Sunday, March 21, 2010

3 Ladies

  by Debi Wind

As a former scrapbooker turned self-taught rubber stamp artist with 13 years experience in card making, mixed media, altered art, and collage,  I design cards and Artist Trading Cards, create collages that can be turned into framed art, make hand made books, create jewelry from found objects, altered art, and mixed media art.  In addition to ink and paper, my art incorporates acrylic paints, acrylic inks, glazes, color mists, and Lumiere paint.  I create art for stamp companies, stamping related product companies, commissioned works of art, and for consignment sales. Having spent the last year being privately tutored by a professional calligrapher I now also combine calligraphy and rubber stamping. My rubber stamping has been featured in several stamping publications, both paper and electronic. I fell in love with rubber stamping the first time I inked my first stamp and never looked back.

My favorite product list is topped by rubber stamps, though there are several items that I must have to complete my list; ink, paper cutter, card stock, ruler, bone folder, and color pencils or chalk. With them, and the many other items I have added to my inventory over the years, I produce art that I look forward to sharing with you! I am especially excited to share this, my first project as a member of the FranticStamper Design Team!

"3 Ladies"

Supplies

How to:

  • Cut black cardstock to the size of 5 1/2"X8 1/2", score it and fold in half.

  • Cut Tenacious pattern paper to the size of 4"X5 1/2".

  • Using an old disc, trace 1/2 of circle onto Charming pattern paper and cut with scissors.

  • Cut a piece of black cardstock to the size of 4" X 1 1/4".

  • Using Aleene's Glue adhere Tenacious pattern paper to black card.

  • Adhere the Charming 1/2 circle to background paper and adhere small black card stock to circle and background pattern paper. Allow to dry.

  • Using 3 Ladies stamp image, ink image with black ink, and stamp on ivory cardstock. Trim, and using the sponge distress the edges with black ink.

  • Cut Blush pattern paper to the size of 2 1/2"X3 5/16".

  • Cut black cardstock to the size of 2 9/16"X3 7/16".

  • Using Aleene's Glue, adhere image to Blush paper, then adhere to black cardstock. Allow to dry.

  • Using Aleene's Glue, adhere layered image to card. Allow to dry.

  • Using The Ultimate Glue adhere the flower embellishment to card.
I hope you've enjoyed my project and that you'll visit here again soon!

Debi
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Friday, March 19, 2010

4-You Card

  by Anne Harada

4-You Card


Materials Used

Instructions

  • Create the following layers from SEI “Jocelyn” designer paper collection:
    • -   4 5/8” x 5 1/8” panel of solid teal
    • -   5” x 4 1/8” panel of pattern teal with flowers
    • -   4 1/8” x 3 3/8” panel of solid teal

  • Stamp Frantic Stamper’s “Shadow 9 Patch” image from “Plate 81” on a 3-7/8” x 3-1/8” white card stock panel using Marvy “Shades of Sunrise” Blending Blox ink pad.

  • Punch a 1” x 3-7/8” length of the white cardstock strip on both sides using Fiskars border punch to create a flower border. Adhere strip to bottom of stamped cardstock panel.

  • Embellish stamped panel with Thickers Chipboard letters to create sentiment.

  • Using pink organza butterfly, butterfly brad and gem elements from Creative Charms Scrapbook Embellishments, embellish panel as shown in photo.

  • Use foam squares to layer embellished panel onto “Jocelyn” layers.

  • Completed card is 4-9/16 x 5-3/8”.
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Antique Rose Birthday Card

by Anne Harada

Hello! I’ve been “crafty” in many different areas ever since I can remember. About 9 years ago I discovered paper crafts and stamping at a home stamping party. From that point on, the more I learned and collected, the more I pursued this art form. I still feel like I am just getting started! I love paper toile art, “coloring”, and collage, but my first love is stamping and learning stamping techniques! I tend to go through phases of stamping techniques and products and try to keep on top of what’s new. I recently attended my first CHA convention that completely re-energized and motivated me! It was a thrill to discover new products and meet vendors and on-line friends that I’d known for years but never met. I’ve been on a couple of different design teams now, host occasionally and post over on Splitcoast Stampers. Currently I hold workshops on request and sell my cards and paper craft gifts in an independently owned boutique shop.

