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TECHNIQUE CLASS SAMPLES - APRIL

I love the challenge of TECHNIQUE class.  It challenges me to come up with techniques and then apply them to cards.  April featured 3 different techniques.  

This technique I called 'custom background".  It used a variety of techniques.  The card is cased (thank you).  This card used the following techniques:  masking, sponging, and stamping off.  Time consuming, but the results were beautiful.  Do you agree?

The technique for this card was "embossed resist".  Notice it on the butterfly.  Cased with modifications (thank you)

The technique for this card was "layered markers".  By using different colors, you can layer the colors so it looks like you watercolored the image.  Again the card was cased and modified (thank you).

If you'd like to try some different techniques, then join in next month (May) for the TECHNIQUE CLASS.  You will love it.

TECHNIQUE CLASS SAMPLES

We did a whole lot of kissing at March's technique class.  Reverse Kissing, Twisted Kissing, Two Color Kissing and just plain ole kissing.  Always fun.

Plain kissing, Reverse Kissing

Two Color Kissing

Twisted Kissing

FEBRUARY TECHNIQUE CLASS

This class can be a challenge, but oh so fun.  We try 3 new techniques each month.  You make a sample for your Technique Book and a card to send to someone.  Here are the 3 techniques we did for February.

Faux Flocking/Suede

Distressed Glue

Faux Metal Embellishing

BIG SHOT CLASS SAMPLES

The Big Shot class went faster this month.  We only did 2 cards and 1 3D item.  That left time to do the 123 Class if they had RSVP'd for it.

The first card used all Big Shot dies.  Garden green, real red, whisper white and early espresso cs.  Holly Berry Bouquet DSP, Dasher and  Four the Holidays stamp sets, 3/8" Very Vanilla Velvet Stitched ribbon, snow burst textured embossing folder

   

This card used fabric.  This was the first time I've tried fabric in one of our embosslit dies.  It worked so slick and the others were impressed too.  Always Articoke, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla cs, Deck the Halls fabric, Scaloped Heart of Hearts embosslit die, Pinking Heart Border punch, Hand-Penned Holidays stamp set.

Last item is our 3D item.  Isn't this an awesome ornament using the lattice die.  I might have to make some more of these for my tree.

 

Join us next month for the Big Shot class.   All of these were inspired/cased from other great SU demonstrators.

TECHNIQUE TUESDAY

Boy did we have fun with Technique Tuesday.  A small group, but we laughed and created some unique cards.  I love to try new techniques, folds, etc.  It's fun to see how each card can be so different.  Here are my 3 samples.

Black Magic

Baby Wipe

Bouncing Brayer

All cards were inspired/cased from other great demonstrators.  Won't you join us for a class.  Next one is Christmas Cards on either Sept. 19 or 21.  Contact me ASAP if you'd like to get a start on your Christmas cards. 

WOW Class using Accessories

February's WOW class was a lot of fun using different accessories.  These cards took the ladies some extra time to make.  That is part of the reason they are WOW.  Lots of detail.  Thanks to those demonstrators that gave me the great ideas.  I cased most of these with some modifications.

This card was cased, but changed slightly.  The accessories we used here were the Vintage Trinkets, ribbon, Framed Tulips embossing folder modified for a smaller piece of cardstock, and water color pencils.  Stamp set is Nature Walk.

This card we learned to ruffle ribbon.  The ladies loved this WOW.

A step up from the first WOW class.  2 layers of the Build a Blossom stamp set and Blossom Petals punch.  Also used the Framed Tulips embossing folder and Antique Brads.

This last card used the Framed Tulips embossing folder again, glossy cardstock, white embossing powder and the watercoloring technique using reinkers.  Beautiful technique when used with Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set.

Check back soon to see what we did at the Stamp of the Quarter class. 

FALL IS HERE - WINTER IS COMING

We had our first stay on the ground snow fall last Friday.  Woke up to about an 1" or more on the ground and the roads were a touch slippery.  But the weather man is predicting 55 degrees this week.  It was in the 50's today.  So when will winter arrive?  Well, I'm hoping to be skiing by the end of November, but first we need to get through Thanksgiving.  Here are some fall cards we made last week at the 123 Class. 

We used the Rock N Roll technique on this card. 

 
Oh  and here was my favorite trick or treater - Brian Gravlin.  We only had 2 trick or treaters.  Brian of course got special treats.  He is my favorite!

This card was totally cased from Lorrie Skinner.  I loved the colors and everything about it -- so no need to redo.  This stamp set is French Foilage and I love it!

This week's class is Thanksgiving projects.  So join us this Monday (please RSVP) or stop back to see what we made.

