1 Stamp - 5 Ideas

One of the things I love about stamping is that the same stamp can be used to create so many different looks.   This stamp is a dress pattern stamp by Wendy Vecchi from the set called Fashion Style and Art  (SCS 032). 

Here are pics of the stamp on 5 different projects.

Bright and cheery - I paper punched the little heart, there is a tiny button on the red dress and the little black flower is a baby prima with a little orange glitter dot in the middle on the pop dotted orange dress in the middle. 

This is a vintage look!  The dress and skirt were stamped on white tissue paper that I sprayed with tea dye reinker mixed with water in a mini mister.   The background piece was stamped with the green dots from the set before it was embossed.  After it was embossed I inked the surface with tea dye and red marker on the vertical lines and green marker on the horizontal lines.  Staples and buttons finish it off.

 Entirely different look - more of an art journaling/modern look.  Painted tag, stenciled with blue ink, stamped with the dress stamp in jet black archival and finished off with lots of ribbon and a word charm.  I like attaching them with regular safety pins - a good buy with a coupon at Joann's.

Even small stamps can almost always be used to make a  background.  The focus here is the black die cut which is decked out in hounds-tooth paper and gems.  Red, black and white is a classic combination that you can't go wrong with!

Sweet, country Birthday card.  The dress was stamped on printed paper before being cut out; all the papers are Basic Grey.  The paper was from a 6x6 pad which gives you the right scale for this size stamp!

Point of View: October

Here are the five cards for Point of View this Thursday. To stamp the Unity tree stamp I used, brown and green markers (memento, but any dye markers will do, pool and stream paint dabbers, versamark and black detail embossing powder, jet black archival, tea dye and vintage photo distress ink and a blending tool for the vintage. For the leaves I used distress inks, reinkers and perfect pearls in an assortment of fall colors - just about any would work. Think peeled paint, rusty hinge, any of the browns, yellows or oranges - with blending tools! I will have everything at class, but if you want to work faster, bring along what you have in your stash and off we will go. Class is Thursday night from 6:30-8:30.

Alcohol Inks 202 Returns!

These are the four cards for the Alcohol Inks 202 Class on Sunday, June 13 (3-5pm) and Thursday, June 17 (6-8pm). The techniques are all different from the Alcohol Ink 101 Class. I apologize for the quality of the photos - I'm still trying to figure out this digital camera thing - love the technology, hate the technology! I have listed the colors of Alcohol Inks used for each card.




The flourish/leaf is a Studio 490 Stamp and the flower is a Teresa Collins stamp. Both are from Stampers Anonymous. The inks are Sailboat Blue, Silver, Purple Twilight and Bottle.





This is actually a black card with the panels matted in pink and then onto the card. Again, it is a Studio 490 stamp. The monoprint is done in Terra Cotta, Red Pepper, Wild Plum and gold.





Both of these are Tim Holtz stamps from Stampers Anonymous. The Eiffel Tower is stamped in jet black Archival ink and the Paris is stamped in olive Archival ink. The gradated agate technique is done in Bottle, Meadow, Lettuce and Citrus.






The ATC card is a Tim Holtz stamp and the Thank You is a Studio 490 stamp, both from Stampers Anonymous. The crow border is by Lost Coast Designs. The acetate is colored with Sunshine Yellow, Bottle, Sailboat Blue and Shell Pink. The backgound is Bottle, Sailboat Blue and the Sunshine Yellow.

Tim Holtz Cards for Card Class II

OK, I'll be the first to admit that these 4 are very different in nature. The tag is TIm Holtz style I think. We will do a cool distressing technique with dictionary paper and masking tape. The next one....




uses the bitty grunge set and is just plain fun - and fast!!


Le papillion might have different (coordinating) color antenna - they are made using a common household item... and finally my favorite I think (at least today) is the Bee card - very regal and a much brighter yellow than the photo shows. OK, I get a nice clear picture but the color is bad. One of these days it is all going to come together. The big bee on the ribbon is fun to make - it starts with a little sizzlets die. The class is Wednesday night June 2nd at 6 and Sunday June 6th at noon. Hope to see you there.

Tag- Tuesday Challenge #47

is Inspire Me! I was working on making some samples for a card class and this stamp summed it up the best for me: ¨Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not, then no matter, go right on doing what you love.¨ It is stamped on the ticket, although that is a little hard to see in the picture. This is my first post for Tag Tuesday Challenge, ok, my first post for any challenge, but I´ve been reading Kard Krazy by Lousie for quite a while now and enjoy it tremendously. Decided it was time to jump in the pool instead of just sitting on the edge watching....


