WLS Graduation card

  
It’s that time… Graduation time! Carmen is attending a graduation party today so I whipped out a card for her to take. I found out the school colors and their mascot and wouldn’t you know it? I had a stamp that was their mascot!

IC235 for today was to pick something from Layla Grayce’s online store… oh my goodness!! She has such yummy things! I ended up going with this, Personalized Safari Hat on Animal Print, for my inspiration.

I stamped the background in black distress ink. The tiger I stamped, colored with copics (using blender pen to lighten it up some) and cut out only it’s front half to attach to my card. Everything but the head is attached to the card. Images are from Rubbernecker. JustRite Brayton font was used for the sentiment. (WLS stands for the school.) And black rhinestones in the corners.

 

      Thanks for stopping by!

               Amber

Old Olive snowflakes?

The Limited Supply was a LIMITED SUPPLY challenge this week. Here was the list we were given:

1. The only image stamps/embossing you may use are snowflakes. Yup! Only snowflakes (or something that looks like falling snow). No snowmen, snowwomen or anything, just snowflakes! The same goes for patterned paper . . . it must be snowflakes!! (Get the idea?)
2. Your creation must be monochromatic.
3. You need to add some sort of “bling” or sparkle to your card. Stickles, rhinestones, shimmery paper or ribbon . . . make it sparkly!!
4. Last, but certainly not least . . . sentiments may be ONE WORD only!

I pulled out Rubbernecker Snowflakes and JustRite Harmony Classic Oval stamper. I wanted a different color for my card so I went with Kiwi Kiss! I embossed the snowflakes with Iredsecent Ice after stamping them in Olive Craft Ink. I sponged on Old Olive on all the vanilla pieces. I wanted the flowers on the JustRite stamp to be more like snowflakes so I filled them in with a glitter gel pen. Added bling in the corners by Mark Richards.

I used Sketch 205 for my layout.

stamp: Rubbernecker snowflakes, JustRite Harmony Classic Oval stamper; paper: kiwi kiss, vanilla; ink: craft old olive, classic old olive; accs: mark richard's cyrstal stickers, kiwi kiss ribbon, coluzzle, glitter gel pen, iredescent ice embossing powder

I've been Published!!

You might remember this post I did back on March 18. Well now I can show you the card that was published! First some background on why I submitted and how.

Now I had made a card for the Limited Supply challenge where we had to use only numbers on our card. (in Oct. '07) Well I don't own number stamps so I came up with the idea to use a fish from Rubbernecker and make him into a number. I picked the number 9 as my nephew's birthday was coming up so being a good Tia (aunt) I made him a birthday card. I masked the little fish until I had a 9 shaped from fish! A little watercoloring with distress reinkers and I was good to go. But then I saw a contest on RubberStampMadness on numbers, and thought why not enter it. So I sent my nephew's birthday card to RSM (and not by email, they like you to send in the actual card), deadline was Nov.15th! Months went by and I never heard a thing. I started kicking myself for not including a SASE so they could send the card back as I figured I hadn't been picked.

March 7th rolled around and I got an email from Galilee saying that "my artwork was chosen to be in the RSM Numbers centerfold (didn't know I was a centerfold, huh?? lol) - issue 160 (July/August 2008)" I think I fell out of my chair!

So now I'm excited to share with you some pictures of my card in the magazine. Go check out RSM and see what themed art they are looking for next. They also except artwork that is not on a specfic theme. So send in your cards, you never know, you just might get published! Just don't forget that SASE!! lol

Issue 160 July/August 2008 (sorry for the flash on the cover)

School of Fish
Amber Hillman of St.Paris, Ohio sent in our final number. "I went way outside my comfort zone," says the artist. "I didn't have any number stamps so I had to come up with a completely different way to get a number stamped on my card."
To make her number 9, Hillman first sketched a light outline of the number on paper. "Then maksing the fish, I stamped him over and over on the outline," she says. "Then masking the bottom fish, I stamped the seaweed twice and once on a piece of white."
She used watercolors with distress inks on them, cut them out and popped up the middle section of seaweed for dimension. More dimension comes from the Crystal Effects she added to the bubbles. "I stamped and cut out one fish and added google eyes to him."
Hillman has been stamping for five years, and used two of her favorite techniques for this project: masking and watercoloring. Although she says she leans towards the number seven being her favorite, this card would be perfect for a nine-year-old's birthday. "Any time I stamp I have fun," Hillman says. "I really enjoyed this challenge because my card turned out exactly how I had envisioned it." (stamp credits: Fish, seaweed- Rubbernecker.)
By Karen Sweeny-Justice

Yesterday's sketch challenge on Splitcoast was to have a circle at the top of your card. I was drawing a blank so I actually went and did dishes! *gasp* But doing dishes was very theraputic as I came up with an idea. I remembered the Safari stamps I had gotten from Rubbernecker and how a few of them are already in circles!!