 

FEATURED STAMP SET - JUST BELIEVE

Boy did we have fun last night at this month's featured stamp set class - Just Believe.  I created 4 cards with directions that the ladies made.  With this class, you not only get the stamp set, you get complete directions, all materials cut and ready to stamp and assemble, and you learn different techniques and use different tools.  Last night's class featured reverse masking, the color spritzer tool and several punches.  Did you know you can do this class via mail or purchase the directions from me as a PDF.  Contact me if you'd like to learn more and the charges.  Here are the 4 cards.

 

Next month we will use this same stamp set, but will create 4 different cards.  So sign up today!

Monday Methods Class Samples

Boy did we have fun spritzing and sponging at the Monday Method's class.  We did 2 new techniques, made a sample for their technique book and 2 cards.  The ladies loved it and were excited to try it on their own.

Sponging and Masking

I modified this card from a swap I received at Convention (thank you).  Pocket Silhouette was the stamp set and Not Quite Name and Soft Suede were the primary colors.  I will be putting together a tutorial soon showing how to make the horizon.  So check back soon.

Smooch Sprtiz Resist

This technique came from Splitcoast Stampers website.  It turned out to be a WOW.  The Presto Paper Speciality Paper is awesome for this technique.  You can check out the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers.

Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder was used, Pacific Point and Tangerine Tango.  The Beautiful Wings embosslit die was used in addition to the Clear Circle bigz die.  We used the Gold Glow Smooch Spritz.

Enjoy!

123 CLASS SAMPLES

Do you know what 123 class is?  It's one hour, 2 cards, $3.  So this is the class for those busy people who only have a little time.  Truly the class goes really fast   Here are the 2 cards we did.  The Owl card did take some time, but isn't it adorable?

The hardest part was putting those tiny pupils in the eyes.  For those who struggled, I suggested using a black ink pen and making the pupils.

The other card we did used the Big Shot and DSP from the Occasions Mini - Island Oasis.  This DSP is available until August 31st.

Simple card, little stamping, some punching and putting it together.  Quick and easy.

This class is held the first Thursday of every month.  So plan on attending on Sept. 2nd.  See you then.

MORE CONVENTION SHARES & Class Samples

Last week's class was Convention Surprise.  I took some of my favorite samples of swaps from convention and cased and modified.  Here are the four samples from the class.  Enjoy.

Original was from Ruth Murphy.  I cased this pretty much as designed.  I had to call Ruth on how she did the yellow flower so nice in her sample.  She told me she created a mask and used Daffodil Delight with a sponge dauber.  Thank you Ruth.

Original from Jen Snyder.  Here is my cased and modified version.  Notice how nice the white gel pen makes the hydranga pop.

Original from a RemARKable (sorry can't remember her name).  This holds a Ghirardelli chocolate with a white ribbon tied around it to hold it in.  Yum Yum!

Original from Jan Wakeland.  This is my cased/modified version.  Jan presented this little gift to me at Convention.  It contained a RemARKable ark pin and a cute purple flower charm.  I LOVED it.  This uses the new Petal Card punch and Hostess level 2 Cute by the Inch stamp set.  Book your hostess party today and you could earn this stamp set FREE.

Don't forget - tonight is my 123 Class (one hour, 2 cards, $3) or bring your own project and just hang out with the girls.

WONDERFUL WATERCOLORS

What a fun night we had learning to watercolor using the Stampin' Up! Aqua Painters and Watercolor Crayons.  I do not even hold a candle to artists who watercolor beautiful paintings, but I did learn some new techniques.  I got some wonderful directions from another demonstrator (Sandi Maciver).  Her directions were easy to follow and we made the following cards in this month's class.  Next month we are going to do 2 different cards using 2 different watercoloring techniques.  We are using the Nature's Nest stamp set.  Love this set.

A Little Color Wash

Basic Watercoloring - Staying Inside the Lines

Fun, fun, fun.  Watch for next month's class schedule to join us for 2 more watercoloring techniques.

TECHNIQUE TUESDAY

Technique Tuesday was a fun class and the ladies really loved or hated the new SU punches.  I struggled with the Pinking Heart Corner and Border punch.  If anyone out there has a better tutorial than SU -- please share.  I still could NOT get it to match up perfectly.  The Scalloped Trim Corner and Border punches were a snap and the ladies agreed these were much easier.

We also did a technique called Sponged Sky.  So simple and fun to do.  This would be a great technique on scrapbook pages too.

 

Stamp sets were Pendant Park and a FREE SAB set - Whimsical Words.  Card stock was Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Whisper White.  Ink was Basic Black.  Punch - Curly Label.

Here is the technique - from Splitcoast.  Try it out!

Sponged Sky

by Jeanne Streiff author

Create a sky in no time at all with a few dabs of your sponge.

