Welcome to another episode of Cardmaking 101! This week we are looking at ‘how to stamp!’
I think this is one of those things that new card makers can really struggle with, getting a clear, crisp image, and avoiding those dreaded inky halo’s.
I think the best way to explain this one is in video, but the key really is a smooth action (and practice!) getting the stamp mounted properly on your block, and stamping down and straight up – No Rocking!
check out the video to see what I mean
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There are a stack of these floating around on Pinterest, but I just had to put my own spin on it. The Classic Card Box. I wanted a box specifically to hold cards and envelopes while they wait to go to customers. Did you know that I always send a ‘Thank You’ card when you place an order in my store? If you have ordered and haven’t received a card it may be that you have selected ‘No Contact’ drop me an email if you think I’ve missed you.
The first box uses Lost Lagoon card stock, and a piece of that lovely Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack. Whereas the video version is in Bermuda Bay with a piece of Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper. I grabbed the Cherry on Top DSP during demonstrator Pre-Order, purely because it was available to me! Demonstrators get the chance to order from a sample of product before the big launch! and I have to say, looking at the pictures in the Catalogue, I’m not sure that I would have ordered if it hadn’t been in that pre-order selection. And I would have missed out! Because it is fabulous! Featuring Bermuda Bay, Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry, Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe and Watermelon Wonder, and a collection of birthday themed papers with some great patterns; it would look fab as part of a Project Life album! I might even have to order a second pad!
Measurements:
Card stock – 12 x 8″ (30.5 x 20.5 cm)
Score on the long side at – 4 1/2, 5 3/4, 10 1/4, and 11 1/2″ (11.5, 14.5, 26, and 29 cm)
Score on the short side at – 1 1/4″ (3 cm) turn the card stock around and score in the wide section nearest the skinny flap at 1 1/2″ (4 cm)
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Popping in again to let you know something really cool!
The Watercolour Wishes Card Kit is now available in my Online Store!
This awesome card kit contains a delightful exclusive stamp set, as well as the components to make 20 unique cards (with envelopes!) – die cut pieces, pre-watercoloured card bases, stickers, Stampin’ Spots in Night of Navy and Watermelon Wonder, Washi tape, sequins, wooden elements, and so much more!
grab yours today!
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After saying on Tuesday that it’s been a while since I did a CASE card, I have two in one week! This card is inspired by one on page 7 of the new Annual Catalogue, although different enough that you probably wouldn’t know!
I’ve been playing with the new Endless series of stamps; we have two of these great sets – Endless Birthday Wishes (which I have used here) and Endless Thanks. They are both Photopolymer sets, featuring a series of words and phases in a mixture of a tiny typed typeface and a scripty handwritten font. Just lovely!
The cake was stamped onto a scrap of watercolour paper using Stazon Black, my favourite ink for water-colouring. Before colouring the cake with Rose Red Ink with less water for the top and bottom, and more water in the middle. The cake stand is in Tip Top Taupe, and the candles are pure Crushed Curry. I’ve also added a background wash of Soft Sky and quite a lot of water to ground that cake, it appeared to sort of float before!
That piece of watercolour paper is attached to a matt of Pink Pirouette, stamped with the dots stamp from the same set in the same colour ink, with some Dimensionals and with a piece of Crumb Cake Stitched Satin Ribbon sandwiched in between. Before mounting the whole piece onto a Sahara Sand card base.
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Isn’t this year flying by! Things are really hotting up around here; not only am I now 5 weeks away from my Big Day, but we are in the middle of a heat wave AND Stampin’ Up! have given us some awesome hot hot hot deals this week!
Weekly Deals and a Clearance Rack Update!
Shall we jump straight in?
This month we have an increased selection of Weekly deals, but they are only available in limited quantities! So grab them now while you can!
Haven’t we got a great selection this week! Some wonderful card stock bargains, some of my favourite products are in here – I have a great video coming on Friday looking at that wonderful Tag a Bag kit (might even grab myself another while there is such a great price!)