The edge is misted with Rusty Hinge and Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls and is much blingier than appears in the photo. The inspiration quote is stamped on the back of a ticket.

Family Canvas

I made this canvas someime last year and brought it to the Distress 101 classes as a sample of how you can use Distress products for Scrapbooking as well as cards, tags, altered art and mixed media pieces.

In the Perfect Pearls class this week someone remembered that I had used the Perfect Pearls on the flowers on this canvas and asked if I would do a reminder here of what I did on the canvas. It is the Cosmo Cricket Love Notes Paper with an old french book page attached under the photo reproduction. All the Distress Products are Dusty Concord. The frame is stamped twice -slightly offset the second time and embossed with Distress Powder. The strip a third of the way up is Crackle Paint. The flowers are plain cream flowers sprayed with a mixture of Dusty Concord reinker, H20 and Sunflower Sparkle Perfect Pearls. The letters are pounced with a copper paint dabber. It is finished off with an Ideology philosophy tag.

Dream Canvas

This is the canvas we did in the dream canvas class in February. It incorporates lots of things we´ve done in the techniques classes. It has Distress Inks blended on the rose, Perfect Pearls misted on the frame and rose, Distress Stickles on the butterfly, crackle paint on the vine and is edged with a gold Paint Dabber. The frame and vine were cut with Sizzix Dies, the grungepaper rose was made using a Studio 490 stamp and hand cut. The paper is from Cosmo Cricket and the dream stamp is a Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stamp. The quote, script on the rose and script on the canvas edges were all stamped with Sepia Archival Ink. The entire thing was inspired by a Wendy Vecchi canvas design!

The most asked question of the week...

How did you do this???



This is one of the samples I made for the Sizzix sample board featuring the new Tim Holtz Alterations dies. I think it's my favorite, but it has generated the most questions - no doubt. There have been all kinds of guesses about metal, alcohol inks, pigment inks, etc. Just about every time I've been in the store this week someone has wanted to talk about it. It was FAST and super easy....here are the steps:
1) Cut a 6¨ square piece of chipboard with the Scrollwork edge die.
2) Paint it with the Snowcap Paint Dabber.
3) Paint it again with the Pearl Paint Dabber. (I ¨pounced¨ both for texture.)
4) Stamp image in Jet Black Archival Ink.
5) Add black velvet ribbon and little gem on top of Eiffel Tower.
6) Spritz two white flowers with a mixture of Barn Door reinker and Pewter Perfect Pearls in a Mini Mister. When they are dry, stamp with french script stamp in Jet Black Archival Ink. Put pearl brad through flowers and adhere with pop dot.
7) Add year or saying in stickers on bottom left.
8) Punch holes for binder rings on left side.
Presto, you have a cover for a little book. I made one for myself, and cut the papers with the scrollwork edge too! I love how the edge dies cut through chipboard, grungeboard, stacks of paper, even felt.
Have fun playing with the edge dies!

More pics from the Wendy class on April 19th and 25th...

These are two of the cards we will do in class. On the first card we'll use UTE on the bottle to give it a glass look. And yes, the flowers are cut with the Sizzix TH Alterations Tattered Florals die. The colors are muted turquoise and sunny yellow.





This card is alcohol inks....Purple Twilight, Wild Plum, Sailboat Blue and Silver in the background and Wild Plum, Watermelon and Shell Pink on the flower...with some Magenta stickles thrown in for good measure....a girl needs a little bling with her flowers! In the photo the card itself looks blue, but it is purple.


I've tried 3 times to photograph the other card - an I'll try again tomorrow. The fourth piece is the little sign in an earlier post, but here it is again so you don't have to hunt for it!





It will be fun and we'll do 2 techniques we have not done in any class to date! You'll be glad you signed on for this class!

And now, for a completely different look...

I am also teaching card classes featuring Heartfelt Creations stamps and Spellbinders dies. The kind folks at Heartfelt have designed beautiful stamps meant to work with the Spellbinders dies. It makes it so easy to create elegant cards in a hurry. And fun cards. And beautiful scrapbook pages. We will start with cards using the Blossoms 1 dies. I used Silver Pearl embossing powder on the purple card and while it is beautiful in person it is a little hard to photograph. And I couldn't begin to figure out how to do it digitally - LOL! Stop in the store for a look! The Flower Pot card is fun - the flowers lift out on a little white and green tag where you can stamp your own greeting and write your message.






