Northwest Stamper

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  • A Simple Day of Gratitude Card Share

    A little over a week ago, I hosted my monthly “meet & greet” and as with each month, I brought a free make & take card.  This month, I decided to use the fabulous Day of Gratitude set, which thanks to regionals in Portland, I am love more and more each time I use it.

    Anyway, I got home and put all my supplies away and managed to hide the card from myself for over a week until today!  Well, I found the card and really like how it turned out and so I wanted to share it with you here.

    This stamp set begs to be used with Cajun Craze and More Mustard inks, both of which have not been my favorite colors.  But I have to say, Cajun Craze has really grown on me!  It is the perfect color for using in fall scrapbook layouts and cards.

    For some added kick, the Decorative Label punch out is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Otherwise, it is a quick and easy card that looks great in person.  We stamped the strip of Very Vanilla cardstock randomly using the images from the Day of Gratitude stamp set in the colors More Mustard, Cajun Craze, and Early Espresso.  Its like making your very own Designer Paper!  The medallion is stamped in Old Olive ink on Old Olive cardstock.

    In the San Francisco Bay area? I’d love to have you join me for my next event!  Check out my event calendar or contact me for more details!

    Until next time- Happy Stamping!

  • A Rough Type Index Card

    If you’ve ever visited splitcoaststampers.com, you’ve probably noticed their extensive gallery showcasing thousands of cards made by talented stampers, all organized by stamp set.  Well, the card shown when you are looking at the list of stamp set names is called the index card and it is made to show every single stamp in the set.  So, with the latest catalogs that have come out, they asked some of the demonstrators to create index cards for the recent stamp set.  I volunteered to make 4 cards and this is my card for the Rough Type stamp set that was in the Summer Mini.

    It’s funny; I hadn’t notice until I was stamping that ‘H’ and ‘I’ are next to each other in the alphabet and that spells “Hi” – but, I think it’s pretty convenient!  I also experimented with ribbon tying with this card as well.  I punched a hole on the left and right side of the “& z” images using the smaller of the two hole punches on the crop-a-dile.  Then I threaded my Marina Mist 3/8” taffeta ribbon from the front of the white cardstock to the back and then came back up to the front of the card next to the “z”.  I glued a second ribbon piece to the back of my white paper and use that to tie a knot with the ribbon I had threaded.  I then popped it up on dimensionals to adhere to the card base.

    Rough Type Hi recipe:
    Stamps:     Rough Type
    Ink: Basic Black, Marina Mist, Cajun Craze
    Paper: Whisper White CS, Cajun Craze CS, Marina Mist CS
    Accessories: Marina Mist 3/8” taffeta ribbon, Crop-a-dile, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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