Fun to Stamp

Faux Metal

I recently taught the faux metal technique spotlighting the Cute & Curly stamp set along with the Curly Label punch. I thought I would share some of those cards with you.  These two are identical in their base layout.  This first one uses the Hawaii Papaya DS paper.  I used gold embossing powder, along with a little Tangerine Tango ribbon and some felt flowers.

This second card uses Bella Rose DS paper and silver embossing powder.  It also incorporates some felt flowers and a little brad to hold them together.  This is a fun fairly easy technique.  You should give it a try.  You will find the direction in the techniques section on the left hand side.  I'd love to see what you come up with.  If you try it leave a comment with a link to your card in the comments section below.

Christmas Card Class 3

As promised below are the 3 cards I designed for our Christmas Card Class.   Some of these you have seen before.  I'm not going to list the recipe because you can find that on the Kits page.

Christmas Card Class 2

*Note:  See yesterday's post before reading this one for the explanation.  

Today we are going to focus on Susanne Moyer.  Susanne has a great classic style that is super clean and simple yet so stylish.  Aren't these great!

Check back tomorrow when I will be posting my three cards.

Deck The Halls

Snow Swirled

Kindred Spirits

Christmas Card Class

Hello All.  Sorry to be gone so long.  It has been a very busy week.  Today was the culmination of a week worth of work.  I hosted a Christmas Card Class along with two fantastic stampers that I am proud to call even more fantastic friends, Amy Ward & Susanne Moyer.  You will find kits using each of the cards we did under the For Sale Section on the left.  

I thought it might be fun to showcase one of these great ladies for the next two days.  So today we will showcase Amy.   Be sure to go and visit her blog.  She has some wonderful things on there.  She is so creative.  Below are her three cards. 

Season of Friendship

2 Cool Dudes

Home For Christmas

Scandinavian Season 3

One more Scandinavian Season card for you, for now anyway.  I used the star for this one.  It is great because it fits in the large star punch.  I used more Ski Slope DS paper.  Isn't it so striking?  I love those colors together. Then again, it does have Chocolate Chip in it and Red is my favorite color.  I also added some paper piercing, some Old Olive wide grosgrain ribbon, a Chocolate Chip felt flower and an Old Olive brad.  I like it.  I was little unsettled on where to put the greeting and which one but I like how it turned out.

Be Merry Snowflake

More Frosty Day paper and Big Shot snowflakes.  This time I used Bashful Blue as my dominate color.  I might try it with a white snowflake as well.  I used the Polka Dot background with VersaMark for my background.  I added some Chocolate Taffeta ribbon because all of the other ribbons just seemed to harsh for Bashful Blue snowflakes.  All that was left was a Chocolate Chip "Be Merry."

Scandinavian Season 2

I have a sketch book that I often times refer to when I am having a creative block or just need a quick card layout. Whenever I see layout that I really like, I sketch it out in my book for future reference.  This is one of those sketches.  I pulled this book out the other day when I was having a "creative block" and came up with this card.

It is another Scandinavian Season card.  It is my favorite so far.   The colors are so unique.  If you wanted to jazz it up a bit you could add some glitter to the mittens.  Maybe I will try that.  The greeting is from Many Merry Messages again.  It is a great set when you are working on Christmas cards because you have outside greetings and inside greetings.  

*Tip.  If you are going to do this layout, make your strip that holds your greeting extra long.  Stamp the greeting to the far left side.  Adhere it to your card based on where your jumbo eyelet goes.  Add the eyelet and then trip the end of the card stock off afterwards.

Frosty Day

It's not a Frosty Day here but it is a beautiful day with the highs scheduled to be 81 and low humidity.  That is such a perfect temperature.  Don't you think?  You can almost feel fall in the air.  

This is a simple little card that uses the new Frosty Day Designer Paper in the Holiday Mini.  It is so cute.  I love it! These are not your typical Christmas colors but I think they are so fun.  The snow flake is from the Snowflakes Set #2 for the Big Shot.  They are so quick and easy to die cut.  I used the shimmery white card stock and an orange rhinestone brad to add a little sparkle.  

Scandinavian Season

I was immediately struck by the Scandinavian Season stamp set in the Holiday Mini.  And the Ski Slope Designer Paper?  Oh my goodness.  It is gorgeous.  And it has Chocolate Chip in it to boot.  This is a quick simple first card made with this set.  It uses Real Red, Baja Breeze, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. The greeting is from Many Merry Messages.  I stamped the tree in Baja and then again in Real Red to cut out the flower.  I used the Old Olive twill to knot around the center.  Pretty simple.  It would be an easy one to mass produce for your Christmas Cards.  

Color Challenge #23

Time for another KWerner Color Challenge.  Another one that includes Bravo Burgundy.  I decided to go with a watercolor image this time.  I think it made it a little easier to incorporate all of the colors.  Nothing says fall quite like these colors.  Aren't they gorgeous?  

I decided to use the mug from Pun Fun.  I saw some yummy fall colored mugs somewhere the other day.  Starbucks maybe?  That made me think of doing this mug the same way.  I used some Windsor Knot DS paper and some pumpkin ribbon.  I also distressed the Burgundy edge that is behind the mug.  Sorry for the poor lighting.  It is a dark rainy day here.  I did the best I could with what I had.  :-)  What do you think?