I hope you’ll enjoy my first project as part of the FranticStamper Design Team.

Antique Rose Birthday Card

MATERIALS:


      INK
            Fluid Chalk Queue:  Collections of 6 Cat's Eyes 
Chocolate/Blueberries Queue (CLE-FCQ-choco $9.99)
      PAPER
            Basic Grey Porcelain line
                  Porcelain - Chatsworth (BG-POR-1605 $0.69)
                        and
                  Porcelain - Dresden (BG-POR-1615 $0.69)
            Bazzill - Chocolate Cream, Smoothies texture (BAZ-9-952)
      STAMPS
            FranticStamper Open 9 Patch image from Plate 81 June 2002 Release (8114-N $5.50)
            NEW ---- Flower Sentiments ( INK-CS-99537 $9.99)
                  and
            "Happy Birthday" sentiment from "Round Frames" (INK-CS-97635 $9.99)
      EMBELLISHMENTS
            Prima Roses - Tea Roses, Quarry (PRI-ROS2-537470 $3.99)
            Pearl Brads- Neutral (AMC-PBR-neutral $3.99)
            3D Square Foam Dots- 230 squares per sheet
(BC-foam-lgsq $2.99)

INSTRUCTIONS:


      • Stamp Frantic Stamper’s "Open 9 Patch" image from "Plate 81" at an angle on Basic Grey Porcelain “Chatsworth” paper using Chestnut Roan and Dark Brown Fluid Chalk ink.

      • Stamp rose image from Inkadinkadoo Flower Sentiments in corners using Chestnut Roan ink.

      • Cut two small ¾” squares from the Chatsworth paper and sponge edges with Dark Brown Fluid Chalk ink. Position small squares inside two of the stamped square areas and adhere with dimensionals.

      • Stamp the “happy birthday” sentiment from Inkadinkadoo’s Round Frames set as shown on sample.
     
      • Adhere three roses from the Prima Flowers Fleurs de Prima “Tea Roses – Quarry” collection in corner of stamped ‘Open 9 Patch” image with foam squares.

      • Create matching faux paper ribbon.
     
      • Cut a 1”- wide strip of Chatsworth paper, mist with water, scrunch it up into a ball.
     
      • Open it up, spritz again with water and scrunch it up again.
     
      • Open it up and now shape it into flowing folds to look like a crumpled ribbon strip. Handle gently at this point, the paper is very easy to manipulate so little pressure is required.
     
      • Once you have decided on the shape, use a heat gun to set it. It becomes stiff like paper mache.
     
      • Sponge the dried faux ribbon with Dark Brown ink.

      • Repeat the process to create and shape a faux bow for the ribbon.

      • Open the ‘legs” of a large brad and use it to clasp the faux bow to the faux ribbon. Adhere the completed ribbon to the top of your card.
     
      • Layer the card front to a layer of Chocolate Crème cardstock and then to a layer of Basic Grey Dresdin paper.
      • Adhere the card front to a cream colored Cardstock base. Completed card is 5x7 size.

Thanks for coming by. I hope you’ve enjoyed the project!
Anne
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Time for Love Card

by Lis Whiting

I first became interested in papercrafting in the fourth grade. We were rehearsing a play. The art teach came in and made a sparkly crown out of plain construction paper and I was hooked! Ever since that moment I have been in papercrafts. My favorite thing to do is work on new techniques. I love to try out all the new tools and see what I can do with them. (I just got the I-Top tool from Imaginisce – very cool!) I love color and using different media, different papers to get new effects. I am a big fan of the Victorian era and old things. I love using embellishments like brass charms and fibers in my work.

