Stamping 411 Challenge 228

Thanks to all the Operators over at Stamping 411 for choosing my card to be featured in the stamper's showcase. You all are wonderful and I appreciate all your hard work.

Here is the Stamping 411 sketch challenge 228 for this week. I love going over there and checking out what everyone else is doing with these but mostly I appreciate all their hard work to come up with these sketches which gives me someplace to start. To want to make a card and start with a blank sheet of card stock it makes it infinately easier if you have a direction to go. There are endless possibilities out there so we have to have somewhere to start. The sketches they provide do this for us. Then we just add the stamps and ink and things come together so great.

Look at it like this. You have 2 yards of fabric. It's laying on a table flat ready to be made into something. You wouldn't start randomly cutting on that fabric and hope something nice comes out of it. You get a pattern, whether it's for an apron, a pair of pants, a dress, a jacket, whatever it is you want to make you use the correct pattern, you lay it out on the fabric and cut it out accordingly. Same with card making. If we start with a sketch, or pattern, it makes it go a lot easier.

I combined the sketch with the color inspiration challenge 164. I smooch sprayed the ornament, which is hard to see in the photo, after I ran it through the Big shot with the petals-a-plenty ef. I used markers and blender pen to color the image which was stamped with stazon ink. I sponged the sky then used 2 way glue pen to apply the dazzling diamonds glitter. So it really sparkles. The little snowflake was cut with the Northern Frost strip die. I think everything else is pretty obvious. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place

Supplies:

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids, Snow Flurries, Contempo Christmas

Paper: Lucky Limeade, Riding Hood Red, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Ink: Lucky Limeade, Riding Hood Red, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bride, Bashful Blue

Tools: Ornament Punch, Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder, Boho Blossom Punch, Dazzling Diamond glitter, 2-way glue, sponge, smooch spray, Northern Frost strip die, Big Shot, Silver cord

Greeting Card Kid at Christmas

Here's a quick Christmas project for you. This really features the Big Shot in several ways.

• I used Real Red card stock, which is a staple in my workshop, and ran it through on the scallop square Bigz Die making sure the top was pulled down as not to get cut on the fold.
• Then I ran it through again with the front of the card in the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.
• It got sponged in white craft ink
• The Garden Green Scallop Circle is cut using the Circle #2 Bigz die and paper pierced each scallop.
• I used the Circle Scissors to cut the 2 3/4" Whisper White circle
• Then the cute little Christmas girl was stamped with Basic Black from Greeting Card Kids  and colored with markers. The sky was sponged with Bashful Blue and I used a scallop circle of card stock punched out of a scrap to mask her from getting the sponging and to form some clouds.
• Mono adhesive was used to add Dazzling Diamonds glitter to her fur and scarf.

Cute for sure and fun to make. Any questions let me know. Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.

Tomorrow starts the Filled With Love Bundle special.

From December 17, 2010, through January 24, 2011, receive a FREE package of Bitty Buttons (a $4.95 value) when you purchase a Stampin' Up! Filled with Love Bundle. The Filled with Love Bundle contains the Filled with Love Stamp Set (in wood-mount or clear-mount) and the exclusive Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack.

Little Kid Pizza Box

Hello, so glad you stopped by. Here is another project we did at my technique class. It's a cute little pizza box and you can put candy or another little treat inside to give to someone special or you can make 3" x 3" cards to give as a set. I will be showing you in the next couple of days the cards I made to go in my box. Then of course as you can see I colored the little girl in watercolor style to decorate the front. She can be for Halloween or take us all the way up to Thanksgiving Day. She looks like a little pilgrim to me.

If you want the instructions for this box just leave a comment and I will post them for you. I used pumpkin pie cs. and whisper white cs for the image panel.

First I used the aqua pen and garden green ink pad to make the grass, then I sponged the sky and used a scallop circle punched out of scrap cs to create the clouds and to mask the girl from getting sponged. All of the following were applied with the aqua pen and Basic gray colored her hat and the straw of the broom, pink pirouette for her skin and a small amount of blushing bride on her cheeks, bashful blue for the sky and for her dress and socks, then marina mist for her cape, more mustard for the broom handle and her hair, and what else but pumpkin pie for the pumpkin and a little artichoke for the leaves.

I hope you like my little Greeting Card Girl. Thanks for stopping by At Paula's Place.