.
Technique: Faux shaving cream, scoring and paper piercing.

Thinking of you recipe:

Stamps: Embrace Life( great set and I've used it a ton.), curvey verses
Paper: Very vanilla, chocolate chip, spring silhouettes DP,
Ink: Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, Brown stazon.
Accessories: Chocolate chip grosgrain, liquid Pearl for flower centers, blender pen to watercolor in flowers, Large oval punch, ticket punch, Liquid pearl is from Jaann's Crafts
Technique: watercoloring, Vase making and sponging.

Thanks for looking & Have a Great Day