I hope you’ll enjoy my first project, with its embellishments!



Materials:

     
      Cream card-stock (8 ½ x 5 ½)
      Graphic 45 Times Nouveau Collection (G45-P-0007 99¢)
      Basic Grey Eskimos Kisses (BG-ESK-1994 85¢)
            (who said you had to use Christmas papers only at Christmas?)
      I-Top
            Brad Maker Tool (IMG-itop-tool $29.99)
            Brad blanks, small (IMG-itop-brsmall $2.99)
            Brad blanks, medium (IMG-itop-pusm $10.99)
      Ivory pearls (4mm) (KAI-PRL-714 $1.99)
      Tim Holtz Adage Tickets (ADV-TH-92716 $3.99)
      Tim Holtz Blending Tool and Foam (RAN-TIM-Blend $4.99)
      Ranger Distress Inks
            Aged Mahogany (RAN-DP-Mahog $5.00)
            Walnut (RAN-DP-Walnut $5.00)
      Range Inkssentials Craft Sheet (suz-crftsht-sm $8.99)
      Cream ¼ inch satin ribbon (12 inches)
      Maroon or Mauve 1/8 inch satin ribbon (6 inches)

Instructions:

      Fold the cream card-stock in half to make the base for your card. The
      final measurement should be 5 ½ x 4 ¼. Set it aside.

      Cut one piece of the Graphic 45 Times card-stock measuring 4 x 5 ¼

      Using your blending tool and mahogany ink, color all the edges.
      (Remember to work on a Ranger craft sheet. Start your shading off the paper and
      work in a circular motion, adding color to the edges. Set aside to dry.)
       
     

      Making the I Top Brads

      I chose this tool to make some matching brads with paper I wanted to use on this card.
      With this tool, you can “top” the brad blanks with any kind of paper or design you want.
      Once I started, I couldn’t stop!

      The tools that you will need will include the I TOP brad maker, some small brad blanks
      and the small punch or the small templates. (If you use the templates, you cut out
      the shapes after tracing them.) I also use the punches for flowers and corner punches.
     
      Choose the size of brad you want to make, choose your design and punch it out.
      Its always good to turn the punch around so that you can see where you are punching
      the image.
     
      Place the brad top in the hand held machine, place the punched paper in, and
      squeeze. Fold the paper edges into the brad top. Place the brad bottom into the
      machine, squeeze and take out your brad. There is a great video that Imaginisce
      has on their website so that you can see exactly how to make your own brads.

      I made several examples of brads.
       

      Bring out your 4 x 5 ¼ graphic 45 card-stock piece.

      Take your two pieces of satin ribbon and glue the mahogany piece onto the ivory
      piece.

      Take the ribbon and glue it to the lower part of your card-stock. Do not let the
      ribbon go to the edge. You need about 1.4 inch of card-stock edge showing.

      Using a small hole punch (1/8 inch or less) punch a hole on each side of your
      card-stock piece: through the ribbon and through the card-stock. Each hole should
      be placed about ¼ inch from each side. (You can also use a pin or paper piercer to
      make the holes.)

      Take your two brads and add one to each side of the card-stock, using the holes
      you just punched.

      Place glue or double stick tape to the back of this and mount it on the card base.

      Bring out two Adage Tickets.
      Using the direct to paper technique, put one swipe (about the width & length of
      the ink pad) of mahogany ink and one swipe (same amount) of walnut ink onto your
      craft sheet. Spray a little water onto the ink until you see it bead up. You
      don’t need too much water here.

      Take your adage tickets and place them top down in the ink/water mix. Pick them up
      and look at them. If you are happy with the result, use your heat gun to dry the
      ink. You can dip them in the inks again and dry for more detailed looks.

      Glue the dried tickets onto the same card-stock you used for the brad covers.

      Trim so that about 1/8 to 3/16 inch of card-stock is showing as a border around the
      tickets.