There is a third card...white, silver and pearls. The pictures I took aren't really publishable...but I'll try again on Wednesday and get it posted.

Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 card class

I finished all four samples for the class on April 19th and 25th, but I only remembered to take a picture of one of them...LOL! Here it is and I'll snap pics of the other 3 when I'm at the store on Wednesday. Look for the rest of the photos on Wednesday night. In the meantime, here's a look at one of them - actually not a card - a little sign made using one of the new Tim Holtz dies. You could hang it somewhere or attach it to a minibook or even a card.

We will use both alcohol and distress inks in this class for four completely different looks. The stamp sets we'll use are Be Inspired...Make Art and Art Inspiration. Also known as the Plaid set and the cool little bottle set.

Classes this week - April 7th, 8th and 10th

This week there are two great classes at Scrapbooks, Too. Wednesday I am teaching a fun Technique Class - Perfect Pearls. We' ll use those magical little powders eight ways!! They add so much to both scrapbook pages and cards. This photo is of the board which is up in the store; it is a little hard to see the detail, but those are the eight things we will do in class.



Thursday I am teaching a card class featuring TWO of the new Tim Holtz stamp sets - Spring Spring and Movie Time. You'll find pictures of all four cards in a March post labeled Tim Holtz card class. Here's the White Rabbit one again - just cuz he's so fun! Saturday I will teach the Perfect Pearls class at 10 and the Tim Holtz card class at 1. Come make a day of it!!

Finally, Distress 303

As promised, tinting photos, playing with paint dabbers and distress ink and a few final techniques. You might recognize the little girl crying with Santa from Tim Holtz´s the 12 Tags of Christmas this year. It was so cute I had to use it again. Feel free to bring a detailed stamp with you to class because we´ll create our own ink pads and while Iĺl have plenty of detail stamps there, you get to take the ink pad home and it helps if you have the matching stamp!! In the samples above it is the bird cage ATC stamp on the tag and the little cards.

The March Class dates are posted on the right; you don't need to have taken Distress 202 to take this class, and although taking Distress 101 would help, you can get by without it - these are pretty different uses of the inks. Would love to see you there - we´ll have fun!

Tim Holtz Cards for Card Class

These are the cards and tag for the first Tim Holtz card class at Scrapbooks Too on Thursday, April 8th. We will be using the Spring Spring set and the At The Movies set.

I went with a bright spring tag to chase away those winter blues and a White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland for the Spring Spring set. The tag has an Ideology token, a grungepaper butterfly and a fun paint technique for the background. I snuck the clock stamp from the Going Somewhere onto the White Rabbit card along with a spinner and fastener. It needed a little movement!









The first card from the At the Movies set features Graphic45 paper, Ideology film strip and some Sizzix dies. I´ll show you how to attach the filmstrip to paper if it has been a challenge for you. It would be a beautiful Father´s Day card for an old movie buff, a great birthday card or a just because card for any film fan. The second card is bright and cheery in primary colors - would be a fun card for a kid who loves movies, a party invite or a cute gift holder for a pair of movie tickets! Itś not the typical distress look, but the stamps are so versatile and I wanted to show you another fun look!










I will have one set of stamps and inks there, but if you own them, please bring them so fewer people are sharing one set. A blending tool with foam pads and a basic class kit would also be a good idea! This is the Distress Ink list: Old Paper, Vintage Photo, Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, Stormy Sky, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint and Spiced Marmalade. I used Jet Black, Olive, Cobalt and Crimson Archival Ink. Even if you only have a few of the distress inks if you bring your own, it will save you and everyone else time!!

Yea! The Stamps are in - New Classes Added!

The new Tim Holtz stamps arrived yesterday and the first class is scheduled for Thursday, April 8th at both 1pm and 6 pm. Also on Sunday the 11th! Wendy's stamps arrive tomorrow and the first class for that is Monday, April 19th at 1pm and 6pm. The weekend class is set for Sunday, April 24th. I'll be furiously making samples in the next few days and as soon as they are done, I'll get them posted.

In the meantime, I've added a techniques class using a few of the new Tim Holtz Sizzix dies. It will be on Sunday, March 21st at 1 pm. We'll do a little crackle painting, a new embossing technique and work with Claudine Hellmuth's studio multi-media. Here are pictures of what we'll create:
The butterfly with a couple of extra wings....



A grungepaper, dictionary page flower - made using multi-media.




A keyhole plate - maybe from an old dresser.....



And finally, a keyhole plate - perhaps from an old door....

A few new dies, some new techiniques, some fun....

Stay tuned for card class and Distress 303 samples!