Day 72: Ballet Dancing Doll Card

I made this card for a little girl who is in the hospital with heart failure.  I thought it might entertain her since the ballerina moves (note the brads at her shoulders and on the tutu). The stamp is from Limited Edition.  I used Memento ink to stamp the ballerina doll on to Neenah paper and colored her with  the Copic markers that I won at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour. The background paper is from BoBunny.

Day 70: Stamp Scrap Art Tour: Day 2

Yesterday we made lots of goodies.  Today we shopped....and shopped....and shopped till we dropped!  I purchased stamps and supplies from:  Tessler Stamps, Seaside Stampin' Ink, Peddler's Den, Rubber Cottage, Repeat Impressions, Darcie's, Endless Creations and Everyday Cards, Just For Fun, and Morning Star. (If you are looking for nice, Christian rubber stamps, Morning Star has a wonderful selection.)

The first 100 people at the door of the show received a key to a treasure chest for a chance to win $100 in Tour Bucks to spend at the show. I arrived at 8:10 AM (doors opened at 10 AM, but since we had spent the night at the hotel that was hosting the show, when I woke up early, I decided to go sit by the doors).  I was number 3 in line.  I called Denise and Lisa's room and told them to come get in line.  We all got keys for the treasure chest, but unfortunately, none of them worked. There were six more chances to win $100 throughout the day, but none of us won those either.

At each show on the Stamp Scrap Art Tour, there is a charity raffle that supports Shriner Hospitals for Children. The winner gets a basket of up to $500 retail value.  We each purchased $10 in tickets, and,
drum roll....the winner was....ME!!  Denise and Lisa started screaming and pointing at me when my name was called!  It was a lot of fun looking at all the goodies in that basket on the way back home!  Many thanks to all the vendors that contributed to the basket and especially to Darcie's*, which contributed the vast majority of the stamps in the basket.

*Darcie's:  www.darciesllc.com

Here are three items from Friday's Make and Take that needed to get completed at home, so I finished them tonight:

Stamps and Card Design by Art Gone Wild (I think)

Stamps and Card Design by Seaside Stampin' Ink;
I added the lighthouse and shells from Buttons Galore
when I got home because I thought the card needed
something else

 Box, Stamps and Design

by Repeat Impressions

of Freeport, Maine

Day 69: Stamp Scrap Art Tour Day 1

I and two of my friends, Denise and Lisa, traveled to Rockford, Illinois, to attend the Stamp Scrap Art Tour.
We signed up to take an afternoon class on how to use embossing folders from Cuttlebug and Sizzix, VersaMark ink,embossing powder, and heat embossing to make beautiful cards.  The class was taught by Beth Wagner of Endless Creations and Everyday Cards from Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Here are the photos of what we created at the Embossing Folders Class:

Stamps and Card Design by Endless Creations and Everyday Cards

Stamps and Card Design by Endless Creations and Everyday Cards

Stamps and Card Design by Endless Creations and Everyday Cards

Stamps and Card Design by Endless Creations and Everyday Cards

We also attended a Make and Take Friday evening.  The following pictures show what we made:

Stamps by Rubber Cottage; I altered card design to suit me

Stamps and Card Design by Raisin Boat

Pendant Using Glue; Technique taught by Tessler Stamp Company

Stamps by Stampscapes; Card Design by Peddler's Den

Stamps and Card Design by Just For Fun

Day 52: Perfume Bottle Card

I have been having fun making cards with stamps in my stamp collection.  My mother collects perfume bottles, so I bought this set of four stamps last year at the 2011 Stamp Scrap Art Tour so that I could make a card for her. This is the first time I have used them.  Unfortunately, they are not marked, but a web search shows that they are from Golden Acorn Rubber Stamps.  There are 6 classic perfume bottles in their collection.  I only purchased four of  the series.  At top left is Classic Perfume Bottle #3, at top right is Classic Perfume Bottle #4.  At bottom left is Classic Perfume Bottle #1, at bottom right is Classic Perfume Bottle #6. I just selected several pieces from my "pinks" scrap folder, stamped a  perfume bottle on each scrap with VersaMark (Tsukineko)  ink, then heat-embossed with gold embossing powder by Stampin' Up! (SU).  I punched them out using a label punch (SU), crumpled them up and adhered them to a piece of gold card stock (SU) stamped with French Script (SU) background. I used a ticket corner punch (SU) on the corners of the gold paper. I picked up a bunch of old costume jewelry at a flea market last summer, and knew I would use it for cards.  I was trying to remove the pin from the back side of this brooch, but the metal was so soft, I broke off some of the design.  So, I just cut the top part down.  I used some gold-embossing powder on a perfume bottle button from Buttons Galore to make it gold, then used double-sided tape and glue to hold it in the center of the brooch (I had removed the black plastic center that was original to the piece). I placed a tiny crystal (The Paper Studio) in the center of each perfume bottle to add a little bling. I mounted the whole card front onto Rich Razzleberry card stock (SU).  I think Mom will really enjoy this card when I send it to her.  Love to you, Mom!