      Place mounting tape on the back.

      Mount the Adage Tickets on the card.
     
      Add 4mm ivory pearls to your card:
            One pearl at each corner of the mounted adage tickets.
            Two pearls on each side of the ribbon, to the inside of the brads.
           

      Add a bow made of the ivory satin ribbon.
     
      You’re done!

I hope you have enjoyed this, the first of my FranticStamper Design Team posts!
Lis
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Easter egg easel card

By Joanne Wardle

I think I have always been a crafter (I would always consider myself a crafter rather than an artist). I learned to knit at age 6 and still love to knit now. I will try my hand at anything. I got into papercrafting after my second son was born as I wanted to try scrapbooking pictures of my sons, so I started with making a few cards to get the hang of the techniques, and I was hooked! Stamping came later, as I really didn't get it at first, but I got involved with a group of stampers online and saw all the amazing things you could do with stamps and the obsession started. I don't think I have a set style, because I like both cute and arty, I like to make simple clean designs one day and fussy layered designs the next. I started blogging a few years ago, just so that I could join in with the online challenges, and before I knew it I was hooked on that as well.

I hope you’ll be hooked on the design team projects. I am excited to share my first project with you. A few days ago the team shared an Easter easel card. Here is my twist on the easel... a shaped card.

Easter Egg Easel Card



Materials

      Plain white card
      Scrap black card
      Stamps:
            Inkadinkadoo Flourishes (INK-CS-97618 $9.99)
            Stampendous Spring Curls, 2"x6" sheet
(STM-SSC-663 $7.99)
            Acrylic block (for example: SUN-AB-2.5x3.5 $3.50)
      INK
            Black archival ink (RAN-ARCP-jet $5.49)
            Distress Ink Pads:
                  Worn Lipstick (RAN-DP-Lip $5.00)

                  Peeled Paint (RAN-DP-Paint $5.00)
      Cut and dry foam (http://www.franticstamper.com/cutndry.htm) RAN-CND-foam $4.99
      Pearl Brads, Black (AMC-PBR-black $3.99)
      Prima flowers: 4-petal Flower Pink, 1.25" to 1.5" (PRI-EFL-301033 $1.59)
      Green paper and Scrap of pink paper from Two Scoops Collection
(BG-A-TWOSC $17.99)

Technique

      • Use an egg shaped template (I actually used a piece of card that came in an easter egg box with an egg shaped hole that supported the chocolate egg, but there are egg templates to download on the internet.)

      • Fold a piece of white card and lay the template so that the fold is about ½ inch from the top of the egg. Cut out through both pieces of card. Fold the top piece of this card about halfway back to create the easel mechanism.

      • Cut another egg shaped piece of card. Decorate this by shading with worn lipstick distress ink and cut’n’dry foam. Over stamp with inkadinkadoo flourish in same colour, then stamp in black with happy easter from stampendous spring curls, then with the curls of the same stamp. Embellish with prima flowers and black pearl brads.

      • Cover base of easel part with green paper, edge with peeled paint ink and overstamp with flourish and peeled paint ink. Stamp chick swirl from spring swirls. Decorate with more flowers and brad and scraps of black card and pink paper. Attach bottom half of egg to easel mechanism.

I hope you’ll enjoy trying this special seasonal easel card. Until the next time...
Joanne
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Stardust from Heaven

by Polinka

I have been scrapbooking for 5 years, but I always kept memorabilias and pictures like treasures. I like having a creative outlet. Aside from scrapbooking, I love photography, reading, quilting and sewing. I am addicted to swiss chocolate, and it's a must for scrapping, right alongside my paint, brushes and sewing machine! A page is never complete without stitching! I find it hard to describe my style because it is always evolving, just like me, but I love working with and trying different brands and techniques!

I hope you'll enjoy my first post with the FranticStamper Design Team as much as I enjoy swiss chocolate!