So I inked up my rhino in black stazon and proceeded to watercolor him with Prismacolor watercolor pencils (that hubby got me for Christmas). The sky and trees are all done with Prismacolor markers. I had found the paper at Joanns, it looks just like Rhino skin! The happy Birthday saying is from set of My Favorite Things.

Stamps: Rhino in a Circle - Rubbernecker, happy birthday from MFT; Paper: white, dp, black; Ink: Black stazon; Accs: Prismacolor watercolor pencils, Prismacolor markers

Today's challenge was a rerun. Using Stazon. I only own Black stazon so far and love it. It is the best ink to watercolor with. Lucky for me I had already stamped and watercolored an image and it was laying on my table. What a motive to get it on a finished card!

I decided to do the My Favorite Things sketch for this week too. When I was coloring the image I had it in my head to make her out in a snow storm taking the dog to the bathroom. (I can thank my brother and his family for the inspiration as they just got the same dog as the stamp this past week and had been talking about taking him out to go potty and how close to the ground he is, etc!)

Using liquid applique, I applied it to my card and covered the poor little doggie's legs and his nose! I think she has been out in the snow for some time now as her umbrella is getting covered too! I stippled some white craft ink on the sky and added some white embossing powder to it.

Image was colored with my Christmas present, Prismacolor Watercolor pencils! I also used some Prismacolor Markers (my hubby had to have them for a college art class 12-13 yrs ago and they still work great!) too. The sky was brayerd on using Michelle's tips. I used Bashful blue and Not quite navy. Snowflakes are embossed in clear on the panel and in versamark on the card front.

Stamps: Rain or Shine, Snowflakes from Baby, It's cold outside, saying from Essential Sentiments; Paper: Green, yellow, white; Ink: Black stazon, bashful blue, not quite navy, versamark; Accs: liquid applique, corner punch, clear embossing powder, twill tape, dimenisions, Prismacolor watercolor pencils, Prismacolor markers

Flaky Family and Belly Band

What a title! lol Whew, today is the last day of school until next year. So I have been busy working on gifts (the name frame in the post below), cards for middle school teachers, 25 hot chocolate ice cream cones w/tags, 2 bus driver gifts and a Christmas card for a principal! And I got it all done with time to spare!

Yesterday's Ways To Use It was to use wrapping supplies. I still needed to wrap the name frame, so I decided to use tissue paper. I stamped on the tissue paper with star fish from Rubbernecker in two different colors. I then made a "belly band" and keeping in with the Fish theme, I made a scene. Fish are colored in with watercolor pencils.

Stamps: Fish from Rubbernecker; Paper: Tissue paper, white; Inks: black stazon, blue bayou, groovy guava; Acces: watercolor pencils


The elementary principal is retiring in Jan. He has been the principal ever since I was in third grade! We all love him dearly and we deeply miss him. He has a special bond with each kid at the school. But with mine... well that is a different story. You may remember a post where I had a picture of my oldest all in blue and yellow and the rest in red/gray? Yes, my daughter who loves Michigan also loved to torture the principal as he is a big Ohio State fan! He in turn loves to torture her and anyone else that maybe a Michigan fan.

So for his Christmas card this year, I decided to use Flaky Friends and stamping an extra snowman, cutting him out and adding him to the 'family', I had a family picture to give him! Can you pick out our oldest?? lol She wouldn't even look at the card this morning when I was showing her because she saw the red and gray cardstock!! I had to point out the snowmen and of course she liked the blue/yellow one!

I colored them in using markers on watercolor paper, took some color off with the aquapainter. Added stickles here and there just to give some of a sparkle and used mini scallop scissors to give a little texture. So I had this much done when I decided to check the Limited Supply challenge and see if I could use the image on a card some how within the guidelines.

Well Jen wanted us to look in our own gallery, take a card and simplify it. So I looked found this one My Flaky Friends. Perfect as the time was close to midnight if not later and I didn't want a complicated card as I wanted my image to be the focal point.