While we are talking bargains, the Clearance Rack has also been updated this morning, with some wonderful bits and bobs from the recently retired Spring/Summer catalogue.
Code Club
As always at the start of a new month I have started a brand new Code Club. All you have to do to join in place an order of between £20 and £150 in my Online Store and enter the special Code Club Code!
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Each month all qualifying orders receive an extra bonus from me! along with the usual ‘Thank you’ card.
Please check that you have not selected the ‘No Contact’ option however, as then I am completely unable to send you anything. I have some instructions on check this on my Code Club page, or drop me an email to check
What have I been up to?
Well, we really are into full Wedding Countdown mode here! Just 38 days to go! I’m still working on Orders of Service and the Seating plan, but we are nearly there now. I took James last Friday to buy his Wedding Suit, he had such a great day. We walked into the suit shop, said “Black Suit Please” and the shop assistant appeared with the correct size! James couldn’t believe shopping could be that easy! I doubt it will ever happen again though
I’m super busy this week at the day job, looking forward to a week off next week, when I can get everything in order ready for the 8th August! I’m starting to get excited now. People keep asking me if I am nervous, I’m really not, I’m more nervous about falling over halfway down what is quite a long aisle than I am saying the big ‘I Do’! I’m sure that will change!
Right, that it for me today, I’m off to enjoy our one day of summer!
Speak to you all again next week
x
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I’m slowly working my way through a massive list of techniques to try (anyone else write a heap of lists?) including the techniques listed in the latest Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue (Have you got yours yet?)
I am loving the Artistic Expression section of the catalogue, and the techniques listed there. I know I’ve done this one before, but I just love the sample in the book, and really wanted to CASE it. It’s been a whiles since I did a CASE card – Copy and Share Everything! I love doing this, particularly around a new catalogue launch, giving the samples my own twist.
So, that’s the Stampin’ Up! version, and I have changed it up slightly, check out the video below to see how I did!
I got the chance to play with this stamp set for the first time at Regional Training back in May, before it’s release! and we made a great Make and Take which I shared recently. Awesomely Artistic is one of the stamp sets designed for Stamp Layering; where you layer stamped images on top of each other to create a collage effect.
I have also used a few pieces of Designer Series Paper on this card; I’m trying really hard to use more DSP on my cards at the moment and have another using it later in the week. This card uses little pieces of the Neutral Designer Series Paper Stack (I’m sorry, I made this card before it was unavailable, but it WILL be back really soon!) and that lovely Typeset Speciality paper that I am completely in love with!
This stamp set also coordinates with a set of framelits, the Project Life Cards and Labels Framelits, but I have to say I don’t own them. However, this label is so easy to fussy cut even I did it!
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Today is the closing date for my July Technique class! We are making 5 cards with this wonderful stamp set, An Open Heart, featuring some wonderful techniques including playing with vellum and ink smooshing! (I’m totally in love with that technique!)
As you may already know I plan my blog ahead of time, I fit this in around some other work commitments, and so scheduling is a must! So, when I was planning this weeks worth of posts I knew I wanted to share a bright card with you using this great stamp set. I think its so versatile, and although I have used the ‘Thank You’ sentiment from the set, you could just as easily add ‘Happy Birthday’ or ‘Congratulations’ to these images and it wouldn’t look odd.
The card base here is Tempting Turquoise, with a layer of Whisper White. I love this colour combination; Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive and Real Red. The stamping here is simple, taking things back to my simple stamping roots! You could spend hours colouring these images with your Blender pen or AquaPainters, (but I will show you some quick tips in my Technique class!), but I love the look of these just stamped too.
What’s your favourite colour combination of the moment?
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There are so many accessories for stamping, I thought I would give you my top picks to get you started.
Stampin’ Blocks!