A baby is a bit of stardust blown from Heaven


Materials:

      Basic Grey Wisteria - French Topiary (BG-WIS-1640 $0.69)

      American Crafts Medium Brads – Lavender (AMC-BR-laven $3.49)
      Brads from American Crafts Photo Turns
            Lavender (AMC-PH-laven $4.49)
      Kaiser Acrylic Paints - Kaisercolour
            White (KAI-PAI-KC001 $2.59)
            Coastal Blue (KAI-PAI-KC020 $2.59)
      Ranger Stickles glitter glue:
            Suze W Glitz, Tiara (Ran-Stsw-tiara $2.59)
            American Crafts Thickers – Felt - Playroom White (AMC-TH-42859 $3.99)
            Making Memories Stickers - Tiny Alphabet-Brown Ledger (MM-S-30284 $2.99)
      Glue Dots - Acid-Free Memory Dots (GLUE-Memory - $4.99)
      A sewing machine and various colors of thread.

Instructions:

      Flowers, flowers, flowers! I love stitching and I love flowers! And I love stitching my own flowers!

      For this picture of my brand new nephew Alessio I wanted to create a magical field of flowers. That is why I chose this paper from the Basic Grey Wisteria line.

     

      I use this stitched flower design on many of my layouts, and I always do it quite randomly… I let my machine drive me where she wants to… trust me, it’s easy!

      If you want to sew some flowers too, just try first on a draft paper, in order to trust yourself and your machine before starting to stitch on the real layout! If your try is good, you’ll be free to use it on another layout as an embellishment too…

     

      At the end of each pistil I inserted a brad (various sizes) or simply added a point of acrylic paint (with the tip of a brush) and then some stickles.

     

      Use the two alphabets to spell out the title, saving the felt letters for the word "baby." The felt brings a little softness to the long title. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my project!



Have a lovely day,

[polinka]*
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Easter Easel Card

  by Kris Hankins

I have always been a creative person. I like doing almost anything where I can use my hands. My first and foremost love is rubber stamping. My artful journey started over 20 years ago when my brother gave me my first rubber stamp. I went on to own a small collection of stamps and dabbled with them off and on for a few years. Ten years ago, I unexpectedly (but happily) came across a small stamp store. The moment I entered the store and saw wall to wall rubber stamps I knew I was hooked. The creative side of me was in total awe. I was in heaven. I quickly found out how much the industry had advanced. There were so many new possibilities with the products that were available. Over the past 10 years I have come to call myself a mixed media artist. I have grown to love altered art – altered books, collage work, home décor items, atc’s, etc. I have also had an ongoing interest in sewing home décor pieces, quilting, drawing, architecture, wood working, miniature doll houses, and painting. Fortunately, I’ve met many good friends and artists via online art groups. I’ve learned so much from all of them. In recent years I have had the pleasure of participating on a few design teams and have had my art published. The beauty of nature is my biggest inspiration when it comes to my art. I look forward to sharing my art with all of you, starting with this, my first piece for the FranticStamper Design Team.

Recently, easel cards have become very popular. Many of you have probably already experimented and made an easel card. I wanted to share a festive Easter easel card that can be left sitting out all season.

Easter Easel

Materials:

Instructions

  • Here is a basic template for making an easel card.
  • Start by cutting two pieces from a sheet of kraft cardstock – (1) 8” x 4” and (1) 4” x 4”.



  • Use your Scor-It to create two valley folds in the larger piece of cardstock. One fold at 2” and one at 4” mark. Fold and crease well.


  • This is what your base piece should look like after making the folds. The card front (4” x 4” piece) will be attached to the 2” folded end segment later (center of picture).


