Andrea's Stampin' Moments

My Friend

This was suppose to be my card for this weekends TECC sketch challenge, but it just wasn't going to work, so I turned it round a bit and this is what I came up with.

You can see the sketch here.

I had stamped this Sarah Kay image a week or so ago but never got around to colouring her in, so it was perfect for today, or so I thought.

She was stamped using Palette Noir Black and coloured using Copics.  The DSP is from SU! and is called Bali Breeze, and I was happy that I had some Copics that toned in with the colours.

Here is a close up of the centre image.  I just love the detail in these stamps.

I made the bottom panel using white cardstock and grosgrain ribbons Cerise, Turquoise and Orange, and ended them with Dew Drops.

Don't forget to leave a comment on the post below called 'Freebie Friday', across the weekend for you chance to win a bottle.

Happy stamping this weekend!

Freebie Friday Giveaway!

Well today I have six new colours from Robins Nests Dew Drops arriving for the store, so I thought what could be better for this weekends Blog Candy!  Leave a comment on why you just Love Dew Drops, or why you'd like to give them a try,  and you can choose a bottle from any of the new or existing colours I have in stock!

Here are the new colours :

Cowboy, Pointsetta, Island Blossom, Gold, Spring Bloom and Men

   

I hope you will join in, and I will be back with a little project later.

Have a great day,

A friend...Mojo75

  I had started this card on Tuesday, and thought I would see what the Mojo Monday sketch was, and as it turned out what I had started fitted in perfectly with the sketch!

This gorgeous flower is another from the Lizzie Anne Designs set Jolies Fleurs, and it has been a treat to play with.  (New designs are coming soon!).  I stamped the image twice using Noir Black and coloured with Copics, cutting both out.

I then stamped the words using SU! Old Olive from a favourite set of mine called God's Blessings.  I have reached for these words often.  And of course the beautiful DSP is also from SU!

Just a couple of finishing touches to this card and they of course include the Dew Drops Bird of Paradise down the side, and white craft ink around the Kraft cardstock.

Don't forget it's Freebie Friday tomorrow and across the weekend, so let your friends know to drop by and see what goodies are being given away this month!

Until the,

Jolies Fleurs - TECC56

  I have had a week of starting things and not liking how they are going, so I have left them.  I'm sure that I will come back and finish them one day, but for now the ideas just weren't 'gelling'!  So unlike me is one post in a whole week, but there it was.

So today I needed a boost and it came by way of giving myself a new stamp set from Lizzie Anne Designs called Jolies Fleurs.  I love her stamps, and I have new ones coming in soon!

I've used three different stamps from the set here to wrap around the central sentiment, and coloured using Copics.

Rather than just raising the cut out stamped flowers I have placed  tiny pieces of dimensional foam in the centres and used Glossy Accents to hold the bottom of the flowers down so they 'fanned' out, and I love how this looks on the card.

The DSP for today is from SU! and is called Bali Breeze.  I seem to be using orange a lot lately so I was happy to see the colours when I opened the pack after picking it up from the P.O.  It just seems bright and friendly!

The centres were cut from my Spellbinders Classic Ovals and I have pierced the scallop one.

I have also pierced the two side panels top and bottom and using a white gel pen have joined the holes to give a stitched effect.

I hope your week was more productive than mine!   Have a great day,

Hello...Mojo74

  I haven't had time to do a lot of stamping this week, but started this one yesterday for the Mojo Monday sketch, and finished it last night, way too late to post.

The original idea came from the OCL web site and you can their version here, and I thought to myself what a great idea.  It has been a little while since I made the background myself, relying instead on DSP, but not today, today is mine.

I started by stamping the flower image from the OCL set Spring Garden using Palette Noir black ink over my white cardstock.  I coloured the images with Copics and then painted in between the images with Shimmerz Angel Wings.  The edges were distressed using a Tim Holtz paper distresser, but the side of your scissors blade can be used as well.  This was matted on to BBP Tangelo Blast.

  As the background I had created had enough happening the first layer is simply white cardstock painted with the Shimmerz and the edges distressed.  The centre square was ran through the Cuttlebug folder and the dots painted with the Shimmerz and once again the edges were distressed.

I stamped the flower image three more times (for the leaves) seperately and coloured them in adding a bit of shading toward the centre.  I coated the flowers and leaves with Glossy Accents and allowed them to dry, and I just love how it intensifies the colour!  For the centre brad which is from the Medium Summertime Collection, I coated the top with Orange Peel Stickles which I have just stocked in the shop, and allowed it to dry.

