Direct To Paper Technique

Hello All:

Every Wednesday over on splitcoaststampers they feature a new technique. This Wednesday's technique is the direct to paper technique. You choose your colors that your going to use. Then you want to from the lightness to the darkest color. Reason being you don't want to mess up your stamp pad. Once you have inked your cardstock then you can stamp your image. I used the new a la carte sail away stamp set. This stamp set is great for masculine cards.

Stamp Sets: Sail Away and Curly Cute

Ink: Black StazonOn, bashful blue, Marina Mist, and Pacific Point

Technique: Direct To Paper

Thank you for stopping by:

Tai

Dasher With Ice

This dasher has been created with a little twist of ice added to it. The card is very similar to the card that was posted on yesterday with just a few minor accessories adjustments. Card making is just like wearing clothes. You can wear the same dress twice but change your accessories and make it look brand new. I enjoy stamping clean and simple!!!!

Cardstock: Early Expresso, Cherry Cobbler, Brushed Gold, and Very Vanilla

Stamp Sets: Dasher and Teeny Tiny Wishes

Ink: Cherry Cobbler and Versamark

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Modern Label Extra Large, Word Window Large, Dimensionals, Heat Tool, and Iridescent Ice

Technique: Embossing One Of My Favorite Techniques

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Tai

Gold Birthday Card

Today post is a birthday card not a thank you card. You can never have to many birthday cards on hand just like thank you cards. This card is very elegant with the gold embossing but yet clean and simple. The card looks a lot better in person I think.

Card Ingredient:

Stamp Sets: Medallion and Sincere Salutations
Cardstock: Kraft and Very Vanilla
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Classy Gold Embossing Powder, Heat Gun and Powder Pal.
Technique: Embossing.

This card is very simple to mass produce. Using the sincere salutation stamp set you can make a set of 8 cards in very little time.

Thanks for stopping by

Tai

Snow Swirl Brown and Blue

Okay you can tell that I really enjoyed looking at Karen's blog and casing her cards because three of the four that I posted came from her blog. I was blog surfing and came across this card on Karen's blog at stampwithkarengp.blogspot.com. I decided to case this card but I did a few changes but used the same layout.



Card Details:
Stamp set: Snow Swirl
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip and Kraft
Ink: Chocolate Chip and Craft White
Accessories: Bashful Blue Brad, Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon, Glue Dot, Winter White Embossing Powder, Embossing Tray, and Heat Gun

Technique: Embossing

Card Size 3 1/2 by 5

Christmas can be whatever color you want it to be.


Thank you for stopping by:

Tai

Snow Swirl Christmas Tree Green & Red

I was blog surfing again and came across this card on Karen's blog at stampwithkarengp.blogspot.com. I decided to case this card but I did a few changes but used the same layout. I made a card using the traditional holiday colors.

Card Details:

Stamp Set: Snow Swirl
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Really Red, and Whisper White
Ink: Always Artichoke Craft Ink
Accessories: Gold Brad, Always Artichoke Grosgrain Ribbon, Ticket Corner Punch, Clear Embossing Powder, and Heating Tool.

Technique: Embossing

Card Size 3 1/2 X 5

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Tau

Urban Garden Card

Happy Sunday To All:

I have designed a card today using the urban garden designer paper and this card can be used for many occasions. I am going to use this card for a birthday card.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: All Holidays
Cardstock: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, and Urban Garden Designer Paper
Accessories: Very Vanilla Grosgrain Ribbon, Not Quite Navy Brads,Scallop Punch and Mat Pack
Technique: Paper Piercing

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Tai

Not Attending Convention Swap

On Splitcoast Stampers there are some wonderful ladies who started a thread a few months ago about individuals that won't be attending convention for one reason or another. Then guess what happened next your guest it swap group were started and it went from there. There were different sections organized by the sections in the catalog holidays,Occasions, All Natural, Elements,Growing Up and Greetings. I participated in four categories so I will be posting me swaps that I made.