There are so many different blocks on the market and I will admit to having quite a collection, however, I only use a few. Last year before I became a demonstrator for Stampin’ Up! I thought that a clear block was a clear block, that they are much of a muchness, and didn’t really matter. I was wrong! I now only use my Stampin’ Up! blocks, and not because I’m a demonstrator, but because they are the best!
There are several things I look for a in block, is it easy to hold? what about the weight? size? and durability. The blocks I use are available in a range of sizes, are a nice weight and are really durable, but the best thing about them is the hold. I’m sure you have a few blocks, and they are probably those nasty thin ones from the cheap section in the craft store?! I have some too, and why don’t I use them? because my fingers go over the edges and into the ink! I make enough of a messy without my blocks helping me out! Stampin’ Up! blocks feature a wonderful groove for your fingers to sit, keeping them out of the ink and helping prevent inky finger prints on your nice piece of Whisper White!
Stamp-a-ma-jig
I know there is lots of buzz around the crafty world at the moment about stamp positioners, in particular a very expensive one from the States, and while I’m sure its great, as a beginner its is an unnecessary expense. I have a whole video on the stamp-a-ma-jig, and I love it! Its a great way of getting nicely straight sentiments and centred images, and its only £11!
Swatch Book
I posted a video on this recently too, my custom made swatch book. I have the PDF’s available on the coordinating blog post too. I use this all the time to match colours and choose colour combinations, and its a great tool for documenting your growing ink colour collection!
Stampin’ Scrub
This is probably the one tool I get asked about most at classes and events; my Stampin’ Scrub! I love this thing! It features two sides of of washable black fibre scrub pads that are the greatest things for cleaning those inky stamps! Use in combination with Stampin’ Mist to clean and condition your stamps after each use, less waste and hassle that baby wipes with no of the nasty residue. I wouldn’t be without mine!
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Welcome to the Pootler’s blog hop! I am so excited for this hop, the lovely ladies in the team have worked so hard to create some wonderful projects (I’ve had a sneak peak, so impressed!). Please take your time around the hop, the girls would love some comments too!
Thanks
When I first saw this years catalogue this stamp set really intrigued me. The image in the catalogue is very dark, but the sample is amazing! I have to say though, I wasn’t completely convinced until I saw Sarah Berry’s lovely creations at Regional Training back in May; she created a series of wonderful cards using this set and gave us some great tips too!
Isn’t it lovely? I just love the layered nature of these stamps. The set includes two butterflies, one large and one small, over 3 stamps so you get a multi-layered image. This card I have also used one of the accent pieces to create a background and used one of the sentiment stamps. The butterfly has been die cut using the coordinating Bold Butterfly framelits dies, although the set also coordinates with the Butterflies Framelits (and Butterfly Basics!)
I love this card! Instead of stamping the solid layer of the butterfly, I created a mask using copier paper and used my Sponge Daubers to create the butterfly. You can see this better in the video!
I created this set of three cards after making one; also using the masking technique to create the butterfly first, then adding layers. This time I only added the detailed stamp using White Craft Ink.
Which card is your favourite, I have to say I think the one I created in the video is mine, I’m just loving the Watermelon Wonder colour!
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I call these Cookie Boxes, although they are really called Tag a Bag Gift Boxes, but they are food safe, and coordinate with the Tag a Bag accessory kits. I use them for all sorts of things, table bins at classes, boxes for gifts, storage for pens and gift tags and loads of other things too!
I made these for a class a few months ago, and thought they are super cute, and would look awesome in our new in colours!
Measurements:
Card stock – 10 x 2 1/2″ (25.5 x 6.5 cm)
Score on the long side at 2 1/2, 4 3/4, 7 1/4, and 9 1/2″ (6.5, 12, 18.5, ans 24 cm)
The stamps here are Flower Patch, which are a great photopolymer set that coordinate with the Flower Fair framelits. These look really complicate to line up, but if you look carefully you will find that each flower has a petal that not the same as the others and allow you to line up the stamped images with the framelits
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