So I just layered it and added the strip at the bottom without any other layers or shapes or brads. Even left off the snowflake background stamp.

So here is my Flaky Family:

Stamp set: Flaky Friends, Merry Merry Christmas; Paper: Real Red, Going Gray, watercolor; Ink: black stazon; Acces: markers, stickles, scallop scissors

Today I have to work on sewing some Christmas gifts for my girls. So stay tuned for that post.

Male Teacher gift

No challenge card for me today as i have been working on Teacher gifts for Christmas. DD#2 has a male teacher this year. Infact we had him for DD#1 when he was a student teacher so it has been fun having him as a 'real' teacher. Since we had him a few years ago, he got some stamped goodies from us then as his student teaching ended right at Christmas break (he planned that good as he walked away with lots of Christmas goodies). So this year I had to come up with something else for him and hope that I wasn't duplicating what we had given him a few years ago.

I went with a name frame (that I usually do at the end of the year cause I always forget at Christmas time!) for him. He loves fishing and Nascar but I don't have any racing stamps so I went with Fish. And where else to get goofy fish that would be perfect for a third grade male teacher name frame?? Rubbernecker!!

I stamped the seaweed on watercolor paper a few times and using distress reinkers, watercolored in the whole scene and then cut it out completely. I even put stickles on the rocks. When I placed it in the frame, I put dimensionals all on it as I wanted it to be sticking out some to give depth.

Each fish was also stamped on watercolor paper and watercolored with distress reinkers. I had to throw in the pink fish as my daughter loves pink and by now, everyone in the class knows it too! lol The pink fish even has Cotton Candy stickles on for that little bling that every girl should wear. I added google eyes to the big fish up at the top and put him on 3 dimensions so he is really sticking out. He is after that poor little worm, whom has crystal effects on him to make him look waxy. I wanted the hook to look like it was actually going through the letter so I cut slits in the paper and pushed the hook through! I then added a thin layer of Crystal effects to the hook and line.





Stamps: Fish/seaweed - Rubbernecker, SU Headlines, Misc Alphabet; Paper: Brocade blue, white, watercolor; Ink: Black stazon, Distress reinkers; Acces: cyrstal effects, stickles, google eyes, dimensions

Let it snow, let it snow

It's been snowing all day, now it's freezing rain. Fun stuff! lol I am busy signing Christmas cards (I know, little late for mailing in time, huh? But i am passing these out at my church so I'm good)

No stamping today unless i need extra cards and then I'll just case myself!

Yesterday's Splitcoaststampers challenge was Limited Supply. We were suppose to use white card base and couple of small layers of color cardstock, maybe an embellishment or two and maybe some piercing or punches.

I love white base cards so I made three. Well I made two and then forced myself to finish the last one! lol It just wasn't turing out like I wanted it to.

Stamp set: Snowball Fight - Treehous Stamps; Ink: black; Paper: white, red, certainly celery; Acces: markers, stickles, ribbon

Stamp set: Dog from Rubbernecker, saying from My Favorite Things; Ink: Distress inks; Paper: white, green, brown; Acces: brads, aquapainter, stickles

This is the one i made myself finish. Yes, I know the elephant is cut off! I had actually stamped this side first but then decided I didn't like it in this color so I turned it over (magic paper, remember!) and stamped him in gray and cut my paper to fit him. Then before I put the card together I flipped him back over to this side and liked what I saw!! lol

Stamp sets: Elephant from Rubbernecker, misc saying; Paper: white, brown; Ink: distress ink; Acces: word window punch

A dog's Christmas?

Boy what a day! My camera is still on the fritz when it comes to downloading. The only way right now I can download is to take the little card out and stick it in my hubby's computer. Download on to his thumb drive and then take that drive back to my computer and download everything. Talk about the long way around just so I can upload my creations! (and it really stinks if I don't have anything done before he leaves for work because then I have to wait until he gets home and of course today he pulled a long day!!)

Today's challenge was Monochromatic cards. I have never done any (that I'm aware of!) but have always wanted to try. I also wanted to play with the dogs from Rubbernecker. I used my dog as my color guide and since I wanted him brown, I went with shades of brown!

