Addicted to Stamping

Pretty Punch Art

 

What better way to pretty up a gift of boring gardening gloves than with some punch art flowers. I purchased a watering can from Ikea and stuffed it with gardening gloves. I made paper flowers using the Fun Flower and Blossom Bunch Punches (say that 3x fast) and stuck them in amongst the gloves. I added some seed packets and wrapped it up in cello with a big bow....way more fun then flat gardening gloves on cardboard packaging.

 

To make the stems I cut two strips of card stock and glued the length of them together with the exception of the last inch which I split and attached to the bottom of the flower. Since that explanation is probably as clear as mud have a look at the last photo to understand what I mean.

 

 

Saying Goodbye

Although I get pretty excited every year just before the release of the new Stampin' Up Catalogue it's a little sad saying goodbye to some of my favorite retiring sets. This morning I was packing away my Sale-a-bration stamps and couldn't resist making one more card featuring this little chick from Honeycomb Happiness. Isn't he the cutest?

Reinker Spread

I woke up this morning feeling awfully guilty (thanks Debbie and Ilsa). I haven't posted on my blog much in the last year and since I'm past most of the obstacles that have kept me from stamping it's time to dust off  my long neglected supplies and get busy. Plus the preorder for the new Stampin' Up catty is right around the corner so I'll need a good excuse to buy more goodies.

When I first saw Stampin' Up's Rose Wonder stamp set I couldn't wait to try it with Crystal French's reinker spread technique. I'm going to use it for our Stamp-a-stack class in May so today I was playing with some samples.

For the rose I stamped the image in Versamark on Shimmery White Card Stock and embossed with Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. I used Cherry Cobbler reinker for the rose.  I wasn't happy with the results when I used the same technique on the leaves so I opted to stamp the image in Garden Green on Whisper White card stock and color it in using Garden Green ink and a blender pen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was kind of cool...I stamped the sentiment in black. Didn't like it. Didn't want to redo the whole card. Restamped the image with Versamark  and embossed it with gold embossing powder. I didn't line up the stamp exactly so it left a bit of a shadow. This is something I'm going to have to play with a little more.

 

 

 

 

To finish off my card I stamped the grid from Timeless Textures in Versamark and embossed with gold ep. Once my rose was dry I cut it out and ran my Cherry Cobbler marker around the edge to hide the white of the card stock then glued the rose over the rose image on the background.