  • To make the (4” x 4”) card front with the Easter carrot –

    • Cut a 3.75” x 3.75” piece of Bo Bunny dotted cardstock (Wasabi) for layering.
    • Cut a 3.75” x 2.5” piece of Bo Bunny dotted cardstock (Wasabi) for layering with sentiment.
    • Cut a 3.5” x 3.5” piece of cream cardstock for the sky.
    • Cut (2) 3.5” widths of textured Bazzill cardstock (pinecone brown) for the “dirt”.
    • Cut a 5” x 4” piece of textured Bazzill cardstock (apricot) for the carrot.


  • From a scrap of printer paper, cut a small curved shape that resembles the shape of a cloud. Use this as a mask to make clouds in the sky. Starting near the top, hold the paper mask down and chalk the edge of the mask stroking downward. I use a cotton makeup puff to apply the chalk. Do this on the top half of the cream colored background. Also, chalk the edges of the cardstock.



  • Take the (4” x 5”) Bazzill apricot cardstock and turn over. Sketch the shape of a fat carrot. Make it approximately 4” tall. Tear from the backside (following your sketched line) tearing the paper away from you. This will give the front of the carrot a nice torn edge.

  • Turn the carrot over to the textured side. Using a piece of scrap printer paper as a mask, laying it on the carrot, chalk some lines to create lines like on a real carrot.



  • Add a green eyelet to the top of your carrot. Take a few strands of green raffia and attach through eyelet. Cut short to resemble the bushy greens of a carrot.



  • Take the 3.5” widths of Bazzill pinecone brown cardstock and tear pieces to use as layers of dirt. Start with the back piece and work your way to the front. Tear paper toward you to create a nice torn edge. Glue the layers to the cream cardstock, excluding the last (bottom) layer. You will glue this last piece after you have attached your carrot.

  • Attach the cream cardstock (with “dirt” attached) to the green dotted layer. Attach this to the 4” x 4” piece of kraft cardstock.

  • Glue the carrot to the “dirt” so that the tip of it will hide under the last torn layer of brown cardstock that you have not yet attached. Glue down the last piece of “dirt”.

  • You can now attach this completed 4” x 4” stack to the easel portion of the card base.



  • For the sentiment portion of the card, tear one more narrow layer of “dirt” (3.75” wide) and attach to lower edge of the (3.75” x 2.5”) piece of Bo Bunny dotted cardstock.

  • Stamp “Easter Wishes” sentiment from the Stampendous “Easter greetings” stamp set on a scrap of cream cardstock using Memento Ink (Bamboo Leaves). Chalk the edges of this piece using the same blue chalks as used for the clouds.



  • Attach the stamped sentiment to the Bo Bunny dotted cardstock/dirt layer.

  • From the same Stampendous stamp set, stamp some egg images on the scrap pieces of Easter colored cardstock. Cut out the oval eggs. Attach the eggs around the sentiment using small 3D pop dots.

  • Attach this completed sentiment piece to the front portion of the card base using large 3D pop dots.

  • Make sure you elevate this portion of the card so that when you want your easel card to stand up, it has a ridge to hold the easel upright.

  • This is what your Easter easel card should look like from the side when assembled and displayed.




Have fun making your Easter Carrot easel card. Until my next turn, happy crafting!

Kris
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Indian Summer Moment

by Erika Taylor

Hi Everyone, Erika here and today is most definitely a good day.

I've been paper crafting since October 2008, but you could always find me with scissors, glue, crayons and construction paper when I was a little girl. Creatively, I love living outside the box. I am very eclectic and sometimes look from one project to the next and think "Did I make both of those? I love creating anything from cards to layouts, altered pieces to tags and ATC's. I'm starting to try my hand at jewelry using stamping products as well. I definitely have a few favorite products and love creating with them. Spellbinders Dies, Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels and anything Tim Holtz. Although I've just started down the Copic path and I know they will soon be a staple as well.

