Northwest Stamper

Tag: afterthoughts

  • The 2011 Catalog is Here!

    Yay! The new catalog is officially launched and online.  I am still debating over which of the cool new stamps and papers I have to have now; but I wanted to make sure you had a chance to check out all the fun new stuff yourself.  Plus, don’t forget, I’m offering free shipping through July 5th!

    Some of my favorites so far include the new Pennant Punch to make cute little banners on cards and scrapbook pages, the new In Colors, ruffled ribbon, and too many stamps to count.  If you want to see everything that is new, you can see it all together online here.

    In the meantime, here is another card I made recently using the new In Colors and the fun new scallop ribbon.  Enjoy!

    Just for You 2011 In Colors

     

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  • More Ideas with Designer Fabric

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    Continuing in my sharing of the fabric technique cards we made at a recent class using the Stampin’ Up! designer fabrics, and I thought I would post a couple more today.

    Sure, this is the most basic way to use fabric… but its fun!  And while I grew up with a mom who is a fantastic sewer, I never quite go into it and so didn’t internalize some of the basics.  So, I was excited to be reminded by Bethani about the fact that when you tear a piece of fabric, it will give you a wonderfully straight edge every time.  I’m so used to paper that will has a complete mind of its own when it comes to tearing, so I was thinking I had to use a cutter for every edge.  Sure, the tear gives you a slightly feathered look… but it’s a CUTE feathered look.

    I just LOVE how this turned out!  Most of the card is pretty self-explanatory.  We stamped the flower image on the base cardstock in Versamark, and then did simple sponging and punching for the other elements.  And then we get to the fabric flower…SO FUN!! 

    Ok, to make the flower, we cut out 4 flower shapes – in this case using the Cherry Blossom embosslit.  Once you have those four flower shapes, take a small square cut from a Sticky Pages sheet.  Expose one side of the Sticky Page square and then take one of the fabric flowers and fold it in half.  Place that folded flower on half of your sticky square.  Next, take your 2nd fabric flower, fold it in half, and place it on the sticky square so that it overlaps the the first fabric flower and now forms an “L” shape.  Ok, on to fabric flower 3.  You guessed it!  Fold it in half!  Place it on the sticky square so that it overlaps flower 2 and the folded edge is flush against the folded edge of flower 1.  Finally, grab and fold flower 4.  Place it on the sticky square so that the folded edge is flush with flower 2, its right corner is on top of flower 3 and its left corner is under the right corner of flower 1.  At this point you should have a flower that is stuck to the Sticky Pages square.  I then pierced a hole in the center with the paper piercer and placed an antique brad.  Then remove the remaining backing on the sticky square and place where you want it!  In my card, I layered it on a Rose Red scallop circle that was punched using the 2 3/8” scallop circle.

     

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    You Take the Cake Card:
    Stamps:      Party Hearty
    Ink:  Rose Red, Regal Rose, Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Markers
    Paper:  Wild Wasabi cardstock, Baja Breeze cardstock, Whisper White cardstock
    Accessories:  Candy Lane designer fabric

    Lucky You Card:
    Stamps:      Afterthoughts (hostess set)
    Ink:  Versamark, Chocolate Chip
    Paper:  Old Olive cardstock, Whisper White cardstock, Rose Red cardstock
    Accessories:  Sticky Sheets, 2 3/8” Scallop Circle punch, Corner Rounder punch, Sponge daubers, Paper Piercer, Antique Brads, Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • One More Summer Card–Just for You

    Ever have a project that you see in your head…you start cutting/stamping/punching and then suddenly go “that doesn’t work”?  That is what happened to me on Monday.  I wanted to get in one last farewell to the Summer mini card and was thinking how I got the Bouquet Bunch stamp set because I loved the squirrel and then ended up using just about every stamp in the set but the squirrel.

    So I had a vision in my head, and proceeded to stamp and punch 6 squirrels and matching dsp.  Then I laid it out and….bleah!  Then my 8 mo old wanted my attention, and you know how life goes.  So, today, I got my new holiday mini order in the mail and OH MY!  I was so excited to start playing (I CAN”T WAIT to use my new big buttons!) but when I sat down, my half done card was staring at me and I just had to finish it.  So, after some fiddling, this is what I came up with.

    I used the retiring Travel Journal DSP and on the left edge stamped the tree leaves from the Bouquet Bunch set (stamped off once before stamping on the card) to make the background.  As I was tweaking, I decided it would be fun to have the squirrel on the right be actually peeking through a hole from the inside of the card.  So that is what you can see here:

      I added the green for a touch of color and then the soft suede ribbon.  It still needed something so a scrap of linen thread finished it off. 

    I loved this sentiment from the new hostess set Afterthoughts.  It seemed appropriate somehow with all the squirrels running around.

    Finally, if you know me, you know I’m a terrible hoarder of scraps.  The thinnest strip of paper or a scrap that “I could totally get at least one punch out of” seems to make it in my scrap folder.  So, when I was done and I had one squirrel left, plus the dsp and cardstock from punching the hole in the front of the card… well, I couldn’t throw them away!  But I need to use up my scraps so they became a perfect little button to hide the seam where I glued down the ribbon on the inside of the card.  I think it works.  Don’t you agree?

    Ok, with that done, I can now dig into my new goodies guilt free.  So, watch for some new stuff showing up on my blog this weekend!  Till then…. happy stamping!