Homemade Foam Stickers

Hope you are all having a great weekend. The Make It Monday challenge this week is all about making your own stickers using fun foam. In her video Laurie uses double sided adhesive foam to create custom stickers from die cut letters - you can see the video here. Rather than a single letter I chose to use this technique with a die cut word.

My fun foam had only one adhesive side. I found working with this product a bit tricky as it can stretch out of shape once the paper backing is removed. I used a few tips from Laura Bassen's video on Camouflaging Die - Cuts - MIM#193 and Laurie's previous MIM tutorial using Stretch and Seal to help place die cut pieces. - MIM#177. My card design was inspired by this week's sketch at CAS(E) the Sketch! - CTS#106 . I used the colour palette from this month's Inspiration Archive Color Play at PTI.

Supplies:
Stamps - Leave It Be, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (PTI)
Dies - Birthday Trio, Building Blocks (PTI)
Paper - Stampers Select White CS, True Black CS (PTI)
Ink - Sweet Leaf, Pear, Lagoon, Juniper, Dutch Blue (CTMH), Versa Mark, White EP
Other - Fun Foam

Christmas Joy - Inlaid Die Cuts

I am spending the day Saturday at a crop so decided that would be a good opportunity to get my Christmas cards done. Keeping the idea 'Flat for mailing' in my head this is what I came up with. I decided that inlaid die cuts was a good way to achieve this. This was just my prototype but it didn't turn out too badly so it's going in the pile to send out. I'll be doing these in a number of different colours and papers. I am entering this into the Less is More challenge also - which is to use designer paper in a CAS way.

 

 

Got an order from Papertrey Ink yesterday and just had to use some of my new goodies. Love the one liner dies. After die cutting the snowflakes I pressed them into my VersaMark ink pad and then heat embossed them with a mixture of clear EP and glitter.

Supplies:
Dies - One Liners, Fancy Flakes (PTI)
Paper - DP - Frosted, Frosted Grey CS (CTMH), Cream CS
Ink - VersaMark, Clear & glitter EP
Other - Rhinestones

40th Anniversary Greetings

I am excited to play along with the 'Less is More' challenge this week, which is to use Designer Paper in a CAS way. As soon as I saw this challenge I thought of inlaid die cuts. I used the fabulous sketch CTS#54 at CAS(E) this Sketch challenge blog this week.

I needed a 40th Anniversary card and am quite pleased with how this turned out.

Supplies:
Paper - Summer Stories (Teresa Collins), Neena Solar White
Dies - Labels 18 (Spellbinders), By The Numbers (PTI)
Other - Bow clip (CTMH), embossing stylus, score board (Martha Stewart

Stamped Square Frames / Black With a Splash of Colour Take 2

This is the second card that I am entering into Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge and the Less is More Challenge. You can see my first card here .

 

 

Again I used the Boutique Borders: Birthday stamp set to create my frame, however on this card I embossed with black embossing powder. I inlaid the square die cuts as I did on the other card but stamped my sentiment towards the top right corner of the inner square rather than in the middle. I applied a fun technique to the chipboard heart. See closeups and how-to below.

 

While cleaning out a drawer in my craft room the other day I came across a sheet of paper on which I had written down some instructions to add interesting texture to chipboard. I have no idea where I got this, if you recognize it let me know. Simply apply a layer of clear Scotch brand glue to the entire surface of your chipboard shape, drop a few drops of Alcohol ink onto the glue and heat with a heat gun, simple as that. There was a small white spot on the side of the heart when I was done so I dropped a little more ink onto the spot to cover and wiped off the rest. I liked how that looked so added a little more ink to the rest of the heart and wiped off the excess as well.