The sentiment and circle of flowers is from Papertrey Ink.

Thanks for stopping by today, and if you would ever like to ask me something or let me know about a great new product you have seen, just drop me a line on my email.

Celebrate! - TECC55

  I had a lot of fun with this sketch from Taylored Expressions this weekend.  I needed a card for a male birthday this week, and the sketch made it easy to put together, but I wasn't sure of how to embellish it. 

I used the cupcake from an Inque Boutique set, as well as the words that run down the side.  Don't forget that all these stamp sets are at 30% off until sold out!

The image was stamped using Palette Burnt Umber and coloured with Copics.  I used DSP from SU! and matted them all on to Sage Shadow which I had sponged with the Burnt Umber.

Once it was all together I then pierced all the way around and using a chocolate marker joined all the holes for a stitiched effect.

It's a bit hard to see in the photo, but the cupcake and the words are both raised with foam squares to give some dimension, and Dew Drops to finish off.  I have some colours of the Dew Drops coming in soon, so keep an eye out for those!

Thanks for stopping by!

Birthday Cake

Happy Valentines Day!  I hope you all received your chocolates today!

I love green and orange together, they just seem to go.  I am hoping this card is o.k. for a young man - is that right?  young man for a 17 year old? - maybe it's just that I can't believe it...because that means my son will be 17 this year!  Where does the time go?

Any way he thought it was alright to give a mate, and they all know I love to make cards *wink, wink*

I have used the cake from the SU! set Celebrate Everyday as well as thei DSP.  The decorative corners are a Cuttlebug die, and I just couldn't waste the little bits that came out of it so I included them in the bottom corners.

I love lots of layers as well and I hope you can see the different levels between the layers.

Copic markers were used to colour the cake and I added a touch of the clear at you Spica pen to the candles for just a bit of sparkle - not too much.

We had a beautiful day yesterday, with the sky completely clear of smoke as I had mentioned, but at sunset last night the wind must have changed again and we could see the smoke coming back.  It was very sad to see because it made us realise how bad it must be in the areas affected.  Obviously fires are still smouldering and causing concern for the fire fighters.  Lets hope with a new week about to begin brings better news for them, and those who now have to rebuild.

   

   

I had hoped that my camera would have picked up the bright pink of the sun over our tanks, but unfortuneately it didn't.  But can you see the smoke coming in?  The picture with the large tree is south-west and the other shots are more to the west.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Chocolate.. With Love

  It's never a bad idea to say it with chocolates.  Chocolates are most definitely better than flowers, unless they're flower stamps of course!

Over at Splitcoast Stampers they had this fantastic tutorial on this box using clear acetate.  I have a pack of transparency film in the draw that I picked up from Officeworks for things like this - just be sure that your hands are clean with this as finger prints are easily left behind - and it works fine.

The dimensions of my box were perfect because I was left with half a dozen Raffaellos once the box was filled....yum.  I made my box 6cm x 6cm and 18cm tall.

But enough about chocolate!  The stamp set I used today is from Our Craft Lounge called 'So In Love'.  I stamped two long strips using one of the borders, and five hearts - two with the centre words you see - using Palette Noir Black ink, on Smooth White cardstock.  The red cardstock is BBP Smoothies Cherry Splash.

Everything was coloured in with Copics, and the top tied off with red polka dot ribbon.

I hope all is well in your part of this world.  There has been some rain in eastern parts of Victoria, and the smoke has cleared completely today here, all of which I hope means that the fire situation has eased.  The response to the Bush Fire Appeal has been incredible, and it isn't over yet!   

See you tomorrow with the weekend sketches!

Now & Forever - Mojo73

  The smoke has almost cleared today, and I pray that it is a promising sign for those still out there fighting the fires.  So I decided to set about making a card this afternoon for this weeks Mojo Monday sketch.

I have used the set Love Bug from Our Craft Lounge to stamp the top and bottom borders, words and side flowers.  I then coloured them in with Copics.

I found these gorgeous little brads in my draw that I must have had for years, but they are just so adorable, that I had to use them for this card.

After re-looking at the sketch I realised that I also needed some words to finish off at the bottom, so I went in search through my 'many' sets to find just the right ones.  I found this in a SU! set 'Occasional Greetings', and it fitted in perfectly.  This is also some of my new DSP that came the other day.

