I seem to be attracted to the more neutral cards lately, cards with lots of white space or tone on tone. I have seen a few Vanilla on White cards lately and I really like the look of them.
For this card I used a White base, Vanilla textured layer and Crumb Cake Ink and Seam Binding Ribbon. The "Hearts a Flutter" Stamp set and Framelits is very quickly becoming my favourite bundle in the new Mini, here I used it for the large hearts. For texture I used the Honeycomb Embossing Folder and sponged the edges with Crumb Cake.
The small heart embellishment is a Vanilla heart covered in the pearl accents from the Catalogue.
In other news...
Last night I got a belated Christmas gift from my wonderful friend and client Nicole. I just love the use of Designer Fabric for the lid and label made with the Window Framelits Collection (page 36 of the new Mini).
Christmas Cards are my favourite cards to create! There are so many wonderful options, designs and colors. Metallics
are perfect for the Christmas season as in "shiny and bright" and this weeks Paper Players Challenge takes full advantage of this. The Challenge is to make a Clean and Simple card with Gold and/or Silver. I do not have a lot of gold product in my inventory as I tend to lean toward the silver so when I was creating cards with my friends at the Wild Rose retreat and I saw a girlfriend use the Star Tree stamp with silver embossing powder I just had to create a card around it! So here it is.
I used Whisper White Card Stock and the Northern Flurry Embossing folder. I added the Star Tree in Silver Embossing Powder and some rhinestone jewels to finish it off. It was so pretty I did not even add as sentiment on the exterior.
For more wonderful Gold and/or Silver creations check out the Paper Players Blog
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I wanted to get some use out of a great little single stamp in the Annual Catalogue called Star Tree. It is a la a Carte Stamp. So I thought I would try my hand at a little Emboss Resist technique. I stamped the tree in versamark and then put clear embossing powder on it and heat set it. I then created a reverse mask (basiclly a square cut out of the middle of scrap paper) and sponged my ink in.
I used Real Red Ink and sponged it in to the middle of my mask (see below) I then put Dazzling Details around the edge. When sponging on the ink you will see the Embossed parts "resist" the ink and show up wonderfully. Hence "Emboss Resist"
For these two cards I cut out a piece of Card Stock to fit the tree. I then stamped the tree again in Versamark and used Clear Embossing Powder. I sponged the entire piece with Real Red (above) and Soft Suede (right). I backed each piece in glimmer paper, Red and Champagne.
In case you are wondering the Merry Christmas Sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.
Here is the top card Under Production!! I used Sticky Notes on one side to keep the paper in place while I sponged. I also used a tissue to wipe away extra ink from the embossed section.
There is a little boy I know who just turned 7 and I wanted to make a card for him that he would love! He just saw the new Spiderman movie so I thought I would try a card I had seen on a video from Pinterest (I will put the video on the bottom of this post). I did not have the Stampin Up Spider web Embossing Folder unfortunately
so that made it more difficult but I made due with the old one I had.
As you can see using the Embossing Folder to create the spider web and covering the raised sections in black ink. The video below gives you a how to on the cutting of the eyes (I am not as accomplished as she is but I think they look ok.)
The SU Embossing Folder has the web centered and makes for a better card but I think I did ok with what I have. I used Real Red, Pacific Point, Basic Black and White.
To check out the Video Tutorial go to Stamp with Tami ..
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Video Tutorial by Stamp with Tami