I am so looking forward to sharing my art with you and I know this year will be jam packed with amazing projects from this years Design Team. I’m so blessed to be a part of the Frantic Stamper Design team and I’m grateful that you are all here taking the journey with me. Today I’ve got a great little card to share with you using some of my all time favorite papers from Basic Grey. The Indian Summer line is so unbelievably versatile and I love the richness of the color palette. Add some Grungeboard and some glimmer mist and this is what I created:

Indian Summer Moment

Materials

For this card you will need the following supplies

      Bazzill Cardstock
            Juneberry (BAZ-1-196 $.59)
            Beetle Black (BAZ-10-1031 $.59) 

      Patterned Paper- Basic Grey Indian Summer - 6"x6" pad (BG-6x6-IND $5.99)
      Grungeboard- Elements Nature, 8 sheets (ADV-GB-92735 $9.99)
      Stamps
            Flourishes v2 by Rhonna Farrer (AL-RS-2514 $18.00)
      Tag- Autumn Bliss Fabric Tags (LYB-S-BLI220 $3.49)
      Ink- Versamark Pad  (TSU-VMPAD $8.09)
      Glimmer Mist-
            Scarlet (TAT-60920 $6.95 )
            Tattered Leather (TAT-60800 $6.95)
      Crackle Paint- Tim Holtz Distress Black Soot (RAN-DCP-black $4.59)
      Embossing Powder-Judikins Egyptian Gold - 2 oz (JK-EP-Egypt $6.50)
      Precision Scissor- Cutter Honey Bee Scissors (EK-CB-06 $12.49)
      Big Shot- Big Shot Machine (pink/black) (SIZ-Big-manual $99.99)
      Spellbinders Nestabilities -
            Circles Small (Wiz-D-S4116 $24.99)
            Circles Classic Scallop Small (Wiz-D-S4125 $24.99)

Instructions


      Step 1- Cut Juneberry cardstock at 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” score at 4 1/4”. Set aside

      Step 2- Cut beetle black cardstock 4 1/8” x 5 3/8”. Adhere 4” x 5 1/4” patterned paper to card front.

      Step 3- Cut out 1 3/4” x 1 3/4” beetle black cardstock and adhere 1 5/8” x 1 5/8” patterned paper on top. Adhere to card front.

      Step 4- Using precision scissors, cut out leaves and berries from patterned paper. Adhere to card front with pop dots

      Step 5- Cut out 2 1/4” x 3 1/2” beetle black cardstock. Adhere 2 1/8” x 3 3/8” patterned paper on top. Adhere to card front.

      Step 6- cut out 1” x 4” piece beetle black cardstock and adhere to card front. Layer ribbon of choice and crochet lace of choice on top.

      Step 7- Adhere entire piece to card base using double sided tape.

      Step 8- Cut out scalloped and classic circle using spellbinder dies and big shot. Layer then adhere to card base.

      Step 9- Spray flower Grungeboard piece with Tattered Leather Glimmer Mist. Adhere to circles.

      Step 10- Paint portions of Grungeboard bird with Distress Crackle Paint in Soot Black. Then spray with Scarlet Glimmer mist. Let dry completely.

      Step 11- Using Versmark, stamp flourish image onto bird then sprinkle with Judikins embossing powder. Emboss with heat tool. Adhere finished bird to card front.

      Step 12- Finish card with cutting fabric tag and adhering to card front using pop dots.

I love using more than one medium on Grungeboard. Try different combinations of embossing powder, paint and shimmer to see what you come up with.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and sharing an Indian Summer moment.

Toodles
Erika
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

Hummingbird Friends Card

by Sharon Jeffs

I first found scrapbooking through a card making company in 2001.  A close friend died suddenly and I was at a loss to deal with it.  Another friend suggested scrapbooking as my means and I’ve never looked back.  Since then I have played within a great many mediums and tend to love working  with whatever makes a mess.  I love trying out new ideas and will often try them out with my students in my class to see what others think.  My favourite medium besides all things bling would have to be glimmer mists although I recently bought some of the new Smooch spritz’s to try.  I have an absolute passion for all the tools and serious organisation strategies.  In fact if there was anything I could say that I couldn’t live without in my creative area then it would definitely be organisation!!