Supplies Used To Create My Swap Card:

Stamp Set: Lovely As A Tree, Sanded Background and Fundamental Phrases
Ink: Old Olive, Versamark, Always Artichoke
Cardstock: Old Olive Designer Paper, Kraft, Bravo Burgundy, and Very Vanilla
Accessories: Heat Tool, and Old Olive Brads, Creative Memory Circles, 1 inch circle punch and Clear Embossing Powder
Technique: Embossing

Thank you for stopping by:

Tai

Color Concoction

I completed another challenge today but this was created by Julie over at paper pleasing ideas. Julie host a color concoction and I decided to play the main color scheme is perfect plum and always artichoke. Have you challenged yourself to a challenge lately? If not then it time to take a challenge.

Card Details:
Stamp set: Year after year and A little birdie told me
Cardstock: Perfect Plum, Always Artichoke, and Watercolor Paper
Ink: Perfect Plum
Accessories: Perfect Plum & Always artichoke markers, gold brads, small & large ovals, color spritzer tool and circle punch for the scallops.
Technique: Embossing and Water Coloring

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One Stamp Set Thank You Card

Tonight I designed my cards with using only one stamp set and one ink pad. Many times people are leery about stamping because of the cost, but as I explain to them stamping is as expensive as the artist makes it. So, I have designed two cards tonight one that is simple and the other one I kicked it up a notch.
Card A Details: Cardstock: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, and Vanilla.
Stamp Set: Heartfelt Thanks Ink: Certainly Celery.

This is my kick it up a notch card
Card B Details:Cardstock: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, and Vanilla.
Stamp Set: Heartfelft Thanks Ink: Certainly Celery
Accessories: Mat Pack, Certainly Celery Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, and Rhinestones
Technique: Paper Piercing.

Once again I used very minimal supplies to make these two wonderful cards.

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Spring Birthday Card

One can never have enough birthday cards on hand. I am sure that we can give out at least one birthday card a month.

Card Details:
Stamp Set: Embrace Life and Sincere Salutations
Ink: Chocolate Chip Craft Ink and Chocolate Chip Ink
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Old Olive and Ultra White
Accessories: Embossing Powder, Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon,Circle Punch, and heating tool.
Technique: Embossing and making scallops with the circle punch.

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Trio Panel Father's Day Card

Here is another card that I designed honoring fathers and uncle. This is the same design I used in my previous post but just turned the paper a different way. :) May as well make two cards while you are cutting.

Card Details:
Stamp Set: All Holiday and Circle of Friendship
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Close To Cocoa, Bashful Blue Designer Paper and Ultra White
Ink: Bashful Blue and Chocolate Chip Craft Ink
Accessories: Circle Punches, Poly Twill Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Embossing Powder, Dimensionals and Heat Tool
Technique: Paper Piecing and Embossing

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Jumbo Eyelet Father's Day Card

Father's Day is just around the corner and let's honor our men. Here is a father's day card that I designed and I do like the outcome with the exception my jumbo eyelets are a little wonky. :)

Card Details:
Stamp Sets: All Holidays
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Ultra White, Chocolate Chip,Bashful Blue Designer Paper and Ultra White
Ink:Bashful Blue
Accessories: Crop A Dile, Embossing Powder, and Heat Tool
Technique: Embossing and Jumbo Eyelet Setting

Can't Sleep Creation

I know that I need to be sleep but I just can't sleep and decided to stamp anyone ever been there before????? So here is my can't sleep creation.

Card Details:
Stamp Sets: All Holidays and Embrace Life
Cardstock: Wasabi, Pretty In Pink, Ultra White
Ink:Pretty In Pink, Pale Plum and Craft White Ink
Accessories: White Grosgrain Ribbon which if you notice is pale plum and Mat Pack
Techniques: Paper Piercing and Ribbon Dying.

I dyed my white grosgrain ribbon by running the ribbon over the pale plum ink pad until I got the color I wanted. :)

Thank you for stopping by this morning.

Tai

Chalk Board Technique Shoe Box Swap

Today I attended a splitcoaststamper event that was hosted in Long Beach, CA by Emily, Joy, and Jami. If you have never attended on of these events make sure you try to go to attend the next one. The technique that I used on this card is called the chalk board technique and is very fun to create. Once again I used the Live your dream stamp set that is available in the occasion mini catalog.

