Movie Stars

Today's card is a DL card for a change - Used stamp from Stampington showing various Movie stars.

Materials required: Black cardstock, silver cardstock, white cardstock, clear rhinestones, Film stars stamp by Stampington, background floral stamp by Penny Black, clear embossing ink pad, black brilliance ink pad, silver embossing powder, silver pen

Method: Fold black cardstock to create DL card. Use clear embossing ink pad to stamp floral background repeatedly over front of card and emboss with silver embossing powder. Use Black Brilliance ink pad to stamp image onto white cardstock and then up up into 3 and mount each onto black and then silver cardstock and then onto black cardstock and then silver cardstock and then to cardfront. Add rhinestones.

Stampington Mannequin Card

Another Mannequin card today - adore this stamp. I wanted the stamp a bit larger and whilst its easy to make stamps smaller by using Shrink plastic method, its hard to make a normal stamp larger. So what I finally did was stamped out the image and then scanned it into the computer and enlarged it and then printed it out like a digital image. That way I got it quite a bit larger and it was easier to color and fitted my card better.

Materials: Black cardstock, white cardstock, Pink Bazzil cardstock, Black/white cardstock from Pink Petticoat CD, rhinestones, rose, Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder, Stampington stamp, Black Brilliance ink pad, pink color box ink pad, copic pens and sakura glitter pens.

Method: Fold black cardstock in half. Print out black/white paper onto cardstock and attach to cardfront as shown. Stamp out Stampington image onto white cardstock using black brilliance ink pad and then scan it into computer and enlarge image in a graphics program and print it out again onto white cardstock and go around edges with silver pen and then mount it onto pink bazzil cardstock and go around edges of that with pink color box ink pad and attach to cardfront. Color in image using copic markers and Sakura glitter pens. Use flower punch to punch out three flowers and then run through Big Shot using Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and then curl the edges of the petals up and attach each layer as shown onto cardfront and add rose in the centre. (Doesn't it make a super flower - love this new punch) add rhinestones and you are done.

Using wire and beads

Today's card uses an image from Stampington. This is one of those cards that you could use for Christmas or any occasion really.

Materials: Cream cardstock, copper cardstock, black cardstock, tea stained music paper, copper magic ribbon, stamp by Stampington, copper wire, beads, pearls, word stamp by Hero arts, Copper Encore ink pad, black brilliance ink pad, color box ink pad - amber, gold ribbon

Method: Fold cream cardstock to create base card. Take strip of black cardstock and using copper encore ink pad stamp Hero arts words repeatedly and then tear edge of cardstock and attach to cardfront as shown. Attach strip of copper magic ribbon to right hand edge of card. Use black brilliance to stamp image of angel onto cream cardstock and color using DTP with amber color box ink pad. Wrap copper wire around image and thread on tiny beads. Attach image to black and then copper cardstock and then to cardfront as shown. Attach pearls and roll up strip of tea stained music paper and tie with gold ribbon and attach to cardfront.

Eastern Mystery

A DL card just for a change today. I seem to make so many square cards.

Materials: Stampington chinese lady stamp, black cardstock, silver swirl paper, white cardstock, silver cardstock, silver pen,black brilliance ink pad, silver organza ribbon, dragonfly stamp, metal dragonfly, Silver encore ink pad

Method: Fold black cardstock in half to create DL card. Attach strip of torn silver pattern paper to cardfront as shown. Use Silver encore ink pad to stamp dragonfly repeatedly over the cardfront. Use Black brilliance ink pad to stamp woman's face and trim to size and go around edges with silver pen and then attach to black and then silver cardstock and attach to cardfront. Attach some organza ribbon and a metal dragonfly charm.

Sailing

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I had these little boats in my stash that I bought awhile back and I needed to make a card for a man's birthday who is into yachting so this is what I came up with.

Materials: White cardstock, Patterned blue and white scrapbook paper, Acetate, Blue Staz on ink pad, alcohol inks, brads, yacht, Starfish stamp by Stampington and royal blue color box ink pad, White glossy paper

Method: Fold white cardstock in half to create 14 x 14 base square card. Go around edges of scrapbook paper with blue color box ink pad and attach to cardfront. Attacht yacht. Using your blue Staz on ink pad, stamp Starfish design onto acetate and let it dry thoroughly (I left it overnight). Take glossy white cardstock and smear alcohol inks over it and then when dry (takes a few minutes only) attach it to the glossy cardstock using a small brad in each corner. You can then attach it to the cardfront and you are done. Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.

Eastern Mystery

A simple card for today as seem to have so much going on at present - still working on my Paint Shop Pro course. Should finish this week. Really amazing how much one can do with the program.

Great excitement as well last night as my hamper of Tim Holtz goodies arrived from Jowilna. Promise will take picture this week and post it. Thanks again Jowilna. I am going to have such fun playing with all the different things.

Materials: Black cardstock, Patterned cardstock, Oriental woman stamp by Stampington, Butterflies, Rhinestones, Chinese writing stamp by Toybox(I think), Black Brilliance ink pad,Lime color box ink pad

Method: For this card I just stamped directly onto the scrapbook paper as I was after a soft dreamy feel to the card. Used Black Brilliance ink pad. I then went around the edges with lime green color box ink pad and attached it to black cardstock and added the bling and the butterflies.

Fairy Tale Couture

Today's card uses one of the new range of Fairy Tale Couture stamps by Sandra Evertson for Stampington. I got mine from Niki Zipp at Paperchain in Johannesburg. The whole range is stunning. Have a look at www.stampington.com

The stamp used is called Ballgown.

I used black cardstock for my base card. I then printed out Black and White papers from Pink Petticoat CD and attached them to cardfront as shown. I took a strip of Lime green cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot using Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and then attached that to cardfront. I inked the stamp with Black Brilliance and stamped it onto white cardstock and then trimmed to size and went around the edges with pink color box ink pad. I then coloured in the image using Copic markers and attached it to the cardfront. I then attached Prima flowers and rhinestone. I went over the flowers using gold distress stickles using the best paintbrush ever - my finger.

Moments

Wow what a lot of rain we had in Cape Town yesterday - just about needed a boat to get around instead of a car. Still musn't complain as we havn't had much rain this winter.

Well today is a really quick card and note photographed for a change instead of scanned. Sorry about the shadows but still working on photography skills but difficult when you are taking photos late at night.

Todays card using Hero arts word stamp by Children stamp by Stampington.

I used cream cardstock for the base and then took red pattern scrapbook paper and went around the edge with red color box ink pad and attached to cardfront. I then stamped Moments onto it using Black Brilliance ink pad. I then stamped children onto gold vellum using Black Brilliance ink pad and attached to cardfront using vellum tape and then attached flowers with brad.

Card of the day - Oriental Vision

After looking at my cards posted after the past few days, thought it was time for something plainer with no flowers for a change.



I love this stamp from Stampington - it was originally an Acey Deucy stamp. The Chinese Happy Birthday is I think a Stampendous stamp.



I stamped the Stampington Oriental image onto white cardstock using black brilliance ink and then went around the edge with a silver pen. Mounted it onto black cardstock and then took black base card and mounted a 14 x 14 square of scrapbook paper on it and then mounted stamped image on top. I stamped the Happy birthday words also using my Black Brilliance ink pad and then just added 2 rhinestones. After all a girl needs a little bling on her card at least.



So a really simple card today.