Supplies:
Stamps - Boutique Borders, Botanical Silhouettes (PTI)
Paper - Black CS, chipboard heart
Ink - Versa Mark, Black EP, Raisin Alcohol ink (Adirondack), Scotch clear glue
Other - Classic Square Dies Lg & Sm (Spellbinders), black rhinestones, black hemp (CMTH)

Stamped Square Frames / Black With a Splash of Colour

For this week's Make it Monday Dawn McVey is challenging us to use stamps to create square frames. You can check out her great tutorial here. I am also entering the challenge at Less is More this week which is to create a card with a dark background and a splash of colour.

I actually ended up with two cards for these challenges. I started out by testing my frame on inexpensive black cardstock because my supply of better cardstock was running low. After completing the card seen below I decided to complete my test piece slightly differently, you can see that post here.

 

 

This card was extremely challenging to photograph since there was very little natural light and artificial light affected the colours drastically.

I also used the inlaid diecut technique from last week's Make It Monday challenge at Papertrey Ink to give the card more texture and interest. I used Spellbinders Classic Square dies for this.

Supplies:

Stamps - The Sweet Life, Boutique Borders: Birthday, Botanical Silhouettes (PTI)

Paper - Black CS (Bazzill), White CS

Ink - Versa Mark, Clear EP, Clover Meadow, Pear, Cotton Candy, Tulip, Pansy Purple inks (CTMH)

Other - The Sweet Life Dies (PTI), Classic Squares Lg & Sm (Spellbinders), black rhinestones (CTMH)

More Masked Birthday Wishes

Yesterday I posted a birthday card using post-its to mask off a fish tail banner that I then sponged with ink. Today's card is virtually the same card but I wanted to try it with different colours and I also wanted to inlay the die cut sentiment which I didn't think to do yesterday. Inlaid die cuts is the Make It Monday challenge at Papertrey Ink this week so I am entering this card into that challenge. Again, I used the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.

 

 

I really like this colour combo. I had a couple of minor touches of stray black ink which I valiantly attempted to cover with tiny rhinestones. Looking at it now, it is probably where I would have placed them anyway. There is also a rhinestone in the center of the flower which is difficult to see.

Supplies:
Stamps - Meadow Greens, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (PTI)
Dies - Birthday Trio (PTI)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Bamboo & Dutch Blue (CTMH)
Paper - Neena Solar White, Green CS (Bazzill)
Other - Bitty Rhinestones (CTMH), post-it notes

PTI August Blog Hop - Fast Food Colour & Sketch Challenge - Take 2

For my second submission to PTI's August Blog Hop I chose the chocolate chip cookies for my inspiration and sketch. I thought the colours would work well for a masculine birthday card (I never seem to have enough of those). I used a lot of PTI dies on this card.

Here is the inspiration photo & sketch:

Supplies:
Stamps - Wonderful Words: Birthday (PTI)
Ink - Desert Sand (CTMH)
Paper - Colonial White, Kraft, Chocolate CS (CTMH), black CS
Accessories: twine
Other - Coverplate: Vertical Chevron, Birthday Trio Die, By The Numbers Die, Suffix Style Die (PTI), Classic Circle Lg & Sm (Spellbinders), 3D foam

PTI August Blog Hop - Fast Food Colour & Sketch Challenge

Happy Sunday morning everyone! With yesterday's online event at PTI yesterday and today's blog hop challenge my scrap room looks like a tsunami hit it. Still working on some cards to submit for Stamp-a-faire, but thought I had best get these cards uploaded to help clear out some of my space.

This month's blog hop is all about fast food inspiration. For my first card I chose the yummy pastel birthday cake & sketch for my inspiration. I wanted to use some of my dies for this challenge, so they are the dominant focus for my cards.

Here is the inspiration photo & sketch:

Supplies:
Stamps - Stylish Sentiments: Birthday (PTI)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - Sky, Heavenly Blue, Vanilla Cream, Creme Brulee, Cotton Candy CS (CTMH), Neena Solar White, Black (Bazill)
Accessories: ribbon, sparkles (CTMH)
Other - Heart Border Die (PTI)