I used old paper distress embossing powder on the tree (yes, it is different than regular embossing powder. After you emboss and it cools, you gently rub off to release crystals to 'distress') And instead of using a versamark pad for the embossing powder, I used the Distress embossing ink. OMG! That pad smelled wonderful.. like cinnamon! I've never had a pad smell that good before. (maybe that's why i did so much embossing on this card!!)

Snowflakes and snow is all white embossing powder, with the snow cover white craft ink that had been stippled on. (I finally got my first ever stipple brush from Rubbernecker ! I've been using kid's paintbrushes for stipple brushes! lol)

To make the icicles, i traced the doghouse with crystal effects (on wax paper) and then sprinkled crystal effects on it. After it dried, i peeled it off and stuck it on the dog house.

Dog house, dog and stocking are stamped in distress ink and then watercolored with distress ink. The dog house is on dimensions and the dog is attached to the main frame to give the entire Shadowbox card more of a 3-D'sh look. I even added a touch of crystal effects to the dog's nose to give it that wet look!

Stamps: dog, dog house, stocking, tree -Rubbernecker; ink: distress ink; acces: distress embossing powder, white embossing powder, brad, crystal effects

I've been wanting to try Debbie Olsen's sketch that she came up with for Lisa's birthday bash at CHF. I wasn't able to do it then but yesterday was the right time. I wish Lisa's birthday had been tons earlier in the month as i love this card as my Christmas card! Oh, wait.. I'm not done making Christmas cards so I guess i can still use this idea!!

I went with Cranberry Crisp as my color. I stamped the image in that wonderful smelling distress embossing ink (k, so I just wanted to take a whif again!!) and then into Cranberry Crisp. I sprinkled clear embossing powder over it and heated. The rest is pretty simple, cutting it out, layering, making the notched edge with the circle punch, adding ribbon. After I was all done, I went back with yellow stickles for the windows and any other lights. Also added crystal stickles to the ground for the snow.

Stamps: Thomas Kinkade Village Christmas by Cornish Heritage Farms; ink: Cranberry crisp, distress embossing ink; paper: Cranberry crisp, white; Acces: stickles, clear embossing powder, ribbon, circle punch

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No Camera, No challenge!

Well I think my title says it all. My camera is on the fritz so I haven't been able to get a decent picture of the card I did do for the color challenge.

So I thought I'd show you some cards that I did and am slowly uploading to SCS.

Hubby is from South Africa and I am from the States. (Long story on how we met for another post) We had to go to SA 9 yrs ago as his dad had passed away. Besides visiting his family, we went sight seeing to a few Wildlife parks. The Kruger National park was one of them. What an experience that was for us (even though he was born and raised in SA, he had never been to the Kruger!) to be right there in the wilderness with wild animals just roaming around. Of course you took your life in your hands if you got out of your car as you never knew when a lion might just be waiting to pounce. (not that we saw it happen!)

Of course I took plenty of pictures but haven't scraped them as I couldn't find any African animals stamps that I liked (was introduced to SU too late to get their African set). I even found a Travel scrapbook kit at Joanns on the clearance rack for only $3.00 (regularly $15!!) a few months ago so I grabbed it for whenever I found the right stamps. I finally found them!!! Where?? (k, i'm gushing here ;) ) At RUBBERNECKR!!! woohooo I can start my scrapbook, my poor pictures aren't going to know what hit them!!

So here is the start of Our African Trip scrapbook:

I embossed the African Postcard in black detail embossing powder and watercolored it with distress inks. The wording was too pink for my taste so i sponged on some vintage photo distress ink over the bottom half of the images. I didn't want to take away from the image so I added little embellishment as I could. Even my wording I didn't want over powering the image so I made sure they were more in the background. I stamped off the year first before the final stamping on the paper.

Stamp: African Postcard - Rubbernecker; Cardstock: Scrapbook kit, white; Ink: versamark, distress inks; Acces: Black embossing powder, brads, sticker and destination strip

Here is card I made using one of the African animals. Isn't he the cutest?? We didn't see any cubs while in Africa but we did see the adults! (Hubby even walked with one!! Another scrapbook page for another day!)

I watercolored him with distress inks and then sponged more Vintage photo distress ink over him and the yellow paper to mute the colors. See the word "Africa"? That is actually from a saying but I only wanted Africa so I very carefully stamped just that word in Vintage photo distress ink!

Stamps: Cub in a circle, I am African text - Rubbernecker; Paper: Tan, Brown, Yellow; Inks: Black Stazon, Distress inks; Acces: Brads

What about the weekend?