Card Details:
Stamp Set: Live Your Dream
Cardstock:Chocolate Chip, Old Olive and Summer Sun
Accessories: Brads, Sm. & Lrg. Oval Punches, and Poly Twill Ribbon, Summer Sun & Old Olive Chalks.
Technique: Chalk Board

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Tai

Easter

On Saturday, my upline and sideline got together and designed some cards. We hadn't gotten together to stamp with one another in a long time. Here is one of the cards that I designed. I used the layout from a card designed in the March Papercraft magazine on page 66. I used the same color scheme but changed the stamp set.

Card Details:
Stamp Set: Good Egg
Cardstock: Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Spring Fling Designer Paper and White.
Ink: Basic Black and Black Stazon
Accessories:Barely Banana & Certainly Celery Markers, Dazzling Diamond Glitter,Two Way Glue Pen, Crafters Tool Kit and Certainly Celery Wide Grosgrain Ribbon.
Technique: Paper Piercing

Don't forget that Sale A Bration is On Until March 17th.

Thank you for looking.

Tai

So Scallop Sale A Bration

Hello All:

Here is another card that I have created with one of the sale a bration stamp sets.

You can get this stamp set free with a purchase of $50.00 until March 17th.

Card Recipe: Stamp Set- So Scallop:
Cardstock- Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Ultra White and Summer Picnic Designer Paper.
Ink-Pumpkin Pie:
Accessories:Scallop Punch and Crop A Dile
Technique: Dry Embossing with the Crop A Dile

The dimension of this card is 3 1/2 x 5.

Thank you for looking

Tai

Weekly Challenge

Yes, this challenge will make my third challenge for the week. This challenge is a combined challenge because I did the color challenge on Splitcoaststamper Gallery which consisted of using Blue Bayou, Real Red, and Soft Sky. I also participated in Mary Jo Price challenge over at www.technostamper.blogspot.com

Card Recipe: Stamp Set: Greeting Galore- Ink: Black Stazon,Bordering Blue, Creamy Caramel, Real Red- Card Stock: Soft Sky Designer Paper,Real Red, Blue Bayou, and Water Color Paper- Accessories: Paper Piercing Tool,Dimensionals, Blender Pens-Technique Water coloring & Paper piercing.


Thank you for stopping by and please leave me a comment.

Tai

Weekly Challenge

I love surfing blogs and this week I decided to participate in the challenge over on Jen's blog www.iheart2stamp.com As you know I am so loving the designer paper and I have found a new technique water coloring. Well it's not new but it is to me. You know I love to emboss so I am totally out of my box. :)

Card Recipe: Stamp Set: Little Birdie Told Me- Ink: Black Stazon,Certainly Celery, and Real Red- Cardstock: River rock, Cameo Coral,Ginger Blossom Designer Paper,Watercolor Paper,- Accessories: 1/2 circle punch, crystal effects,dimensionals,build a brad and blender pens.

Thank you for stopping by and if you like an item(s) leave a comment.
Tai

Friendship Box

Hello All:

Today's project is a box that can be used for any occasion. I choose to use it for valentines by placing some sweethearts in a cello bag.This box is made one piece of 12 x 12 cardstock. The stamp set is from the Valentine Bundle promotion which is available until January 31st as the bundle. Good deal.

Box Recipe:Stamp Set: Happy Heart Day Cardstock: 12 x 12 Real Red, Cameo Coral Textured, Watercolor Paper, Ginger Blossom Designer Paper.Ink: Real Red, Going Gray, Certainly Celery.Accessories: Blender Pens, Gold Brads, and dimensional, Cello Bags, and Sweetheart Candy: Technique: Water coloring. If you have never water colored on watercolor paper I say try it can't you hear the excitement in my voice. I tried it for the first time and it just works so much better than regular cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by - Tai

Get Well Card

Happy Sunday All:

I decided to participate in a stamp simply challenge that is created by Sharon another stamper. The challenge is to create a tall and thin card with minimum supplies. The card that I have created is 6 1/2 by 3 1/4 and uses one of the new stamp sets in the Spring Summer Catalog.

One of my Gold Canyon Friends just had surgery so I made this card just for her.

Card Recipe:
Stamp Set: A Little Birdie Told Me
Cardstock: Ultra White & So Saffron Print Design Paper
Ink: So Saffron Craft Stampin Spots ( The small ink pads)
Accessories: Scallop Punch, Clear Embossing Powder,dimensionals and Heat Tool Gun
Technique: Embossing

Thank you for stopping by

Tai