I hope your day is going well.

In Our Prayers

  It's hard to put in to words exactly what you want to say sometimes.  With some fires still not yet under control and the wind still incredibly strong we can only think and pray for the people effected.

This card was made using the sketch over at Paper Craft Planet, and some new DSP that just arrived from SU!  I had said that I was trying to use up my DSP - something that will never really happen - but I couldn't resist some new ones to play with.

I started with All Year Cheer I (discontinued I think) and Petal Prints for my centre sentiment (from SU!), and my JustRite Brayton font for the side words - on special for this month, with 15% off.  The textured cream cardstock is the new Vixen at TLOCS.

The centre was cut from my Classic Rectangle Spellbinders and embossed, as well as the swirls from Doddle Parts in either corner.

I finished the card with SU! grosgrain ribbon and buckle.

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope that you are all safe.

All Things Grow..

When I made this card yesterday I was not yet aware of how badly the fires here in Victoria would be.  We had been told in the days leading up to yesterday that the weather forecast was not good, and the conditions for large scale fires were probable.  I can do nothing for those that have lost loved ones, 35 now, and those that have lost all belongings, we know nothing of their pain.  So prayer is the only thing I have today, and we pray for the safety of those still out their fighting the fires, and for the families of those that have lost.

  This card is for the TECC challenge this weekend, and I went for more subdued colours than I have been using.  The gray and black cardstocks are from SU!'s textured range, and I hadn't made many things with them, and they suited this DSP from Sandylion completely.

The grey was ran through the flower Cuttlebug embossing folder, and then lightly painted with Angel Wings Shimmerz.  I stamped the word sentiment from Papertrey Inks set Garden of Life, and flower from Flower Garden using Noir Black Palette, and coloured the flower with Copic markers.

The Dew Drops I used for this card are the Pearl ones that I simply coloured using my Copics, and it left them with a beautiful pearl look.  They were attached using Glue Dots.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Andrea

Workshop Treats and Mojo72

  I am having a workshop here on Friday morning with some ladies, so today I thought I would share with you what we will be making.

This first card doubles as the Mojo Monday Sketch.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, and the cupcake from Our Craft Lounge.  I have coloured the base of the cake with Copic markers, then painted the icing with Shimmerz and the frosting with at you Spica pens. The pink grosgrain ribbon is from TLOCS.

The DSP is from Stampin' Up!

The next card is using the Our Craft Lounge set Spring Garden.

The images have been stamped with Palette Burnt Umber, and then outlined using Copic markers.  The image was cut using Classic Rectangle Spellbinders.  This very pretty DSP is from Inque Boutique and is being cleared here.  The ribbon is 10mm White Grosgrain.

I have used smooth white cardstock  that is a great 300gsm thickness, perfect for cards.

The final card is using the same white cardstock and DSP from SU!.  I love the flowers in this paper, and it suited perfectly what I wanted to do for this card.

The DSP stands out perfectly with the white background of the card.

I have simply cut varying sized strips and adhered them to the front.

The flower image from Papertrey Ink and the words, are stamped with Palette Burnt Umber once again.

I finished with some Soil Dew Drops and Double Sided Satin Latte Ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by today!

We have a winner!

Hi everyone, I hope your weekend went well.

Using random.org as my little helper is now at school, number 7 came up, so congratulations Pauline!

I will post this fabulous stamp set out to you once you have emailed me your details.

I'm on the hop today, I hope to be back tomorrow, but until them I thought I would share with you this video from Marriane of  'I like Markers' and designer for Our Craft Lounge.  I hope you enjoy.

Cupcake Surprise - TECC53

  I am trying to work my way through my DSP before I even contemplate buying any more - mind you I have a lot to get through!  Todays is using some from SU!

This is my card for this weeks Taylored Expressions weekend cupcake challenge, and I am running a bit behind today, as I finished this yesterday!

I started with a cupcake from Our Craft Lounge set Life is Sweet and stamped it with Palette Noir Black.  I have painted the icing with Shimmerz Angel Wings and the cupcake base with Shimmerz Bubble Gum, then added glitter glue for the frosting.  The centre square has been cut with the classic square Spellbinders, and the long panel using a scallop rotary cutting blade.  I added some gorgeous little brads that also have red hearts in the set - perfect for Valentines - called Jazzy Brads, to finish off the side, but it still needed something else, so I couldn't resist adding some more Dew Drops...you know how I love my Dew Drops!

Have a great week,