Supplies

• Cardstock (Whisper White)
• Sponge
• Ink (Bashful Blue)
• Stamps

Step-by-Step

1.      Ink the rounded part of a sponge by pressing directly on an ink pad.

Important Hint:
Before moving on to the next step, remove extra ink by rubbing sponge on scrap paper. The soft look is achieved with very little ink.

2.      Use a circular motion to apply ink, leaving many white open spaces. Re-ink your sponge, remove excess ink and continue sponging ink randomly.

Different cardstocks will give different looks - the cardstock on the left is smooth white and on the left is textured white.

3.      Continue adding color until you have the color that you want.

4.      Finish your card using your Sponged Sky.

RemARKable Going Green Blog Tour - Post 3

This is the last day of the blog tour and it's been a lot of fun.  I have really enjoyed all the posts by the others and I hope you have too.

Today's post is an old favorite of mine.  It is called a BAG-A-LOPE.  I have made these for years and they are very inexpensive to make.  You can get a box of envelopes at the $1 store for a dollar and just make cute little gift bags -- a bag from an envelope -- becomes a BAG-A-LOPE.

Here you start with a plain white envelope.  Seal it up and wheel away with either your Stampin' Up! jumbo wheel or standard wheel.  Below you will see I used Creamy Caramel with the Very Vintage wheel out of the Occassions Mini.

Next you take your bone folder and fold in each long edge about 1/2" and score.  Fold the bottom up about the same distance and score.

  Once you get the 3 edges folded and scored.  I smooth out and cut about 2" off the unfolded end to create a bag.

 

To add a little flair - I scalloped the end using the Scallop Trim Border punch that I earned FREE from Sale-A-Bration.  Don't you just love that edge.
 
 

Now open the envelope and fold your sides and bottom up/out to form a bag.  The bottom takes a little practice, but you'll get it.  Sometimes I take my bone folder and stick it into the bag/envelope to push the bottom out so I can work it flat.
 

Like this.  Then tape the dog ears and fold them back onto the bottom.
 

Here is the bag standing up before I fold over the top.
 

Here is the top folded over.  I then punched 2 holes to feed my Elegant Eggplant ribbon (another scrap from my ribbon jar) and tied a bow.
 

Here is the finished BAG-A-LOPE filled with of course CHOCOLATE!!!!  Creamy Caramel ink was used to roll the envelope.  All the words were stamped in Elegant Eggplant on Whisper White cs.  Then matted on a scrap of Elegant Eggplant.  Of course I wanted to decorate it a little more by using 2 half pearls from the Pretties Kit.
This makes a very inexpensive and quick small gift bag.  Again using an envelope, a piece of scrap ribbon and scraps of Stampin' Up! cardstock.  Another great way to reuse or take an ordinary item and create a new use. 

Look around and figure out how you can start GOING GREEN. 

Click below to go to the next stop in the blog tour.  I hope you will stop back often to see other posts and items we have made in classes, camps or workshops.  Thank you for looking!

Still Another Valentine Sample

I love Valentine's Day -- must be the chocolate!!  Here is another quick card to make and share with someone you love.

Very easy - Real Red, Very Vanilla and Chocolate Chip cs, punch out 4 hearts from Sending Love DSP, 2 of the new chocolate chip epoxy brads, With All My Heart stamp set and the Modern Label punch.  Quick, easy and lots more you do to embellish/enhance this card.  ENJOY!

More Valentines - Got to Send Your Love

Here is another Valentine card for you to make.

Very simple card, but looks great.  Very vanilla paper, Sending Love DSP, Sending Love Epoxy Brad, heart punch, Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit Die, and the stamp set is a FREE one - Whimsical Words from the SAB catalog.

You can get this stamp set for FREE too - contact me today to learn how.

ENJOY!

Valentine Cards - Mail Your Love to Someone Today

In my newsletter I mentioned that I would post some Valentine cards.  Well stay tune for the next few days as I post some samples.  I hope you enjoy them.

Both of these cards use the Cold and Cuddly stamp set.  Sure hope you bought it from the Holiday Mini. The cute penguin has a textured background (large white piece) and is simply black, white and melon mambo.  The polar bear is our bermuda bay, melon mambo and white.  The bear is stamped on bermuda bay in craft white and embossed with white embossing powder.  The large heart is the new Scalloped Heart of Hearts embosslit die.  Try these two cards using other stamps that you have.

TECHNIQUE TUESDAY SAMPLES

We had fun Tuesday night trying out some new techniques and refreshing some old ones. 

Our first technique is Reverse Spotlighting.  A little difficult to match up the flowers.  I would suggest trying something a little less detail for your first attempt.  Stamp set was 5th Avenue Florals.

The next technique is an old favorite of mine - wax paper resist.  This is so much fun and the results are so different for everyone.  I think this card turned out very nice.  Stamp set was Embrace Life.

