Experimenting with the Stampin’ Up! Letterpress Dies
As I mentioned last week, I received the new Letterpress Dies and made my first card using the method recommended on the packaging. However, I’m not always good with rules and recommendations and so I had to start experimenting myself with how these dies worked with different inks, paper, and BigShot “sandwich” combinations. I wanted…
Sponging up a No Layer Card
Each week, the Late Night Stampers group has some kind of challenge. This week was particularly intriguing to me as the challenge was to create a single/no layer card. When I first read this, I thought, “won’t these cards be boring?” Well, boy was I wrong! Folks came up with all kinds of cool ways…
A Letterpress Card for the Stamping 411 Challenge #168
If you’ve seen the holiday mini, you’ve seen one of the new products Stampin’ Up! just released – the Letterpress Plates. These plates are made to use with your BigShot and instead of embossing your image by causing the pattern to raise up off your paper, these plates deboss your image – making empressed images…
Jack-o-Lantern Gift Card Holder
As I was thinking about projects for the Halloween Punch Art Blog Hop, I came up with this idea in my head for an interactive Jack-o-Lantern. I had ideas for making it hold a gift card and some other stuff, but when I sat down to make it, it just wasn’t coming together. Finally today…
Halloween Punch Art blog hop
Man, can you believe the stores are already putting out their Halloween decorations and candy? I guess that means the holiday season is creeping up on us. But that also means fun holiday projects like a ton of fabulous Halloween Punch art. I’m participating in a blog hop with 13 other extremely creative folks. I…
Kicking it up with Interactive Scrapbooking
At convention this year, I had the chance to participate in a class taught by Sherrill Graff on Interactive Scrapbooking. It was one of those times when I found myself going, “WOW!” over something that was fairly easy but so cool. So, when I got home, I knew I had to share it with others. …
An Owl Punch Flower Pendant Card
When I was visiting my mom last week, we got a chance to try out some different stamps and punches. (One of the fun things of having an upline/downline – you can share stamps and products so you can try them out without having to buy everything yourself). One of the items she had just…
Technique night – Masking and Reverse Masking
Last night was my August technique night with my meetup group and we focused on masking and reverse masking. For those of you not familiar with masking, this is the technique for using paper to cover (or mask) the area you don’t want to get inked. So, in this first card we did, you stamp…
Punch Art Flower for my August Meetup
Yesterday was the August meet and greet for my Meetup group here in the Bay Area. A few of us got together and had some pie at Marie Callender’s and I brought a free make and take for everyone to do. This month I decided to do some punch art and so I modified a…
Stampin’ Up! Convention 2010– Punch happy swaps
I had a few more swaps that I had to share so here is one more post including my second swap I took to convention. So, you remember my first swap I showed you (recipe in this post) – Well, after punching out the leaves and the flowers from the BigShot, I was going to recycle…
Simple holiday cards with a side of bling
Well, December is finally here and like usual I suddenly realize that I need to get my Christmas cards put together and my mailing list organized. Thankfully I was running a technique night this last Tuesday and so we created three fun holiday cards. The actual card designs aren’t too complicated as the focus was…
Trying out the BigShot – a card, a box, and the matchbox
I wanted to put up a quick post before I had to run into work. This week has gone by so fast and has seemed so busy, but the rest of the week should be more relaxing. On Tuesday, I was hosting a Technique Night focused on using the BigShot. Unfortunately, that night I had…