Day 19: It's A Pirate Card For Me!

I needed some boy birthday cards, so I made half a dozen cute pirate cards today. I used Nearly Navy cardstock from Stampin' Up! as my card base, and a striped print from The Paper Studio as a layer on top of the navy. Using a pirate stamp from Great Impressions, I stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock (Stampin' Up!) and then colored in the stamped image. I used Koh-I-Noor Hardmuth Colour Pencils (woodless) and Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits to color the pirate and his treasure chest. This was based on a technique I learned while at a stamp show from Inky Antics Rubber Stamps. The sentiment on the inside of the card reads: "Cheers to ye birthday boy! Now, draw ye sword and cut ye cake." I found the sentiment on the e-how.com website. I now have some cute cards for the boy birthdays coming up.

Review of the Stamp Scrap Art Tour

I attended the Stamp Scrap Art Tour (http://www.stampscraparttour.com/) in Rockford, Illinois on March 14, 2009. There were 20 different vendors of stamping, scrapbooking, and card-making supplies. This was the first large show I have attended, and I was greatly pleased. I spent about 4 hours at the tour, and could have easily spent the entire day. There were many make-n-take projects as well as technique demonstrations. The vendors were highly knowledgeable and very friendly.

My main purpose in attending was to meet Wendy Wyman, who owns and is the artist for Repeat Impressions (http://www.repeatimpressions.com/), which is based in Freeport, Maine, and for whom I design cards as a member of her design team. She was busy demonstrating how her "flip stamps" could be used to make really fun interactive cards when I arrived at her booth. She took a few minutes to talk to me and tell me how rubber stamps are made. I was pleased to see several of the cards I had designed on the display boards. It was a pleasure to meet the lady behind all the great stamps.

The booth for Rubber Cottage (http://www.rubbercottage.com/) was very busy. They have beautiful animal and scenic stamps. I bought stamps of a fawn and a bird's nest. There were some other stamps I wanted, but I only had a limited amount of money to spend, and most of it was spent at the Just for Fun booth.

At the Just for Fun (http://www.jffstamps.com/) booth, I watched a demonstration of how to use their faux postage stamp and template to create cards that looked like postage. The demonstrator also explained how to use the same technique to recycle old greeting cards or to add a twist to a photograph. This concept really appealed to me, and I had to buy a faux postage stamp, template, and the decorative postage stamp scissors. I made cards using the stamp and template for my card club and everyone was wild about them. I also bought several unmounted stamps. I have visited their website since my return home, and I have a very long wish list!!

Several people were crowded around the demonstration area at the Stamp On It (http://www.stamponit.net/) booth. The demonstrator there was showing shoppers how to use the Cuttlebug die cut machine. The great thing is, a lot of the dies she was using will work in other die cut machines. She used embossing folders, Spellbinders, and even a brass template for dry embossing. She explained all the various layers you need to build to create a good embossed image when using each of these various methods. She certainly made it look easy and I will be pulling out all those dry embossing templates to try!

The folks at Tessler Stamps/Stencils Co. (http://www.tesslerstamps.com/) were also demonstrating dry embossing using a light box. I really enjoyed seeing the demonstration on using embossing paste. A good tip is to tape your template on the sides and on the top when putting your paste on. To remove the embossing template after you have applied the paste, remove the tape from the sides, and use the piece of tape on the top like a hinge, so you don't have to worry about smearing the embossing paste.

Darcie's Country Folk (http://www.darcie.com/) have some very cute stamps. I sat down to do a make-n-take using shrinky dinks printed with a clip art image from one of Darcie's CDs. This was a really fun technique and I will have to visit the web site to order some shrinky dinks paper.

Sweet Impressions (http://www.sweetstamps.com/) stamps are very romantic and pretty. The demonstration at this booth was embossing on vellum. The stamps on display were mainly unmounted, but I ordered some mounted ones from their website. The stamps are very nice quality.

Stamp La Jolla (http://www.stamplajolla.com/) had a fun make-n-take using twinkling H2Os and sugar dust. They had several beautiful floral designs, and I really like their Christian bookmark stamps.

There were several drawings for $100 throughout the day. It was exciting to hear the cheers when someone's number was drawn. Two huge baskets filled with products were also raffled off.

I had a terrific time at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour and would highly recommend that anyone who has the opportunity to attend should plan to spend the day...and lots of money!! Be sure to check out their website (http://www.stampscraparttour.com/) to see where their tour will be taking them next.