I seem to be terrible at posting during the weekends! Please forgive me. I do stamp over the weekends but I also try to spend more time with the family. Okay so this weekend we had to watch two important football games to see if our beloved Ohio State makes it to the championship! And they are going because the other guys lost!! woo hoo!! (sorry, was that a little mean? lol)

Anyways, back to stamping... Beth posted the Featured Stamper for Sunday early on Saturday night. I jumped right on it and was the first card (if you don't count Beth's) to be posted!! I'm never that early on a challenge! But she took everyone by surprize posting so early that no one had thought to check the thread!


CUTTERSCALLOUS was the Featured Stamper. I actually picked out a few cards that I could do. I picked her Whipper Snapper Snowman to case.


Using Rubbernecker's Framed Snowman I went to work. I had used mom's cuttlebug a while back and remembered I had an extra piece that would work with the snowman.


Pretty simple card, watercolored with watercolor crayons, a little bit of designer paper, ribbon and some brads! When folded, card is 3 1/2 by 4 1/8! A cute little size.

Stamp set: Rubbernecker's Framed Snowman; Paper - Red, white, design paper; Acces: cuttlebug, ribbon, brads, notched corner punch, watercolor crayons, aquapainter


Carmen (my 11yr old), use to race home from school, check SCS to see what the challenge was, sit right down, make a card and I would then upload them to her own album in my gallery. She was bored on Saturday so I showed her the featured stamper. She picked out the Love card to case.


Being the nice mom that I am, I mouted the set "Time Well Spent" that will appear in the Spring/Summer '08 catalog as a level 3 hostess set. (This was a gift from Shelli for being a demo. Like the perk? Contact me about being a demo.)


Carmen changed the colors, used My Favorite Things: Essential Sentiments for her saying and pulled out some of my big brads to use. The ribbon really matches well but the camera just didn't like it.


Stamp set: Essential Sentiments by MFT, SU's No Time Spent; Paper: Lavendar Lace, Pink Passion, Green Galore; Ink: Black, Pink Passion, Green Galore; Acces: brads, markers

Sliver Snowflakes

I now have the song Silver Bells stuck in my head even though I used snowflakes on my card! I've been wanting to make a silver and blue card for awhile now and today's Limited Challenge on Splitcoaststampers presented the perfect opportunity to do so.

Jen gave us a list once again to follow for the limited supply challenge: Mini Main Event.
Small stamps (1.5 x 1.5 or smaller) were to be the focus point of our card with a sentiment optional. Also layers were to be limited, up to 2 specialty tools, any coloring tool and ONE type of embellishment. (I capped one as I have a hard time remembering that when I go to make the card!! Always want to add brads or eyelets too!! lol)

My layout came from Card Positioning Systems #41. A fun site to go to if you are in need a layout idea.

I used Rubbernecker's Snowflakes (there are actually 3 sizes in the set, so I used the two smallest ones) and the text Joy for my card. I stamped in silver metallic (be careful, it does smear as it takes a few to dry). I pulled out my Silver leaf pen and used that on white cardstock to make it look like silver paper underneath my blue layer. (I don't own any silver carstock! how sad is that?) I wanted to add another layer to the 'Joy' piece but since we were on limited layers, I did a faux layer using the silver leaf pen. I did pop it up on dimensions. A little paper piercing, some silver cord and my card is ready to go!

Stamp sets: Snowflake set, Joy text - Rubbernecker Stamp Co.; Paper: Blue, white; Ink: Metallic Silver; Acces: silver cord, silver leaf pen, dimensionals

Blocked sketch

I dislike doing block cards. Rox claims she puts them up just for me as she knows I don't like them! What are friends for?? lol (No, she doesn't claim that but we do have fun pm'ng each other back and forth about them) Anyways I tried my hand at the sketch today (I did flip it though) just to make Rox happy. No, really the sketch challenges on Splitcoaststampers is my favorite challenge of the week. Rox works hard giving us a different sketch each week that pushes us to create. We love her for it and all the other hostess too! I would not be the stamper I am today if it was not for the weekly challenges and the time the hostesses spend on them. Thanks girls!


I decided to use a Rubbernecker Christmas saying for my focal point. (are you surprised?) And I wanted to cut into my big DCWV Christmas Stack design paper too!! So I decided to combine the sketch with Sharon's blog challenge of using only pattern paper and sentiment.