Perhaps soon you won't want to live without the wonderful projects from FranticStamper's Design Team. I am so excited to be posting the first of the regular Frantic Stamper Design Team projects and really look forward to the rest of the year!

Hummingbird Friends Card


Materials


      Hummingbird and Dry Flowers from Tim Holtz Nature set. (ST-CMS001 $19.95)
      Friend Text from Tim Holtz Tattered Elements set.( ST-CMS018 $19.95)
      Ranger Alcohol inks
            Copper Metallic Mixative (RAN-Alc-kit-GS $9.99)
            Espresso (RAN-Alc-essp)
            Pesto (RAN-Alc-pesto)
            Bottle (RAN-Alc-bottle)
      Range Distress Crackle Paint
            Rock Candy (RAN-DCP-rock $4.59)
      Stazon Jet Black Ink Pad (TSU-SZP-Jet $8.49)
      Tim Holtz Distress ink Pads –
            Antique Linen (RAN-DP-Linen $5.00)
            Vintage Photo (RAN-DP-Photo $5.00)
      Mini Brass Brads (Box of 200 $8.99)
      3D Square Foam Dots (BC-foam-lgsq $2.99)
      White card
      Neutral shaded card I used Bazill - Rio De Janero (BAZ-3-354 $0.59/sheet)
      Acetate sheet
      Prima Heirloom Paper Leaves – Olive (PRI-HPL-532246 $3.99)

Instructions

      Cut card to the following dimensions –
            Neutral cut to 5 1/2 inches by 11 inches and folded in half.
            White cut to 5 1/4 by 5 1/4 inch square and 3 1/4 by 2 1/4 inch piece.
            Cut acetate to 5 1/4 by 5 1/4 inch square.

      Add a felt pad to your blending tool and place a couple of drops randomly over the surface from each of the four colours of alcohol ink .
     

      Pat down onto the acetate. The colours will swirl and blend together as you pat along the surface.
     

      Continue to pat and add colour to the felt pad until you get the desired outcome you like. I prefer mine to swirl together into variations of large and small colour blotches to give a very earthy feel.
     

      Once dry, use a Stazon pad cleaner or a few drops of Metholated Spirits and rub some of the ink back so that you are left with random sections of your acetate still coloured. I took most of the ink off of the left side for stamping.
     

      Stamp with the Dry flowers over the left side with the Stazon Jet Black stamp pad, I stamped the design once again much lower to bulk up the design.
     

      Stamp the Hummingbird close to the Dry Flowers stamps then turn the acetate over and using a fine brush, add detail to the bird using the alcohol inks. I then turned back to the front of the acetate and brush on some of the Copper Metallic Mixative to the tail and wing section.
     

      Once dry, attach to the white square of card with 4 brass brads in each corner. Put aside.

      Using the 3 1/4 by 2 1/4 inch shape, stamp the Friend text using Stazon Jet black ink. Once the ink has dryed, place onto a scrap of acetate to help you with blending. Attach a Foam Blending Pad to your Blending Tool and ink up with the Antique Linen ink.
     

      To blend smoothly begin by placing the blender down onto the scrap of acetate and gently move in a circular motion over the acetate and card. Continue until desired colour is achieved without unnecessary ink lines on your work.
     

      Ink the Foam pad with the Vintage Photo ink and darken up the edges of the 3 1/4 by 2 1/4 inch piece in addition to the front of your card.

      Finally, coat the 3 1/4 by 2 1/4 inch piece with a coat of the Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and put aside to dry thoroughly. Rub over with Ink and Blending tool once more to highlight the cracks.
     
      Use Foam Dots to attach this piece to the bottom right corner of the acetate piece, placing a few leaves under the left edge.
     
      Attach to the front of your main section to complete.
     

Thanks for coming by today! I hope you’ve enjoyed my project and you'll give it a try!

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