What's under your embellishments???

This is a card we aren't making tonight at Club. :-) It was part of the creative process, though! See those cute little flowers? Underneath them is a splotchy inked edge of the stamp. It never ceases to amaze me that I can still "catch an edge" after all these years of stamping. But that's what embellishments are for! 

I used the flower punch from the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack to cut flowers from Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango, and Early Espresso. Then I ran them through the Polka Dot embossing folder for a little texture.

There are no mistakes in stamping, just opportunities for embellishment!

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Stamps: Seasonally Scattered    

Paper: Naturals White    

Ink: Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango    

Accessories:  flower punch from Itty Bitty Accents, Polka Dot embossing folder, dimensionals, sponge dauber

Stamp, Stock, and SAVE!

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Glimmer Paper and Feathers from the Stampin' Up! blog

Today's post comes from the Stampin' Up! blog, written by Kaitlyn Zumbach of the
2014–2015 Artisan Design Team. Do you ever check there for ideas???
http://stampinup.com

Glimmer Paper in Every Color? Why Not?

We all love how beautiful Glimmer Paper is, but sometimes I think we’re afraid to touch it because it’s so pretty. When I first saw the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, I knew it would be great to color!

I started by spritzing the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper. Just use a Stampin’ Spritzer filled with rubbing alcohol and the Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill of your choice (in this case, Rose Red). Easy! I then cut the spritzed Glimmer Paper using the Big Shot and the large feather from the Feather Framelit Dies to make an embellishment for this fun and pretty card.

Since you can spritz the Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, why not use theDecorative Masks to create patterned Glimmer Paper? I mean, come on, these Crushed Curry circles look pretty great! There was one catch—even with rubbing alcohol, they still took a while to dry. I used the Heat Tool to speed up the drying, but color was still coming off. So, I just heat embossed where I colored using Iridescent Ice Stampin’ Emboss Powder, and it worked like a charm!

Spritzing the Glimmer Paper worked beautifully, but then I wondered what would happen if I watercolored it using an Aqua Painter? Magic! That’s what happened! The Aqua Painter allowed for great saturated color, especially with Blackberry Bliss. (I also filled the Aqua Painter with rubbing alcohol instead of water since it dries much more quickly.)

I loved how the watercoloring turned out, so I did it again! This time I stamped the image from the Four Feathers Stamp Set in StazOn ink on Glimmer Paper and colored over it using Lost Lagoon. It was a simple technique, but it created a great effect!
I bet you’re dying to play right now with some Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, so go ahead! Pull out all of your colors and enjoy!
Kaitlyn Zumbach
2014–2015 Artisan Design Team

Fancy Fold with Kinda Eclectic

We made this card (inspired by Kay Kalthoff) at September's Club meeting. It uses the fabulous set Kinda Eclectic, and there's a fun surprise when you open it:

Notice the fun flower at the center of the sunshine? We made it from Simply Pressed Clay and colored it with Pumpkin Pie Blendabilities.

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Stamps: Kinda Eclectic  
Paper: Whisper White, Tangelo Twist  
Ink: Tangelo Twist, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Blackberry Bliss, Blendabilities in Pumpkin Pie  
Accessories: Circles framelits (#7 and #8), Simply Pressed Clay, Button and Flower molds, Blackberry Bliss ribbon

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Corny Gift Card Holder

One of my favorite products from the Holiday Catalog is the Gift Card Envelope and Trims Thinlits! Whew that's a long name. I give gift cards to my nephews and brothers quite often, so this seemed like the perfect, easy solution. 
 

I love the corn print from the Color Me Autumn Designer Series Paper--I just wanna take a bite out of it! Just cut a 6 inch strip and wrap around the short side of the envelope to hold it closed. The set of thinlits contains the banner, a tag, a heart, and a little "washer" for closing the envelope.

The Lucky Stars embossing folder added just the right amount of texture to the envelope, and the sentiment is from And Many More in the main catalog.

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Stamps: And Many More
Paper: Old Olive, Naturals White, Cajun Craze, Color Me Autumn DSP
Ink: Cajun Craze
Accessories: Gift Card Envelope Thinlits, Lucky Stars Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack (star punch)

Love you more than polka dots

Today is this little guy's birthday. He is such a joy! We found out we were pregnant late in life, and his very existence is a miracle.

Of course, being two, he gets into his fair share of mischief. He loves my craft room (especially sharp scissors, sigh) and tries to spend as much time in there with me as he can. Here is his latest stamping mischief:

If you follow my Facebook business page, you've seen this picture. It was part of a "Tips" post on using Staz-On black ink to stain photopolymer stamps. It keeps them from staining pink or orange from red inks, and it also makes them easier to see. I like to leave the Staz-On black on the stamps overnight for cleaning, but really, it doesn't need to be that long.

So after I received my August Paper Pumpkin, I "stained" my stamps and left them to dry. The next day, I found a small clear block in my bedroom--the opposite end of the house from the stamp room. How odd, right? Then later that day when I went to stamp, I couldn't find my cute little single polka dot stamp *anywhere*. It was terrible! Poor little polka dot, lost and . . . then I realized that my darling baby boy had absconded with the block that had the little polka dot stamp on it! We looked all over, but it was not meant to be. Sniffle. Even a *black* polka dot is impossible to find once it leaves its block (and most likely the stamp room altogether).

So the lesson is, don't let your 2yo learn to open door knobs. No, wait. Ummm. I think the lesson is that 2yo boys are much more important than polka dot stamps. :-)