Last technique we did sent the ladies home all sparkly.  It was Glitter Window.  We used Dazzling Diamonds and no matter how hard you try to not get it everywhere - it was everywhere.  But what fun for them to go home with glitter on their face, clothes and cards!  Stamp set was Circle Circus.

 

Join us next month for another Technique Tuesday.  We made 1 card of each technique and 1 sample with printed directions so they could put it into their Technique Book.  Enjoy!

TECHNIQUE TUESDAY

Boy did we have fun trying out these techniques.  We found that you have to squeeze the SU Color Spritzer Tool fast and forcefully to get the spritzs you want on the stamp.  It was a good laugh as we all learned how to use this tool. 

We did 2 techniques.  The first one was Depth of Field.  If you are experienced in photography you've seen these photos of a beautiful rose very clear with the background out of focus. 

 

Another photo looks like 3D where you see the foreground and then it shows depth to the distance.  This is what we tried to do in our Depth of Field technique.

Here is the card that gives a depth of field.  We first stamped in Sahara Sand the circle from Circle Circus.  The next color was Creamy Caramel, and the dark color was Dusty Durango.  Paper colors were Sahara Sand, Dusty Durango,Crushed Curry and Whisper White.  The stamp sets were Circle Circus and Eight Great Greetings.  Try this for yourself and experiment with different colors and stamps.

 

The 2nd technique we did was Color Spritzing.  We did two different techniques here.  One we spritzed the stamp with water after we inked it up.  This made the flower run a little.  The second one we spritzed Always Artichoke onto the inked up stamp with Crushed Curry using the Color Spritzer Tool and a marker.  You can see the spots/coloring on the Upsy Daisy flowers.  The background of the Bahama Breeze is also spritzed with Close to Cocoa to give it a speckled look.

 

Stamps:  Razzle Dazzle                              Upsy Daisy

Ink:  Melon Mambo                                  Crushed Curry

Paper:  Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo        Bermada Bay, Certainly Celery

Accy:  Melon Mambo Polka Dot Ribbon       Crushed Curry Polka Dot Ribbon

Scallop Oval & Med Oval Punches               Modern Label Punch, Gold Brads

Ticket Corner Punch

Both of these were fun and each person's had a different look.  That is what is so exciting about stamping as each card is similar, but unique!

Give it a try and if you need anything, give me a call.

TECHNIQUE - ACCORDION-FOLDED FLOWER

THE

Directions:

1) Cut card stock or Designer Series paper to 12" x 3/4".

2) Score strip every 1/4" the entire length of the card stock and accordion fold the score lines.

3) Adhere ends of card stock together (Sticky Strip works well). Let dry.

4) Holding the card stock with two hands, twist one edge of the strip into the center as shown to create a flower shape.

5) Adhere a punched circle to the flower center on one or both sides (Pop-Up Glue Dots work well) to hold shape in place.

Tip: Experiment with different sizes and score intervals to create the desired shape of your flower.

Photos from SU Demo Website           These samples are by another talented RemARKable Stamper -                                                       Deb Lehigh - this was her display.

  RemARKable Stamper - Deb Lehigh 

FAUX METAL Technique of the Month

Just thought I would post a couple of FAUX Metal samples from a class I held.  FAUX Metal is so easy and looks like a metal tag or embellishment.  This technique works great with the Curly Label punch bundle.  This is what I used to make the attached cello gift bag topper

SUPPLES Needed:
Brushed Silver Paper
Sterling Silver Embossing Powder
Embossing Buddy
Embossing Pal
Heat Tool
VersaMark Stamp Pad
Curly Label punch bundle
Chocoloate Chip 1/4" rosgrain Ribbon
Stampin Dimensionals
Bashful Blue cardstock
Tangerine Tango cardstock
Frosty Day DSP
Medium Flat cello bag
Mini Library clip
Boho Blossom punch
Rhinestone brad

STEPS:
1.  Take strip of brushed silver cardstock and apply VersaMark directly to cs.  Sprinkle with Sterling Silver embossing powder and use heat tool to melt.
2.  Take same strip and apply VersaMark again and Sterling Silver ep and heat to melt.
3.  Repeat step 2 so you have 3 layers.
4.  Apply VersaMark to stamp you want to use.
5.  While the brushed silver cs is still warm, place stamp set into the 3 layers of sterling silver ep.  Rock slightly to ensure image is captured.
6.  Punch out with curly label punch.
7.  Finish as desired.

This is very easy and looks like a metal tag.  Give it a try on your cards, projects and even in your scrapbook pages.


The next sample is just silver embossing powder on brushed silver cardstock.  So simple, yet a really neat look.  Give it a try.