This card would be so easy to mass produce as all I stamped was the saying and then sponged scattered straw and vintage photo. Add a couple of brads and layer everything and you have Vintage Christmas card! (my card base is vanilla cardstock but it is hard to see with the white background)



Stamps: Celebrate saying - Rubbernecker Stamp Co.; Cardstock - vanilla, chocolate, DCWV the Christmas stack (i got mine at Joanns); Ink: Distress vintage photo, scattered straw; Acces: brads

5 years in the making!

Had to share another card I made for Rubbernecker Stamp Co. But first the story behind it.

When I started stamping 5 yrs ago, my first stamp set had a stocking in it (that I have since passed on to another loving home). I wanted to make my Christmas cards with a fireplace and the stockings hanging off. I looked high and low for a fireplace stamp but couldn't find what I wanted. Fastforward to last month and meeting Dave the owner of Rubbernecker and getting asked to design cards for him. Guess what he has?? A fireplace/log/garland set!! He also has a 3 stockings but I only used one so there would be no fighting over who got which stocking!

I did faux woodgrain for the floor by swiping the distress ink Vintage Photo over the cardstock until it got as dark as i wanted it. Using a ruler, I drew on the lines for the wood planks. The wall is actually designer paper, Pointsettia from Flurries & Frost. All the images are watercolored with distress reinkers and then cutout! Yes, cutout! I wrote our names on the stockings all the way down to the youngest. (whew, we barely fit on there!!) The stockings and logs are on dimenesions.

For five years in the making (at least in my mind!), this card didn't turn out too bad!!

Stamps: Rubbernecker Fireplace/logs/garland set,Warm and Wonderful text; Cardstock: White, Flurries & Frost "Poinsettia" design paper, Inks: Black stazon, distress reinkers Vintage Photo, Scattered Straw, tattered rose, peeled paint; Acces: brads, aquapainter, dimensionals

Today's card:

Emily picked some yummy colors; Basic Gray, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. I still haven't ordered any Basic Gray so I used Going Gray instead. I also decided to try Sherry's JBWW challenge sketch that she had up. What an interesting sketch! If you haven't checked out Sherry's and Jeanne's sunday Challenge, head on over. They take turns hosting.

Back to my card. I just had to use a stamp from Rubbernecker Stamp Co. because as you know, their site just went live last night! (Yes, not all of the images are up and running but keep checking back as he is working on it. I do know that these are the stamp images up so far: Holiday in both Rubbernecker & Stamp Oasis; Rubbernecker Old Characters, Fishing, Dogs and Sunny Days.)

okay, okay, back to my Color challenge card!! I pulled out some designer paper that was very close to Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. I even pulled out my poor unused Fiskar circle cutter to cut my circle! That thing has been collecting dust for ages!!

Using the Going Gray watercolor crayon, I colored in the kittie. I used the inks for the Christmas lights as i wanted a stronger color than what the crayons gave me. I added a little glitter pen on the lights and then wanting a clear look to the lights, added some Crystal Effects over top of them. My distressing tool jumped into my hands this morning and I just couldn't ignore it! But my images looked so white sitting there on the white cardstock that I had to added some sponging too.

Stamps: Tangled Kittie, Purrfect Christmas text - Rubbernecker Stamps; Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Going Gray, Design paper; Accs: Crystal Effects, Watercolor Crayons, distresser tool, glitter pen

My big Secret!

Rubbernecker Stamp Company's website is finally live.

Which means I can finally tell my BIG SECRET! I'm a guest designer for Rubbernecker!

Here are a few items that I have made so far:

I stamped on tissue paper with black stazon ink. I then decided to color everything in using H2Os. The pictures are sparkly but that is hard to tell here. I then adhered the tissue paper to the candle by melting it with my heat gun. (tutorial coming soon)


Stamps: Kris Kringle, Still Believe, Ink: Black stazon, Twinkling H2Os


This card is would be very easy to mass produce as there is only one item stamped! The snowflake background is actually double sided Designer paper from Rubbernecker and so is the ribbon. I cut the circles out of the paper but flipped the paper to show the other side! Embossed the snowflake in white. Card layout came from Card Maker's Sketch Book by Annie's Attic.

Stamp: Snowflake, Cardstock: Designer paper Reindeer Games FF-108, Ink: versamark, Accs: white embossing powder, Rubbernecker Ribbon



Be sure to check out Sherry and Jeanne's blogs to see who is all on the Design Team.