Happy New Year! A few days into the new year already, but I had a nice little holiday break from blogging. My fellow Drunken Stampers and I are back today, though, with a timely challenge:
This is the final challenge in our current "person/place/thing" theme -- and that thing is New Year's Day. You can go with whatever inspires you about heading into the brand new year.
I knew right away I wanted to make a New Year's card for my husb, so I went for a celebratory fireworks card... with Minnie Mouse. ☺
I had planned to use Mickey on my card, since he's my favourite, but this Minnie stamp looked just too celebratory not to choose. The fireworks were a different challenge, since I don't have any fireworks stamps. I went through a bunch, and found a wedding bouquet with streamers -- cutting the clear stamp in half, I stamped the streamers twice, then added the flourishes and stars. Works for me at least! Some shiny silver paper to offset the black-on-black finished the card.
Now it's your turn! Whether you want to illustrate this year's resolution, make a festive beverage card, or simply anything that inspires you about the start of 2014, come and join us!
Supplies: white, Stampin' Up basic black & Recollections silver cardstock, Inkadinkado Disney, Basic Grey Forever, Paper Smooches Birthday Buddies & Studio G stamps, Versamark ink, Zing clear embossing powder
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Eek! Less than a week to go before Christmas! Thank goodness the challenge this week at Drunken Stampers is one of the best things about stamping, as far as I'm concerned... EMBOSSING! I still love the magic of watching embossing powder transform, with a little heat, into something amazing. Of course, you're not limited to heat embossing with this challenge: if you prefer to dry emboss, that counts, too. But since I'm all about the heat embossing anyway, how could I not?
My inspiration comes from an older card by my talented friend Heather. (And now that I look at her blog, she recently posted one with a similar theme.) I started by stamping and embossing a snowflake background stamp on watercolour paper, then used a punch to get my three squares. These were sponged and edged with distress ink. I stamped a variety of other snowflake stamps on the blue patterned paper before adding it to the card base and popping the three squares on. And of course the sentiment is embossed, too.
Being a Drunken Stamper, I thought I should also share a trio of other embossed projects:
Aren't these fun? I'm ready to provide a host/hostess gift should anyone just happen to invite me over. :D Each image is heat-embossed in some way. The wine tag die is from Avery Elle; if you want to know any of the other details, just ask. (This would be me, succumbing to the Christmas rush and avoiding listing all the supplies separately.)
Remember to check out the other inspiring projects from my fellow Yellow Canaries! You'll see heat embossing, dry embossing... and maybe both at the same time! Then join our party with your own embossed creation.
Supplies: (card) white cardstock, Canson 140 lb watercolour paper, Echo Park Winter Wishes patterned paper, Local King Rubber Stamp, Hero Arts, Inkadinkado & Stampin' Up stamps, Versamark, Memento Paris Dusk & stormy sky & faded jeans distress inks, Wow white embossing powder, EK Success 1 1/4" square punch, pop-dot tape
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It's an Anything Goes challenge at Crafty Creations Challenges this week! And with just a week to go until a certain holiday... we're giving you two weeks to enter! You will see a variety of great inspiration projects from the design team this week. As for me, I'm still in the Christmas mode:
Usually I keep my colours fairly realistic, but I really like this fun green background! The kraft card base seems to set off the Christmas colours nicely, too. This is actually a remake of a card I made a couple of years ago, but don't seem to have ever posted:
I should mention that it's worth checking my fellow design team members' blogs... there's a rumour that a few of them may be sharing special treats for lucky commenters. And of course there will be prizes up for grabs if you enter the challenge, too.
And finally... this is my last post as a member of Crafty Creations Challenges. It has been a fun two years working with my great teammates and images from our generous sponsors.
Supplies: white, red & Stampin' Up kraft cardstock, Studio Calico Wonderland (green) & DCWV Holiday Stack (blue) patterned papers, Amuse Polar Bear Fun & Hero Arts Holiday Conversation & Get Merry stamps, Memories black & passion red & Stampin' Up real red inks, clear embossing powder, Sharpies, black Enamel Accents, Stardust clear glitter pen, dimensionals
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Whew! My sixth and final tag inspired by 12 Days of Christmas with a Feminine Touch! My last tag is inspired by this one by Heather Campbell -- if you look at hers and then mine, I think you'll see exactly how I was inspired.
While I don't have the same stamp set that Heather used, I do have these beautiful poinsettia stamps. Since the image is larger, I chose to centre my sentiment and stamp around it. I used the same gold ink to edge the white panel as I did to stamp the flower centres. A tag of textured red cardstock and gold cord finished everything off.
My tags may outshine some of the gifts they label! Thanks for sharing a little time here with me.
Supplies: white & Bazzill Basics textured red cardstock, WPlus9 Pretty Poinsettias stamps, Memento ladybug, Stampin' Up real red & Brilliance galaxy gold inks, gold cord
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My fifth tag for Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist may have been the easiest for me to CASE (copy and share everything). Teri Anderson has a fun, clean style that my own tendency toward card-making can relate to. ;)
My tag is, of course, still simpler to make than hers. Whereas she cut out the centre of her tag and backed it with vellum, I simply layered my music embossed cardstock on top of this bright red tag I found at a stamping store. I stamped and die cut the J and Y of joy, and die cut the bell from silver paper and backed it with red. I am ridiculously proud of how well the twine bow is tied. :D The cloth snowflake is spritzed with glimmer mist.
Next up, my final inspired tag!
Supplies: white & Recollections silver cardstock, red tag, Lil' Inkers Jingle Joy stamps, Memories passion red ink, Zing clear embossing powder, Sizzix music embossing folder, Studio Calico Mistables cloth snowflake sticker, Tattered Angels Santa Baby glimmer mist, red Divine Twine, paper raffia, dimensional
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On to my fourth tag inspired by the 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist from the CLASSroom. This time I was inspired by Sharon Harnist.
My inspiration may not be immediately evident. I did try a few different ideas for making my own embossed background, but none wanted to play nicely with this reindeer image I decided I wanted to use. Finally I settled on patterned paper instead. The reindeer itself is a more obvious nod to Sharon's tag, but you will also notice I added a little extra to the bottom of my tag -- hers with ribbon, mine with a border punch backed by copper pearl paper.
If you're sticking with me, thank you! Two tags left...
Supplies: Stampin' Up kraft & very vanilla cardstock, copper pearl paper, My Mind's Eye Merry and Bright patterned paper, Unity/Samantha Walker Greetings of Christmas stamps, Versamark ink, copper pearl embossing powder, Spellbinders scalloped circle die, EK Success holly border punch, pop-dot tape, Offray ivory ribbon
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