More WCMD challenges

Hi Stampers!

Thanks for stopping by today! Here are a couple more cards I did for World Cardmaking Day over at splitcoast. The first card here was for a challenge to use Vanilla, Chocolate and Pumpkin in your card. Well that was easy...that has to be one of my favorite color combos. I used the rock n roll technique on these leaves and stamped them on Very Vanilla and cut them out. The little border at the bottom is just a piece of vanilla cardstock that I roughed up an edge to, with a piece of designer series paper. I dont remember the name of the collection the DSP came from, but I think it was a piece from the Love You Much bundle that I bought last year. On top of that is just a strip of the...oh, you know...whats it called? It's the fabric ribbon stuff that comes with three sizes in a package...hmmm...The name escapes me right now...I'll have to go get my catalog and look it up! TADA...It's Twill Tape! Geesh, that just would not come to me! I used the 3/8" strip for that. Thanks for bearing with me there. It was driving me nutso while I went to get my book!




This next card was a sketch challenge using chocolate and gratitude. I started out by running a piece of Whisper White cardstock through the Big Shot using the elegant boquet embossing folder. After that, I used a sponge dauber rubbed in some chocolate chip Stampin' Pastels, and just sorta colored, or highlighted the raised parts of the embossed image. That in itself was a challenge, as I am not great with the pastels. I need to challenge myself to use them more often. When that was complete, I just took some Crystal Effects and drew a "glue line" on each of the raised, highlighted images and covered them with chunky sprinkles glitter. The accent color here is Bermuda Bay...Love that color. You might notice that I used a Circle Ice brad to replace the O in So Much. I can see in this photo that it looks like it doesn't really cover it, but it doesn't look that bad in real life. It covers up the O so much better than this appears. Must be a camera angle or something makes it look sorta wonky. I used my scalloped edge punch along the bottom of this card, and a piece of chocolate chip taffeta ribbon around it. Pretty simple.



Thanks again for stopping by today. I'll try to post more tomorrow.
Have a Great Day!
Stamp On!
~Beth

WCMD part 2

HI Stampers!

Thanks for stopping by again today. See, I promised I'd show more cards this week. Now waddya think about this one? This was super simple, and it uses Stampin' Up's new Serene Snowflake stamp set and Shimmer Paints. You can sorta see in the background that I used Versamark and randomly stamped a snowflake image. Then I took the largest snowflake and inked it up with versamark, then took a sponge dauber and pounced the shimmer paint directly onto the stamp...Stamped the cardstock as usual, and whala! It's a little harder to see than I hoped, but hopefully you get the gist of what it looks like. The designer paper is from the Thorougly Modern collection again. It's my current favorite paper! This is super duper simple, and very well could be my Christmas card this year. I'm still playing around trying to find the perfect card, but I really like the simplicity of this one. Oh yeah, there is that GORGEOUS ribbon again. LOVE it!





Thanks for stoppin by today. Go stamp something!
Stamp On'
~Beth

Slacker? Not today!

Hi Stampers!

I know I've been a slacker lately, but I must tell you that I stamped my little heart out yesterday!

If you dont know, October 3 was World Cardmaking Day. I participated in the challenges over at splitcoast and really got alot of stampin done!

The first challenge was to use a quote as the focal image. I liked this quote so I just printed it on white cardstock and stamped the flower from Fifth Avenue Floral over it. The designer paper is from the Thorougly Modern collection. I LOVE it! And Hello! That ribbon is to die for! Other than that, the card is very much straight forward. I plan to show all of the cards I made this week, so if you want to see them, you'll have to come back!




On a side note, Splitcoast partnered with Operation Write Home for WCMD, which has sent over 200,000 cards to our troops serving away from home. I would insert a little doohicky thing that says "click here" to go visit their website, but I dont know how...so here it is: http://operationwritehome.org . I hope that shows up blue for you so you can click it. You can send your cards to them, and they will make sure our soldiers get them to send to their families. I'm not going to get all sappy here, but let me just mention how much I appreciate the sacrifices and committments our troops have made for us! For me...for you! Thank You!

Anyhow, I'll be back tomorrow with another fabulous (ha) creation! You know...some are fabulous, some are notsomuch.

Thanks for stoppin by! See you next time!
Stamp On,
~Beth